2011
The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
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2012
Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed
I have been a director of engineering for a bit over three years now, and I still hear and read what I call the "old rules" repeated over and over: a director should not spend time coding, good work takes time, protect the team from the business, get consensus before
2013
Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.
2014
2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
Calibrate your enthusiasm
2015
A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.
2016
The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.
2017
Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
Go 1.26 made Green Tea the default GC. We observe its cache-friendliness with perf, visualize the heap to see how Go allocates, and poke at a sparse-page problem a non-moving collector like Go's struggles with.
2018
Android may soon restrict on-device ADB
Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.
2019
Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
Hannah Fry is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). She joined the University of Cambridge in January 2025, becoming the first person ever to hold the role.
2020
Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep
New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean surface.
2021
RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
Upgrade your RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB worldwide. Professional VRAM replacement, BIOS tuning & testing by GPU Solutions.
2022
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
How we optimized Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY-backed data streams to 60K writes per second on a single Postgres server, with millisecond-scale latency.
2023
I got into YC Startup School by hacking it
tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their ranking database, courtesy of an unvalidated hmac
2024
Claude Opus 5
Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
2025
Codeberg Divides
Codeberg drew a democratic, but suboptimal line.
2026
How to survive boiling water
A probiotic paradox
2027
Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history
sqlite-backed shell history
2028
Em dashes are amazing
An ode to a punctuation mark
2029
I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
My wife and I have been looking for an app to track things like habits, hobbies, and when we last did certain chores.To be honest there are probably hundreds of different habit trackers on the App Store. Next to todo list apps they are supposed to be the easiest apps to create so it is not really that surprising there…
2030
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird
2031
The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)
In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions ― or Dungeons,
2032
Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
FLUX 3 is running robots. Built with mimic and deployed at Audi, FLUX-mimic shows content creation and physical AI share one foundation: a model that understands the world.
2033
Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
Hetzner has launched an experimental LLM inference API. I tested its Qwen model—and have a few guesses about where the product could go next.
2034
If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them. Models keep getting better, programmers are being laid off left and right…
2035
It's getting harder to focus every day
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I…
2036
Flux 3
Meet FLUX 3, Black Forest Labs’ multimodal model for video with native audio, image generation, and action prediction. Explore capabilities and early results.
2037
Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
Selfie video gives you more options if you’re ever locked out or don’t have access to your usual phone or computer.
2038
Building on ATProto
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2039
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements
Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium, and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights in your house, and the MRI machine at your doctor’s office.
2040
Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
Explained by a former Sony engineer