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Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data.
Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI.
AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.
Everything that goes into making a digital font, from vector outlines to hinting.
A worked out example of different job queueing semantics and how they affect workloads.
Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years.They have also brought many controversies: age verification laws and what they mean for online anonymity, Wikipedia potentially having to verify the identify of its users in the UK, the reliance on official…
The Solar Sharer Offer launches 1 July 2026. Here's what changed, how the cap works, and how to maximise free daytime electricity for your home.
My keynote at ICML 2026
Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so …
Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025
Real token cost of frontier models on the same TypeScript input - Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash. Tokenizer counts, effective cost.
No, you're not going to code your own Jira
Stop looking at Xcode. It's not fun. Unless it is! In which case, do it!
How wanting more is not always better
Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code?
A vṛtta (meter) aware śloka-to-chant system for Sanskrit. Try the live demo, hear sample chants, read the paper.
Compare Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API to Whisper and SFSpeechRecognizer. Real accuracy benchmarks on 5,559 utterances with raw transcripts for rescoring.
The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles [1] . Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise.
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for…
Decommissioned enterprise tesla GPUs are widely available and extremely cheap. In this post, I benchmark tesla GPUs to see if they are useful
Blending the real and digital worlds, once more.
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use Adobe software ever again.
Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the 1st class tickets when they went on sale in December. Here's how our journey…
So I was optimizing a domain-specific compressor the other day, as one does. One important problem was chunking the input string and optimally choosing the most compact encoding for each chunk (different encodings compress different characters better, so where to split is not immediately obvious). The previous post…
Making English more enjoyable to write.
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue line represents a different year since 1982. The red line is…
