European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low
A major ECFR poll finds the European public, in a time of rupture, thinking differently and questioning old assumptions. It reveals new political space availabl
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A major ECFR poll finds the European public, in a time of rupture, thinking differently and questioning old assumptions. It reveals new political space availabl
Revolutionary Mercedes-Benz drive system developed in Berlin-Marienfelde High-tech manufacturing: 35 processes that are new worldwide and more than 30 patent applications Production across around...
Owen arrives On September 23rd, 2021, my first son Owen was born. Clearly inheriting his mom’s type-A personality, he arrived on his due date at a chunky 8.75 lbs. We were over the moon. Until we weren’t. At a few … Continue reading →
Branding Main Street America and a rabbit hole into the history behind the vacuum-formed signage found in our daily lives
I’m feeling hungry, so I go to my kitchen and turn on the stove. I inadvertently have the handle of the frying pan sitting above the flame and when I go to pick up the pan my entire hand melts off in an instant.
Oscar's thoughts too large for a tweet
What's the right behaviour when "try for free" ends?
Anthropic's Claude Fable policy turns coding assistants into non-neutral infrastructure for product companies.
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
Alpine Linux
The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
This post is a high-level explainer for my Master’s thesis, which involves designing hardware architectures for ultrafast inference and online learning using the Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) architecture. I’ll assume familiarity with standard machine learning concepts, as well as some understanding of hardware and…
On how I progressively removed myself using Claude Code out of the development cycle - or did I?..
GPT-2 is a direct scale-up of GPT-1 , with more parameters and trained on more data. However, it was deemed too dangerous to release by OpenAI:
If AI were triggering a jobs crisis, we would expect job openings to collapse and unemployment to climb, yet the opposite is happening. Subscribe for daily updates.
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
System composition and other interfaces for Biff projects
We are pleased to announce the Pyodide 314.0 release. This release focuses on standardization and packaging, marking a significant milestone in the Python-in-the-browser ecosystem. PEP 783 is Accepted: What Does It Mean? The acceptance of PEP 783: Emscripten packaging marks perhaps the most exciting change in the…
In the previous part of the Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch series, we added the essential tools to our agent to allow it to work…
What WWDC 2026 actually revealed about a foldable iPhone, which clues are confirmed or reported, and why Apple’s adaptable software matters to developers.
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this stuff from trawling MDN, so perhaps it is valuable to document…
Test-case reducers are less well known than they should be, and those who are aware of them don’t always realise the variety of ways we can use – perhaps even abuse! – them. In this post, I’m going to explore some of the things I’ve learnt while using these wonderful tools. I’ll start at the basics, because the idea…
A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.
Siri isn’t state of the art, but as long as it works — and it appears it does — it’s good enough for the consumer market.
Linux latency on the desktop and in games compared to Windows. Network streaming with Sunshine and Moonlight. Tuning the KWin compositor for lower latencies.
We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.
How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station
An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU …