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Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
Edit (November 26th, 2am Pacific): This post was originally titled “Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work”. We’ve had a bit of time to reflect on this blog p...
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This site is hosted with Cloudflare Pages and I'm really happy with it. When I explored how to create a site like mine in 2025, I wondered why there's an abundance of good, free hosting these days. Years ago, you'd have to pay for hosting,…
What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself
Many iPhone owners have iMessages from years ago that they can’t access. For example, my wife and I simply want to read the first few messages that we exchanged in 2017, but we can’t. A friend of mine recently had to prove she had a relationship with someone for US immigration services, and she was able to quickly…
How do you transfer files off an Apple laptop from 1994? It's harder than it sounds!
Please, just stop.
When we implemented the git portion of Sublime Merge , we chose to use mmap for reading git object files. This turned out to be considerably more difficult than we had first thought. Using mmap in desktop applications has some serious caveats, and here's why:
A deep dive into the performance of Python 3.14's tail-call interpreter: How the performance results were confounded by an LLVM regression, the surprising complexity of compiling interpreter loops, and some reflections on performance work, software engineering, and optimizing compilers.
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous…
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
You are brought into a startup to run their three-person data team. This is a story about teams and organization, and how you spend a year getting the team to a good place.
Before I started taking writing seriously, I had a loose grasp of many mathematical and technical concepts; and I was not sure how to tackle open-ended problems. Maintaining this research blog has clarified my thoughts and improved how I approach research problems. The goal of this post is to explain why I have found…
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning.
A use case for ChatGPT
Full engine for the Wolfram Language can be deployed on any system--and called from programs, languages, web servers. Available for anyone to download, for free, to use in their software development projects.
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
Today we're excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler,
Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz…
The hidden costs of air quality monitoring, including subscriptions, locked data, proprietary modules, and the long-term price of closed ecosystems.
The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…
