I ‘ve done such a thorough job of de-Googling that I forgot to show up for a meeting with someone, because I hadn’t checked my Google calendar in ages. (No, they were not amused.) In my defense, I proceeded to explain to them that having de-Googled, I was also in the process of de-Appling, which is a special bonus…
A quick refresher on the maths behind LLMs: vectors, matrices, projections, embeddings, logits and softmax.
Designing a cheap synthetic aperture radar mounted on FPV drone.
This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs , covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how careful prompting can replace traditional web search…
From rate limits to no limits: How IPv6's massive address space and a crafty botguard bypass left every Google user's phone number vulnerable
I've always wanted to write a book, and I was close, but not this time.
Get more out of Claude Code: tell Claude what it can't see, give it a check to run, and enforce the rules that can't have exceptions.
Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...
The story behind writing The BEAM Book-ten years, three publishers, and an open‑source sprint.
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform…
We’re announcing new updates to Gemini 2.0 Flash, plus introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.
One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to …
A blog on technology, Star Wars, and other random thoughts. Plus some half way decent photography!
Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.
Date: 2025-01-26 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00016-wayland-input-latency.md
AI, science, education, & ethics
I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles
AWS’s Sergey Melnik, along with HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, have identified the cause of Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters. As described a 2013 mailing list post , the order in which a PostgreSQL primary makes transactions visible is determined by an in-memory lock. Secondaries, however, make transactions…
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...
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
Please, just stop.
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.
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning.
I've built a demo of a single
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c , though be warned, that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the…
Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts succeed and the pitfalls that cause others to languish in obscurity.
