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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
We are products with labels
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Bear is now source-available
Updates to the Bear license
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Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
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The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
This started as an internal Sanity workshop where I demoed how I actually use AI. Spoiler: it's running multiple agents like a small team with daily amnesia.
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Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other. Netscape had...
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Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
A New Book Quietly Reveals That Israel Used Palantir In It's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon.
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Zed is now available on Windows
From the Zed Blog: Zed for Windows is finally here. Download it today.
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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with such requests.
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Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel
On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.
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I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts
A while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ...
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How I use my terminal
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies....
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I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
An alternate path for Staff+ engineers that optimizes for systems over spotlights and stewardship over fungibility.
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Half-Life
Around twenty years ago, people would have laughed if you told them that videogames would end up at the Smithsonian, but the Half-Life team really did want to make games that were more than just throwaway toys. The rule against cinematics — which made our jobs much harder and also ended up leaving a lot of my favorite…
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Build your own database
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.
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Purposeful animations
Why you are animating more often than you should.
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AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
Best case: we're in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they're doing.
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Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of big-company HR practices. I’m more of the First Break all the Rules type. Despite my general skepticism of many standard practices, we still do annual performance reviews at my company, though I’m thinking seriously of dropping
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Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction At the end of January this year, we launched the Qwen2.5-VL series of models, which received widespread attention and positive feedback from the community. Building on the Qwen2.5-VL series, we continued to optimize the model using reinforcement learning…
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Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose “Image Generation”. The key features include…
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US Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.
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Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
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Building Effective AI Agents
Practical guidance from Anthropic on building reliable AI agents, from simple composable patterns to fully autonomous systems.
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-2000 Lines of code (2004)
In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. They devised a…