I’m not saying this will definitely happen, but I think we could be on the cusp of a significant shift in Windows market share for consumer computers. It is not going to drop to 2% in a year or anything, but I feel like a few pieces are coming
I don't think that it's impossible for politicians, even nontechnical politicians, to make good tech policy. After all, the fact that no one in Congress is a microbiologist doesn't stop federal standards from delivering potable water (and it doesn't excuse the ghastly failures, such as Flint, MI):
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
Some of my favorite tidbits from the past year of working with Go.
The art of the ancient mirror
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical…
a cheap and bloody experiment
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
Explore how to generate and edit images with Gemini 2.0 Flash, now in preview in Google AI Studio
Today, we’re introducing Gemini CLI GitHub Actions. It’s a no-cost, powerful AI coding teammate for your repository. It acts both as an autonomous agent for critical rou…
Nine is a small, seemingly impossible C64 demo that I released at Fjälldata 2025.
A novel technique for implementing dynamic language interpreters in Go, applied to the Vitess SQL evaluation engine
beyond the green owl, from streaks and potions to pedagogy and politics
The purpose of Standard Thermal is to make energy from solar PV available 24/7/365 at a price that is competitive with US natural gas.
A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...
Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
What do you think is gonna happen after I press tab when looking at this screenshot?
This is just a personal experience, there are no absolute truths. Like in any other blog post, a lot of the things you'll read here could be just a skill issue, or legitimate issues. It's up to you to decide.
XTX Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues, and…
It's normal for post-quantum cryptography to be rolled out as an extra layer of security on top of traditional pre-quantum cryptography, rather than as a replacement .
There's no silver bullet, but if we put some "lead" bullets in the right places, we have a good shot at keeping sensitive data out of logs.
They're Mario Bros. for the NES, apparently.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, and built on SQLite and Raft. With its origins dating back to 2014, its design has always prioritized reliability, and quality. The robustness of rqlite is also a testament to its disciplined testing strategy: after more than 10 years…
Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making.
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
Today, we are glad to announce that ESP32-C5 is now in mass production.
