Guide to implementing a C standard library for bare metal hardware using Newlib, enabling powerful functions like printf and malloc without relying on an operating system. This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to configure and integrate Newlib on RISC-V architecture, showing you how to redirect standard I/O through…
A website for old Macintosh themes and some background.
Inside PgDog's wire protocol handling: parsing simple and extended messages, using pg_query for AST inspection, and routing queries via the Postgres hash partition function.
In contrast to OpenAI’s Deep Research, this example ran locally, using only open-source models and tools like Milvus and LangChain.
Blog Quest and StreetPass help you discover the independent web
How tools that were supposed to free us up to find meaning work have exacerbated the rat race.
Financial literacy without real-world money experience is as ineffective as teaching swimming with PowerPoint slides. A critical look at classroom finance education.
uv download statistics overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
My smart bike company went bankrupt, so I added a physical button to turn the light on/off
Two different teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner. This…
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet
Exploration into providing MCPs with the most powerful of all tools: code.
You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it…
A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol). TRAMP is an Emacs package that let’s you treat a remote host like a local system, similar…
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do.…
在 M2.1 中, 我们系统性提升了 Rust / Java / Golang / C++ / Kotlin / Objective-C / TypeScript / JavaScript 等语言的能力, 多语言任务整体表现达到业内领先水平, 覆盖从底层系统到应用层开发的完整链路。
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and get it fixed. Since then, it happened again in February 2025 and th
subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,
Somehow, though, I can still read it
Anecdotally, this might be the most requested feature in SQL: Allow some trailing commas.
Frontend, backend, marketing website, documentation, blog content, investor site, Chrome extension, Google Docs add-on,cloud functions, demo repos—all in…
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
Despite tighter restrictions on antibiotics used in Canadian beekeeping, honey bee death rates are still rising. A new study led by University of Guelph researchers, published in Nature Sustainability…
We need to talk about the data. Crap data. We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and…
The heart of Rust borrow-checking is this: when a borrow is taken, and until it expires, access to the borrowed place is restricted. For example you may not read from a place while it is mutably borrowed.
I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher.
Stamina is one of the most universally useful traits you can develop. It's a more broadly applicable advantage than things that are situationally useful.
