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Parallel ./configure
I paid good money for my 24 CPU cores, but ./configure can only manage to use 69% of one of them. As a result, this random project takes about 13.5× longer to configure the build than it does to actually do the build.
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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble
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Getting a paper accepted
Page 1 Accepts, the Rest Avoids Rejection
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Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit
Welcome to the very first post in a new blog! Here I will discuss software development, SRE work, and other fun stuff. Sometimes an idea is just too good to pass up. I hope this blog will motivate me to turn sparks and little pieces into general knowledge in writing the words down. The other day I was discussing Tabby…
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My sourdough starter has twins
A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …
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Claude can sometimes prove it
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The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)
A review of the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer, updated for modern software development.
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Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It
For the past 11 years, the Breakthrough Prize awards have “celebrated outstanding scientific achievements, honoring scientists driving remarkable discoveries in
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Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft
Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.
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How attention sinks keep language models stable
We discovered why language models catastrophically fail on long conversations: when old tokens are removed to save memory, models produce complete gibberish. We found models dump massive attention onto the first few tokens as "attention sinks"—places to park unused attention since softmax requires weights to sum to 1…
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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s…
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How I Left YouTube
What was the road like when I left?
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iPad Pro with M5 chip
Apple today introduced the new iPad Pro with M5, delivering a huge boost in performance and taking the next big leap in AI for iPad.
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OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be. No, really, if you believe its leaks to
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The contrarian physics podcast subculture
This is the story of how a circle of popular science communicators, who built their brands on championing free inquiry, worked to suppress scientific critique. Of how Eric Weinstein, the man who co…
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The time is right for a DOM templating API
Update: See my follow up post, What should a native DOM templating API look like? .
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Programming peaked
It helps, of course, that I still consider many of the people I worked with friends, and I know some of them even still read this blog. (Hi!)
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How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi
Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi. I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My…
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Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
It has been 0 days since the last change to my home server.
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LLM Daydreaming
Proposal & discussion of how default mode networks for LLMs are an example of missing capabilities for search and novelty in contemporary AI systems.
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Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
LLMs excel at text generation but fail at precise document extraction due to nondeterminism. | Pulse AI
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What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
On November 27, 2025, we will shut down our search proxy, Leta.
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Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other…
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"Good engineering management" is a fad
As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization?…
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Rust's Block Pattern
Here’s a little idiom that I haven’t really seen discussed anywhere, that I think makes Rust code much cleaner and more robust.
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Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
All web browsing starts with a DNS query to find the IP address for the desired service or website. For much of the internet’s history, this query is sen
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State Terror, American Style
Forget about “soft autocracy”
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A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C
My last article about generic data structures in C was written to set the stage for today’s topic: A data structure with constant time indexing, stable pointers, and works well with arena allocators. Its been independently discovered by multiple programmers over the years and so goes by different names. A 2001 paper…
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How to harden GitHub Actions
Build resilient GitHub Actions workflows with insights from real attacks, missteps to avoid, and security tips GitHub’s docs don’t fully cover.