dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of…
An introduction to the Decision Trees, Entropy, and Information Gain.
In 2000, Douglas Adams made an interesting observation that I keep returning to. A user on Slashdot named “FascDot Killed My Pr” had asked the following question (where HGttG = Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy): Comedy….or Tragedy? First, a big thank-you. You’ve made a lasting contribution to “our” culture (or should…
AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.
The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider.
I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself.
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
Stop looking at Xcode. It's not fun. Unless it is! In which case, do it!
A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…
The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access.
With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?
Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post.Update: On April 15, 2026 the FAA rescinded the TFR (FDC 6/4375) and instead issued an advisory (FDC 6/2824), which states: [Drone] operators are advised to avoid flying in proximity to: Department of War (DOW), Department of Energy (...
Good software knows what problem it solves and what needs to be tackled by another tool
What Chip Weinberger learned building and selling 2500 Jamcorder MIDI recorders.
Revolutionary Mercedes-Benz drive system developed in Berlin-Marienfelde High-tech manufacturing: 35 processes that are new worldwide and more than 30 patent applications Production across around...
How Pi's minimal harness improves coding-agent cost and performance, with examples from Databricks and Shopify's pi-autoresearch extension.
As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom , I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore.
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.
Google workspace threatening to block firefox
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
jj is the name of the CLI for Jujutsu . Jujutsu is a DVCS, or "distributed version control system." You may be familiar with other DVCSes, such as git , and this tutorial assumes you're coming to jj from git .
Apple announced the new Mac mini with the all-new M6 and powerful M5 Pro, delivering a dramatic boost in performance and more versatility in its supersmall desktop design.
No AirPlay kinda sucked, but the one thing I kept wishing I had was what Apple calls "Continuity" : the ability to send and receive iMessages and SMS, share files, sync clipboard, and see notifications from my iPhone on my computer.
This, if it is still visible: Via: Next up, age verification for ADSB?
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot services have become increasingly sophisticated and popular. These systems are now embedded in search engines, software development tools as well as office software. For many people, they have quickly become part of everyday…
There’s a kind of polite fiction at the heart of the software industry. It goes something like this: Estimating how long software projects will take is very…
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
