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Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Why being popular is not the goal of most small businesses

Here are some of the lessons I learned and how I grew as a leader and manager, as well as a bunch of behind-the-scenes photos.

My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up the new M4 goodne...

Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.

Dynamicland FAQ What? — is Dynamicland, Realtalk, etc. Participating — donating, visiting, collaborating, applying A humane dynamic medium — unusual words Realtalk concepts — values, operating system, programming languages Realtalk in practice — using, learning, history, problems Relationships to so...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our

Wendy van Dijk says: Wednesday, 9 July 2025 at 11:59 This makes me sad. I had many good times with Matt, and some less than awesome times, but at moments like this, the good times bring a smile to my face. It makes me sad I will no longer be able to look forwardto any more good times. Reply

Like many people I want to live a rich life, see the people around me happy, see humanities finest technical innovations, science, arts and sports thrive and mankind to somehow grow in this infinite universe we have. However, while I generally love my fellow humans we are our own worst enemy, and th...

Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

(or - tokens are bs)

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt …

My Dad got to middle age and restored a classic car. I got to middle age and following that pattern with a computer instead.

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.

What are chip design teams going to look like in the future?

We are products with labels

The Real GenAI Issue Search Last week I published a featherweight narrative about applying GenAI in a real-world context, to a tiny programming problem. Now I’m regretting that piece because I totally ignored the two central issues with AI: What it’s meant to do, and how much it really costs. What g...

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About 3 years ago, I joined a GameDev company, without any prior experience making games or hands-on exposure to this industry. Statistically, this time is not even enough’s to release a single game. But during that window, I was lucky to meet many talented people deeply involved in modern GameDev, ...

Stop killing games and the industry response Date: 2025-06-06 Recently, there's been a European Citizens' Initiative called "Stop Destroying Videogames" which by now has hit the milestone of 1'000'000 signatures. You're still encouraged to sign it if you care about its goals and are a EU citizen, si...

On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia—a book that explained why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why NASA is still lighting enormous tubes on fire to fling humans into orbit 337 years later.

  In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart [1] first introduced the notion of

A calm guide to networking as an introvert—learn how posture, presence, and small signals can help you connect meaningfully without faking extroversion.

Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed that it is the silver bullet that will take us to

5 July 2025

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry is a viral sensation: sprouting tiny, dense, native tree cover in neighbourhoods all around the world. With the promise of afforestation at a revolutionary speed, this planting technique has become the darling of green-space enthusiasts, industry, and government

July 2, 2025 tl;dr: If you're an EU citizen, sign the Stop Killing Games initiative here. Or, if you're in the UK, sign this petition. A month ago, I had a second video on self-hosting taken down. YouTube said it was 'harmful or dangerous content'. I appealed that, but my appeal was rejected. Luckil...

Discover the best and worst coloured pencils and markers for lightfastness, ensuring your artwork stays vibrant and doesn't fade too quickly.

on starting, doing, being, and becoming.

We’ve mistaken complexity for progress — and forgotten how things work. A 41-year-old computer still boots instantly, while today’s “smart” tech buckles.

Let’s say you’re working in tech and you have a technical role: you’re a programmer, a graphic or UI/UX designer, a sysadmin, maybe even ...

I found a promising tool and reached out to the founder, ready to invest and partner up. I was met with a wall of silence. It crystallized a feeling I've had for a while: for many, the exit strategy dream is a nightmare for customers who actually care.

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Today I decided to run a little experiment. I asked an AI to write a brutally honest, no-holds-barred critique of Kubernetes, something really spicy that would make the container orchestration crowd squirm in their ergonomic office chairs.

Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that particulate matter pollution impacts lung cancer at the DNA level.

LLMs as compilers 7/2/2025 by Kadhir So far, I've only used LLMs as an assistant, where I'm doing something, and an LLM helps me along the way. Code autocomplete feels like a great example of how useful it can be when it gets it right. I don't doubt that over time this will improve, but I'm excited ...

My thoughts on the future of coding careers in the age of AI, and why I believe that human creativity and ingenuity will always be in demand.

Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world.

In David Gelles’ new book, The Man Who Broke Capitalism —and How to Undo His Legacy, he chronicles how Welch’s laser focus on maximizing shareholder value by any means necessary - including layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, acquisitions, and buybacks - became the new playbook in American business.

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in high-rise building design. Maybe you’ve seen this in your city. The best lots are all taken, so developers are stretching the limits to make use of space that isn’t always ideal for skyscrapers. They’re no

For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental poi...

A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then Larry Thompson started talking about a different case altogether.

Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers Site Navigation[Skip] Home Library Personal Site Map Contact Form End of An Era « “What Does It All Mean?" Self I recall saying to one of my colleagues at Atari way back in 1982 that I wanted to make a game that would be genuine art. A year later I built a ...

The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly $739 million in halted research fundin

This question is increasingly central to debates about the future of work and closely tied to the growing interest in the four-day workweek

Do not get arrested challenge 2020

this: you've just spent $640 billion training the chonkiest language model known to humanity (lol) and decide to call it "Behemoth". it can annoy you on wh...

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.

BeOS Haiku Inc. The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (And Maybe It Was Right) Andrea 15 June 2025 A nostalgic dive into the Hacker News thread that in 2015 reminded us how beautiful we were when we dreamed in multithreading Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away call...

There are few issues more urgent—or more misunderstood—than poverty in America. And even fewer solutions as bold as simply giving people cash. Jeff Atwood, the tech entrepreneur behind Stack Overflow, and his partner Betsy Burton, a trained scientist with a deep commitment to equity, are working to ...

How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships

Home → Environment • June 2025 • 12 min read The Coming Storm: How Mediterranean Water Collapse Could Reshape Britain An investigation into Europe's unfolding water crisis and what it means for the UK Note: Some names and dialogue have been reconstructed from multiple sources to protect identities a...

The Western world lives under the rule of law and holds sacred the institutions that enforce them.

Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code

Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.

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 1...

When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?

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Personal website of Shan Rauf.

A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions

I recently submitted my PhD thesis, and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I'd write about something you (hopefully) wouldn't notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn't.

What happened?

Fredrik Flornes Ellertsen Projects ▾ Kintsugi repair Snus reduction EOG + REM sleep Nixie alarm clock 2048 algorithm Design notes Contact

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Transparent Ambition 2025-06-19 Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Aside from movie visual effect trickery, it started out in Mac OS X's Aqua, followed by Windows Vista's Aero, followed by (then) OS X's Vibrancy, followed by Windows 10's Acrylic. Over time, m...

Requiem for a Solar Plant The email landed like a brick through a plate glass window. "...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..." I stared at my laptop screen, the blue light illuminating the shadows under my eyes in my darkened California living roo...

Throughout my life, I've been many different people, each with their own mask. Some of these masks were not entirely bad, but none ever felt like they represented who I really was. Despite my apparent youth, I have already lived many completely untraditional lives. I've battled addictions, wrestled ...

The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design

Jazzyear: Let’s start with the history of artificial intelligence. You have a deep understanding of AI’s development. What do you think needs to be clarified about AI’s history?

Cynicism is bad.

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have prim…

We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Open Source Can’t Coordinate May 20, 2025 I was taking a shower this morning, and was pondering yesterday’s problem, where I suspect that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I can’t just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use NixOS....

tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie s...

Estrogen: A trip report Posted on 15 June 2025 by Cube Flipper I’d like to say thanks to Anna Magpie – who offers literature review as a service – for her help reviewing the section on neuroendocrinology. The following blog post discusses my personal experience of the phenomenology of feminising hor...

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…

There was immediate criticism of iOS 7’s visual design. Concerns mounted pretty quickly about both style and accessibility. Some people remarked, “It’s only the beta,” implying significant change during the beta release phase was not just possible but probable. Yet, after it was released to the publ...

Why you should write more toy programs

Transcript of Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk at Y Combinator on June 17th, 2024.

AI Agents, Modularity, and Alignment

Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks the performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can be explained by an extremely simple mathematical model — a constant rate of failing during each minute a human would take

this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.

Let's answer this question, as it ought to come up. After all, in the Linux space, ad hominem is often a more powerful way of deflecting resistance than debating technological merits of software. And the answer is simple:

So Microsoft decided to produce tons of e-waste for no obvious reason. There's a lot of capable hardware out there, and it would be of software company's interest to support as much hardware as possible. Instead, they made some arbitrary reason to deprecate "old" hardware. At the same time they also...

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is an emerging technique for photorealistic 3D scene rendering. However, rendering city-scale 3DGS scenes on mobile devices, e.g., your smartphones, remains a significant challenge due to the limited resources on mobile devices. A natural solution is to offload computati...

ACM Turing Lecture 1972 EWD340 The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952 and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the first Dutchman to do so in my country. In r...

Dark Inc has officially run out of money. Dark Inc is the company we founded in 2017 to build Darklang, a statically-typed functional programming language built to strip all of the bullshit from backend coding. To ensure continuity for users and fans, as well as to continue building what we

Nearly two years have passed since I published How I got here to my blog. That post was my first real contact with the outside world in years, as I'd been off all social media and the internet since 2017. The response and support I would receive from the tech community caught me completely off guard...

The thoughts of Leonidas Tsementzis, a software consultant, technical advisor and investor living in London.

Coding agents have crossed a chasm Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted for me with autonomous AI coding agents. They’ve gone from a “hey this is pretty neat” curiosity to something I genuinely can’t imagine working without.

You should write more toy programs

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Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.

The Art of Lisp & Writing Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. –Charles Darwin Lisp is the language of loveliness. With it a great programmer can make a beautiful, operating thing, a thing organically created and formed through the interaction of a programmer/artist and a...

I’ve been playing chess a long time now, and I’ve always been a good deal better (maybe a couple hundred ELO points) at blitz (3+0 or 5+0) than bullet (1+0). Well, I may have just fixed…

Let’s travel back to the origins of modern computer systems to understand how the term evolved. I don’t know who coined the phrase originally, but my searches suggest that serious effort in defining “computer systems” started around the early 70s. In Systems Programming Languages (Bergeron1 et al. 1...

Also: another paper that seals the deal

RAG is popular but unfit for many enterprise use cases and I explain both of those things.

Yesterday, Mossad used smuggled explosive drones to assassinate the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, the entire IRGC Air Force senior staff, and several top nuclear scientists in a surprise attack.

Why the idealistic promise of collaborative software often falls short of its potential.

Discussion on notions of software complexity as defined by Rich Hickey, John Ousterhout and Zach Tellman.

Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.

The perils of AI Yes Men

Why Apple Just Killed the iPhone Interface (And What Comes Next)

contact Kartik Agaram Freewheeling Apps

Sun Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto (we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be ...

Introduction In the last few years, the field of time-series forecasting has seen a fundamental shift. Where we once depended solely on classic statistical methods, think ARIMA, SARIMA, and Prophet, new “foundation” models have emerged, promising to ...

An interview with Architect Calvin Chua

The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...

From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

A few observations after Apple’s introduction of the Liquid Glass user interface at the WWDC25 keynote.

Medical Aid in Dying, My Health, and so on I’ll start at the end, because that’s the most important part. Later this month, I’m obtaining medical aid in dying AKA death with dignity. Barring unforeseen circumstances or unexpected changes, my last day on earth will be June 13th, 2025. Realize that I’...

Rewriting Unix Philosophy for the Post-AI Era Posted by Looper 11 June 2025 12:59 PM blog philosophy unix ai A meditation on software minimalism, modularity, and meaning in the age of machine intelligence. The original Unix philosophy, formulated in the 1970s, was elegant in its simplicity and bruta...

Several months after the left-pad incident, I quit my job and left US permanently, spent a year in Morocco, Jordan, Türkiye and Indonesia. I walked trails like Lycian Way, found new camping spots nobody knows about.

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

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Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is macOS Tahoe: I know I am going to sound old and fussy, but Apple needs to […]

How to not use AI to code for you

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.

Pedophiles were showing up on FSE. The rest of this section is background, the TL;DR is I had a problem getting pedophiles to stay away from FSE and I wanted to stop waking up in a cold sweat. You can skip this bit without missing much besides my woes and what I did about them.

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I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn. Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements. Something that used to take 4-8 hours ...

Re: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts There was a post recently that was dissing AI Skeptics. While the post is funny at times, I feel like it’s absolutely and completely missing the point of the skepticism. Or at least I feel that it is glossing over some massive pain points of said skepticism. Le...

Home | About Folklore | Quotes The Original Macintosh: 1 of 125 Joining Apple Computer Author: Bill Atkinson Date: April 1979 Characters: Bill Atkinson, Jef Raskin, Steve Jobs, Susan Kare Topics: Inspiration, MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard Summary: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining A...

I’ve always been a bit puzzled by the intensity of Europe's focus on climate change. For East Asia, the motivation seemed clear: countries like Japan and China are almost entirely dependent on imported oil and gas. For them, decarbonization isn't just an environmental goal; it's a matter of national

August 16, 1964 Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 By ISAAC ASIMOV he New York World's Fair of 1964 is dedicated to "Peace Through Understanding." Its glimpses of the world of tomorrow rule out thermonuclear warfare. And why not? If a thermonuclear war takes place, the future will not be worth discus...

A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy

It's easy to lose sight of why we go to college.

To assist with job interviews at the NRAO we recently wrote a small “contest” program. Without giving away the details, the crux of the problem is

Hallowed is the name of Bell Labs. It falls from many an ambitious lip, seeking to conjure forth lost magic for their pet jar. Some zealots go further. They attempt the most venerated of summons — to materialize an Apollo.The conjuring proceeds with hope. It is extremely exciting and hopeful to be a...

I will do something I normally never do here, and make my first ever blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. I’ve already talked abou...

Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.aardvark.co.nz Aardvark Daily The world's longest-running online daily news and commentary publication, now in its 30th year. The opinion pieces presente

A 500-page proof that only a handful of people in the world claim to understand kicked off a saga unlike anything else in the history of mathematics – and now there’s a new twist to the story, says Jacob Aron

Machine learning methods better describe many biological systems than traditional mathematical formulations. What does this say about how biological systems are organized and how they function?

This summer, I've been at the intensively trying to catch up to the current state of the machine learning world. I don't have any prior background in ML, so...

### **About CircuitHub** CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with **The Grid** —a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision applied to the chaotic world of prototypi...

The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.

You've probably seen a lot of skepticism of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude on social media. Often, AI is seen as wor…

I've been waiting for someone else to talk about this, but I guess it will be me

How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.

"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture the essence of huma...

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Cord didn’t win. What now? January 10, 2025January 11, 2025Jackson Gabbard Across the last six months, I’ve been making my way through the practical reality of Cord not working out. I was the co-founder and invested more than 4 years of my life in that company. We built some good tech. We built a ve...

I’ve been sitting on this draft for a few days now, partly because I thought it would turn down the bitterness, and partly because I kept as...

From fear to optimism: why I am convinced AI is worth embracing.

A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Destination: Jupiter by Andrew Liptak

Two announcements: (1) I’m leaving the tech industry. Hopefully “for good”; if not, at least “for now”. (2) As such, the content on this blog is going to shift, perhaps dramatically. I’m going to be writing about a broader range of topics that interest me (projects around my hobby farm, wilderness t...

Frieder Nake claimed there should be no “computer art” in 1971, criticising the use of computers to create art for the galleries

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect A Novel by Roger Williams This page contains the entire text of all eight chapters. * Chapter One: Caroline At Play Her name was Caroline Frances Hubert, and she had three claims to fame. In the first place she was the thirty-seventh oldest living human being...

The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shap...

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways (A Year-Long Journey) June 2, 2025•6 min readProductivity Typing became my therapy. Not even kidding. Started at 60 WPM, felt like dragging my feet through mud every time I had to write code comments or documentation. Now? 118 WPM. No home row bullshit...

The difference can be subtle

Thrive in obscurity The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway. Most things take forever to bear fruit. Even the most successful creators have spent years (if not decades) putting content out in obscurity. Just a complete total void. Youtube videos with 4 views. Newsle...

Sharing everything I learn along the way and blog about my progress daily.

Pushing Pixels Cinematography of "Andor" by Christophe Nuyens. Courtesy of Lucasfilm/Disney+. Cinematography of “Andor” – interview with Christophe Nuyens May 20th, 2025 Cinematography of "Andor" by Christophe Nuyens. Courtesy of Lucasfilm/Disney+. Continuing the ongoing series of interviews with cr...

A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find happiness.

Stephen Coyle

On Stepping Back The other day I was playing around with Claude Code, experimenting with porting some C code to Rust - not for any particular reason, just because I was curious how well it could do. As these things happen, I got more and more invested in the process, instead of just letting Claude d...

Lessons on incentives and scaling from two years as a teaching assistant

Precision Clock Mk IV 31 May 2025 Progress: Complete This page is about the development of the Precision Clock Mk IV. If you would like to buy a precision clock, head to the shop page. For the kit, see the assembly instructions There is also a user manual I designed this clock years ago, with the in...

A story about how switching all devices to UTC five years ago simplified time management across global schedules, offering a practical solution for remote workers and travelers to boost productivity.

My journey to typing ~120WPM

Mechanize Inc. is developing virtual environments and benchmarks to fully automate the economy.

People have spent years trying to discredit or ignore Limits to Growth. But when you populate the model with the best recent data, collpase starts about now.

This started as a throwaway metaphor in a blog post, but is now fully runnable: a toy RTOS with preemptive multitasking inside of Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Essentially, this is: - A rudimentary preemptive RTOS - Using an unmodified NES emulator (FCEUX) as the CPU - "Unmodified" depending on ...

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How early, sustained, supermassive black hole jets carved out cosmic voids, shaped filaments, and generated magnetic fields

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I’ve got Claude Code running in the background while I tab between writing this, sipping a Powers, and fielding phone calls from a team slightly panicked about the end of quarter QBR. This blog post is being written on May 27th, 2025, things may have changed by the time you read it. It was a toss up...

Writing code is a part of being a software developer but often more important question is to figure what code to write and how and that I like to do away from computer with my notebook.

At the end of the school year, a lot gets tossed by Duke students at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year I decided to dive in.

Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?" It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems access to large knowledge bases. But for Cl...

JS Bach’s last set of works, collectively titled The Art of Fugue, was published shortly after his death. It was not a big hit. Dense counterpoint was deeply unfashionable at that time, as We…

On the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI.

The PvP mech battler is finally playable online in Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, and I talked to the modder making it happen.

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

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CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing) 23 May 2025 on Technology, Web, and Accessibility One of the issues in ticketing is that many events have much more demand for tickets than they can supply. Obviously, this is a good problem to have (better than empty halls), but it attracts certain types of bad acto...

Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.

When Alexander Hamilton became the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury, he immediately began to prepare a schedule of tariffs, along with excise taxes on such commodities as alcohol and tobacco. The Constitution forbids taxing the exports of any state, and so American tariffs have always been l...

The secret life of wind tunnels

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Thank you to Bucknell University for inviting me to be this year's commencement speaker. And congratulations to the Class of 2025!  Watch the speech on YouTube. Thirty-two...

An excerpt from Slime by Susanne Wedlich, translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Young artists find a new way to resist the impermanence of modernity.

Welcome to my site that will perpetually be under construction.

There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a minute of API unreliability for the

Content Warning: Math, Handwaving I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school in lieu of whatever it is middle schoolers are supposed to be doing. Somewhere between the Cool S’s and Penrose triangles I stumbled upon a neat way to fill up graph paper by repeatedly combining and copying squares. ...

An infinite scrolling version of Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai, a classic text on bushido, the way of the warrior. Discover insights on life, death, and honor.

In the 1980s, there were a series of writers who challenged the way people thought of the then-growing popularity of colour television and news media. I have written before about Neil Postman, and …

Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I a…

HP announced back in June that end-of-support for OpenVMS will be 2020. I've been compiling this blog post since then. I have very fond memories of VAX/VMS... I used one to store my pillow for two years. Funny story. I learned a lot of life lessons from VMS. Originally this was one big 'ol blog...

The Machine Stops Part I The Airship Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and ...

Prophets and their warnings arise in times of peril, and the arrival of the doomer techno-optimist discourse is fortunate. Simply put, we needed the wake-up call. Yet, if the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one, then the second step is actually doing something about it. To that ...

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The

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i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done.

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[<< | Prev | Index | Next | >>] Thursday, July 18, 2024 $30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener In the spirit of my thermostat and dishwasher controller, I managed to cobble together a decent blinds opener in a short weekend almost entirely from spare parts on hand. This design is very much what I coul...

Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.

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This is part two of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (read part one here). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about building a startup in the 1980s and… Read More Life before the web – Running a...

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Elizabeth Holmes had more resources, talent, and opportunity than most founders will ever see — and she blew it. Now, writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz, she seems to be trying again.

Short story about The Institute of September the Thirtieth, dedicated to the study of a single day in 1939 in the form of a review of a fictional book.

The 2025 TLA⁺ Community Event was held last week on May 4th at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was a satellite event to ETAPS 2025, which I also attended, and plan to write about in the near future. I gave a talk somewhat-hucksterishly titled It’s never been easier to write TLA⁺...

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Here are some ways I use LLMs that I think are making me dumber: When I want to build a Chrome extension for personal use, instead of actually learning and writing the JavaScript, I Claude-Code the whole thing in a couple of hours without writing a single line of code. Instead of taking the usual ro...

A story from 16 years ago - trust, tech, and a server that had to disappear. They offered me a blank check. I said no.

Using Obscure Graph Theory to solve PL Problems ← → May 4, 2025 graph theory, development, haskell Usually I write about solutions to problems I’ve worked out, but I’ve found myself increasingly becoming interesting in where solutions come from. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Boorstin’s excell...

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons In love with the moment. Scared shitless of the future. « A Synopsis of Squid 12 May 2025 It Awaits Your Experiments. You may have heard of Christian Bök. You may have read about him on this very blog if you’ve been hanging out here long enough. Perhaps you were...

Well, that was unexpected. I recorded a couple of crappy videos in 5 minutes, posted them on a Twitter thread, and went viral with 8.8K likes at this point. I really could not have predicted that, given that I’ve been posting what-I-believe-is interesting content for years and… nothing, almost-zero ...

In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The Icelandic experimen...

RIP USENIX ATC May 11, 2025 USENIX made the decision this week to discontinue its flagship Annual Technical Conference. When USENIX was started in 1975 — before the Internet, really — conferences were the fastest vector for practitioners to formally share their ideas, and USENIX ATC flourished. Spea...

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It’s one of those things everyone’s heard of, but few truly understand. It sits quietly in the corner of the bathroom (or as an attachment to the toilet itself), radiating mystery and a slight sense of intimidation. Ask someone about it, and you’ll usually get a shrug or a vague explanation that tra

Raising awareness about the 2038 bug in all its manifestations and trying to fix things while there’s still time.

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Why should I care? or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong Last week I learned that Robert Paul Wolff, the philosopher who got interested in anarchism and marxism, died and I wanted to write something dedicated to him — this was the first reason I started writing this. The secon...

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Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created...

On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, a major storm system rolled through the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region and beyond, leaving widespread damage—and six powerless days for my family. I did a lot to prepare for emergencies, but this week has shown me where the holes were in my planning.

Economist Kenneth Rogoff’s new book entwines currency’s ascension, his own experiences, and looks at what looms ahead.

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Joshua Jackson, North Carolina State University Abstract Building on Rubin and Camm’s (2013) heuristic regarding online griefing and trolling, this paper considers how anonymity, avatar creation, and online identity play into, and characterize, perceived-negative behavior in World of Warcraft. Using...

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The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

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The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything April 24, 2025 9 min read Source Table of Contents Technical Capability as a Moral Weight One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy Entropy Is Undefeated The Illusion of Finality Technical Work as Emotional Regulation The Burnout You Don’t See Coming Learning to...

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Mastering the full stack isn’t just a technical feat: it’s a human challenge, and no, you can’t git clone your way out of it.

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Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

New measurements of a certain type of supernova seems to indicate that our expanding universe isn't accelerating at all, negating any need to invoke a mysterious 'dark energy' to explain supernovae observations.

The hedgerow is never truly permanent. The hedge in art reflects the hedge in reality, a shifting entity, a feature that is sometimes lost and sometimes replaced.

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Knowledge-based society, my ass Right after I get admitted, I inform Professor that I also have a full-time job. He insists that we must start working right away. I quit as a result and instantly breathe a refined air. I am now a scientist! A week later I approach Professor and let him know I'm read...

There’s a narrative I find kind of troubling, but that unfortunately seems to be growing more common in science. The core idea is that the mere existence of perverse incentives is a valid and…

Thoughts Upon Slavery John Wesley Published in the year 1774 source: http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wesley/thoughtsuponslavery.stm See also: The Bible and Slavery I. 1. By slavery, I mean domestic slavery, or that of a servant to a master. A late ingenious writer well observes, "The variety of forms in whi...

I just want to code I have an angel and a devil sitting atop each shoulder. The angel says, "Just code for fun! What you make can be just for your enjoyment and that's --" the devil interjects, "not enough to get ahead, loser. If you're not coding your next startup then how're you gunna get rich? Co...

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Most working people can be put into one of three categories, from idealistic yet unambitious to greedy and immoral. But there is another option …

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Opinion Computing Applications Viewpoint The End of Programming The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit. By Matt Welsh Posted Jan 1 2023 Share Twitter Reddit Hacker News Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library Arti...

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Years ago, I encountered a fascinating concept in a book by the Dalai Lama: every seven years, human beings transform into entirely new versions of themselves. This idea stems from the biological principle that our bodies replace virtually all their cells over a seven-year cycle. The person you are ...

February 2025 Issue Carolyn Bruckmann, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ‘25 The so-called “Friendship Recession” is making its way into the vernacular—a profound shift in how Americans experience and sustain friendships. The data paints a stark picture. According to the American Perspectives Su

An end to all this prostate trouble? 2025-03-07 The prostate gland causes entirely too many problems. In the US, prostate cancer kills about one man of every forty. “Benign prostate hyperplasia” (BPH) is even more common, affecting most men over age 60. It pinches the urinary tract, making it hard t...

In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?

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Tina on the transformative power of enthusiasm When I was eight, I made a big, hand-drawn poster that said, “Do you want to join my fan club?” and put it up in the small Swiss town where I grew up.…

[Like everything else on this blog—but perhaps even more so—this post represents my personal views, not those of UT Austin or OpenAI] Since 2015, depressed, isolated, romantically unsuc…

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Your employer pays you to spend more time with them than you spend with your family and/or loved ones. Your employer is one of the biggest influencers on your mental well-being. Your employer can and will replace you in a heartbeat if absolutely necessary. Let me be explicitly clear, your employer

The tools I love are made by awful people Published 23 Apr 2025 at 3:31PM IST Every few years, I install Linux on my computer, use it for a few weeks, give up, and go crawling back to my Mac. Also, every few years, I move all my writing, journaling, note-taking, and task management to fully analog s...

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Beer on Board in the Age of Sail Julia Blakely August 2, 2017 4 Comments Fierce ship of war in Lazari Bayfii Annotationes in legem II De captiuis & postliminio reuersis (1537; link) Brewing and seafaring are mainstays of ancient human endeavors. Beer was first fermented by at least the 5th millenniu...

Behind the Times The Ghosts of Gaelic Gaelic language and culture in Scotland have a long history, often subsumed by English. Is there hope for their future? Duncan Sneddon | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 4 April 2025 April 2025 is the 20th anniversary of the Gaelic Language Act (Scotla...

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Whirlwind (1945) The first interactive computer - with a keyboard. But it predates the idea of using an alphanumeric keyboard, making for an exotic experience. Continue Reading

How long it really takes to create a new habit, not 21 days.

If you are like most Americans, chances are, you probably believe that Atlantis or another civilization like it once existed. A survey conducted by Chapman University in October 2014 found that, at that time, roughly 63% of people in the United States agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “an...

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A persistent theme throughout the 1820s is the tension between Enlightenment ideals and conservative reaction. The books and articles discussed below capture various facets of this conflict. William Hazlitt’s collection of essays examines intellectuals from the turn of the century, many of whom beca...

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#0178: Why LLM-Powered Programming is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them Tags: braingasm, llm, programming, ai, claude, code, mech-suit, 2025 April 21, 2025 Photo by Screen Rant [ED: There’s a lot of talk of ...

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Home » Posts How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? April 19, 2025 · 4 min Well… you probably shouldn’t. This is my one rule: if my son ever says he doesn’t want to do math, we simply stop. No arguing, no bribing, no pushing. We do something else instead. Why? Because math is not a chore—it’s a way of e...

Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.

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With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I understand why it happens. I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of

Oda Ujiharu was known as the weakest Sengoku samurai warlord. Why, then, do so many people admire him today? Let’s find out.

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern societies realize. Glacier loss adds to the challenge today.

The keeper of a university's lab animals stumbles onto an extraordinary secret.

The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized I’ve been thinking about the UCSD P-System a lot lately, and I thought I’d write about …

A postmortem of a startup that attempted to address Britain's housing crisis by building software to streamline the planning permission process.

I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things. The list of languages, frameworks and libraries I’ve worked with professionally or on personal projects is too long to list – but it includes everything from C and assembly languages through C++, Pascal and D...

After being rather miserable about the work we do vs the work we want to do, I have come up with a possible solution that helps everyone.

When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some of those early predi...

I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs. This isn’t true, but it’s morally true for the reference class I’m in (people who wrote a book about em, 2024 AI PhD, ML twitter member in good standing, trying to do intellectual work on a deadline). Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of ...

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Functional Programming Lessons Conclusion 2025-04-09 Programming Part of the BlogBook: Functional Programming Lessons in Imperative Code Page content The Pragmatist’s Secret As many others observe as well, one of the major reasons to write is to firm up ideas in one’s own head. Serializing an idea o...

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Yep. I regret to inform you all that, as of January 2025, I am a Mac user: I bought a Mac. I have betrayed the penguin. Behold: My shame. What? Yes. The first Mac I have ever owned: this beautiful beast, a PowerMac G4 MDD: specifically a top-of-the-line dual 1.25 GHz FireWire 400 model circa 2002. H...

The fire in the tobacco barn was starting to rage, and inside was the most wanted man in America: John Wilkes Booth, the traitor who had shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre 12 days earlier. Nursing a broken leg,...

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The Bitter Prediction I'm one of many developers experiencing the whirlwind emotional phases of AI's introduction: dismissal, disbelief, excitement, and acceptance. But after working with Claude, Copilot, and Gemini for a while, I have concerns... • • • I recently spent a few eye-opening evenings ...

Erlang has an interesting history. If I understand things correctly, it started off as a Prolog library for building reliable distributed systems, morphed into a Prolog dialect, before finally becoming a language in its own right.

But what if I really want a faster horse? 4 April 2025 People in tech business circles love this quote by Henry Ford: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. The idea is to think outside the box and create entirely new markets instead of just new products in exist...

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We’re digging into what makes sleep truly restorative, because the tools most people rely on don’t always get it right. We’ve already questioned the 8-hour obsession and shown why quality beats quantity. Now, let’s take a closer look at sleep trackers. They spit out scores and stages, but how often ...

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Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you Mon 29 July 2013 TL;DR? Why not just go watch another five second video of a kitten with its head in a toilet roll, or a 140 character description of a meal your friend just stuffed in their mouth. "nom nom". This blog post is not for y...

Cameron Hewitt explains why the answer to this question is (a qualified) yes!

Alexandru Ene features details of a new UI SDK in Rust for Prime Video that targets living room devices.

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.

The dollar store invasion has hit rural Maine. Banning the retailer is one way to stave it off, but how can locals guarantee long-term financial resilience?

An extensive guide with over 40 ideas to learn how to reduce your screen time. Understand why, create new objectives, and leverage tools.

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