L’impact de l’IA sur l’enseignement supérieur dans les années à venir est difficile à cerner. Quels cadres de référence historiques sont utiles pour imaginer les contours de ses conséquences ? Cet…

AI is impacting higher education. What historical frames of reference are useful for imagining the contours of the consequences? This blog post builds on the accumulation of my postings in the last 4…

The rate of LLM improvements for coding keeps increasing, and I can't keep up.

Count Releases 0 Commits 10 Contributors 2 Pull requests merged 7 Issues closed 1 At a Glance Emscripten Upgrade 4.0.13 -> v6.0.0 ARGV Rework for the CLI You can now use -- to split args from the…

I'm not against using LLMs, but I'm not okay with using LLMs to write docs intended for humans. By that point the question will be "is this an actual intention" or "LLM had a go at it".

a walkthrough of Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text pipeline — how three neural networks turn MEG recordings of someone typing into sentences, and what the language model at the end really does.

Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text hit 61% by reading people type. the people it's for can't type — and closing that gap costs signal on both axes at once.

Get your eval flywheel spinning as fast as safely possible.

It helps not gaslight anyone reading the code

ANSI escape codes are used to colorize text in a terminal.

Unlike previous clippings , this one is organized Robin Sloan newsletter -style: instead of neatly partitioned sections of what I’ve written and what I’ve read, it’s a stream of discrete vignettes…

Smarter AI, Claude Mythos returns, AI apocalypse, the npm party is over

How was the month? It was… uneventful. "Event" as in things worth talking about. I met up with friends a couple times, and that was it. The days all blurred together until I lost track. Wanna get…

Fibers give PHP concurrency. The Polling API gives it native epoll and kqueue. Here's how to build on both, with honest benchmarks.

On July 1, 2026, MalwareHunterTeam shared an ELF uploaded to VirusTotal from Japan with 0 detection. After a quick code inspection, it was evident that the ELF was a backdoor targeting specific…

Fortunately, we didn’t melt (yet) 🥵

Two-year anniversary, new features, bug fixes, and initial ptrace support!

I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don’t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read…

I've been meaning to write How to Work with Me page for a long time. I mean for the page to be a living document that gets updated over time. The main...

I began testing out how I could use a new static site hosting service and in doing so, I need a way to send files to the remote host over SSH. Once your account and SSH keys have been loaded to the…

Why I Replaced .Count with Measure-Object in My PowerShell Code. I tried the .Count and it kept returning 0 when I knew there was more than one in the count. This caused problems when I needed to…

Collxn Pulse worked because a real person at an audio fingerprinting API helped unlock messier record matching.

This article was originally posted on the Ubuntu Discourse, and is reposted here. I welcome comments and further discussion in that thread. The development of upki has been steadily progressing over…

Something I’ve been thinking about recently is the information content of different biomolecules. While small molecules, peptides, antibodies, and oligonucleotides can all be valuable therapeutic…

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find privacy-respecting services that haven’t been involved in political scandals. A month ago, Proton VPN, a popular privacy-respecting VPN…

Today's Record High is a website I created that tracks the record highs and lows for major weather stations and cities across the United States.

Uphill battle of selling 1-click Linux installer.

A summary of newsletter bombing and fake Ghost subscriber signups - what it is, why it happens, and how to mitigate it.

🔊 Listen to this post A seed packet is a funny kind of promise. It can sit in a drawer for months, maybe years, looking like nothing much at all — just a little envelope with a picture on the front…

This month (July 2026) I contributed across open-source projects with pull requests, code reviews, issues and discussions, spanning multiple repositories and areas of impact. 2026-07-02 ✅ Reviewed PR…

It's hard to get a good butterfly photo in the afternoon when they are frenetic, but this checkerspot was nice enough to pose for a few seconds. #dailyphoto #oregon #insectphotography

Number of movies watched: 27 Favorite/most memorable movie: Disclosure Day (2026) Think I'm finally done collecting tarot decks for a while, as I was able to procure all the out-of-print companion…

Word on the street is that the cost of building software is going to zero. Zero? Sounds like a good deal! Over the last year, my co-founder and I have iteratively automated our coding loops. Each…

Meet Lawrence Lawrence C. Harris is a speaker, author, and advocate who helps teens and young adults navigate trauma, mental health, and personal growth. Through his writing and speaking, he…

temperature lowered in my cave, so new comic page!!!!! ദ്ദി◝ ⩊ ◜. .

This weekend I saw Andy Warhol’s Shadows at Dia Beacon. Shadows is “a single painting in multiple parts,” and is designed to be installed to fill the available space. Dia’s space, as you can see, is…

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux…

South and westerly from the mainland, the Agglehorn Sea stretches into the horizon, beyond which lie the legendary nineteen other sides: The Icosahedra. Of note: the Isle of Lewis, home to Lewis, the…

I wanted a small Windows app that lives in the tray instead of the taskbar, and minimizes/closes to the tray. This can be useful for building small service apps, while having a UI you can…

Late RipenessLate RipenessBy Czeslaw MiloszTranslated By Robert Hass & Czeslaw Milosz

theworstbiscet:in tomadachi life treasure youve drawn is more often used in speach bubbles when your islanders are yapping at eachother…so-

I've written this newsletter again and again and again. It's the last day of Pride and nothing feels right. Xenophobia, ultra-violence, the criminalisation of queer people in Africa, we…

Tired of arguing over who’s on whose side of the bed, Redditor jonathan881 bought himself a $40 laser line and mounted it in the bedroom to divide the bed perfectly in half. No word if the…

According to my many masters

A procedure on how to structure relationships in a game.

I'm working on a project where I'm making optimizations to web fonts to make their file sizes as small as possible, giving the benefits of faster font loading and reduced bandwidth. One method of…

I volunteer with NICA , training coaches and working with the league to put on races. I've also been a coach and a head coach. I've done it for a long time, since before my kids were old enough to…

The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Championship this past month. I said to my youngest brother that this was my new favorite non-Boston championship. The Knicks were…

Riding the Oregon Cascades Volcanic Arc (OCVA) bikepacking route to Bend, Oregon My bike, just before I rolled out About to to roll out, mile zero