Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.

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We can't find a fitting metaphor for AI, which may be a sign of how transformative it will be.

Machines should bend to suit humans (centaurs), not humans bend to suit machines (reverse centaurs).

How about some links that aren’t about computers? Or, not directly related. Mostly. On the enshittification of Audre Lorde. Landslide; a ghost story. Of course, here I am sharing a bunch of…

Eight founder types from three orthogonal axes. Pick the playbook that fits your psychology, not the one that worked for someone else.

This post is a written description of a presentation titled Phone unlocking tools and where to find them that we have delivered privately to different events and organizations, including Primavera…

My rule for AI use is a border of interaction. Before the border, in private, I am happy to use AI as much as it helps: search, planning, code, transcription, translation, summaries, drafts, and any…

TP-7 CLI is a Rust command-line tool for humans and agents to manage files on a Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder from macOS. It can browse the recorder, download recordings from the device,…

RubyLLM 1.15 adds image editing, cost tracking, inferred tool parameters, additive callbacks, and Rails fixes.

How about adding such letter on main Nozbe home page? Just to show the prospective buyer that the same tool we’re selling is the same tool we’re using and it’s reflecting our values and the way we…

A popular view of the economics profession, as one with oscillating, or perhaps no consensus, is summarized by Harry Truman’s supposed quip that he wanted a one handed economist, because they kept…

Jwt should not be persisted

I’ve seen the term “player-coach” now come up enough times that I’m going to write about it while I enjoy my morning coffee.

A new editor extension that validates your CSS @property registrations and catches incompatible var() usage as you type.

I’ve written not one, but two new things for school publications! First, I’ve written about The Sound, one of my favorite bands, in Firebird. If you were wondering why I’d dug up an…

Eight optimization attempts on Echo-TTS CPU inference, the five that worked, quality evaluation with voice cloning, and how the optimized CPU path ended up faster than the GPU hybrid.

could this be where ravinia ends up?

To-do lists are often touted as the solution to task management. It makes sense on the surface—what better way to keep track of what needs to be done than by writing everything down in a list? This…

Preface to the Japanese translation of Ben Morea's "Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion"

I analyse the problems that leftists in Europe face in dealing with European Union affairs.

Recently, the Zed editor had its 1.0 release. While I can't say what it's going to be like in a few years, even now it has largely replaced Visual Studio Code as my editor for non-IDE tasks (though I…

Imagine a D&D character sheet. It has typed fields (Strength 1 to 18, Class is Fighter or Wizard or Rogue) and rules between them (Halflings can’t be Paladins, Hit Points depend on Class and…

Anthropic grew from $1B to $30B in 15 months. So why does it trade at a discount to public comparables? High-growth companies trade on forward (NTM) revenue. Anthropic’s $30B run rate implies…

memory Memory has a way of polishing people into archetypes

love in memory It's fascinating how easy it is to love in memory

“Your religion is built on a vast collection of useful lies; but, useful to whom?” operates on at least three levels simultaneously, and the semicolon pivot from declaration to question…

Posted on 2026-05-07 by Oleg Grenrus engineering Seven years ago I wrote a post about compatibility packages. It is now highly outdated, so let us revisit the matter. Recently there have been a small…

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Cloud platforms, data platforms, and now agent platforms. Every company wants to build one and run a fleet of agents. Having built cloud, compute and data platforms before, I'm hoping we can learn…

One of the problems — arguably, the core problem — with the current generation of AI chatbots is that they give the user the impression of authority, while in actual fact they do not necessarily have…

TL;DR: you may no longer use the content of this website for commercial purposes. In particular, you may not use it as training data for commercial language models. I decided to change the licence…

Disclaimer: Mesh networks over LoRa as described here (MeshCore/Meshtastic) do not require a license in the US, since they operate on the unlicensed & public domain 915 MHz ISM band under FCC…

Academic reviewing used to be more fun. (As fun as it can be, of course.)

Every time you load a website, send an email, or update an app, you’re quietly relying on a handful of unglamorous services that route your packets to the right place: DNS to translate names into…

Almost all the algorithms/methods covered so far have been action-value methods (except gradient-bandit algorithms, Section 2.8). Action-value methods learn the values of actions and then derive the…

This is a topic that I have been planning to dive into for a long time, but I kept procrastinating. Yet, finally I sat down to it and found out it is much, much simple than I anticipated. I am a fan…

I have been vibe coding a lot. Like, a lot a lot…. and it’s been leaving me feeling a bit conflicted. I’ve been committing hard, and feeling tremendously productive. But I also get this weird flash…

30 projects in 30 days using AI-assisted coding. Here’s what was easy, what was hard, what was unexpected, and where this is all going.

In two recent blogposts I have outlined the history of our field, one on the history of proof assistants and another specifically about earlier work on the formalisation of mathematics by machine.…

Formula 1 Round 6 2026 recap: Kimi Antonelli wins in Miami; McLaren, Ferrari, and Red Bull bring upgrades and become more competitive, while Mercedes no longer has such a big advantage, and there is…

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A logo is a tool that reminds people of who you are. Your personal brand already has that. Your face. It ticks all the boxes of great logo design: It’s unique It’s memorable It stands out…

What's the reason for a watchdog taking 23 times as long to reset the device? It turns out the Flash Option Bytes are. And a mass erase doesn't reset those.

Let's say you are the maintainer of a Python library that depends on another Python library like “ urllib3 ”. Because you want to make sure users receive a compatible version of urllib3 you add a…

This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup"…

a quick one. small adjustments to how i work with agents, none of them deep on their own. but i can feel them adding up, the workflow shifting in a way that feels worth pausing on before any of it…

Hey, look out! this is an addendum to yesterday's post on setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 . all of this is written with the assumption you've followed the setup steps in…

Marc Andreessen Egg Game helps you make eggs that look like Marc Andreessen.