Stephen Hackett blogs about the Anthropic + SpaceX / xAI news, with more questions: Colossus 2 is believed to be up and running, at least to some degree, and xAI may no longer need the first site.…

If you follow me on Mastodon you know it as my home server. If you click through to my ForgeJo you know it as my git forge. It’s the host that hosts my private Elk server where the majority of…

Anthropic raised Claude limits by renting SpaceX compute. The funny part is where the compute came from.

hljs.configure({languages:["python","bash"]});hljs.highlightAll(); We’ve just uploaded mypy 2.0.0 to the Python Package Index ( PyPI ). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes…

Why coordinate-level optimizers can behave differently on weights that represent the same model, and how quotient-aware updates remove the hidden gauge.

Become a MOC member to see the clickable quiz with answers on the back. Become a MOC member to see the clickable quiz with answers on the back. Become a MOC member to see the clickable quiz with…

I was trying to remember the name of some old hidden-object games I used to play as a kid, and after a while and some searches I got it! The two main series I liked were Mystery Case Files…

The BTS evening meeting of June 2025 provided a briefing on Prague Metro Line D from Petr Makasek, Head of Tunnel Department, Mott MacDonald Czech Republic. The focus was on station design,…

Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously…

Learn how to honestly analyze your own logs and data to improve your technical SEO performance. Discover practical tips for objective self-assessment and identifying optimization opportunities.

I've been starting to get back into composing music, which for me also means looking at YouTube videos and social posts related to the topic. But the more I start looking at videos and content…

This article refutes the claim that patient video recording makes doctors 'robotic.' Patients record mostly out of fear of forgetting details rather than seeking trouble; practicing medicine…

Been doing some tinkering with a hobby website the last few days.

TV interview with Scott Budman / WNTV (NBC Bay Area) regarding the Elon Musk versus OpenAI / Sam Altman trial in Oakland, CA, for TODAY: NBC. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/author/scott-budman/

If there's something I learn, I don't have to overthink this. The kit, like everything else, will evolve as I go

John invited me over to run the RDC-M on his Kanada Railway. It ran a few laps and one of them is shown in the video. I was quite pleased at how well the old Bachmann drive unit ran being some 50 or…

about 6 years ago and for about 6 months, i experienced the stress-induced delusion that i was already dead. i believed for a time that the world just hadn't caught up yet, hadn't realised the facts…

In this part of the Yocto hardening we talk about how to verify the integrity of a file system with dm-verity in embedded systems. The post Yocto Hardening: File System Integrity with dm-verity first…

Recently, a port of Notepad++ to macOS has been making the rounds online, mainly due to the project using the Notepad++ name without permission and in breach of the original author’s trademark. But…

Galicia, April 2026. From the video Fog and Mountains.

The best software engineers are endlessly curious about how things work in a way that can bewilder other brain orientations. Once upon a time I attended a DEFCON talk given by an engineer who found…

On May 23, 2011, I bought Building Java Programs 2nd edition from bokkilden.no to learn how to program. A week later, product.support@pearsoned.com emailed me a password I had registered an account…

Need to randomize things? I did too. Here's a tool that's helpful to me and might be helpful to you. 🔷 These tools aren't server-side, so they probably won't work without JavaScript enabled. Shuffle…

I have briggs.seattle.wa.us , and you might be able to get one for yourself, with your own city and state, if you're in the US! They're free, too. I had success following Frederick Chan's great guide…

People who go for leadership...may be viewed as one of two extreme types. There are those who are so constituted physically and emotionally that they like pressure — seek it out — and…

This Saturday (9th May) EDGEWAYS presents "Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced" with me talking about my artwork on Zoom from 20:00 BST. Attendance is free, but places are limited so…

A meditation on token economics, the AI hierarchy, and the moment your most agreeable collaborator turns out to have been on a payroll.View Post

I've been buying Vinyl Records for the last 10 years or so after not having owned any since the late 90's when I left for college and sold my dad's collection. I had moved on to CD's and soon Napster…

Earlier this year, the University of Glasgow held its first International Symposium on AI in Education, organized by the School of Education and the Centre for Teaching Excellence. I was invited to…

“My Favourite Waste of Time” 1985-86 was definitely a period when DWAS or Doctor Who related stuff was taking up all of my spare time. July 1985 was probably the most extreme example and because…

Waterfall 2.0 - The Quiet Return of the Methodology We Micked Open any AI-coding repo on GitHub today and count the markdown files. Then count the lines of code. The ratio has been climbing for two…

we moved to sweden, so the last few days have been quite hectic. our wifi turned off on the last day of april, and for some reason my cell service was downright atrocious, so for the remaining days…

Got a bit bored and pulled my Bakeneko 65 keyboard out of storage with the idea rotating it in with my Mode 65 — except I found my RSI flaring up again after typing on it for a day. I guess I really…

Two C branch stations in Brookline – Englewood and Tappan Street – will also have limited service until mid-July as part of the MBTA’s accessibility upgrade projects.

Everybody’s asleep, let’s talk about him Let’s talk about high school, talk about death

After writing a short take about system dynamics I recently picked up the book Thinking In Systems again. And this time I finished it.

Create a new browser context with a narrow screen, then get `document.body.scrollWidth` to get the width of the displayed page.

IntroductionThe press was calling EVs dead. The Inflation Reduction Act incentives had just expired. Roughly $20 billion in EV investment between the OEMs and the federal government had been…

Developing for the Playdate part 2

This is how things work: you, being a “literally who?” nobody, wrote approximately 13 pages of titles of articles, about exactly how and why the current incarnation of AI is only an…

Portugal is a country of charming, acceptable sloppiness where there is no patience whatsoever for YOUR sloppiness because everyone's entirely fed up with the pervasive sloppiness (including, of…

This open letter to the Council of Cardinals is to beg you to demand the Pope excommunicate J. D. Vance. Nobody threatens a Pope. Nobody […] The post An Open Letter to the Council of Cardinals…

Oh you mean like with audio output instead Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard. Why Short answer: why not? Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a…

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AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

After starting at Panic back in 2012, I quickly learned that my then-coworker and now-pal James is a fountain of knowledge. He’s the kind of guy who has a deep understanding about all kinds of…

The very first computer I used was a Macintosh which model I have a hard time pinpointing, but something along the lines of a LC 630: nearly my age, big CRT monitor, pizza box form factor, and the…