AI companies have committed nearly $10bn in the last year to Forward Deployed Engineering teams. OpenAI has bought Tomoro and Northslope outright.1 Anthropic launched a services firm with Blackstone,…

A well-positioned portal for developers that provides real value is a durable, positive thing. Hugging Face became the place builders actually go: the model card you open first, the dataset you…

There is a second job market forming next to the one that is shrinking. Writers, directors, and producers who cannot find enough shoot days are being paid by the hour to teach AI systems how to…

As I ramp up on Italian history in preparation for a trip, I stumbled upon the bizarre, fateful story of two men who made the unified Italian state a reality in the 19th century: Garibaldi and…

For the record (my own record): I spent $55.21 on 78 bags of Hippeas, and I don't at all regret it. What a deal. X2 of these & 1x of these $15 for 2.25 pounds of sugar free almond slop? TY amazon!…

one of these days, i got to realize that a) I am not the center of everyone's world (tragic, really), and b) most people are not malicious; they are either most likely caught up in their own lives,…

Recently I discussed some of the arcade clubs I have participated in over the last couple of years. Part of the reason I’ve really enjoyed these is that I’ve gotten insight into some…

About an album, a song you can trace back to Dolly Parton, and how all of it has stuck with me for three decades.

I just found a copy of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life on a donation bin at Dublin airport. Let’s ignore the separate essay on why an airport is begging for funds from the general public. Are…

One of the major arguments in the Ecclesiastes for the existence of God is the futility of man - the idea that all human toil and effort is meaningless because it's temporary, and only the Christian…

Guided by ethereal winds, the Burning Desire was brought back together to return us to the land of the living!

Trauma is not only about fear or memory. It is also about relationships. Many people think trauma lives only inside one person. They imagine it as a private wound in the mind. But trauma often…

In neither of my recent posts on the 1918 Bishopsgate Goods Yard disaster did I mention the 1943 Bethnal Green Tube disaster, despite it being an obvious comparison (as well as showing up as a…

 Europe has a new border control system that’s causing massive delays for travelers and confusion for people like you who might be booking a flight soon. I’ve traveled in and out of…

Learn how to combat poor web design by extracting and reviewing all web page links found on page with the use of a bookmarklet.

We are reaching the end of our series, but we still have a few steps to do in our reinforcement learning (RL) journey before we can fully flesh out proximal policy optimization (PPO).  If you’ve…

never feel too much for sharing your thoughts with me just tell me things your untangling thoughts the fears you think doesn’t matter the days when everything feels heavy i will still hold you with…

Trauma does not only hurt the mind or body. It can also change the way life feels. After trauma, the world may look the same from outside. The same rooms, streets, people, and routines may still be…

Hello! 👋 For several months now, I’ve been working on a brand new surprise update. Quest of Dungeons is coming to Nintendo Switch 2! And it’s not just a straight port, I wanted to take…

Nobody documents dozens of tables with hundreds of columns by hand. So an agent does it, INFORMATION_SCHEMA keeps it honest, and Teams pings when a source API adds a column

We had an interesting discussion with Tuomas Sorakivi about metamathematics yesterday. For a mainstream physicist, mathematics is "maths": a box from which you can draw calculational methods. The…

Long, long time ago, in a long-forgotten PR adding support for Cumulus VX Ignite runtime, an off-the-cuff remark was made saying, “ and this is how you use netlab with Podman ”. That remark was…

I’m really satisfied to have fixed a couple IndieWeb libraries and website config issues. Too bad my ideas are far ahead of my ability to get things accomplished…

One thing that the world does a lot is non-ironically call you a bear while force feeding you a burrito. It happens constantly. One day you realise this and you can't unsee it. It's…

Flux can reconcile a vLLM ServingRuntime and an InferenceService just fine, but the model weights it points at aren't tracked by Git. What the naive hf:// or s3:// storageUri actually costs you, and…

After spening 2+ weeks working on a major product update, I deleted everything by mistake. Then I got it back. This is a story about panic, and how some tools have your back when disaster strikes.

Harnesses are built around single sessions. Scaffolds give harnesses persistence.

Around five years ago, for OSN 2021, I gave a talk on Full Stack CICD of Kubernetes Microservices using DevOps and IAC. I was discussing some of our setup we used at Medtronic for the CRHF group and…

An interactive Wittgensteinian tool for thought

This image didn't turn out how I thought it would at all, so it will be interesting to see what others see in it, haha. Visual art can exists in so many ways and be unforgivingly precise and…

By Rajendra B. Aklekar The Great Indian Peninsula Railway — the GIPR — is the railway that operated India’s first commercial passenger line between Bombay and Thane in 1853. The Bombay–Thane…

Successful Fiction Writing = Creating + Organizing + Marketing I blog weekly on one of the above three topics, alternating between them. This week, I’m blogging on Marketing. The question for today…

Yesterday, I decided to unarchive my posts in my private account. Three months ago, I removed everything just because I was insanely overwhelmed by the current atmosphere on Instagram, as I wrote…

A follow-up to the previous post on a style of punditry that denies contingency.

I own a lot of books. And yet I continue to browse the stacks at used bookstores and swaps. I often find myself wondering if I have already picked up a given John McPhee or >DK Eyewitness volume. I…

In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to do some sort of goofy Amazon Mechanical Turk project. I guess it’s now or never. But I don’t have any...

The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid “The President is only conceivably harmed by an injunction barring executive action if that court order is preventing him from doing something the…

Every six months or so it seems that there is a round of discourse on the discourse sites (Twitter/X is how I am exposed to it most of the time) about why Chicago isn't...better, or something.…

Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh), Xaldun of Portage Town, Swordsman (roguewithwhimsy)…

layout refurbished.

TL;DR - Got a new mudflap installed! Thanks to Derek @unstpible. Straight to work. I wouldn't say that humanity has been at its best over the last decade or so. With social media and politics doing…

Proof that our data is always more valuable than paying for services.

- Frances Spooner: "Hello darling, I'm home!" - Reverend Spooner: "Welcome home, darling. Happy Valentines Day! I've done something special, you know, that thing you said you wanted…?" - Frances…

This behind-the-scenes look at Xevious' groundbreaking development was originally featured in the May 1983 edition of LOGiN magazine. The post The Making of Xevious (1983) first appeared on…

A CORS error on Heroku was actually an out-of-memory crash from loading a 645k-row CSV file all at once, not a real CORS issue.

In 2017, I challenged myself to email a chapter a day for 30 days. The response led me to write a whole trilogy. As I finish the trilogy, I’m making that original draft available for the first time…

Proteins fold, function, and evolve according to rules written into their amino acid sequence — and it turns out transformers are shockingly good at learning those rules. This post walks through how…

In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success rate using a small sample size. This is…

Someone is wrong on the internet I often compete with my family for the highest score in various daily geography quiz games. I recently took second place to my brother in one game by giving what was…

Red Baron (1990), rhe iconic DOS Flight Sim by Sierra/Dynamix ported and upgraded for the modern web in about a week using a mostly autonomous coding agent (primarily Claude Opus 4.8, downgrading…