Modern software delivery is not just coding. It is a seven‑stage, 32‑task pipeline. Speed gains from AI only matter when the pipeline is understood and has capacity end-to-end.

Formula 1 Runda 10 2026 recap: Russell won in Austria. Ferrari brought major upgrades but saw no significant gains in race pace. Verstappen got his first podium of the year, and Red Bull looked…

The best person to understand a problem really deeply usually isn’t an engineer, it’s usually someone who’s using the product day in and day out with customers. Or it’s the…

Running a few products solo means a lot of things can quietly break while you're not looking. So I built something that watches for me, only speaks when it matters, investigates the problem itself,…

Jun 0407:36 PMSo, I accidently read news about the news today and it began to click in my mind. I suddenly realized the old guard of social media VC deal flow underbelly are now considered the media…

Benchmarking gemma4 12B quants on the cheapest 16GB Blackwell card. QAT beats Q4_K_M outright, and its FP4, FP8, and MTP speedups are all macOS-only on Ollama.

Over the last few months I’ve been spending a fair amount of time programming and doing so with LLMs is different.

Unless you build it yourself there's no auto lang sync, change announcements, or focus management

I was young. I wanted something very badly and I was afraid that if I took my eye off it, I wouldn’t have it. And I was right. There was no other way to do it. And it meant choosing it over you. But…

How edge servers, anycast routing, and tiered caching move content close to users, cut latency, and protect your origin at global scale - Open a website hosted in Virginia from a phone in Singapore…

Newsairy 1.08 is here, and it’s all about how you move through your reading. Two new time-based Smart Feeds join the existing 24/48/72-hour views: Last 7 days (a rolling week) and This week…

With our previous GIF API shutting down, we built Gifbox, a standalone, community-driven GIF service that's live in Stoat now and open for other apps to integrate.

A survey of 107 about how people use AI

If you are using uv to manage your python dependencies, you may run into difficulties when trying to execute a script from within a cron job, as the virtual environment has to be activated first. If…

Why localhost is becoming the wrong default for agentic software development.

The 'You're absolutely right!' meme is about sycophancy, but the deeper itch is accountability - models can course-correct instantly and without suffering, but humans keep reaching for punishment…

Mark Pesce · University of Sydney · June 2026AbstractWhen it becomes as hard to evaluate machine intelligence as it has always been to evaluate human intelligence, a threshold has been…

Strawberry Earl Grey for the Full Strawberry Moon Adagio's tea blends that are only available on the day of the full moon feel very specifically targeted to my interests.

Usually I do these review videos completely off the cuff. (With maybe an outline to go off of) This time I actually wrote a script so you can read the script below the video if you’d rather do…

Seattle made its FIFA World Cup debut this month, cementing its status as a premier soccer city. The host-city selection was a vindication for passionate Seattle fans who were long-disappointed when…

When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must…

A lot of my series involve the sights of a meandering walk, a collection of photos taken over a long period, or perhaps most of all, the simple documentation of time. This set, however, is a bit…

I had a classic Sean realization this weekend (that I've had many times before) when I spent the entire day being outside with my friends then when I had a spare moment and I checked my phone and…

Australia’s AI future won’t be decided by AI boomers or doomers, but by who owns the compute, sets the rules, and gets paid back for the infrastructure we build.

Is creating things innate to human nature? Why did the first painter paint? Why did the first writer write? Why did the first sculptor sculpt? Why was the first song created? Whatever the answer may…

I’m reviewing two books here with their origins in the mid-1970s microcomputer revolution: These two companies – Apple and Sphere – started at around the same time with similar…

weather: ☀️ pool time critters: grackles gracklin' at this, the hour of pride month's twilight, a brief list in no particular order of fictional guys i like to blame for extrinsically turning me gay…

Cartesian and polar forms, the complex plane, the nested number sets, and the core relationships (real/imaginary parts, conjugate, modulus, argument) with a worked example.

Over the last three or four months I have been on a bit of a quest. I have been looking for a private digital assistant. Not another chatbot or the latest frontier model, but something I could run on…

A cross‑cultural exploration of the symbolism, geometry, and practical guidance behind the number 4.

Or how to plot a very famous album cover.

Five days alone in Belgium in the rain, for a Lølø concert. A trip that was cursed at times, and what you learn from leaving on your own.

“There’s something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there’s always something you can learn.” – Haruki Murakami, Pinball,…

Awhile ago I moved this blog to an AWS EC2 instance and, to try and reduce load on the instance, put the blog behind Amazon CloudFront, since CloudFront makes a decent front-side cache and has a free…

Gram release 3.0.0 Hi everyone,I hope everyone in Europe and everywhere else where it's unusually hot (or usually hot for that matter) are doing OK despite the heat. Even up here in the mideast of

Hi I'm back because I'm finally done with my exams!!!! I did a lot of stuff: 🧫Added a new journal entry (the night(s) before exams, wildlife, walking lightly on earth, ode to childlessness, sins,…

Team Ratings for Round 18 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.…

Team Ratings for Week 18 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season.…

I’ve lived in Japan for three years now, and today is the first time I’ve had a tamago sando from 7-Eleven. I go to 7-Eleven often. Maybe a few times every week. That's a lot more than I used to go…

Back in 2023 I started another collection whilst on holiday in Florida. Having never having been interested in buying Metallica records on vinyl, I got sucked into trying to collect the Walmart…

Suck on This Rusty Lollipop, Metro For years, if you used React Native, you bundled with Metro. Or… eh… Cough… Cough… Repack, but that is a story for another day. Here is a quick refresher on what a…

Random compilation of (n)vim tricks I picked up over the years You can pipe input to vim.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether Nikola Tesla .

tl;dr If you do not need stable instance ordering, call SetRemoveSwap() on InstancedStaticMeshComponent to massively speed up instance removal.

Calculating the position of trajectory lines is fast, but strings are slow.

This week’s AI Engineering World’s Fair just posted my talk on the agony and ecstasy of voice in, visuals out agents . It’s a challenge to get model responses that feel immediate, but when it works,…

vibe: iced ginger tea cuz i feel sick and i know the hot water would help but i want to chew ice when i'm done with it. nick is sleeping so no music, but lately obsessed with ozzga gas was $5.70 this…

Plaintiff, a TikTok creator with roughly one million followers, makes his living livestreaming on the platform. After an anonymous Reddit user posted a 27-second clip of one of his livestreams…

Watched: Jun 26, 2026 Richard Gere as Jesse reminded me of Tony from Looking for Mr. Goodbar : sleazy, horny, and dangerous. Jesse is so off-putting at first that I almost bailed on the film. I’m…