The simple loop executives use

Why I built a camera app that lets youth-sports parents save an unpredictable moment after it has already started.

Designing evaluation protocols where neither the model developer nor the evaluator can game the results — work with Google DeepMind.

Bill Gates recently published an article titled The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. In the article, he expresses his concerns about the long-term impact of AI in…

kamal-backup 1.0 brings exact Rails restores, restore drills, and PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SFTP, and rclone support to Kamal.

Explaining how DNS works and why its important to choose a secure DNS provider!

https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/ I've been meaning to write about this since [2026-03-20 Fri]. finally doing it. Quick note on the title before I get into it. It's riffing on…

How we used AI, profiling, adversarial tests, and repeatable Go benchmarks to cut hot-path work and make filtered log writes up to 77x faster.

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix…

In July of 2025, I took over as (or became the first, depending on the accounting) MPA director at NIU. My role is to run the academic side of the house; my department chair runs the university side.…

Increasingly, I'm finding it hard to hard to get a sense of human consensus on a topic from the internet

Shipping container type codes are standardized. Almost nobody knows how it works though.

Building an Agent Skill to convert my hand-written drafts to Astro-friendly markdown with Antigravity.

Last month I made and wrote about a personal service to track my workouts and record personal bests. Since then, things have escalated. I now have eight different services running in the same…

A point-by-point list of the numbers, estimates, and forecasts discussed by Dylan Patel and Dwarkesh Patel.

Famix is the meta-model family of Moose allowing one to analyse the dependencies of a project and its global architecture. But sometimes, you want more, you want to see what are the part of the code…

When I put Evergreen on the iPhone back in June, I was upfront that the phone was mostly for capture and lookup. Add the person you just met, glance at who you owe a follow-up, then wait until…

Software used to need a watchmaker. Now it needs a breeder. What Darwin can teach us about building with AI.

Everyone fed up with Opus 5 Claudish. Here is how to shut it up.

I saw the original post generating a bit of talk, and I haven't written many lighter posts lately, so I figured I'd add what I had to say. First off, OP said: I would never tell anyone to their face…

One of my favourite Persian poems is عصیان بندگی (The Servant’s Rebellion) by Forugh Farrokhzad. Born in Tehran in 1934, Farrokhzad became one of Iran’s defining modernist poets and also a filmmaker…

We’re all just little headache machines and we need to take our daily mandated no-headache liquid and rest and air. 😆Chibird store | Mail club | Instagram

An Evolutionary Astrology analysis of Sir Thomas More, exploring his transition from radical intellectual logic to the transformative courage of the heart.

Sometimes there is a beautiful soul that lights up the world around it - I am sure that most people have heard the news by now of Dolly Parton's passing at the age of 80 - a good age and yet with the…

Here’s my design of 2P Ivan. I wanted to keep his original hair color but lean into the classic red eye color that most 2P characters get and give him even paper skin and heavy eyebags.…

With a custom shader GUI, we can bring together all the features we've built and combine them into a mega PBR shader.

I am following up my last post about how I write with a text about how I specifically get that writing done with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. 🧂 It cannot be a straightforward answer.…

I'm at the four week mark working on Shipaton 2026: My RevenueCat Paywall is hooked up to App Store Connect & tested, operationalising the app is coming along and I have a rough website

Intro So, Emacs 31 has been released, and a lot of shiny new stuff is there, ready for us to play with. You probably heard of this new markdown-ts-mode and decided to check it out. And guess what? On…

Rather late getting this online (blame Taiwan!): podcast interview about Computer Science, AI and IRCAM with Research Director Gérard Assayag.

I am subletting my apartment. Based on the dozens of messages I have received, here are some of the mistakes that might hurt your flat search. The mysterious stranger In Berlin, an apartment listing…

One large mug, two Yorkshire tea bags, steeped in freshly boiled water for 2 minutes, squeeze and remove the bags, generous splash of milk. The weather has finally felt like it’s changing from the…

So I saw R and leeyuh's post on the Cara situation . There's research on something called Intergroup Schadenfreude . 1 We take pleasure in seeing another group in pain. We see this in sports, but we…

an inkling or two for who? more intimations fewer intimations sustain other things said span Yesterday :: Wednesday, 26th August 2026

While I was in one of my classes today, my friend texted me to let me know that Tim Curry had passed away. I am distraught by the news. We had actually been talking about him the night before (August…

Scottie Scheffler to WIN (+345) – After obliterating the field in Memphis, the world number one played through hand, foot and mouth disease at the BMW and remarkably still finished T-12th. He said…

Magnetic Core Assembly, IBM Plant, Poughkeepsie, by Ansel Adams, 1955, from the Weston Gallery, via 1stDibs.

Part Three Quote While the critic held sway ... art degenerated to entertainment ... Never has so much talk, and so little thought, been devoted to art. Notes 🔥 Apollo and Dionysus represent two…

bladespark:cherryjams:‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.My mother used to make computer cores as a “work from home” side…

In brief: Anna’s broken up with her long-term boyfriend, but they are both in her best friend’s wedding party. It’s a weekend to forget with his bombshell, but Anna meets Mac as well as her apparent…

North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, was entirely off my radar in the first year from its release. But one of the questions I ask annually in my Hugo Readalong is which books from the…

I think, in the coming decades, we’re doing to see a huge push to put technology in the background. We’re not going to give up any tech we’ve already or will develop, we’re…

I recently went for a walk, as I often do, when I encountered one of the neighborhood cats sitting on the side of the road. Usually, local cats are shifty and cautious around strangers, going out of…

How the AI build-out became a credit structure, and who now has claims on its future cash flows

I started astronomy more than ten years ago, stopped about five years ago because … well life, and picked up the hobby again recently. I had sold my first telescope back then, and had to go…

weather: 🌥️ i wish you'd rain critters: crows i just didn't like outline very much and i DNF'd parade. i'm annoyed by cusk's avowed distaste for the devices of fiction while continuing, for reasons i…

Our school district started 2 weeks earlier than last year. It’s been about 99℉ / 37℃ all week. My elementary kids had to eat lunch inside, and school pickup traffic is at rainy day levels. My fourth…

Back in April I joined my first Homebrew Website Club meeting and since then I’ve made a habit of reading the blogs from everyone there that day. The first post I read this Wednesday is from Thomas…

v0.1 was a singular machine. One userspace, booting on two kernels, at one console, on the board it was tuned for. Everything difficult about it was internal — the spawn-from-disk deadlock, the libc…