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“If your job doesn’t require you to burn tokens, then probably ignore MWG and, by extensions, LLM for code. In case the environmental damage, intellectual property theft, wealth redistribution to the rich, encoded biases, and built-in support of fascism weren’t ...
I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on ...
I have read the “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” by Charlie Munger and thought about what it would take to write one for Dagster. A complete guide with all the insights, tips, and some predictions for the data platform engineer, just like ...
This series interviews (see #1 with Mark Freeman) real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time ...
In my last post I used the word “clanker1” as an alternative to “agent” quite consistently and probably excessively. That choice ended up attracting a lot more attention than I expected in the Hacker News comment section of that post ...
Your documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit are back on Talk Python with a brand new Python documentation ...
Every view-transition-name on a page must be unique. The problem is that every pseudo-element selector in your CSS targets a specific name, so your animation styles explode into an unmanageable wall of selectors. Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of ...
How kube-proxy turns Kubernetes Services into kernel rules. iptables, IPVS, nftables packet paths and which to pick in 2026. Verified against k/k 1.36 source.
Today's links No honor among (ad-tech) thieves: Including "and" and "the." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Budweiser nunchuks; GOP vote-suppressor voted illegally; Airbnb enshittifies; Oculus enshittifies; Nintendo copyfrauds its fans; Meritocracy to eugenics pipeline; Ultima Online ...
Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support ...
Rust is not bad for backend services. I'm currently working on a large backend service in Rust and I enjoy it (and a few other smaller). The compiler-enforced correctness and
Why local LLMs are becoming practical in 2026, what changed across open weights, hardware, and inference software, and why DGX Spark makes the desk feel like a small AI lab.
Are these weeknotes again? Yes they are! Is this a fluke or is it a trend? Who knows! Who cares! Let’s do iiiiiittttttt. Current situation: Monday 18 May: Went for...
When I was growing up my parents would ring a bell to call us for dinner. There is a black and white photo of my brother and me circa 1970 standing next to the bell in the backyard of our ...
Sundays are for setting up a fan fiction writing group with your fellow RPG dungeon masters. You gather in a nice living room that often reminds visitors of the beloved previous tenants, and you write something. It's of indeterminate quality, ...
I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!
I've been using AI to try and automate / optimize parts of my life from software engineering to exercise and diet. My latest experiment has been to use AI to improve my book recommendations by turning...
Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is still Mario’s project. He has been living with its issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of the new form ...
A charcoal architectural sketch: a colossal monolithic tower cracked at the base, washed in deep purple, while a horizontal current of small distributed structures in burnt sienna flows beneath the fracture/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-us-economy.webp/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-u...
Ah, it's a Saturday and the start of a heat wave. What to do? What to do? Pull out the plastic storage box and fill it with cold water and ice cubes for a nice chilling foot bath. Get some ...
The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.
I know I don't have the best knees. My body informed me of this during a drunken dance-off in a Leeds night club when one of them popped out of place and tore a line through the back of my ...
I’ve been a super sorry spy again. THAT’S AGAINST YOUR AGREEMENT, Mr Wang shouts in text form, subsequently yanking away the bonuses afforded to me by my decision to adopt the Wang way. I didn’t think working the Wang into ...
Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of ...
Bullet heaven games can already be fairly chaotic. Starting with Vampire Survivors, it's a genre that joyously fills your screen with thousands of enemies and tasks you with somehow killing them all before they reach your character in the centre. ...
750 reasons not to get back with your (Pl)ex
Claude Code felt like magic when I used it for the first time (14 months ago?). And then it felt like magic again when the models got good at code at the end of the year.
Goldman Sachs’ CEO David Solomon signed up for a Twitter account 13 years ago. Since then he doesn’t appear to have posted or used the service – until now. According to Bloomberg, Solomon used his X account to direct message ...
I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying to be overly academic, as if he needs to prove how smart he is. He says ...
Remakes are very much in vogue these days, providing developers the opportunity to return to an old favourite and enhance, expand, and correct the wrongs of the past. Some of the best, such as Mafia: Definitive Edition, redraw the edges ...
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super ...
I am offline until June. If you catch me online please insist I disconnect immediately.
I wrote a new fiction book and it is now published. The first in a new series!
AI Resist List looks interesting. I sent feedback: they host with Vercel and Cloudflare. Two Big Tech villains entrenched in slop. The inititive has notable people behind it. Including Karen Hao who announced it on Twitter. I suppose there is ...
Lance is an open lakehouse format with a design geared toward AI workloads. LanceDB and DuckLabs have partnered to bring you fast vector and hybrid search directly from DuckDB SQL, without leaving your analytical workflow. In this post, we explain ...
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive ...
A charcoal editorial illustration: a colossal authoritarian monolith on the left and a gilded gothic spire on the right, with a small figure balancing on a thin razor's edge between them/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp I'm fascinated by the fact ...
