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Yesterday I pushed samwho.dev 2.0. - Every interactive/visual post revamped. - New content added to several old posts. - New consistent visual style throughout. - Dark mode(!) - New interactive heroes for all posts that didn't have them. - Updated dog animations.

Looking forward to learning what the NSA called all these exploits being found lately

Is there a name for the kind of amnesia you get from following architects on Instagram and forget houses have things in them

A new service has been recovered by Powa: TV Slovenija from 23 November 1991 17:06 https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/4048

P99 CONF is this week! If you care about performance and low-latency engineering, there's probably at least a handful of talks that you'll want to catch. Speakers will be live on chat, ready for your questions/comments. It's free + virtual as always p99conf.io Hope to see you there!

prefer analogue CDs, the sound is much warmer

Can imagine myself trying to explain to my kids how I spent decades watching people get really into YAML and then markdown

We wanted to understand the AI proof of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem over the rationals. So we talked to three unvaccinated UFC fans at an Arby’s in Scranton.

seeing hacker news posts about margaret hamilton (rip), and forgive me, but i this is how it feels

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

It feels wrong that software engineering was solved before IKEA furniture assembly, and yet it's so, so relatable

If you’re also fascinated by what people are doing with the fly connectome (and wondering what the fly thinks about all this) read “Lena,” by @qntm.org a very short story written like a Wikipedia article about the near future that may be waiting for us. qntm.org/mmacevedo

Hearing about how LLMs are solving serious math problems while one tells me that in my loft I'll have trouble moving around under the ridge as that's the lowest point. What a strange time to be alive.

Looking at the lineup and it seems that the talks are about Racket, not about LLMs

A ring built from the Julia sets found along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. one of my favourite mathematical objects

I don't understand why people like fitted kitchens. I don't see any advantage to having wooden doors in front of appliances and from a hygiene perspective making large parts of the floor inaccessible seems obviously bad

Home is where the automations run

FRONTIER LABS: We turned up the sycophancy because it produces addictive behaviour, and had to turn it down because of all the lawsuits. We promise to find a good midpoint between revenue and psychosis PROGRAMMER: Thank god technology is neutral FRONTIER LABS: We're building a god, actually

Proud panel daddy

Did you know? @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social has added #Gleamlang to it's CS course!

I remain a bit shocked just how many of the requests to my website are direct agent calls now. It feels weird to be able to directly manipulate the context windows of tens of thousands of inquisitive tool-using LLMs...

it's fun to contrast the tech industry, who believe they're creating the future and so cannot be held accountable, and the media circus, who believe that they're serving the public interest, and so cannot be held accountable there's something about working in advertising that rots your brains huh

I found a real bug in Kubernetes through webernetes, my port of Kubernetes to TypeScript. github.com/kubernetes/k... I found it by using webernetes to visualise how liveness probes work and noticed they didn’t work as I expected. Thought it was a webernetes bug but it was a Kubernetes bug!

I'm very into Timmy Mallet being a cycling legend now

Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

they're running DOOM in the language we made up for our programming contest

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