Yesterday
- So tell the story you want to be true. Eventually, it will be....
This week
- Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, and for millions of PC users, that sounds like bad news, because you may not have the right hardware for Windows 11, or you may not want all of your personal data vacuumed up by Microsoft. But here’s the...
- Use agg with a huge font size to get high quality of GIFs....
- How to use piracy to your advantage....
Last week
- Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy....
- I don’t want to write a whole thing about a company that became worse because I don’t want it to become a genre of this blog. Why am I adding to the sum of Internet drama and being such a hater. But I just gotta say (here I go) that… My recent experience with Papertrail has been...
- I love a good look at modern practices around semantic versioning and dependency management (Rick Hickey’s talk “Spec-ulation” is the canonical one I think of). Niki recently wrote a good ‘un at tonsky.me called “We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles”. What struck me was this point...
Two weeks ago
- The protocol is the API....
- Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs These days the internet as a whole is mostly constructed out of point to point ethernet circuits, meaning an ethernet interface (mostly optical) attached...
- edit: I temporarily disabled new page generation because of automated traffic, but I’m re-enabling it with a rate limit (and openai/gpt-oss-120b instead of Kimi-K2). I built an infinite, AI-generated wiki. You can try it out at endlesswiki.com! Why build an AI-generated wiki?...
- Contents Lies by Any Other Name Great Artists Steal Dear Tech Reporters: Access Is Not A Beat This blog is failing on several levels. First, September 2025 is putting the “frequent” in “infrequently”, much to my chagrin. Second, my professional mission is to make a web that's...
- Open sourcing TernFS, a distributed filesystem A few days ago we open sourced TernFS, a distributed filesystem which has been used in production at XTX for a couple of years now. The project took up a big chunk of my waking hours for a year and a half, and I’m extremely happy...
- Update: The charts below were inappropriately snapped, compressing the range of values. This has been corrected. Feature availability numbers also changed since drafting and are updated. In several recent posts, I've attempted to address how the structure of standards bodies,...
About a month ago
- Richard MacManus just posted “Chrome Switches on AI: The Future of Browsing Begins Now” where he points out that what we think of today as “browsers” is undergoing a radical change. Here’s the lay of the land: Microsoft launched “Copilot Mode” on Edge and promotes it as an...
- About that MIT report… Last month, the internet was abuzz about an MIT report with a dramatic headline: “95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing.” Fortune had the exclusive, and paywalled the write up. The report itself, published by MIT’s NANDA1, could only be...
- There’s a current trend about the positive effects of being bored. Two elements of boredom enhance your ability to think and create. Firstly, you get space. We’re so busy these days that there’s no space anywhere. We’re an overlapping infinity of saishimi-like tasks, and you...
- Before too much time passes, I wanted to jot down some thoughts about yesterday’s Apple event. Things opened with a quote from Steve Jobs: “Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.” It’s a small thing, but I found this annoying. The intro video...
- Defaults matter...
- About six months ago, OpenAI released their Responses API, which replaced their previous /chat/completions API for inference. The old API was very simple: you…
- Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff...
about 1 month ago
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