Structured Outputs on the Claude Developer Platform (API)

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The Claude Developer Platform now supports structured outputs for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1. Available in public beta, this feature ensures API responses always match your specified JSON schemas or tool definitions. With structured outputs, developers can eliminate schema-related parsing errors and failed tool calls by ensuring that Claude’s responses conform to a defined […]

Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1

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The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a mid-range Mini PC. But […]

AI World Clocks

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× About AI World Clocks Every minute, a new clock is displayed that has been generated by nine different AI models. Each model is allowed 2000 tokens to generate its clock. Here is its prompt: Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated […]

We Uncovered a Race Condition in Aurora RDS

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Much of the developer world is familiar with the AWS outage in us-east-1 that occurred on October 20th due to a race condition bug inside a DNS management service. The backlog of events we needed to process from that outage on the 20th stretched our system to the limits, and so we decided to increase […]

Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Bitchat is a new messaging app that allows users to chat securely with or without internet access. Download it today via the App Store or Google Play store to begin communicating safely, even when connectivity disappears. Why Bitchat is needed Palestinians are dependent on Israel for their access to electricity, telecoms, and internet routing. Israel […]

Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits

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You misunderstand what it means to be poor

The more I speak about being poor, the more I realize how fundamentally other folks misunderstand what it means to be poor versus being broke. The advice folks will give comes from a good place. However, I would like to give some examples to help everyone understand most advice from non-poor folks isn’t helpful. Everyone […]

Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad

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Here are my dotfiles. When I was still using Manjaro Linux back in 2019, I got a nudge to try i3wm. It was my first experience with any window manager. And I spent nearly 5 years with it, enjoying the absolute control over my workflow. Nearing the end of 2023, when I finally decided to […]

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

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San Francisco – In Person About RetailReady We’re RetailReady (YC W24), an AI-powered supply chain compliance engine shaking up an antiquated (and yes, unsexy) industry. Since YC, we raised a $3.3M seed round and signed over 15 enterprise customers… we’re officially in scaling mode. What We Build RetailReady is the first AI-powered compliance engine designed […]

Manganese is Lyme disease’s double-edge sword

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For decades, Lyme disease has frustrated both physicians and patients alike. Caused by the corkscrew-shaped bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the infection, if left untreated, can linger for months, leading to fever, fatigue and painful inflammation.   In a new study, Northwestern University and Uniformed Services University (USU) scientists have uncovered a surprising — and ironic — […]