Garnix Is Joining Shopify
May 28, 2026Alex David, Sönke Hahn and Julian K. Arni We are open-sourcing garnix and shutting down the service. Three of the Tokuriki Tomikichiro’s Ten Oxherding Pictures (The Bull Transcended, Both Bull and Self Transcended, Reaching the Source) garnix is joining forces with Shopify. Sadly, as part of this transition, the hosted garnix service will […]
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight. If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are […]
A Love Letter to Flashcards
Created: May 5, 2026 Last Modified: May 5, 2026 This piece is a submission for IndieWeb Carnival May 2026: Write a love letter. For a long time, flashcards were not on my radar for effective learning. I used it for English vocabulary when I was learning English as a teen, but I never considered using […]
Write code like a human will maintain it
One of the best things about LLMs is that they’ll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don’t have to be the one updating the same long conditional in four different files – the AI will just do it for you! Right? I’ve noticed myself letting it slide recently on […]
Successful Companies Go Blind
The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.
Punk, or why I don’t stream anymore
If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole– The Stephen Hawking, Say Anything What killed the hacker culture I grew up in was spectacle. You can consume it without participating, and even worse it has signaling value. I never did CTFs to put them on my resume. I don’t even have a resume I take […]
Scarf has moved away from Haskell
Avi Press | July 10, 2026 — This has been a hard post to write. I almost didn’t write it at all, since I prefer to build and promote than to critique. However, I hope this post can add constructively to the discussion about Haskell’s future. I must underline that I’m not writing this criticizing […]
Europe’s Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C
Unions across Europe are calling on governments to introduce legislation to safeguard workers from rising temperatures, after western Europe recorded its hottest June on record. Three of Europe’s largest trade unions, representing 12.6m people in 40 countries, have urged the European Commission to include heat-protection measures for workers in a new law. The unions want […]
Laylo (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Finance
The Story Our founders, Alec and Sajan, started Laylo after watching the music industry get strip-mined by platforms that owned the fan relationship and rented it back to artists. We’re building the infrastructure for the next generation of entertainment: a direct messaging and CRM layer that lets creators own their audience, drop products to them, […]
Late Bronze Age Collapse
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East during the 12th century (that is, the 1100s) BC. In the broader Mediterranean world, the Late Bronze Age Collapse […]