NetBSD and My Life (2005)
netbsd-advocacy: NetBSD and my life… Subject: NetBSD and my life…To: None From: gary rolland List: netbsd-advocacyDate: 09/10/2005 16:40:17 Hello NetBSD Team, I have been using NetBSD for about two years on my laptop and never had any problems. I use this laptop in work and at home. I knew NetBSD was capable of much more, […]
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate Previous: Not Raising the Gates Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) August 14 2026 The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT’S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta: In macOS 27.0, hdiutil is […]
Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
How it works Your JPEG stays a normal JPEG. For the web we add an ISO 21496-1 gain map — a second, tiny grayscale image that tells HDR-aware software how much brighter each pixel may go. For LinkedIn we write the pixels in BT.2100 PQ with the matching ICC profile, which LinkedIn preserves. What glows […]
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with […]
Scrap
I found some old journal entries. This one is probably circa ~2006, just titled “Scrap:” I moved to Pittsburgh at the right time in my life, but at the wrong time of year. Coming from the west coast, I was actually naive enough to be excited about the prospect of winter. I imagined nothing but […]
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
You may have heard of the speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Recently a friend mentioned they knew someone who worked at a company called TwelveLabs that does AI for video (it feels like it must have been intended to play on the fact that ElevenLabs does audio, but I don’t know for sure). Jokingly, I googled […]
A Friendly Introduction to Racket
11 Aug, 2026 “Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it.” — Eric S. Raymond Welcome. Today you’ll learn a language from one of programming’s oldest and most unusual families. A language where code is data, where parentheses are pure structure, and where programs can write […]
The New MCP Roadmap
Today we’re excited to publish an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering the next specification release and beyond. The roadmap sets the direction for protocol work over the coming months. It was developed by the Core Maintainers together with our community of maintainers and Working Groups. Explore the roadmap → Priority areas# […]
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week
Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company. The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds” them on its platforms for as long as possible, “harvests” their data and […]
A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been
Have you ever handled a surgical scalpel? It’s an incredible tool – small, light and sharper than anything of its size and purpose. It takes thousands of hours of practice before someone is authorized to use it on human skin, and mastering it takes a lifetime. You don’t want to give this tool to the […]