Write to Escape Your Default Setting
For those of us with woefully average gray matter, our minds have limited reach. For the past, they are enthusiastic but incompetent archivists. In the present, they reach for the most provocative fragments of ideas, often preferring distraction over clarity. Writing provides scaffolding. Structure for the unstructured, undisciplined mind. It’s a practical tool for thinking […]
Reimagining Fluid Typography
Note: We talked about some of these ideas in our Winging It live stream last month with Alan Stearns, co-chair of the CSS Working Group. Check that out for more discussion of typography and CSS units! The browser provides a default text size based on user preferences, and our text should be relative to that […]
Openlayer (YC S21) is hiring a senior back end engineer
About us Openlayer is solving the AI reliability problem. AI has the potential to transform industries, but too often, inconsistent results and a lack of robust testing hold back that progress. We offer something better—an environment where teams can confidently develop and deploy AI systems. Today, AI-driven teams—from startups to global enterprises—use Openlayer to deliver […]
Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE
The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)
I have had a desire for a while to understand what it would take to be able to interact with a locally hosted large language model and with the release of DeepSeek R1, a reasoning model, was enough of a prompt to figure out how to tackle it. My day job is a Principal Technologist […]
WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari
https://testflight.apple.com/join/1t5HfEGS Tip Here is the Discord if you want to communicate through instant messaging and get real time updates on the project. Here are general announcements and discussions. You can donate to me if you want to support the project and help it become sustainable. WebShield is 100% funded by its users; no “acceptable ads” […]
A Comment on Mozilla’s Policy Changes
Feb 27, 2025 The Recent Policy Changes As you may have read in Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox, there has been significant confusion and commentary surrounding Mozilla’s recent policy updates. The reaction from the tech community has been mixed, with many expressing concerns about potential privacy implications. I think […]
‘Slime’ keeps the brain safe ― and could guard against ageing
The brain’s blood vessels (artificially coloured) are lined with slick molecules, forming a guard against inflammation in brain tissue.Credit: Vsevolod Zviryk/Science Photo Library A slimy barrier lining the brain’s blood vessels could hold the key to shielding the organ from the harmful effects of ageing, according to a study in mice. The study showed that […]
I found 1000 GitHub repos with malware. Can we get them deleted?
While looking through the articles on a “social engineering” themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me.People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things – from Roblox and Fortnite mods to “cracked” FL Studio and Photoshop. As soon as you download and launch any of these, all the […]
Boris Spassky: 1937–2025
Boris Spassky: 1937–2025 | ChessBase by Frederic Friedel 2/28/2025 – Boris Spassky, the tenth World Chess Champion, was a chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at the young age of 18. He won the World Chess Championship in 1969, and held the title until 1972, when he lost to Bobby Fischer in the famous […]