Domain Adaptation of Base Models + ShadowdarkQA Bench
There’s a fast way and a slow way to go about developing an autonomous LLM Game Master. The fast way – the agentic way – would probably be to build some MCP servers to act as a harness, providing access to maps and rulesets, plugging the results into a frontier model and seeing what happened. […]
Learning C3
In this article, I describe my experience learning the C3 programming language. I’ve always been an avid computer programmer. I would say that I am most familiar with low level systems languages, though I have dipped into other programming languages from time to time. My journey here is motivated by curiosity. I am always curious […]
Edamagit: Magit for VSCode
Magit for VSCode, inspired by the awesome original Magit. Keyboard driven Git interface (Theme: Dracula) VSCode Command Default shortcut Magit Status alt+x g Magit File Popup alt+x alt+g Magit Dispatch alt+x ctrl+g Magit Help (when in status view) ? > Magit in VSCode Command palette will show you all available Magit actions from where you […]
Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for ‘hacks’, Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability. By Richard MacManus | May 28, 2025 | Tags: Dot-com, 1997 My well-thumbed copies of three classic web design books: ‘Creating Killer Web Sites’ by […]
The Maid Who Restored Charles II
In the early months of 1660 the taciturn West Country soldier George Monck held the fate of the British Isles in his hands. Oliver Cromwell was dead and the British republic had descended into chaos. The army and its leaders had ousted his son, Richard, and – once again – marched Members of Parliament out […]
Reverse engineering of Linear’s sync engine
Important This is a pretty awesome (and correct) write-up of our sync engine. (link) …probably the best documentation that exists – internally or externally. (link) — Tuomas Artman (Co-founder and CTO of Linear) Important Disclaimer: This research is conducted solely for learning purposes. Readers should not use the findings to develop software that competes with […]
Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor
typed-ffmpeg typed-ffmpeg offers a modern, Pythonic interface to FFmpeg, providing extensive support for complex filters with detailed typing and documentation. Inspired by ffmpeg-python, this package enhances functionality by addressing common limitations, such as lack of IDE integration and comprehensive typing, while also introducing new features like JSON serialization of filter graphs and automatic FFmpeg validation. […]
Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years
4 days ago ShareSave Joe Campbell BBC News ShareSave BBC Villagers have been celebrating the 500th birthday of the clock in their parish church. The timepiece in East Hendred, near Wantage in rural Oxfordshire, is believed to be one of the oldest clocks in Britain still in its original location. With no clock face or […]
Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
We are super excited to introduce a new feature that was released as part of .NET 10 Preview 4 that makes getting started with C# easier than ever. You can now run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs. This means you no longer need to create a project file or scaffold a whole […]
Show HN: Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy
Statistics show that approximately 20% of employees change roles each year. In a company of 100 people, that averages just under two departures every month! Handovers happen more frequently than you might think, and we often hear feedback like, “I wish we’d had this in place last month!” Once a key person leaves, that institutional […]