Coverage.py Regex Pragmas
Monday 28 July 2025 Coverage.py uses regexes to define pragma syntax. This is surprisingly powerful. Coverage.py lets you indicate code to exclude from measurement by adding comments to your Python files. But coverage implements them differently than other similar tools. Rather than having fixed syntax for these comments, they are defined using regexes that you […]
Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
Multiplayer mode for your text editor! Ethersync enables real-time collaborative editing of local text files. You can use it for pair programming or note-taking, for example. It’s the missing real-time complement to Git! đĽ Edit files at the same time, across different text editors đ See your peers’ cursors and selections đď¸ Work on entire […]
Rao Reading Algorithm
October 2024 Who, What, Where, How, and Why Do I Read â Why Reading Matters Reading means my total consumption of ideas and media, learning via seeing or listening to symbols versus pure action. Reading involves books at the core, but also journal articles, news, blogs, music, video, maps, engineering and architectural drawings, code, patents, […]
Detached Point Arithmetic
Eliminating Rounding Errors Through Integer Computation Author: Patrick BryantOrganization: Pedantic Research LimitedLocation: Dayton, Ohio, USADate: July 2025License: Public Domain – Free for all uses Detached Point Arithmetic (DPA) is a method of performing exact numerical computations by separating integer mantissas from their point positions. Unlike IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic, DPA performs all operations using integer arithmetic, […]
Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal
In this article UNP NSC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal, to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast freight rail operator and reshape the movement of goods from grains to autos across the country. If approved, the deal would […]
Sendblue (YC S23) is hiring senior engineers
Tell us your understanding of our technical challenges and how your experience with Node.js, Express, and PostgreSQL can help us overcome them. Weâre eager to learn how you can contribute to both our rapid shipping velocity and our commitment to high-quality, SQL-driven backend systems. If youâre passionate about building robust backend architectures and optimizing SQL-driven […]
JavaScript retro sound effects generator
jsfxr Generator Pickup/coin Laser/shoot Explosion Powerup Hit/hurt Jump Blip/select Random Tone Mutate Manual Settings Envelope Attack time Sustain time Sustain punch Decay time Frequency Start frequency Min freq. cutoff Slide Delta slide Vibrato Depth Speed Arpeggiation Frequency mult Change speed Duty Cycle Duty cycle Sweep Retrigger Rate Flanger Offset Sweep Low-Pass Filter Cutoff frequency Cutoff […]
Built RL for long-horizon agents â tested on 32x H100s but too poor to train
TL;DR: I successfully built stable RL training infrastructure that scales to 32x H100 GPUs across 4 bare metal nodes for training long-horizon terminal-based coding agents. In doing so, I developed Terminal-Agent-Qwen3-32b to become the highest scoring Qwen3 agent on terminal-bench. WITHOUT training! (currently under submission): Unfortunately I am too GPU poor to train a SOTA […]
Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaringâand Threaten the Open Internet
After the United Kingdomâs Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content sites to implement user age verification mechanisms, use of virtual private networks (VPNs) and other circumvention tools spiked in the UK over the weekend. Experts had expected the surge, given that similar trends have been visible […]
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
17 July 2025 â Next week, on 22 and 23 July 2025, the High Court of Justice in London will hear the Wikimedia Foundationâs legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the United Kingdom (UK)âs Online Safety Act (OSA). The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, announced its legal challenge […]