Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

Beyond Mouse & Keyboard — Blender Developers Blog Hjalti playing with the sculpting mockup. Multi-touch interfaces like tablets have been common for years, but only recently thanks to increased processing power, have they started to serve as primary computing devices. To support Blender’s mission of making 3D technology accessible to everyone, it’s important to fully […]
Everything Else

At the end of April, I travelled to Dubai to observe a violin competition. It was a commission for which I was profoundly unqualified, except in one regard: I wanted to visit Dubai. The editor of a classical music website got in touch to offer me a place on the trip after another freelancer dropped […]
The FastLanes File Format [pdf]
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Use Your Type System

Today I’m discussing a trivially simple technique that I’ve rarely seen used in production codebases. In programming, we often need to deal with simple values that can be represented by simple, generic types built into our programming language or provided by libraries: types like integer, string, or UUID. In any nontrivial codebase, this inevitably leads […]
PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data
This is a follow-up post to my PSA: SQLite does not do checksums and PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default. In the previous posts I mentioned that SQLite does not do checksums by default, but it has checksums in WAL mode. However, on checksum errors, instead of raising error, it drops all […]
AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it

AMD CEO Lia Su said that chips made in TSMC’s Arizona facility are more expensive than those made in a comparable facility in Taiwan. Dr. Su said that U.S.-made chips cost ‘more than 5% but less than 20%’ higher, and she added during an interview with Bloomberg that these are costs that the company must […]
Solid protocol restores digital agency

How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities collect, store, and trade your data, often without your knowledge […]
UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Several major phone networks in the UK appear to be down following a major outage. BT, EE, Three and Vodafone were all suffering issues on Thursday afternoon, according […]
A valid HTML zip bomb
2025-07-23T15:02:00.000 Many sites have been affected by the aggressiveness of web crawlers designed to improve LLMs.I’ve been relatively spared, but since the phenomenon started, I’ve been looking for a solution to implement.Today, I present a zip bomb gzip and brotli that is valid HTML. The initial problem is the aggressiveness of LLM web crawlers that […]
Vet is a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern. It lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute. Don’t just run it, vet it. The Problem We’ve all seen this pattern […]