A volunteer grabs a gallon of water at a water and food distribution drive held by College Hill Baptist Church and the World Central kitchen on March 7, 2021 in Jackson, Mississippi. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Get your news from a … Read more
by Ploum on 2026-09-02 …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. “I don’t have a smartphone,” is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or … Read more
Don’t Wordle is a free daily word game. Like Wordle, you get six tries—but here the goal is to avoid guessing the hidden word. Use the clues from each guess (green for correct letter and position, yellow for correct letter … Read more
Prefer another language? When someone asks you something, they want your answer. Not a wall of unedited ChatGPT output. A short reply from you beats a long one from a model, every time. What’s happening Someone asked you a real … Read more
I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and was exposed to so … Read more
Using LLMs to classify products, search queries, etc is by now boring. Yet it can still be difficult to constrains the LLM’s output to the legal vocabulary of brands, colors, categories, etc your system allows. In the Wayfair WANDS e-commerce … Read more
Don’t use your phone while you poop! – Nate’s blog Home About Now 06 Aug, 2026 Your brain needs to offload just as badly as your butt does. I know it sounds boring to sit in there, alone, naked from … Read more
Aug 03, 2026 Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back: Claude said: [giant response verbatim] Please don’t do this. I mean, … Read more
Tailwind CSS is a very popular CSS framework among web developers. With no prior graphic design knowledge, it solves the standardization of spacing, colors, and sizes for you. And on top of that, if you are even slightly disorganized, it … Read more
Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed – The GitHub Blog How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. July 31, 2026 | 16 … Read more