Published on 2026-09-12, 337 words, 2 minutes to read A cyberpunk city recreated through triangle primitives – Final Fantasy XIV screenshot passed through Primitive The power of science is staggering! Every day we’re making new advancements in the field of … Read more
We don’t believe in model routing anymore. For most use cases, sticking to a single battle-tested model is the best thing you can do. Recently, there’s been huge hype around AI model routers that select the model that will respond … Read more
A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material. Chinese battery manufacturer CATL alone had more than 1,000 people devoted to solid-state battery research as of … Read more
SIMD has a reputation for being complex. I’ve met many very good software engineers who dismiss it as something too complex to learn or a niche optimization meant for only the highest-performance software, not useful in everyday programming. I think … Read more
Last year around this time The New York Times Magazine ran an A.I. issue with an introduction titled “Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?” It’s an edited transcript from the Hard Fork podcast, which I think assumes … Read more
Allen Goodman saw it all during his years as a public defender. In Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice, the lawyer describes a system stacked against not only the accused but also the attorneys who … Read more
Ethan Mollick has been writing about AI adoption in organizations for a while now. In Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd, he makes the point that individual productivity gains from AI do not automatically become organizational gains. People may get … Read more
22 Mar, 2026 My neighbour keeps bees.Fifty hives, all lined up neatly along the edge of his property. On warm spring days the air between our gardens hums with them. They work the plum blossom, the almond, the dandelions in … Read more
I grabbed lunch with a former Microsoft coworker I’ve always admired—one of those engineers who can take any idea, even a mediocre one, and immediately find the gold in it. I wanted her take on Wanderfugl 🐦, the AI-powered map … Read more
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file. Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help … Read more