In just the past few weeks, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly grown into the de-facto standard for integrating third-party data and tools with LLM-powered chats and agents. While the internet is full of some very cool things you … Read more
Introduction There’s a surprising wealth of PicoLisp code and knowledge scattered about the internet. This page is an attempt to organize all of that into a coherent document that will guide you from total beginner to total PicoLisp wizard. Find … Read more
Published 8 months ago Google Translate, the built-in extension of Google Chrome, is a machine translator that provides users with an easy way of translating webpages from within their browser tab. This allows webpages to be used by users from … Read more
Monday, 23 Dec 2024 [ Permalink ] For decades corporations have been doing anything in their power to make computers worse. Software used to much faster, much leaner than it is now. Hardware performance is progresing by leaps and bounds, … Read more
Low level software usually has lots of .cc or .rs files. Even lower-level software, like your cryptography library, probably has .S containing assembly, my least favorite language for code review. The lowest level software out there, firmware, kernels, and drivers, … Read more
November 10, 2024 nullprogram.com/blog/2024/11/10/ Over the past month I’ve been exploring the rapidly evolving world of Large Language Models (LLM). It’s now accessible enough to run a LLM on a Raspberry Pi smarter than the original ChatGPT (November 2022). A … Read more
21st October 2024 I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then view the result directly in the Claude interface, iterating on … Read more
On October 2nd, 2024, the Python core developers and community will release CPython v3.13.0 – and it’s a doozy. So what makes this release different, and why should you care about it? In short, there are two big changes being … Read more
/ Unless you’re in the EU, there’s no ability to opt out of AI training settings that keep Facebook or Instagram posts public. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta has acknowledged that … Read more
Many web frameworks have very advanced support for the so-called “CRUD” operations, that is, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, also known in SQL as Insert, Select, Update and Delete. Often, when developers see the CRUD features in these frameworks – like … Read more