Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the TCP_NO_DELAY setting and Nagle’s algorithm; … Read more
For a long time, I simply did not see the point of smart telescopes. The first generation of devices I really noticed were instruments like the Unistellar eVscope or the Vaonis Stellina and Equinox. They were technically interesting, but they … Read more
For the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with gpt-5.6-luna. It is shockingly capable, fast, and smart. I regularly see it do ~100 tps, and rip around my codebase, email, and knowledge base. Of course, the biggest thing with luna … Read more
6 min read Jose Alberto Ferreira, a researcher at the Patient Simulator Lab at the University of Itajubá, in Brazil, tests a TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning) model that generates electrocardiograms. Marcelo Rovai One morning in 2019, Adebayo Alonge was in … Read more
I use my keyboards a lot, my job as a software engineer involves quite a lot of typing, I also spend quite a lot of my spare time in front of a computer. I’ve been daily driving small keyboards for … Read more
You hear German before you read it. Every unit opens with a dialogue broken into build-ups. You hear “good” then “morning” then “Good morning, Mr. Becker.” Fragment by fragment until the full sentence clicks. Your ear picks up the accent … Read more
There are currently several initiatives that attempt to reclaim some part of the Internet for non-commercial, personal use; some of these I described in this earlier article. Here I’m using the term “small web” to mean the use of ordinary … Read more
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection of utilities for working with Blobs in JavaScript. I wrote it because … Read more
In a joint study with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, we found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data … Read more
A Small Change To Improve Browsers for Keyboard Navigation by h43z (hompage) We choose to use Firefox, not because it’s easy but because it’s hard. ~ jfk probably (This problem applies to Chrome too though) If you want to navigate … Read more