Couple of weeks ago when I was publishing The Hidden Cost of URL Design I needed to add SQL syntax highlighting. I headed to PrismJS website trying to remember if it should be added as a plugin or what. I … Read more
The State of AI Report is the most widely read and trusted analysis of key developments in AI. Published annually since 2018, the open-access report aims to spark informed conversation about the state of AI and what it means for … Read more
When you move from React to HTMX, you trade complex state management for server-side simplicity. But you still need to handle filters, sorting, pagination, and search. Where does that state live now? The answer is surprisingly elegant: in the URL … Read more
This is an implementation of the classic 2048 game in your terminal: Share your game state with friends by just sending them a number! If the $STATE env variable isn’t set, it generates a fresh random seed. Otherwise the board … Read more
CNN — Chile’s president has declared a state of emergency after an electricity blackout plunged most of the country into darkness on Tuesday, including the capital Santiago. The outage – in the middle of Chile’s summer, when temperatures in Santiago … Read more
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The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt … Read more
Table of Contents The State of Generative Models Language Architecture Dense Transformer Mixture-of-Experts Tokenization Reasoning Distillation Image Architecture Framework Multimodality Visual Language Models Omni-Modal Models Agents and Human-AI Interfaces 2025 In the face of disruptive technologies, moats created by closed … Read more
Preamble As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks. I spent the first 25 years of my life on Windows … Read more
Welcome back to The Diff. Here are the subscribers-only posts you missed this week: Media Refragmentation and Funnel Capture looks at the (strongly denied) rumor that Twitter is in talks to acquire Substack. Decentralized media outlets can pick off the … Read more