Recently, Anthropic announced that future Claude models would embed an invisible watermark in their output [1], [2], and subsequently disclosed that the watermark is based on Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text [2], [3]. Text watermarking itself is not new, but its deployment … Read more
In mid-to-late June 2026, Read the Docs experienced the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in our history. At its peak, our infrastructure was hit with over 5.5 million requests per minute, about 100 times our normal baseline … Read more
30th August 2026 OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is … Read more
Another example. I was migrating my personal website from one framework to another, and Claude wrote a script that did it. But it was very hard to review: I wasn’t familiar with the new framework, and all I could say … Read more
Understanding WCAG 2.2 is the document you actually want to read when you work with the guidelines: for every success criterion it explains the intent, who benefits, and how to meet it. The W3C publishes it as a set of … Read more
There is broad agreement that AI’s potential to transform the global economy and the way we work is significant. However, the outcomes – what this means for work, for people’s lives, and the economy writ large – are not automatic … Read more
In the documentation for best practices for implementing process and thread-related callback functions, it calls out Keep routines short and simple. Don’t make calls into a user mode service to validate the process, thread, or image. Don’t make registry calls. … Read more
As developers, we often encounter situations where multiple requests are made for the same resource simultaneously. This can lead to redundant work, increased load on services, and overall inefficiency. In the Go programming language, the singleflight package provides a powerful … Read more
You may or may not heard about Clojure’s persistent vectors. It is a data structure invented by Rich Hickey (influenced by Phil Bagwell’s paper on Ideal Hash Trees) for Clojure, which gives practically O(1) runtime for appends, updates, lookups and … Read more
Kalman Filter example Let us begin with a simple example: a one-dimensional radar that measures range and velocity by transmitting a pulse toward an aircraft and receiving the reflected echo. The time delay between pulse transmission and echo reception provides … Read more