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In my previous blog post I talked about how I bought a Blu-ray drive and a couple of M-Discs to use it for long-term archival backups. Shortly after that I had the idea to use these as a last-resort, decentralized … Read more

Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way Another day, another historical cipher broken by a frontier model. Yesterday, the security researcher Carter Church announced that he had used GPT-6 Astra (working on the … Read more

Godot has become one of the most popular game engines of the last few years. It is free, open source under the MIT license, and small enough to download and start using in minutes. Most Godot games are written in … Read more

Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters I’ve written previously about the pitfalls and use cases for AI in augmenting historical research, but things have changed significantly since 2024-25. Occasioned by the dueling … Read more

The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight. In one instance, the government obtained six … Read more

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner August 17th, 2026 — 4,600 words Over the past few months, I’ve been working on using an industrial linear scanning camera to take very wide photos out of trains and ferries. Getting … Read more

Platform engineering · analysis We tested the same app with and without a CPU limit. Same code, same CPU request, same load. The only difference was the limit. Here is what we measured — and how to check it on … Read more