Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
A recent CERN announcement caught my attention. By the end of 2026, more than 2,200 industrial computers and embedded systems around CERN’s accelerator complex are expected to be running Debian 13. CERN is not abandoning the Red Hat ecosystem. AlmaLinux and RHEL remain the main supported Linux distributions across much of the organization; Debian support […]
Jev in 25 Lines of Python
Everyone and their mom is talking about Jev. Jev this, Jev that. Everyone on Twitter is all over Jev, how it’s the next frontier of large language models and the AI paradigm. We don’t really think so. So here’s Jev in 25 lines of Python. Load the model. import numpy from llama_cpp import Llama model […]
There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
photo cred: my dad We’re living through an epidemic of loneliness and everybody knows it, except for one small group: people who have actually looked at the data. Much of what appears to be a loneliness epidemic is, in fact, a well-intentioned misunderstanding. However, there is a real epidemic out there—one that is far stranger […]
Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)
Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card. We’ll start with employee access before gradually […]
The new CC, an AI agent built for families
When we launched CC, our goal was to build a personal agent that helps you get ahead of your day. It quickly became a daily habit for many early testers and in May we brought it to the Gemini App as Daily Brief. One of our top user requests was for CC to do more […]
The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
13 Jul, 2026 The warmth of sunlight is not a reliable indicator of how quickly you will sunburn in a given situation. On one hand, you can still get sunburned on a cooler cloudy day, while on the other hand, the sun can feel scorching hot on your skin in the morning and yet you […]
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here’s FoxPro revived
What Visual FoxPro 10 would have been Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9, and at 32 bits. This is the same language, rebuilt on a foundation that has not been frozen since 2007. Four pieces are what make that possible. 64-bit, end to end The ceiling that came with 32 bits is gone Visual FoxPro […]
Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS
Example applications and tools for GeaStack. This repo is the app gallery used by the simulator, embedded targets, GeaOS, Apple targets, the VS Code/Cursor extension, and marketing demos. Each example is a small package with a gea manifest in package.json. What Is Here Path Purpose apps/* Gea apps. Most are TSX apps targeting web, ESP32, […]
Obscura: The first VPN that can’t log your activity
The Curious Power of Punctuation
A Critic at Large The Curious Power of Punctuation Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences? By Louis Menand September 21, 2026 Jane Austen favored dashes. Her editors may have applied the commas we now think of as unmistakably Austenian.Illustration by Abraham […]