VR Is Not Dead
As news of Meta shutting down Horizon Worlds, its virtual reality social platform, started to spread, commentators rushed to declare VR technology dead. They are wrong. Five years ago, the future looked promising for VR technology. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in October 2021 that the company would change its name to Meta and focus […]
Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
A plot of experimental land at Joe Collins’ Field near Harper Adams University, where University of Washington researchers travelled to collaborate on an agroseismology experiment examining the impact of tilling on soil moisture. Photo: Marine Denolle/University of Washington Researchers (from left to right) Ethan Williams, Joe Collins, Simon Jeffrey lay the fiber optic cable just […]
Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down
2026-03-25 The turtle’s face is me looking at our industry It’s been about a year since coding agents appeared on the scene that could actually build you full projects. There were precursors like Aider and early Cursor, but they were more assistant than agent. The new generation is enticing, and a lot of us have […]
Local LLM by Ente
LLMs are too important to be left to big tech. There is a gap between frontier models and models that can run on your device, but local models improve each day, and once they cross a certain capability threshold, they will be good enough for most purposes; and will come with full privacy and control. […]
.apks are just .zips; semi-legally hacking software for orphaned hardware [video]
C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro
C++26 is bringing some long-overdue changes to assert(). But why are those changes needed? And when do we actually use assert, anyway? At its core, assert() exists to validate runtime conditions. If the given expression evaluates to false, the program aborts. I’m almost certain you’ve used it before — at work, in personal projects, or […]
I tried to prove I’m not AI. My aunt wasn’t convinced
In Netanyahu’s case, it didn’t help that his team used a fancy camera and filmed with a narrow depth of field, meaning a nice sharp foreground and soft blurry background – which is exactly how AI videos tend to look, Carrasco says. But by the time Netanyahu posted his coffee shop clip, our world was […]
Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
I wanted to switch my home network to IPv6 only design. However the reality is still that there are lot of devices today that only support IPv4 and large parts of Internet are still IPv4 only. Because of this, many networks still deploy dual stack everywhere. However, I believe there is a case to be […]
I Forked Httpx
Why I forked httpx published on 2026-03-25 · tagged with #httpx, #httpxyz and #python Yesterday I forked httpx. The new fork is called httpxyz. Reasons for the fork HTTPX is a very popular HTTP client for Python. There is lots of code depending on it. In 2024, I contributed zstd content decoding. This got merged […]
TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Vectors are the fundamental way AI models understand and process information. Small vectors describe simple attributes, such as a point in a graph, while “high-dimensional” vectors capture complex information such as the features of an image, the meaning of a word, or the properties of a dataset. High-dimensional vectors are incredibly powerful, but they also […]