Skills Officially Comes to Codex
Agent Skills let you extend Codex with task-specific capabilities. A skill packages instructions, resources, and optional scripts so Codex can perform a specific workflow reliably. You can share skills across teams or the community, and they build on the open Agent Skills standard. Skills are available in both the Codex CLI and IDE extensions. A […]
The Polyglot NixOS
Recently a colleague mentioned building NixOS images that run unchanged on multiple architectures. Given the past adventures on this blog with systemd-repart and cross-compiling NixOS, I decide to give this a go. tl;dr You can find a quick’n’dirty implementation here. Check the repo for details on how to build and run it. So do we […]
NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
reposting from the Internet time service list jeff.s…@nist.gov : Dec 19 05:18PM -0800 Dear colleagues, In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference. At time of writing […]
Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One
We have many names to describe personal tools. Malleable software speaks to how it behaves. Home-cooked software speaks to who makes it. I wanted a name that speaks to something deeper: how it feels. Perfect Software. I mean “perfect” in the way I mean a “perfect coffee”. There’s no such thing as the world’s best […]
Charles Proxy
11 Jun 2023 Charles 5 public beta 9 is now available for testing, featuring more UI improvements and bug fixes. Read more. 11 Apr 2023 Charles 5 public beta is now available for testing, featuring major UI improvements and technology upgrades. Read more. 4 Apr 2023 Charles 4.6.4 released with macOS crash fixed and Windows […]
Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings
The NUFORC Databank is the largest independently collected set of UFO / UAP sighting reports available on the internet. For 25 years, it has been the go-to resource for researchers and the general public interested in following the most recent first hand UFO witness accounts, or delving into a deep archive of historical reports. The […]
Understanding the Northern Lights
Not long after nightfall on 6 March 1716 a dazzling display of lights reilluminated the skies over most of Europe, from Scotland and Sweden to as far south as Spain, painting the heavens with streaks of crimson, purple, and green. William Whiston, the English mathematician and author of theological controversies, collected and published firsthand testimonies […]
Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links
Developers currently using links to app downloads or transactions need to enroll in this program and meet these requirements by January 28, 2026. In the future, Google intends to apply a service fee on successful transactions and downloads completed via external content links. At this time, however, Google is not assessing these fees and is […]
PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract
ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will not renew its contract with PBS News Hour West, ending a reporting hub that covered the western U.S. and updated the nightly news produced on the East Coast for West Coast viewers. Located on the Downtown Phoenix campus, the bureau offered internship opportunities for journalism […]
We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis
Anthropic’s headline was ”predominantly positive.” They weren’t wrong. People dosee benefits. But benefits don’t equal resolution. 85.7% of people are using AI while simultaneously feeling unresolved about it. That’s cognitive debt. And like all debt, it compounds. If you’re a creative feeling like AI is eroding your sense of self, you’re not alone. You’re in […]