Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. (archive picture) Picture: sda At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman chose to die a self-determined death in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris – conscious, fulfilled and quiet. No time? blue News summarizes for you The Israeli-American psychologist […]
Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
⚡ Experimental Project – Running FreeBSD on WSL2 ⚡ This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) with minimal to no changes to the FreeBSD base system. The project builds on the open-source components of WSL2 to enable FreeBSD to boot and run seamlessly in a Windows environment. Project […]
Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025
It feels like it was just a couple days ago that I wrote up “How I’m using coding agents in September, 2025“. At the beginning of that post, I alluded to the fact that my process had evolved a bit since then. I’ve spent the past couple of weeks working on a set of tools […]
AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
It feels like it was just yesterday that Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny was first teasing Sony’s “PS4 successor” and its “enhanced ray-tracing capabilities” powered by new AMD chips. Now that we’re nearly five full years into the PS5 era, it’s time for Sony and AMD to start teasing the new chips that will power […]
Bitter lessons building AI products
I was catching up with a friend who had also been building AI products for a few years now. We were lamenting (and laughing) on the graveyard of seemingly-failed projects that now have turned into rapid successes. AI features that were multi-quarter grinds a couple years ago can now be shipped in a matter of […]
My first week of vibecoding
last week, i released typelex. it may not be a super “serious” project, but it works. it’s covered by 513 tests i’m highly confident in. it is also 100% vibecoded. i may have manually edited a line or two but that was it. here’s how it happened i was complaining about things as i usually […]
Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
3 hours ago ShareSave Lily JamaliTechnology correspondent, San Francisco ShareSave Getty Images At OpenAI’s DevDay this week, OpenAI boss Sam Altman did what American tech bosses rarely do these days: he actually answered questions from reporters. “I know it’s tempting to write the bubble story,” Mr Altman told me as he sat flanked by his […]
How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
Some questions are timeless, innocent yet penetrating in their simplicity. Why is the sky blue? Why do things fall? How hard must one hit a chicken to cook it? It is this last mystery of the universe that we discuss today. There’s a classic solution in which someone calculated that, if you slap a chicken […]
What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?
Bowling Green, Kentucky — Oct. 31, 2023: Downtown commercial business area surrounding Fountain Square Park. Bowling Green is also home to Western Kentucky University and the National Corvette Museum (Photo by Pgiam/Getty Images) Earlier this year, on a visit back to my alma mater, Western Kentucky University, I spoke to a student majoring in business […]
Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer
Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer I’ve been hinting on X/Twitter about my use of the Daylight DC-1 as a programming environment, and after about a year of use, it’s time to write about it in longer form. This isn’t a full product review, but rather an experience report on coding […]