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Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s. They blame a deadly pesticide

Paul Friday remembers when his hand started flopping in the cold weather – the first sign nerve cells in his brain were dying. He was eventually diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a brain disease that gets worse over time. His limbs got stiffer. He struggled to walk. He couldn’t keep living on his family farm. Shortly afterward, […]

Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

Best read with Danger Zone playing on loop Like most people, you’re probably an absolute expert at landing on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun for the NES. But if you’re in the silent minority that have not yet mastered this skill, you’re in luck: I’ve done a little reverse engineerining and figured out precisely […]

It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs

lol. I minted a new TLS cert and it seems that OpenAI is scraping CT logs for what I assume are things to scrape from, based on the near instant response from this: Dec 12 20:43:04 xxxx xxx[719]: l=debug m=”http request” pkg=http httpaccess= handler=(nomatch) method=get url=/robots.txt host=autoconfig.benjojo.uk duration=”162.176µs” statuscode=404 proto=http/2.0 remoteaddr=74.7.175.182:38242 tlsinfo=tls1.3 useragent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel […]

Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys

Introduction Over the last decade, when working on databases with UUID Version 4 as the primary key data type, these databases have usually have bad performance and excessive IO. UUID is a native data type in Postgres can be stored as binary data. Various versions are in the RFC. Version 4 has mostly random bits, […]

Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico

Because your $5 microcontroller needed to run UNIX I recently discovered Fuzix while falling down a rabbit hole of reading about people’s hobby operating systems. Since I had some supported hardware (a Raspberry Pi Pico) laying around, I figured I’d try it out for myself. Fuzix is a descendant of UZI (with some other forks […]

Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold

14 Dec, 2025 Before We Talk About AI, We Need to Talk About Why Proteins Are Ridiculously Complicated You know what’s wild? Right now, as you’re reading this, there are approximately 20,000 different types of proteins working inside your body. Not 20,000 total proteins, 20,000 TYPES. The actual number of protein molecules? Billions. Trillions if […]

Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time you write […]

Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions

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The Whole App is a Blob

The Coffee Problem ¶ School French worked perfectly until I tried to buy a coffee. My lessons must be familiar to all Brits out there: conjugate être until it’s muscle memory, role-play booking a hotel you will never book, then leave school with the comforting illusion that you “know French” in the same way you […]

Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets

The highlighter supports themes for both HTML and ANSI output. fn main() { let x = 42; println!(”Hello”); } Alabaster fn main() { let x = 42; println!(”Hello”); } Ayu Dark fn main() { let x = 42; println!(”Hello”); } Ayu Light fn main() { let x = 42; println!(”Hello”); } Catppuccin Frappé fn main() […]