Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free
My wife is the politically active one in our house. She’s the person who shows up: rallies, election day volunteering, local organization meetings, city council sessions. She does the work. I’m a software engineer (she is too, but she’s more politically active). I build things for other people during the day, and until recently, that […]
Siclair Microvision (1977)
Sinclairbs Microvision. Sinclair say the final assembly ’requires only the connection of four printed circuit boards, insertion and connection of the tube, and housing the whole in a three-piece black steel case.’ The circuit uses 300 transistors. The heater needs 15s to warm up as a contribution to its low power consumption. After years of […]
$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
Adaptive Test-time Learning and Autonomous Specialization A.T.L.A.S achieves 74.6% LiveCodeBench pass@1-v(k=3) with a frozen 14B model on a single consumer GPU — up from 36-41% in V2 — through constraint-driven generation and self-verified iterative refinement. The premise: wrap a frozen smaller model in intelligent infrastructure — structured generation, energy-based verification, self-verified repair — and it […]
Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
The AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol) is an open, decentralized network originally created by the team behind Bluesky. It lets you truly own your identity and data – your account, posts, and social graph aren’t locked into any single platform. With over 40 million users, it’s a growing foundation for the next generation of social […]
Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
TL;DR: it’s an Elixir app using Phoenix server side rendered pages, with the blog post pages generated from Markdown using NimblePublisher. It’s running on a self-hosted Dokploy instance running on Hetzner, with bunny.net as a CDN sitting in front of it. This is a very belated write up of how this blog was put together! […]
Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]
Improving Composer through real-time RL
We are observing unprecedented growth in the usefulness and adoption of coding models in the real world. In the face of 10–100x increases in inference volume, we consider the question: how can we take these trillions of tokens and extract from them a training signal to improve the model? We call our approach of using […]
Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News
TrustSpark for Hacker News Add sparklines of trust signals next to Hacker News usernames. Firefox plugin This is a response to ”macro trends”. Your mileage may vary. Demo of /newest with high submission rates penalized:
OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are ready for broader community use and feedback. Production profiling for […]
Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI
Code generation got fast.Provisioning didn’t. Provisioning your app stack is still too manual: signing up for multiple services, managing accounts, securing API keys, jumping between dashboards, and clicking configuration pages. Stripe Projects lets you (or your agents) create and manage your software stack from the command line.