The interactive map of the world’s castles & fortresses Castlemap is a free interactive map of 2,435 of the world’s greatest castles, fortresses and palaces across 129 countries. Pan and zoom the night map above, click any point for a … Read more
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U-turned on its … Read more
Hello everyone. Effective yesterday, Anthony and I decided to depart from the project, myself as Project Leader, and he as a core team member. This is in addition to the resignation of Andrew on Friday. We leave the project in the … Read more
This past week, two state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models were launched: Moonshot Labs’ Kimi K3[1] and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8[2]. Both are allegedly close to Anthropic’s Fable 5 in performance, and both will have their model weights released publicly in the coming … Read more
The best way I’ve found to learn Chrome extension growth is watching what other developers actually do — and what happens to them after. Problem is, you normally only get to see your own experiments. I wanted to see everyone’s. … Read more
How fast can you LoRA-fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B to ≥ 57% on GSM8K — on a single L40S? This is modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning: a frozen task, frozen hardware, and a public leaderboard of wall-clock records. Every record is independently re-run 3× with … Read more
2026-07-17 One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there’s the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off. In the … Read more
Date: 2026-07-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00017-sqlite-editions.md SQLite is an amazing database engine. I use it as a database for plenty of embedded projects, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call it the industry standard for local data storage. Some server … Read more
One interesting trend in the AI startup segment this year is the rise to prominence of a specialized software engineering role called “Forward Deployed Engineer” (FDE.) One way to think about FDEs This role has even been dubbed “the hottest … Read more
Posted July 7, 2026 It started with a Hacker News thread: LibreCAD, the whole Qt desktop application, compiled to WebAssembly and running in a tab. magik shipped that, then OpenSCAD, and the pattern looked like a recipe — Qt for … Read more