Context: Rewriting Bun in Rust History When Jarred joined the Zig community about 5 years ago, I described him as someone who had strong “beginner energy”. That is, he moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head … Read more
I have now sequenced my own genome 5 times with an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION. This means collecting them from a swab, prepping them for sequencing, running them through a sequencer, then doing analysis over them. Cheek cells are easily … Read more
cr.yp.to: 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8 Older (Access-J): 2026.07.04: Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ. #pqcrypto #bugs #vulnerabilities #hybrids Table of contents (Access-I for index page) 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8: Fairness. #pqcrypto … Read more
In September 2022, I impulsively signed up for a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science after seeing an ad for it on Coursera. Getting a degree had been on my mind for quite some time, after a long career without one, … Read more
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a … Read more
Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island | Patreon I’ve been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience. An agent will do something that, if a human … Read more
For more than a decade, one of the most rewarding blueprints for making money online was to “start a blog.“ The recipe was pretty straightforward: publish helpful content, rank it on Google, and monetize that traffic with affiliate marketing and … Read more
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it “The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves.”—Bill Thurston Handwritten diagram by Alexander Grothendieck My best theorem is one I never wrote down. It crystallized one bright … Read more
I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer. I figured it was time to make a page to link instead of re-typing it each time. We are in a strange time … Read more
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