Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) My cofounders and I did YC all the way back in the Summer of 2010, with the initial idea of building “OkCupid for jobs.” That idea … 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
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
December — Mr. Baby Paint & accidentally discovering a new cellular automata & pixel-fattening Heikki Lotvonen | written on 4.2.2026 I spent a better part of December on building Mr. Baby Paint, a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers … 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
Lots of US states, European countries, and Australia have introduced “age verification” regulations. They present it as the classic “save the children” talking point, but it’s really just a precursor to attribution of speech, particularly attributing your words to your … Read more
If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But … Read more