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My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. It’ll show you how to:

• Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue.
• Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstruct what happened with a crash.
• Find what’s behind a performance bottleneck using Tracing.
• Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

Link: sentry.io/resources/ios-workshop-jan-2026/?utm_source…

How I think about Codex Gabriel Chua (Developer Experience Engineer for APAC at OpenAI) provides his take on the confusing terminology behind the term "Codex", which can refer to a bunch of of different things within the OpenAI ecosystem: In plain terms, Codex is OpenAI’s s...

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Good space movie. Has great atmosphere overall (apart from a few soundtrack choices maybe). Liked the themes of the movie. The acting was great for the most part. And it has a good twist (or two?)! The very end is a bit unnecessary, when they could've just ended the movie right with the countdown in the airlock.

👍 Recommended!

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We’ve made GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark about 30% faster. It is now serving at over 1200 tokens per second.

— Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI

Tags: openai, llms, ai, generative-ai

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically [...] Bu...

I've been wanting to add indications of my various other online activities to my blog for a while now. I just turned on a new feature I'm calling "beats" (after story beats, naming this was hard!) which adds five new types of content to my site, all corresponding to activity...

Taalas serves Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens/second

This new Canadian hardware startup just announced their first product - a custom hardware implementation of the Llama 3.1 8B model (from July 2024) that can run at a staggering 17,000 tokens/second.

I was going to include a video of their demo but it's so fast it would look more like a screenshot. You can try it out at chatjimmy.ai.

They describe their Silicon Llama as “aggressively quantized, combining 3-bit and 6-bit parameters.” Their next generation will use 4-bit - presumably they have quite a long lead time for baking out new models!

Via Hacker News

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llama, llms

Reached the stage of parallel agent psychosis where I've lost a whole feature - I know I had it yesterday, but I can't seem to find the branch or worktree or cloud instance or checkout with it in.

... found it! Turns out I'd been hacking on a random prototype in /tmp and then my computer crashed and rebooted and I lost the code... but it's all still there in ~/.claude/projects/ session logs and Claude Code can extract it out and spin up the missing feature again.

Tags: parallel-agents, coding-agents, claude-code, generative-ai, ai, llms

An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork.

With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress

Do you know your Gaia from your Cronus from your Zeus? In fewer than 15 minutes, this video provides a comprehensive overview of all the important Greek & Roman gods, goddesses, nymphs, heroes, monsters, demigods, and other assorted spiritual beings, who begat who, and what all of their domains were. (via open culture)

Tags: infoviz · mythology · religion · video

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color.

Some of the best drone shots from the 2026 Winter Olympics.

‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows. “These identities aren’t genetic or ethnic, they’re social. To have backup for that from DNA is powerful.”

ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI I don't normally cover acquisition news like this, but I have some thoughts. It's hard to overstate the impact Georgi Gerganov has had on the local model space. Back in March 2023 his release of llama.cp...

Loop is an award-winning animated short featuring a society where people live a perfectly looping existence, all in rhythm. Then one day…

Tags: animation · video

An app called NonUSA is surging in popularity in Denmark; it “helps you identify and avoid American products in everyday life”. (Ironically, iOS-only for now…)

The Trump regime is still deporting people to wherever they want, facilitated by a corrupt Supreme Court.