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claude-trace I've been thinking for a while it would be interesting to run some kind of HTTP proxy against the Claude Code CLI app and take a peek at how it works. Mario Zechner just published a really nice version of that. It works by monkey-patching global.fetch and the No...

We're two weeks in from the launch of the new HIBP, and I'm still recovering. Like literally still recovering from the cold I had last week and the consequent backlog. A major launch like this isn't just something you fire and forget; instead, it

My constant struggle is how to convince them that getting an education in the humanities is not about regurgitating ideas/knowledge that already exist. It’s about generating new knowledge, striving for creative insights, and having thoughts that haven’t been had before. I don’t want you to learn facts. I want you to think. To notice. To question. To reconsider. To challenge. Students don’t yet get that ChatGPT only rearranges preexisting ideas, whether they are accurate or not.

And even if the information was guaranteed to be accurate, they’re not learning anything by plugging a prompt in and turning in the resulting paper. They’ve bypassed the entire process of learning.

— u/xfnk24001

Tags: generative-ai, chatgpt, education, ai, llms, ai-ethics

OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times....

Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets

TLDR; You can use semihosting on any ARM CPU to send and receive data in a few lines of code. Click here to see an example implementation on a 10p “disposable” microcontroller. Context There are many ways to debug embedded projects. For high speed stuff, you might toggle a pin at the beginning and end of a subroutine. On a more advanced project, you might have structured logging to a file-system.

For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical ha...

OK, May was a busy month for coding on GitHub. I blame tool support!

Tags: github, llm

Progressive JSON This post by Dan Abramov is a trap! It proposes a fascinating way of streaming JSON objects to a client in a way that provides the shape of the JSON before the stream has completed, then fills in the gaps as more data arrives... and then turns out to be a sn...

Quoting for modules.

A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card - which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to "take initiative" in enforcing its morals values while exposing it to evidence of malfeasance - Theo Browne built a...

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Sadly the trend for terrible naming of models has infested the Chinese AI labs as well. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a brand new and much improved open weights reasoning model from DeepSeek, a major step up from the DeepSeek R1 they released back in Janua...

So as a bit of a followup to my earlier post “What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech ”: please (mostly) stop harassing people doing the right thing from the wrong platforms. We often see journalists, politicians, writers, NGOs and even software developers writing good things on independence from (US) big tech proprietary platforms. But also quite often, their work is hosted or syndicated on the very platforms they decry.

If you've found web development frustrating over the past 5-10 years, here's something that has worked worked great for me: give yourself permission to avoid any form of frontend build system (so no npm / React / TypeScript / JSX / Babel / Vite / Tailwind etc) and code in HTML and JavaScript like it's 2009.

The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.

You don't even need jQuery to paper over the gaps any more - use document.querySelectorAll() and fetch() directly and see how much value you can build with a few dozen lines of code.

Tags: css, javascript, web-development, frontend, html

There's a new kind of coding I call "hype coding" where you fully give into the hype, and what's coming right around the corner, that you lose sight of whats' possible today. Everything is changing so fast that nobody has time to learn any tool, but we should aim to use as m...

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Using voice mode on Claude Mobile Apps Anthropic are rolling out voice mode for the Claude apps at the moment. Sadly I don't have access yet - I'm looking forward to this a lot, I frequently use ChatGPT's voice mode when walking the dog and it's a great way to satisfy my cur...

Why streaming isn't enough.

Today's links Farewell (for the moment): See you in mid-June! Object permanence: 2005, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll kee...

I was interviewed by News Nation's Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years ago about Microsoft Bing. I'll be honest: I was nervous about this one...