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Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of emails I get when I fly, e.g.: Check in now Track your bags Your flight will soon depart Your flight will soon boa...

How I make thumbnails for YouTube Over on the 2nd channel, I posted a video detailing my process for making thumbnails for my YouTube channel: .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed...

Today's links Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth: From each according his ability (to pay). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances...

I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now. This story starts with me on a lazy Sunday using Hex Fiend in conjunction with Eric Harmon’s Mac ROM template (ROM Fiend) to look through the resources stored in the Power […]

Single signon is a pretty vital part of modern enterprise security. You have users who need access to a bewildering array of services, and you want to be able to avoid the fallout of one of those services being compromised and your users having to change their passwords every...

The Decline and Fall

I've added a Disclosures section to my about page, listing my various sources of income and the companies that directly sponsor my work or have supported it in the recent past.

I do not receive any compensation writing about specific topics on this blog - no sponsored content! I plan to continue this policy. If I ever change this I will disclose that both here and in the post itself. [...]

I see my credibility as one of my most valuable assets, so it's important to be transparent about how financial interests may influence my writing here.

I took inspiration from Molly White's disclosures page.

Tags: blogging, molly-white

Here's a fascinating new entrant into the AI-assisted-programming / coding-agents space by Fly.io, introduced on their blog in Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix: describe an app in a prompt, get a full Phoenix application, backed by SQLite and running on Fly's ...

what we need is more commentary on the discourse

Today's links The case for a Canadian wealth tax: Lessons learned from previous attempts, applicable all over the world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've b...

I recently got my copy of the Internet Phone Book. Look who’s hiding on the bottom inside spread of page 32: The book is divided into a number of categories — such as “Small”, “Text”, and “Ecology” — and I am beyond flattered to be listed under the category “HTML”! You ca...

So you you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said "90% of my skills just went to zero dollars and 10% of my skills just went up 1000x". And this is exactly what I'm talking about - having a vision, being able to set milestones towards that vision, keeping track of a design to maintain or control the levels of complexity as you go forward. Those are hugely leveraged skills now compared to knowing where to put the amperands and the stars and the brackets in Rust.

— Kent Beck, interview with Gergely Orosz

Tags: gergely-orosz, ai-assisted-programming, ai, careers

My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines of code for the parser It wrote ~1000 lines of tests ...

Edit is now open source Microsoft released a new text editor! Edit is a terminal editor - similar to Vim or nano - that's designed to ship with Windows 11 but is open source, written in Rust and supported across other platforms as well. Edit is a small, lightweight text edi...

Firstly, apologies for the annoying clipping in the audio. I use a Rode VideoMic that's a shotgun style that plugs straight into the iPhone and it's usually pretty solid. It was also solid when I tested it again now, just recording a video into the phone,

model.yaml From their GitHub repo it looks like this effort quietly launched a couple of months ago, driven by the LM Studio team. Their goal is to specify an "open standard for defining crossplatform, composable AI models". A model can be defined using a YAML file that look...

Zoals ik gisteren schreef, onze maatschappij en overheden draaien in steeds grotere mate op Amerikaanse clouds, en we maken ons hier nu terecht zorgen over. Want het is toch niet leuk dat de Amerikanen mee kunnen lezen in onze (overheids)gegevens, of zonder pardon de steker eruit kunnen trekken. We zouden dit graag snel op willen lossen, maar er zijn geen makkelijke en goedkope keuzes. Inmiddels heeft (volgens geruchten) bijna de hele centrale rijksoverheid besloten om de email toch nog op eigen servers te houden, wat echt heel goed nieuws is.

Today's links Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers': Far more than production gossip – an unmissable portrait of a turning point in American comedy and music. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where ...

Is it safe to say that LLMs are, in essence, making us "dumber"?

No! Please do not use the words like “stupid”, “dumb”, “brain rot”, "harm", "damage", and so on. It does a huge disservice to this work, as we did not use this vocabulary in the paper, especially if you are a journalist reporting on it.

— FAQ for Your Brain on ChatGPT, a paper that has attracted a lot of low quality coverage

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

AbsenceBench: Language Models Can't Tell What's Missing Here's another interesting result to file under the "jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle in a ...