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Disclaimer These benchmarks were performed on my specific hardware and tuned for the workloads I expect to run. They should not be taken as absolute or universally applicable results. Different CPUs, storage, networking setups, or workload profiles could produce very diffe...

Well, one of them is, but what's important is that we now have a platform on which we can start pushing out a lot more. It's not that HIBP is a particularly complex system that needs explaining in any depth, but we still get a lot

From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.

Richard MacManus just posted “Chrome Switches on AI: The Future of Browsing Begins Now” where he points out that what we think of today as “browsers” is undergoing a radical change. Here’s the lay of the land: Microsoft launched “Copilot Mode” on Edge and promotes it as an ...

Well, the types of computers we have today are tools. They’re responders: you ask a computer to do something and it will do it. The next stage is going to be computers as “agents.” In other words, it will be as if there’s a little person inside that box who starts to anticipate what you want. Rather than help you, it will start to guide you through large amounts of information. It will almost be like you have a little friend inside that box. I think the computer as an agent will start to mature in the late '80s, early '90s.

— Steve Jobs, 1984 interview with Access Magazine (via)

Tags: agent-definitions, steve-jobs, computer-history

I've noticed something interesting over the past few weeks: I've started using the term "agent" in conversations where I don't feel the need to then define it, roll my eyes or wrap it in scare quotes. This is a big piece of personal character development for me! Moving forwa...

An open letter, or something

You didn’t used to have to be an expert on intellectual property law just to be a music fan. You would just put on your headphones, hit play, and enjoy whatever your favorite artist had made for you to listen to. Maybe you would listen to a record, or if you were old enough,...

Today's links AI psychosis and the warped mirror: When you stare into the LLM… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: No such thing as shareholder supremacy; Intel's DRM'ed CPU; THIS COMPUTER IS NEVER OBSOLETE. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Rece...

Save video still frames from QuickTime Player with a shortcut Jeff Geerling September 17, 2025

Anthropic: A postmortem of three recent issues Anthropic had a very bad month in terms of model reliability: Between August and early September, three infrastructure bugs intermittently degraded Claude's response quality. We've now resolved these issues and want to explain ...

In July it was the International Math Olympiad (OpenAI, Gemini), today it's the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Once again, both OpenAI and Gemini competed with models that achieved Gold medal performance. OpenAI's Mostafa Rohaninejad: We received the p...

Hearing the news yesterday that Robert Redford had passed away reminded me of one of the most moving, and bittersweet, memories that Prince shared with us toward the end of his life. It began as an uncharacteristically direct moment of vulnerability, and eventually turned in...

Great founders shine in a crisis. Ordinary ones watch their companies burn down. I just had coffee with two co-founders of an e-bike company who were mentoring one of our student teams. In short order I realized they were great founders – creative, agile and still having fun building their company. Unlike other e-bike rental […]

Today's links Conspiratorialism's causal chain: A four-part begat. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Legal threats over HDCP leaks; Print your own TSA luggage keys; "A Natural History of Empty Lots." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent app...

Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was jarringly bad. Without much experi...

Announcing the 2025 PSF Board Election Results!

I'm happy to share that I've been re-elected for second term on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation.

Jannis Leidel was also re-elected and Abigail Dogbe and Sheena O’Connell will be joining the board for the first time.

Tags: python, psf

Digging deeper into YouTube's view count discrepancy Jeff Geerling September 16, 2025

The same reason you would bake a batch of cookies: because you enjoy it — the process itself, but also the result.

And perhaps, if you like, you share the result with others.

Who is out there asking, “Should I bake a batch of cookies? How well can that act be monetized? Should I do something else instead?”

Do it for the fun of the thing itself.

It doesn’t have to be anymore than that. It can be — Dave talks about that — but it doesn’t have to be.

Bake cookies because you like to.

Make websites because you like to.

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