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How much radiation can a Pi handle in space? Jeff Geerling October 8, 2025

Author's Note: Before we begin, an important clarification. What follows is a horror story based on real events from my career. However, to protect the privacy of the people and companies involved, I have deliberately mixed things up: technologies, contexts, and specific de...

A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse to pay a ransom. The group also claimed responsibility for a recent breach involving Discord user data, and for stealing terabytes of sensitive files from thousands of customers of the enterprise software maker Red Hat.

Python 3.14 This year's major Python version, Python 3.14, just made its first stable release! As usual the what's new in Python 3.14 document is the best place to get familiar with the new release: The biggest changes include template string literals, deferred ev...

I retracted this article after confirming that, while Gemini 2.5 Computer Use did try to solve Google's own CAPTCHA, it was actually Browserbase that successfully performed the solve. I'll update this with more details shortly.

Tags: gemini

So many of the best, most thoughtful, most caring and talented people I’ve collaborated with in my career have had a focus on inclusion and equity as either the primary role or the supporting and enabling context of their work. But thanks to a well-funded, decades-long conce...

I’ve done something few on the internet do. I’ve changed my mind. A few posts on my blog have started to unfurl social share imagery. You might be wondering, “Wait Jim I thought you hated those things?” It’s not that I hate social share imagery. I just think…well, I’ve...

For quite some I wanted to write a small static image gallery so I can share my pictures with friends and family. Of course there are a gazillion tools like this, but, well, sometimes I just want to roll my own. [...]

I used the old, well tested technique I call brain coding, where you start with an empty vim buffer and type some code (Perl, HTML, CSS) until you're happy with the result. It helps to think a bit (aka use your brain) during this process.

— Thomas Klausner, coining "brain coding"

Tags: vibe-coding, definitions

Today's links They're just trying to earn a buck: No, they're taking what they can get. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Milk jug Storm Trooper; HIV-positive muppet; Optimal copyright; EU v NSA; Pig bomb; Maine's disgraceful public defenders; Google...

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI - entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to how the code actually works. This leaves us with a terminology gap: what should we ca...

Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Jeff Geerling October 7, 2025

Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmels's show and the fact that we're seeing a shockingly rapid move towards the type of censorious media control typical of most authoritarian regimes. But there'...

Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmels's show and the fact that we're seeing a shockingly rapid move towards the type of censorious media control typical of most authoritarian regimes. But there'...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Ouch: Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained several errors, after admitting it used generative artificial intelligence to hel...

gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as "A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly - I didn't hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later sp...

I've settled on agents as meaning "LLMs calling tools in a loop to achieve a goal" but OpenAI continue to muddy the waters with much more vague definitions. Swyx spotted this one in the press pack OpenAI sent out for their DevDay announcements today:

How does OpenAl define an "agent"? An Al agent is a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user.

Adding this one to my collection.

Tags: ai-agents, openai, agent-definitions, swyx

GPT-5 pro Here's OpenAI's model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum output ...

I'm at OpenAI DevDay in Fort Mason, San Francisco today. As I did last year, I'm going to be live blogging the announcements from the kenote. Unlike last year, this year there's a livestream.

Tags: liveblogging, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms

I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale. If you could put anything on it, then after a while, it would have everything on it.

But for the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my Cern managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone.

— Tim Berners-Lee, Why I gave the world wide web away for free

Tags: web, tim-berners-lee, computer-history

Today's links Apple's unlawful evil: Everyone's a rogue capitalist now. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why copyright wars matter; Car accidents aren't accidents; Ayn Rand, firefighter; Most sound recordings are unavailable; Kill the Dead; XKCD map...