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The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market share among home users and small businesses. Experts say while the proposed ban may have more to do with TP-Link's ties to China than any specific technical threats, much of the rest of the industry serving this market also sources hardware from China and ships products that are insecure fresh out of the box.

In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.

Whenever Apple does a visual refresh in their OS updates, a new wave of icon archiving starts for me. Now that “Liquid Glass” is out, I’ve begun nabbing the latest icons from Apple and other apps and adding them to my gallery. Since I’ve been collecting these icons for so lo...

Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition beetle_b ran this prompt against a bunch of recent LLMs: Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle. This turns out to be a harder challenge than SVG, presumably because there are less examples of POV-Ray in the trai...

OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as "a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex". It's currently only available via their Codex CLI tool and VS Code extension, with proper API access "coming soon". I d...

The big advantage of MCP over OpenAPI is that it is very clear about auth. [...] Maybe an agent could read the docs and write code to auth. But we don't actually want that, because it implies the agent gets access to the API token! We want the agent's harness to handle that...

This post is about the original OMAP3530 BeagleBoard from 2008. Yes, the one so old that it doesn’t even show up in the board list on BeagleBoard.org anymore. The BeagleBoard, not the BeagleBone. During my Chumby 8 kernel escapades, at one point I ran into a UART bug that affected multiple drivers, including the omap-serial […]

Today's links Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: FOIA for Theresa May; Paid patriotism; Antiusurpation. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've ...

Over the years, I’ve been chewing on media related to nuclear weapons. This is my high-level, non-exhaustive documentation of my consumption — with links! 📖 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. This is one of those definitive histories (it’s close to 1,000 pages...

Mastodon 4.5 This new release of Mastodon adds two of my most desired features! The first is support for quote posts. This had already become an unofficial feature in the client apps I was using (phanpy.social on the web and Ivory on iOS) but now it's officially part of Mast...

I have AiDHD

It has never been easier to build an MVP and in turn, it has never been harder to keep focus. When new features always feel like they're just a prompt away, feature creep feels like a never ending battle. Being disciplined is more important than ever.

AI still doesn't change one very important thing: you still need to make something people want. I think that getting users (even free ones) will become significantly harder as the bar for user's time will only get higher as their options increase.

Being quicker to get to the point of failure is actually incredibly valuable. Even just over a year ago, many of these projects would have taken months to build.

— Josh Cohenzadeh, AiDHD

Tags: vibe-coding, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms

Converting hot dog plasma video to sound with OpenCV Jeff Geerling November 7, 2025

My hunch is that existing LLMs make it easier to build a new programming language in a way that captures new developers. Most programming languages are similar enough to existing languages that you only need to know a small number of details to use them: what's the core synt...

When you ground a hot dog to an AM radio tower, it generates plasma.

While the hot dog's flesh is getting vaporized, a tiny plasma arc moves the air around it back and forth. And because this tower is an AM tower, it uses Amplitude Modulation, where a transmitter changes the amplitude of a carrier wave up and down. Just like a speaker cone moving up and down, the plasma arc from the hot dog turns that modulation into audible sound.

Today's links The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3D printing with tape-guns; TPP is the worst; HP ends customers' lives. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...

Politics isn’t just about the words you put on your bumper stickers. It’s about what you do if the bumper stickers work.

Using Codex CLI with gpt-oss:120b on an NVIDIA DGX Spark via Tailscale

Inspired by a YouTube comment I wrote up how I run OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent against the gpt-oss:120b model running in Ollama on my NVIDIA DGX Spark via a Tailscale network.

It takes a little bit of work to configure but the result is I can now use Codex CLI on my laptop anywhere in the world against a self-hosted model.

I used it to build this space invaders clone.

Tags: ai, tailscale, til, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, nvidia, coding-agents, space-invaders, codex-cli

Game design is simple, actually

Game design legend Raph Koster (Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies and many more) provides a deeply informative and delightfully illustrated "twelve-step program for understanding game design."

You know it's going to be good when the first section starts by defining "fun".

Via Hacker News

Tags: game-design

On Games of Luck, Games of Skill, and the Game of Life.

You should write an agent

Thomas Ptacek on the Fly blog:

Agents are the most surprising programming experience I’ve had in my career. Not because I’m awed by the magnitude of their powers — I like them, but I don’t like-like them. It’s because of how easy it was to get one up on its legs, and how much I learned doing that.

I think he's right: hooking up a simple agentic loop that prompts an LLM and runs a tool for it any time it request one really is the new "hello world" of AI engineering.

Via Hacker News

Tags: thomas-ptacek, ai, fly, generative-ai, llms, ai-agents