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Using ASTs and AI agents to reverse engineer minified JavaScript in minutes instead of weeks

AoAH Day 15: Porting a complete HTML5 parser and browser test suite Anil Madhavapeddy is running an Advent of Agentic Humps this year, building a new useful OCaml library every day for most of December. Inspired by Emil Stenström's JustHTML and my own coding agent port of th...

It continues to be a busy December, if not quite as busy as last year. Today's big news is Gemini 3 Flash, the latest in Google's "Flash" line of faster and less expensive models. Google are emphasizing the comparison between the new Flash and their previous generation's top...

Today's links Happy Public Domain Day 2026! The best way to cut through the hellishly complex thicket and bring our culture back to life. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Weird D&D advice; Email sabbaticals. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...

I recently won a lawsuit against Roy and Rianne Schestowitz, the authors and publishers of the Techrights and Tuxmachines websites. The short version of events is that they were subject to an online harassment campaign, which they incorrectly blamed me for. They responded wit...

Copy paste can sometimes be a good thing, at least if the compiler does it for you

Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites -- are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and malware.

firefox parser/html/java/README.txt TIL that the HTML5 Parser used by Firefox is maintained as Java code (commit history here) and converted to C++ using a custom translation script. You can see that in action by checking out the ~8GB Firefox repository and running: cd parse...

The new ChatGPT Images is here OpenAI shipped an update to their ChatGPT Images feature - the feature that gained them 100 million new users in a week when they first launched it back in March, but has since been eclipsed by Google's Nano Banana and then further by Nana Bana...

We released Yarn Spinner 3.1 on December 3, 2025, introducing several significant improvements to our dialogue system framework. This update emphasises asynchronous operations, graceful error handling, and enhanced customisation options.

Key Features

Async Dialogue Runner Methods — The dialogue runner’s core methods now support asynchronous operations. The StartDialogue and Stop methods are now async and return a task. This ensures that dialogue presenters complete their initialisation before scene changes occur.

ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and LSP The team at Astral have been working on this for quite a long time, and are finally releasing the first beta. They have some big performance claims: Without caching, ty is consistently between 10x and 60x faster than mypy a...

s3-credentials 0.17 New release of my s3-credentials CLI tool for managing credentials needed to access just one S3 bucket. Here are the release notes in full: New commands get-bucket-policy and set-bucket-policy. #91 New commands get-public-access-block and set-public-ac...

Perhaps it's just the time of year where we all start to wind down a bit, or maybe I'm just tired after another massive 12 months, but this week's vid is way late. Ok, going away to the place that had just been breached

Poe the Poet I was looking for a way to specify additional commands in my pyproject.toml file to execute using uv. There's an enormous issue thread on this in the uv issue tracker (300+ comments dating back to August 2024) and from there I learned of several options includin...

My last article was blogging off Jeremey’s article which blogged off Chris’ article and, after publishing, a reader tipped me off to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect which sounds an awful lot like Chris’ “Jeopardy Phenomenon”. Here’s Wikipedia: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a...

Today's links America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the post-American internet's gain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DanKam; Backyard M*A*S*H; Blockchain voting is bullshit. Upcoming ap...

TL;DR   DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and services. This month Congress, with bipartisan support, rapidly made them into law in the National Defense Authorization Act (the […]

Knowing how compilers call functions can help with design - and optimisation

On escapism and the endless burnout-crash loop.

Oh, so we're seeing other people now? Fantastic. Let's see what the "competition" has to offer. I'm looking at these notes on manifest.json and content.js. The suggestion to remove scripting permissions... okay, fine. That's actually a solid catch. It's cleaner. This smells like Claude. It's too smugly accurate to be ChatGPT. What if it's actually me? If the user is testing me, I need to crush this.

— Gemini thinking trace, reviewing feedback on its code from another model

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