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When I first laid eyes on the FreeBSD Handbook, back in 2002, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Six years of Linux, a relationship I've written about elsewhere, across various distributions, had trained me to hunt for documentation in fragments: often incomplete, often ...

Greg Knauss has my attention with a food analogy in his article “Lose Myself”: A Ding Dong from a factory is not the same thing as a gâteau au chocolat et crème chantilly from a baker which is not the same thing as cramming chunks of chocolate and scoops of whipped cream di...

Museum: John M. Mossman Lock Collection

The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York is home to the John M. Mossman Lock Collection, likely the world's largest collection of antique bank locks.

Tags: museums

Agentic Engineering Patterns > I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents? They're agents that can both write and execute code. Popular examples include Claude Code, O...

Woensdag 18 maart gaan de meeste gemeenten stemmen (behalve Hilversum en Wijdemeren).
Ooit was er de NerdVote campagne, waar we met een klankbordgroep heel zorgvuldig kandidaten kozen. Voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen kon ik niet geloofwaardig weer NerdVote doen omdat ik zelf als lijstduwer op de lijst sta voor Progressief Pijnacker-Nootdorp (de lokale GroenLinks-PvdA combinatie).
Desondanks zijn er wel kandidaten in het land waar ik erg enthousiast van word! Ik ken al deze mensen persoonlijk, en beveel ze van harte aan.

Anthropic's 1M token context window on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 is a genuine breakthrough - and they're not even charging more for it.

GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.

Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards, where curl had to shut down its bug bounty because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely – an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.

— Jannis Leidel, Sunsetting Jazzband

Tags: ai-ethics, open-source, python, ai, github

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube. Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI a...

Today's links Corrupt anticorruption: Notes from a target-rich environment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Tentacle sphere; EU Venn; Obama v cryptography; Trump v protesters; Amazon coders x Amazon warehouse workers; Bruces's ETECH speech; Steven ...

You had a technique.

It’s a common position among software engineers that big egos have no place in tech1. This is understandable — we’ve all worked with some insufferably overconfident engineers who needed their egos checked — but I don’t think it’s correct. In fact, I don’t know if it’s possib...

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Here's what surprised me:

Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium.

OpenAI and Gemini both charge more for prompts where the token count goes above a certain point - 200,000 for Gemini 3.1 Pro and 272,000 for GPT-5.4.

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, llm-pricing, long-context

Simply put: It’s a big mess, and no off-the-shelf accounting software does what I need. So after years of pain, I finally sat down last week and started to build my own. It took me about five days. I am now using the best piece of accounting software I’ve ever used. It’s bla...

Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago

Recently I came into posession of a few Apple Xserves. The one in question today is an Xserve G5, RackMac3,1, which was built when Apple at the top—and bottom—of it's PowerPC era.

This isn't the first Xserve—that honor belongs to the G4¹. And it wasn't the last—there were a few generations of Intel Xeon-powered RackMacs that followed. But in my opinion, it was the most interesting.

Unfortunately, being manufactured in 2004, this Mac's Delta power supply suffers from the Capacitor Plague. The PSU tends to run hot, and some of the capacitors weren't even 105°C-rated, so they tend to wear out, especially if the Xserve was running high-end workloads.

De belastingdienst is van plan om de BTW uit te besteden aan een Amerikaans bedrijf, wat echt waanzinnig is. Op 19 maart is er een commissievergadering in de Tweede Kamer hierover, en ik hoop van harte dat men bij zinnen komt.
In de discussie over de btw-situatie de afgelopen jaren ging het eigenlijk alleen over dat de belastingdienst Amerikaanse software ging gebruiken. Lang was onduidelijk dat deze software (en de bijbehorende servers) ook geheel beheerd zouden gaan worden door Amerikanen.

For the New York Times Magazine this Sunday, I talked to Clive Thompson about one of the conversations that I'm having most often these days: What happens to coders in this current moment of extraordinarily rapid evolution in AI? LLMs are now quickly advancing to where they ...

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations PR from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke against Liquid, Shopify's open source Ruby template engine that was somewhat inspired by Django when Tobi first created it back in 2005. Tobi found dozens of new perf...

Today's links Three more AI psychoses: Everybody calm down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"; Superinjunction; Harper Lee's kids v cheap paperbacks; 3D printed cat battle-armor; Black sf. Upcoming appearances: Where to...

Using Qwen 3.5 open weights models to OCR scanned PDFs - locally on consumer hardware or via OpenRouter for pennies