Last updated 2026-07-10, 7 min read A little less than a year ago I wrote: Everything is in shambles. One machine is dead and probably not coming back. Services are randomly scattered amongst the survivors. My...
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Can large language models perform deep technical comprehension of computer architecture papers -- not summarization, but structured critique that names the core mechanism, surfaces...
[2026 Update] This post has garnered significant traffic to my blog as well as discussion on and offline over the last 10 months. For some google search queries (such as “ai just a tool”), this ranks in the top-2 search...
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy What. CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming. July 15, 2026 BY Eden DaSilva Design by Tyler Farmer. What. CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming. July 15, 2026 BY Eden...
In a rare interview, the Star Wars creator and cinema technology pioneer opens up about what could prove to be his most personal and grandest legacy of all, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. On a mild morning in...
July 15, 2026 10 min read ♪ My throw decides my aim And with a phony voice Unserious to the end As if I had a choice I have been listening to Naked (But Still Stripping) by D-A-D on repeat. Partly because it is a good...
This is 768 servers. To some, that looks like a lot of computers. To those managing the infrastructure for apps with millions of customers, executing millions of queries per second, pretty normal. Products at this scale...
The title is a tongue-in-cheek parody of a quote from Carl Sagan (External link). And it ties in very well with the thought exercise we are doing today. When we start learning about web accessibility the first thing we...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: A Reddit post making the rounds this week claims the U. S. has experienced at least one major power outage every month of 2026 -- but is it true? I dug into several...
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Modern GPUs adopt chiplet-based designs with multiple private cache hierarchies, but current programming models (CUDA/HIP) expose a flat execution hierarchy that cannot express...
Large Language Models (LLMs) demand immense amounts of memory, and the more people use them, the more memory is required. Memory makers responded by accelerating plans to build new memory fabs, with a focus on...
News “Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon. July 15, 2026 — 2 min read The UK activism campaign Everyone Hates...
Over the last decade, async/await won the concurrency wars because it is exceptionally easy. It allows developers to write asynchronous code that looks virtually identical to synchronous code. But beneath that familiar...
dailyprog needs a new puzzle every day. I wrote the first few drafts by hand, then built a generator that writes them with an LLM and validates the output against real sandbox execution. The generator works, but it...
Free on Android CatchCat is a real-world cat spotting and collecting game for Android and iOS. Use your camera to verify real cats, turn every sighting into a unique collectible cat card, explore community sightings,...
Bluesky recently acquired the rights to the trademark for “ATPROTOCOL” and its variants—including “AT Protocol” and “atproto”—from another company that was threatening to take legal action preventing the company and...
Modern, familiar syntax Packages and imports, func declarations, sealed classes and discriminated enum s, arrow lambdas, if let nullable handling, and pattern-based switch. Recognisable from Go, Kotlin, Swift, and...
Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow have sued Google, accusing it of using millions of copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission or payment, in "one of the most prolific...
One More Letter is a daily word game where every round adds one letter and rearranges them into a new answer
NUL Characters In Strings SQLite allows NUL characters (ASCII 0x00, Unicode \u0000) in the middle of string values stored in the database. However, the use of NUL within strings can lead to surprising behaviors: The...
Summary: We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop. Originally published as: Gentner, D., and Nielsen, J.: The...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers. They can...
Spotify is testing a new " Talk to Spotify " AI feature for Premium subscribers that will let them chat with an AI assistant to explore music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The feature can answer questions about what users...
I was originally attracted to category theory when trying to understand Haskell optics. I was puzzled by the van Laarhoven’s functor representations and Kmett’s use of Tambara modules. By playing Tetris with the Yoneda...
Date: 2026-07-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00017-sqlite-editions.md SQLite is an amazing database engine. I use it as a database for plenty of embedded projects, and I don't...
Walt Whitman Joseph M. Keegin [.articleparagraph--cap][.small-caps]Homer and Hesiod,[.small-caps] Hegel notes, “gave to the Greek gods their names and their form,” but only the former concerned himself too with heroes...
A hacker who breached Suno reportedly revealed source code and training-library details showing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs and lyrics from sources including YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5,...
A story on AI median regression 15-Jul-2026 About me All posts Feed This past weekend I went to a wedding and something (extra)ordinary happened that I cannot stop thinking about, up to the point of having to write it...
An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. Aanand Prasad Engineer at Squarespace, co-creator of Docker Compose...
It’s the Fourth of July 2025, in Hannibal, Missouri, and what appears to be the town’s entire population has gathered in the sweltering heat to watch the annual parade. It’s an event befitting “America’s Hometown,” as...
I want to start by preventing some heart attacks and assuring the administrators of every book prize I’ve ever judged that I am NOT about to disclose any secrets of the judging room. But authors and readers (and even...
The letters we write with are not abstract shapes. They are the result of a millennia-long process of evolution. A baton, passed down through a hundred generations, and carrying with it the influence of every one of...
The FCC plans to vote on repealing local TV ownership limits, including the 39% national audience cap that currently restricts how much of the U. S. market a single broadcast group can reach. Engadget reports: On August...
Designing APIs for agents is different from designing them for humans. Most consumers of APIs today do so through agent-written code. This was not true two years ago, and it changes how we should think about designing...
Henry Edward Roberts was a mustang. He had enlisted in the USAF in May of 1962, and at the age of 27, had gained his commission in 1968 after attending Oklahoma State University and earning a degree in electrical...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Big changes are coming to Android apps, but they're not the changes Google wanted. The settlement between Google and Epic that aimed to put to rest the companies'...