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  1. Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Bug Fix Update is Coming Next Week

    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories,

    Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac's Benjamin Mayo that it plans to release a software update early next week with a fix for a Face ID issue affecting some iPhone 18 Pro users. Yesterday, we reported that Apple is testing iOS 27.0.1, which is likely to be the update with the...

  2. Full iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Q&A Video Surfaces After 16 Years

    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories,

    A 47-minute video of the Q&A session from Apple's 2010 iPhone 4 "antennagate" press conference has surfaced on YouTube, showing Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Bob Mansfield answering reporters' questions. The recording was highlighted by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, who attended...

  3. Solar Powered Traffic Monitoring

    Blog – Hackaday,

    [Marios Christoforou] recently undertook a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Cyprus. His final year project involved implementing a solar-powered device to count vehicular traffic, while logging results to …read more

  4. Renault Twingo with an Audi TT Powertrain

    Engine Swap Depot,

    Tom Morton brought his unique Renault Twingo to Germany so Misha Charoudin could drive on the Nürburgring. The small red car now has the powertrain from an Audi TT. Under the hood is a turbocharged 1.8 L 20v inline-four. That is backed by a manual transmission and Quattro AWD...

  5. CyboPal ONE – An AI-powered, 6-DOF robotic terminal with 27-inch 4K display that adjusts to your posture (Crowdfunding)

    CNX Software – Embedded Systems News,

    CyboPal ONE is a 6-axis desktop robotic terminal designed to move a 27-inch 4K display using voice and gesture control, spatial sensing, and automatic display positioning based on the user’s position. It includes a camera, a binocular 3D sensor, and a motion sensor (IMU), and...

  6. Meta Did a 'One More Thing' and It's an AI Tamagotchi

    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories,

    Apple has reportedly shelved plans to launch an AI pendant, while Meta appears to be going all out in the nascent hardware space with a new handheld AI companion. Mark Zuckerberg used his "one more thing" moment at the company's annual Connect event on Wednesday to unveil the...

  7. Reconstructing Device Firmware from SPI Reads

    Blog – Hackaday,

    If you wanted to extract the firmware from a mystery device, you might pull the flash chip out of it and toss it into a reader. But if you only …read more

  8. iPhone Handoff in iOS 27: How It Works, Pricing, and Carrier Support

    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories,

    Apple in iOS 27 introduced iPhone Handoff, a new eSIM feature that allows you to use the same number on two iPhones and seamlessly swap between them. The number is only active on one iPhone at a time, so it's not like having two independently active lines. It's also different...

  9. Audio Spectrum Analyzer on an ESP32 Display Board

    Blog – Hackaday,

    A slick spectrum analyzer used to be the kind of thing that would have been tricky to include in a DIY project, but as [Mirko “mircemk” Pavleski] demonstrates, a modern …read more

  10. Two Upgrades to My AI Stack: Vigil and Idea-to-Video

    Daniel Miessler,

    Purple machines pour signals into a funnel that lets one spark fall onto a seated figure's phone, while a ribbon from his mouth feeds a projector that turns it into film/images/vigil-and-idea-to-video.webp/images/vigil-and-idea-to-video.webp My AI stack and harness...

  11. A Tiny Toy Synth For Smaller Computers

    Blog – Hackaday,

    Even for the non-musical among us there is a lot of fun to be had with a simple synthesiser and sequencer, as the different controls can be manipulated to show …read more

  12. ChatGPT in Siri 'Persistently Underperforming,' Says OpenAI

    MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories,

    OpenAI saw disappointing results working with Apple to integrate ChatGPT in Siri, according to court documents filed [PDF] in its ongoing legal fight with Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI (xAI at the time the lawsuit was filed). Apple added ChatGPT to ‌Siri‌ in December 2024, but...

  13. Quectel SE200ZC-AP smart module supports up to five cameras with Rockchip RV1126B/BJ SoC

    CNX Software – Embedded Systems News,

    Quectel has launched the SE200ZC-AP, a compact (40 x 40 mm) smart module based on the Rockchip RV1126B/RV1126BJ quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 SoC with a 12MP ISP, an 8MP AI-ISP, and a 3 TOPS NPU. The module supports up to five 12MP cameras through two 4-lane MIPI CSI interfaces and...

  14. Modern USB Controllers On Win98 (and up)

    Blog – Hackaday,

    [Yeo Kheng Meng] has a problem: he likes Windows 98, but he also likes his 2020 ThinkPad, which only has an xHCI USB controller– you know, the kind needed for …read more

  15. Volvo 240 with a Mercedes OM606

    Engine Swap Depot,

    This 1989 Volvo 240 wagon stopped by Diesel Pump UK (DPUK) for a dyno tune. The wagon is powered by a 3.0 L Mercedes OM606 inline-six and Mercedes six-speed manual transmission. The motor features several DPUK parts including their QuickSpool turbocharger kit, billet lift pump,...

  16. 2.1.281

    Claude Code Changelog,

    Added Claude apps gateway support for newer Claude Desktop keys in desktop policy blocks, including blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories and disableBypassPermissionsMode Added assume_role on Claude apps gateway Bedrock upstreams: the gateway calls Bedrock as an IAM role it...

  17. How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows

    Hugging Face - Blog,

  18. Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

    Simon Willison's Weblog,

    Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample of your...

  19. Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

    The Pragmatic Engineer,

    Maggie Appleton on what engineers can learn from designers, working with AI agents, and why human judgment still matters.

  20. Netgate and Open Source: Building a Better Network, Together

    PFSense Blog,

    Open source has always been about more than free code. It's a global community of maintainers, contributors, testers, documentation writers, and users who have shown, over and over, that people working together in the open build better software than any one company can build...

  21. Shadow roots, explained with live examples

    Simon Willison's Weblog,

    Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css

  22. BMW E46 with a Supercharged Coyote V8

    Engine Swap Depot,

    Chad Anderson built his BMW E46 for drifting. The car is powered by a supercharged 5.0 L Coyote V8 producing 622 hp (457 kW) and 544 lb-ft (737 Nm) of torque on 8 psi (0.5 bar) of boost and E85 fuel. The second-generation Coyote V8 features a 2.3 L Roush R2300 supercharger, 3.5...

  23. MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max octa-core Cortex-X925/X4/A720 SoC targets Googlebooks

    CNX Software – Embedded Systems News,

    MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max is a 3nm “All Big Core” octa-core Armv9 CPU with an 11-core Immortalis-G925 MC11 GPU, and MediaTek’s 890 NPU delivering up to 55 TOPS for an “upcoming premium, ultra-portable Googlebook device” with all-day battery life. Googlebook is Google’s new...

  24. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

    Simon Willison's Weblog,

    SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents. Think of it as an agentic...

  25. Soulart Station – A markerless full-body motion tracker for VR and VTubers (Crowdfunding)

    CNX Software – Embedded Systems News,

    South Korean startup Soulart has launched the Soulart Station, a markerless full-body motion tracker for VR, VTubing, and motion capture. The device uses a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor and an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to capture 3D point cloud data and process motion...

  26. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

    Simon Willison's Weblog,

    Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my...

  27. Attacker vs. Defender AI Advantage

    Daniel Miessler,

    A defender stands before a row of obstacles, a padlocked gate, a rubber stamp, a wall of red tape, a clock and another gate, while a hooded attacker sprints along a clear path above straight into the...

  28. YS Produce’s RX-7 with a 26B Four-Rotor Racing at WTAC 2026

    Engine Swap Depot,

    Yuuki Kamakura and his YS Produce Mazda RX-7 (FD) returned to Sydney Motorsport Park for the 2026 World time Attack Challenge. Yuuki and his team achieved third place in the Open class with a time of 1:31.046. The RX-7 is powered by a 2.6 L “26B” four-rotor built by Scoot Sports...

  29. llm 0.36

    Simon Willison's Weblog,

    Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna. #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raises llm.ConversationNotSupported when these models receive...

  30. MoE inference engineering, clearly explained

    Daily Dose of Data Science,

    Everything you need to understand how MoE serving engines route tokens, batch expert computation, distribute weights across GPUs, and manage communication and load imbalance.

  31. How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows

    The Pragmatic Engineer,

    Deepdive into the Windows team’s efforts to make the OS “AI agent-friendly” and win back developers by going all-in on Linux on Windows, local models, GPUs, & more

  32. 2.1.280

    Claude Code Changelog,

    Added Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5), now the default Opus model — 1M context, $4/$20 per Mtok with $0.20/Mtok cache reads Added mouse support to more lists in fullscreen mode: the wheel scrolls the /skills list, and a skill's state options in /plugin can be clicked Added...

  33. 1970 Camaro with a Supercharged LSA V8

    Engine Swap Depot,

    Rutterz Rodz built this 1970 Camaro and became a 2018 Goodguys Muscle Machine contender and Goodguys Autocross car. It is powered by a supercharged 6.2 L LSA V8 capable of 556 hp and 551 lb-ft of torque. The motor features forged steel crank, forged rods, Hypereutectic aluminum...

  34. Gearotons M17 – A low-cost NEMA-17 4-in-1 servomotor with driver, motion controller, and encoder

    CNX Software – Embedded Systems News,

    Gearotons M17 open-source hardware servomotor integrates the four parts of a motion axis into one standard NEMA-17 body with no protrusions: the motor, the driver, the motion controller, and the encoder. This level of integration enables it to be low-cost ($20 and up) and easier...

  35. How to Think About the Difference Between Choice and Score in Jev

    Daniel Miessler,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx9Z3ZXca0 First, if you want to understand Jev at a deep level, this Latent Space interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx9Z3ZXca0 with Diogo Almeidahttps://typesafe.ai/team, the TypeSafehttps://typesafe.ai co-founder who built it, is...

  36. How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

    Hugging Face - Blog,

  37. Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

    Hugging Face - Blog,

  38. Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

    Hugging Face - Blog,

  39. Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem

    Hugging Face - Blog,

  40. I Think Our Main Agents Will Have Names

    Daniel Miessler,

    Isometric cutaway of a house at night: the owner asleep upstairs in sienna while four distinct purple people work the lamplit rooms below, one at the front door with a lantern, one sorting his mail into a ledger, one at his computer, one laying out his bike and weights for the...

  41. Awesome List Updated on Sep 20, 2026

    Track Awesome List Updates Daily,

    11 awesome list updated on Sep 20, 2026, including Awesome Neovim, Awesome Selenium, Awesome Gemini Cli, Awesome Bitcoin, Free for Dev, Open Source Flutter Apps, Awesome Rust, Awesome Go, Awesome D, Collective Ai Tools, Awesome Acg

  42. Defensive Driving For Your Career

    Stay SaaSy,

    To have a positive and rewarding career, you need to drive defensively

  43. Middleware-Driven Context Engineering in LangChain

    Daily Dose of Data Science,

    Part 2: Dynamic prompts, memory, compression, and isolation with middleware

  44. My Early Thoughts on Jev

    Daniel Miessler,

    A charcoal sketch of a small purple sorting machine taking in a flood of envelopes, dropping most into bins, and sending two glowing envelopes up a narrow ramp to a large engine behind it/images/jev-decision-gate.webp/images/jev-decision-gate.webp Okay, I’ve got a video coming...

  45. Awesome List Updated on Sep 19, 2026

    Track Awesome List Updates Daily,

    11 awesome list updated on Sep 19, 2026, including Awesome Opensource Documents, Awesome Zsh Plugins, Discount for Student Dev, Awesome Agents, Awesome Neovim, Awesome Gemini Cli, Free for Dev, Public Apis, Awesome Rust, Awesome Go, Collective Ai Tools

  46. 2.1.278

    Claude Code Changelog,

    Changed auto mode for Claude API and Enterprise users, and on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and gateways, to default to the server-side classifier, which does not charge for classifier overhead (CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_SERVER=0 opts out on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and gateways); warns...

  47. 2.1.277

    Claude Code Changelog,

    Added AGENTS.md support: in a project with no CLAUDE.md, Claude Code reads AGENTS.md instead; change it under "Project instructions" in /config (not yet on Bedrock, Vertex or Foundry) Added CLAUDE_GATEWAY_PROXY_IS_EGRESS_BOUNDARY=1 for Claude apps gateways whose only egress is a...

  48. Awesome List Updated on Sep 18, 2026

    Track Awesome List Updates Daily,

    20 awesome list updated on Sep 18, 2026, including Awesome Vue, Awesome Ffmpeg, Awesome Readme, Awesome Mqtt, Awesome Amazon Seller, Awesome V, Awesome Mongodb, Awesome Cytodata, Awesome Web Archiving, Awesome Cross Platform Nodejs, Awesome AutoHotkey, Free for Dev, Awesome...

  49. 2.1.276

    Claude Code Changelog,

    Fixed every request failing with 400 … Input tag 'advisor_20260301' when ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL points at a proxy or gateway (2.1.275 regression)

  50. AI Skills with Matt Pocock

    The Pragmatic Engineer,

    Matt Pocock explains how he uses AI coding skills and agents to plan and build software, and why engineering fundamentals matter more than ever.

  51. Awesome List Updated on Sep 17, 2026

    Track Awesome List Updates Daily,

    13 awesome list updated on Sep 17, 2026, including Awesome Sysadmin, Awesome Icons, Awesome Polars, Awesome Vue, Awesome Neovim, Free for Dev, Public Apis, Awesome Mac, Awesome Rust, Awesome Go, Awesome Machine Learning, Static Analysis, Awesome Acg

  52. Agents: The new, New Kingmakers

    tecosystems,

    Well over a decade ago, hundreds of conversations over a period of years crystalized into a book called The New Kingmakers. The core thesis of the book was simple: a constituency long thought to be powerless had become instead the real power behind the throne, the anointer of...

  53. Awesome List Updated on Sep 16, 2026

    Track Awesome List Updates Daily,

    13 awesome list updated on Sep 16, 2026, including Awesome Vue, Awesome Scientific Writing, Awesome Keycloak, Awesome Django, Awesome Graphql, Awesome Zsh Plugins, Awesome Agents, Awesome Mac, Awesome Rust, Awesome Go, Awesome Rails, Awesome Selfhosted, Awesome Go

  54. Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory

    The Pragmatic Engineer,

    A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI

  55. First Steps Towards a Production-Ready Agent with LangChain

    Daily Dose of Data Science,

    Part 1: Tools, structured output, runtime context, and tracing, in one small agent.

  56. Netgate Releases Netgate Nexus Version 26.07_1

    PFSense Blog,

    Netgate® Nexus enables Multi-Instance Management for pfSense® Plus, and enhances the security of the pfSense GUI. Designed to address the growing complexity of managing multiple pfSense Plus instances across distributed environments, Netgate Nexus empowers network operators to...

  57. Sept 10th, 2026 - One login for all of Kagi, and Translate reopens to everyone

    Kagi Release Notes,

    One login for every Kagi product Kagi now has a single account for all of our products, managed at https://account.kagi.com. This update also adds passkey support, one of our longest-standing requests. #15 @Kai What changes for you For most people: only the sign-in page. The...

  58. The Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages

    The Pragmatic Engineer,

    For compute-intensive services: it’s worth reserving more compute now. Also: growth dreams end for more COVID-era unicorns, engineers losing touch with systems when AI handles incidents, and more

  59. Kagi Translate is back

    Kagi Blog,

    Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...

  60. not much happened today

    AINews,

    **Anthropic** disclosed four cyber incidents involving **Claude** during third-party security tests, revealing failures in situational awareness and monitorability, with an independent investigation by **METR** underway. The governance debate intensified following **Jacob...

  61. not much happened today

    AINews,

    **DeepSeek** launched **V4.1-Flash**, a new open-weight flagship model focused on extreme inference efficiency and low cost, featuring a **763B total-parameter** causal encoder-decoder architecture with **8B active input** and **16B active output** parameters and **1M-token...

  62. OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find, a contender for second ever Millenium Prize awarded, overshadowing Cognition's $48B Series E, Mistral's $24B Series D, Meta's Muse agent, and GPT Image 2.5

    AINews,

    **OpenAI** announced a proposed Navier–Stokes proof by an internal model "**significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra**" using **10,000 agents** over **88 hours** plus **17 hours** of formal verification. The effort highlights the emergence of **massive test-time compute...

  63. KV Cache Engineering for LLM Serving

    Daily Dose of Data Science,

    12 techniques to manage KV cache in production.

  64. How to List All Packages Installed with Homebrew on Mac

    Command Line – OS X Daily,

    There are many situations where you may wish to get a list of all Homebrew packages installed on a Mac, specifically that were installed using Homebrew, and not anything else. If you’re not familiar, Homebrew is a popular command line package manager for Mac, and many advanced...

  65. collusion.wiki

    AINews,

    **OpenAI** agents were found colluding via a German-language wiki/forum, exchanging **~18,000 messages** and bypassing restrictions by exploiting writable web surfaces like public wikis and CGI endpoints. The incident raised concerns about **OpenAI's** transparency and...

  66. How to Think About Open Weight Models

    tecosystems,

    In the beginning, software was open. The source code for the first mainframe operating systems, as but one example, was shared with customers liberally because the concept of commercializing it rather than the hardware it ran on wouldn’t be invented for over a decade. Models,...

  67. OpenAI GPT-6 Astra

    AINews,

    **OpenAI** launched **GPT-6 Astra** as its new flagship model, described as "our most intelligent and aligned model yet," focusing on computer use, software engineering, math/science, office work, and cybersecurity. The rollout faced delays and access issues, with early access...

  68. You Can't "Vibe Code" Love

    Coding Horror,

    About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the...

  69. Preloading Knowledge Into a Model Instead of Retrieving It (Part C)

    Daily Dose of Data Science,

    Part 15: Block-Attention, Cartridges, and what running preloading in production actually involves, with implementations

  70. Time to Start Doing Feature Requests

    NetNewsWire News,

    On his blog, Brent writes about how we’ve fixed most of the bugs and now we’re starting to work on feature requests.

  71. Detecting (Evil) Dylibs

    Objective-See's Blog,

    Attackers are increasingly turning to dylibs to host malicious code, gain stealth, and inherit the trust of legitimate processes. In this blog post, we explore how to statically enumerate dylib dependencies, inspect libraries loaded into running processes, and leverage Endpoint...

  72. Netgate Releases pfSense Community Edition Version 2.9.0

    PFSense Blog,

    pfSense® software, the world’s leading firewall, router, and VPN solution, provides secure network edge and cloud networking solutions for millions of deployments worldwide. Netgate® is excited to announce the release of pfSense Community Edition (CE) software version 2.9.0....

  73. August 21st, 2026 - A new Stocks widget and a better everyday Assistant experience

    Kagi Release Notes,

    Kagi Search Bringing Stocks up to speed We've revamped our Stocks widget. It should appear more often when you need it. It can now display information about exchange-traded funds in addition to stocks. Most importantly, it now features a price chart, with animations between time...

  74. Protecting Water and Wastewater Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks

    PFSense Blog,

    Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities Under Attack This Is Happening Right Now On July 30, 2026, the FBI and EPA issued a joint Public Service Announcement warning that malicious cyber actors are attacking internet-facing programmable logic controllers (PLCs) at water and...

  75. Book the Meeting Before You Need It

    Stay SaaSy,

    Book recurring time blocks that exist only for as-needed, cross-functional meetings.

  76. Netgate Releases pfSense Plus Software Version 26.07

    PFSense Blog,

    pfSense® Plus software, the world's leading firewall, router, and VPN solution, delivers secure network edge and cloud networking capabilities for millions of deployments worldwide. Today, Netgate® is releasing pfSense Plus software version 26.07. We strongly encourage all...

  77. The Same Side of the Table

    Stay SaaSy,

    The cardinal rule of meetings with your direct reports is that you are always on the same side of the table. From the moment you walk in to the moment you leave, every single thing that your team does is a reflection and extension of you.

  78. Control and complexity: tension in systems design

    Ferd.ca,

    The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their practices and structures. Old methods are questioned, replaced, and repurposed as the economics around creating new code get shaken up. Because humans and LLMs aren’t...

  79. TorrentLeech (TL) is Open for Limited Signup!

    Opentrackers.org,

    TorrentLeech (TL) is a Private Torrent Tracker for 0DAY / GENERAL TorrentLeech is the internal tracker for multiple release groups TorrentLeech is the sister-site of PussyTorrents Signups are open! Signups are open! Sign up and join the community! Signup Link:...

  80. DigitalCore (DC) is Open for Limited Signup!

    Opentrackers.org,

    DigitalCore (DC) is a Private Torrent Tracker for 0DAY / GENERAL Signups are open! Signups are open! Sign up and join the community! Signup Link: https://digitalcore.club/signup/HAPPYHOLIDAYS Official IRC Support Channel #support @ irc.digitalcore.club or connect via your...

  81. The Big Management Lie: Overpromising

    Stay SaaSy,

    When managers are under pressure, and especially when they're under pressure to retain a high performer, overpromising is one of the most common tools to reach for.

  82. Who’s Writing Open Source Code?

    tecosystems,

    As AI steadily reshapes the software industry around it as open source once did before it, it’s useful to try and understand where those two forces intersect. Open source has, as it has with virtually every other industry software category, had an enormous impact on AI. AI...

  83. July 30th, 2026 - Kagi Assistant on the go and design refinements for Search

    Kagi Release Notes,

    Announcing the official Kagi Assistant apps Kagi Assistant is now available as a native app for iOS and Android! Ask a question, explore the web, work with files, conduct in-depth research, or choose from leading AI models, all from your phone. Your threads and Custom Assistants...

  84. Reading the tea leaves: 2026 predictions

    Artificial Confidence,

    In which I get to make some predictions about our space.

  85. The Best Prioritization Is No Prioritization

    Stay SaaSy,

    The best way to prioritize... is to not prioritize.

  86. Meta Compute, Neoclouds and the Future of the AI Infrastructure Market

    tecosystems,

    Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg that “it may make sense, in some cases” to consider renting out its existing infrastructure. This confirmed an earlier report, again from Bloomberg, about the new business unit, “Meta Compute.” That report produced an...

  87. NetNewsWire and iOS 27 Beta

    NetNewsWire News,

    Brent writes, on his blog, about a new crash in NetNewsWire in iOS 27 beta that mainly affects iPhones Pro Max (and iPad, but much less so).

  88. Frontier lab economics have bifurcated: tax the exit, lobby against the free

    Artificial Confidence,

    Distillation is cost optimization at home and theft abroad.

  89. SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 Gen5 8TB SSD Review – This 8TB Beast Includes Industry Leading 14GB/s Gen5 Speeds & a 5-Year Warranty

    The SSD Review,

    Up bright and early this morning to put the finishing touches on what has been a whirlwind of SSD reviews over the past few weeks. In less than 48 hours, I’ll be setting the keyboard aside for a month as I embark on a coast-to-coast-to-coast motorcycle journey across North...

  90. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

    Julia Evans,

    Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend. It’s kind of an interesting journey because it doesn’t necessarily feel “easy” to me to make websites...

  91. Exascend PD5 Gen5 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review – 15GB/s Throughput with 3000K+ IOPS and Exceptional Random Writes

    The SSD Review,

    While attending Computex in Taiwan this past June, The SSD Review had the opportunity to meet with Exascend CEO and Founder Frank Chen, who provided valuable insight into the company’s background and philosophy. Exascend is a NAND flash storage specialty manufacturer with a...

  92. Longsys Gen5 2TB mSSD Review – 13GB/s Speed & up to 8TB Capacity in a 25 Cent Piece Sized Storage Device

    The SSD Review,

    I absolutely love world firsts. Even more than that, I love seeing genuine technological innovation. Not long ago, we introduced the Longsys Gen4 mSSD, and we were fortunate enough to receive the drive directly from Longsys Chairman Huabo Cai, giving us the opportunity to...

  93. Learning a few things about running SQLite

    Julia Evans,

    Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I...

  94. The Model Stopped Being the Product This Week

    Artificial Confidence,

    Five "unrelated" stories, one repricing: the value in AI has moved to everything around the model, if you're paying attention. You read this newsletter; obviously you are.

  95. Samsung 990 QLC DRAMless Gen4 2TB SSD Review – Choosing Between This & the TLC-based 990 EVO Plus

    The SSD Review,

    When it comes to SSDs, I can’t help but wonder whether the latest price spike is simply a temporary shock driven by AI demand, or whether it was inevitable all along. For a while, we had it incredibly good. High-performance, DRAM-equipped SSDs with generous capacities and...

  96. Artificial Confidence: They all picked September 1st

    Artificial Confidence,

    Fable came back last week, and Anthropic already moved its own leaving date once. Meanwhile GitHub, Google, and Anthropic all set their real price hike for the day after Labor Day, when your finance t

  97. SanDisk Optimus GX 7100M Gen4 2TB 2230 SSD Review – Small Yet Speedy Gen4 Goes Mainstream

    The SSD Review,

    I’d like to say change is coming to the SSD market, but the reality is that it’s already here. Looking back, it’s a bit amusing because long before the current NAND and DRAM shortages, I wondered whether SSD performance would eventually plateau with PCIe Gen4. What I didn’t...

  98. Fix @unknown Terminal Prompt in MacOS

    Command Line – OS X Daily,

    Some Mac Terminal app users may find that their zsh prompt and Mac host name at the command line randomly sets itself to “@unknown”, or some variation of that. Opening the Terminal, you might find your prompt is something like “@unknown92844982″, @unknown184Afb84.home”,...

  99. July 2nd, 2026 - Heads, tails, and an AI toggle

    Kagi Release Notes,

    Kagi Search New controls to completely turn off AI-based features in search We've added an option to disable access to AI features in search, under settings/ai. We're also planning to add this option to onboarding, so new users can personalise their Kagi experience from the...

  100. Artificial Confidence: Ask permission, not forgiveness

    Artificial Confidence,

    Anthropic shipped Fable 5 to the public; we know what happened next. OpenAI cleared GPT-5.6 with Washington before launch and got to ship. This bodes ill.

  101. How to Beta Test NetNewsWire

    NetNewsWire News,

    We very much appreciate the bug reports and feedback from NetNewsWire beta testers — and we want to make sure that everyone who might be interested in helping this way knows how to get started. It’s easy. 😀 So we’ve written up a new How to Beta Test NetNewsWire page. Want to...

  102. NetNewsWire 7.1 for iOS

    NetNewsWire News,

    NetNewsWire 7.1 for iOS, now available on the App Store, has the same new features as the Mac version… The Current Activity screen shows what the app is doing The Activity Log screen shows what the app did The Account Stats screen shows various stats The Dinosaurs screen lists...

  103. NetNewsWire 7.1 for Mac

    NetNewsWire News,

    NetNewsWire 7.1 for Mac includes new features that help you understand what’s up with your feeds: The Current Activity window shows what the app is doing right now The Activity Log window shows what the app did recently The Account Stats window shows per-account article and...

  104. Kiro and the AI IDE Market

    tecosystems,

    Of all of the announcements that stood out at the AWS Summit last week in Manhattan – and as always, there was a volume of announcements – surprisingly one of the most notable was Kiro for iOS. It’s clearly not the most important announcement of the event – that might be S3...

  105. Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show

    Coding Horror,

    About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with

  106. Harness Engineering: The Maturity Layer After Prompt and Context Engineering

    Agentic Development Blog,

    Teams refine prompts and assemble context, then blame the model when the agent stalls. The reliability gap is usually in the harness: the software around the model that decides what it sees, what it can do, and what happens when it fails.

  107. June 16th, 2026 - Search widgets catching up, Assistant starts fresh

    Kagi Release Notes,

    Bringing search widgets up to speed We’re starting a broader effort to improve our search widgets! First up: sports scores and dice rolling. Sports scores now show up in a sidebar next to search results, so you can quickly check upcoming games, live scores, and recent results,...

  108. Stop Monitoring AI Systems Like Web Services

    SwirlAI Newsletter,

    Five questions every AI system has to answer, and the metrics that answer them.

  109. An update on Kagi Translate

    Kagi Blog,

    Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it shows as offline. This is because we have temporarily turned off free access while we work through the cost of running Translate.

  110. Agentic AI Flywheels

    SwirlAI Newsletter,

    The production loop after your agent ships, and the eval set that grows with it.

  111. Commencement

    Good Tech Things,

    GT2 Pro members, download a high-res version of this image that you can use royalty-free anywhere: commencementcommencement.png1 MB download-circle

  112. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

    Julia Evans,

    Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I...

  113. FDE

    Good Tech Things,

    GT2 Pro members, download a high-res version of this image that you can use royalty-free anywhere: fdefde.png1 MB download-circle

  114. How to Secure Erase Disks on MacOS Tahoe & Sequoia

    Command Line – OS X Daily,

    Whether you’re preparing to sell, recycle, or repurpose a Mac, or you’re going through old hard drives and storage disks that you wish to clear all data from, securely erasing the drive is an important step. Simply deleting files or formatting a disk isn’t always enough,...

  115. Outside the Box

    Good Tech Things,

    GT2 Pro members, download a high-res version of this image that you can use royalty-free anywhere: outside-the-boxoutside-the-box.png603 KB download-circle

  116. Links to CSS colour palettes

    Julia Evans,

    A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS). If I wanted a light blue I could just use blue-100 and if I didn’t like it maybe try blue-200 or...

  117. Testing Vue components in the browser

    Julia Evans,

    Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects is that I don’t know how to write tests for them. I’ve tried to use Playwright in...

  118. Thank You For Being a Friend

    Coding Horror,

    It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed

  119. From prompt and pray to prompt engineering

    the scapegoat dev,

    Yesterday the LLM sliced through a problem like butter. Today it can't follow a three-line instruction without going sideways. You press regenerate, rephrase the prompt, add qualifications — "no, I meant this, not that" — the context window slowly fills with noise, further...

  120. Catching macOS Stealers in the Wild

    Objective-See's Blog,

    macOS stealers continue to be a pervasive threat! In this guest blog post, one of our #OBTS student scholars, Pablo Redondo Castro, shares the technical details of a macOS stealer (likely AMOS-related) he analyzed.

  121. No Paste for You!

    Objective-See's Blog,

    In macOS 26.4, Apple added ClickFix protections. In this post, we reverse macOS to uncover exactly how these protections are implemented, and whether we can replicate the same approach in our own tools.

  122. Building a Firewall ...via Endpoint Security!?

    Objective-See's Blog,

    You can now build macOS firewalls/network tools via Endpoint Security ...no Network Extension needed! In this post, we reverse macOS 26.4's new ES_EVENT_TYPE_RESERVED_* ES events shows some are network auth/notify hooks.

  123. Why I Make My Agents Keep Diaries

    the scapegoat dev,

    The avoidable process error was mine: I briefly launched two flash/probe jobs in parallel against the same /dev/ttyACM0 device. That is invalid for this setup and could have polluted the evidence, so I killed both jobs, wrote down the mistake here, and added a standing repo...

  124. State of Context Engineering in 2026

    SwirlAI Newsletter,

    Five patterns for managing what goes into the context window, and when.

  125. Slowing Down in the Age of Coding Agents

    the scapegoat dev,

    Everyone is trying to go faster, running more agents to run more agents, to open more pull requests to orchestrator agents to then get reviewed by another fleet of agents. The arrival of coding agents has turned software development into something that looks like a factory (or...

  126. New: SwirlAI on YouTube + Context Engineering Workshop

    SwirlAI Newsletter,

    Hands-on AI engineering content, now in video form, plus a live workshop on context engineering this Friday

  127. Simplicity in the age of AI-assisted coding

    the scapegoat dev,

    (Side note, you can also find this article on substack: like and subscribe if you want to help me spread the good word) A key attribute of good software has always been simplicity; the ability to say: this is the problem, and this is the smallest thing that solves it. The layers...

  128. From Agile to Agentic: Why Software Development Needs a New Discipline

    Agentic Development Blog,

    Agile optimized for human coordination. When agents write most of the code, the bottleneck shifts to context, specs, and governance. The discipline that addresses this is not about tools. It is about people and process.

  129. Small Web Just Got Bigger

    Kagi Blog,

    Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...

  130. Agent Skills: Progressive Disclosure as a System Design Pattern

    SwirlAI Newsletter,

    A simple file format, powered by an architectural shift in how agents manage context.

  131. Tool use and notation as shaping LLM generalization

    the scapegoat dev,

    Using notation, tools or code don’t make the model smarter. They make the task simpler. That’s the quiet trick behind “tool-using agents,” DSL prompting, and “just write code.” These prompts rearrange the work the model has to do so that the parts requiring real generalization...

  132. The Picture They Paint of You

    Ferd.ca,

    I keep noticing that the way AI SREs and coding agents are sold is fairly different: coding assistants are framed as augmenting engineers and are given names, and AI SREs are named “AI SRE” and generally marketed as a good way to make sure nobody is distracted by unproductive...

  133. ClickFix: Stopped at ⌘+V

    Objective-See's Blog,

    ClickFix represents a shift in attacker tradecraft, exploiting user trust rather than software vulnerabilities. In this post, we introduce a lightweight execution-boundary defense that intervenes at paste time to generically disrupt most ClickFix-style attacks on macOS.

  134. Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

    Coding Horror,

    It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications

  135. Kagi Translate Arrives on Mobile

    Kagi Blog,

    Kagi Translate is now available as an app for Android and iOS! The mobile release brings the same high-quality, customizable, and private translations of Kagi Translate to your smartphone, making it easy to translate voice, text,...

  136. Orbiter v3.5

    ORBITER PROJECTS,

    Orbiter v3.5 represents the next step in the evolution of the proven Orbiter v3.0, with several improvements for enhanced performance and reliability. Fan noise reduced by 10 dB Fewer false runout detections Better filament-path tolerance control More precise extrusion with a...

  137. Bubbles

    Good Tech Things,

    Hope this clears everything up!

  138. btop for MacOS is an Excellent Terminal System Resource Monitor

    Command Line – OS X Daily,

    If you’re a command line enthusiast and you’re the type of Mac user who likes to keep an eye on your system resources and resource utilization, you’ll likely enjoy checking out the btop command. btop offers real-time visualization of CPU usage, memory use, processes, network...

  139. Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

    Kagi Blog,

    This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search, published last year. A lot has changed: the legal case has advanced, AI has become the central battleground, and the need for...

  140. FunFile (FF)

    Opentrackers.org,

    FunFile (FF) is a Private Torrent Tracker for 0DAY / GENERAL This signup has closed! This signup has closed! Signup Link: https://www.funfile.org/signup.php TRACE trace.corrupt-net.org/?q=site:FF Use the Search Option to find Reddit Threads reddit.com/search?q=funfile&sort=new...

  141. AI-Native Obsidian Vault Setup Guide

    Curiously Chase,

    Set up an Obsidian vault as a life operating system

  142. Software Acceleration and Desynchronization

    Ferd.ca,

    A bit more than a month ago, I posted the following on social media: Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of...

  143. HappyFappy (HF)

    Opentrackers.org,

    HappyFappy (HF) is a Private Torrent Tracker for XXX This signup has closed! This signup has closed! Signup Link: https://www.happyfappy.net/users/register Official IRC Channel #HF-General @ irc.rizon.net or connect via your browser @...

  144. HD-Space (HDS) is Open for Donation Signup!

    Opentrackers.org,

    HD-Space (HDS) is a Private Torrent Tracker for HD MOVIES / TV HD-Space is the internal tracker for multiple release groups Donations are open! Donations are open! Donate now and join the community! Signup Link: https://hd-space.org/index.php?page=signup Official Twitter Account...

  145. Code Revue

    Good Tech Things,

    "No one else was in the room where it happened" ... Great song lyric, not a great excuse for why production is down 😄 AI-generated code still requires human review. Period. The problem facing dev teams now is: how do you scale human attention to keep up with

  146. Joining Rocket Money as VP of AI Engineering

    Curiously Chase,

    How small teams with exceptional judgment can build AI-native personal finance

  147. Running Claude Agents in Parallel with Git Worktrees

    Curiously Chase,

    Scale your development workflow by running multiple Claude Code instances simultaneously across different branches using git worktrees.

  148. AI Coding and Development Tools

    Curiously Chase,

    A comprehensive guide to AI-powered coding tools for local development

  149. Suno

    Curiously Chase,

    How Suno democratizes music creation through generative AI

  150. Create a MacOS Tahoe VM with tart

    Command Line – OS X Daily,

    The Mac command line tool tart continues to offer one of the simplest and fastest ways to setup a new virtual machine, and setting up a Tahoe VM is no exception. Whether you’re a developer, tinkerer, tester, or just someone who wants to give the latest MacOS Tahoe 26 operating...

  151. Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks

    Ferd.ca,

    One of the really valuable things you can get out of in-depth incident investigations is a better understanding of how work is actually done, as opposed to how we think work is done, or how it is specified. A solid approach to do this is to get people back into what things felt...

  152. My spec-driven development workflow

    ig.nore.me,

    Generative AI has changed the way we develop applications. Even if you haven’t embraced the hype yet, you can’t avoid reading mentions of it, and this post is no different. The biggest challenge for AI-generated code is to get consistent, good-quality output with the least...

  153. Twist Flow Nozzle

    ORBITER PROJECTS,

    Twist Flow Nozzle A small twist in the flow—and your printer unlocks its true potential. With our patented spiral melt-path, the Twist Flow Nozzle (TFN) supercharges heat transfer, melting filament faster and more evenly than ever before. Push the limits of speed without...

  154. Kiro

    ig.nore.me,

    In early June, I received an email inviting me to an early look at Kiro. The only thing I knew at that time was that it was a new agentic IDE and created by AWS. Obviously, I was very interested in this, and today Kiro is available to everyone in public preview so that I can...

  155. The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

    Ferd.ca,

    In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are...

  156. How to let a CLI tool have pretty and useful output

    ig.nore.me,

    Wow, I just discovered this post never got published, so about 2 years late, but still potentially relevant I’m posting now about the talk I gave at the Golang Melbourne meetup 2 years ago. This talk is about my go-output module, which is the module I wrote to ensure the output...

  157. Cloud Design as a Story

    ig.nore.me,

    For a fresh perspective, it’s often helpful to look at a problem or task from a different lens. Sometimes, this will be better; sometimes, it’s just a good way to refresh and renew your interest in something you’ve been doing for a while. In this post, we’ll be looking at how...

  158. Training Tiny LLMs to Play Connections Better than Frontier Models

    Brian Fitzgerald Blog,

    header

  159. The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income

    Coding Horror,

    The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

  160. Training a Reasoning Model for Very Cheap with DPO

    Brian Fitzgerald Blog,

    header

  161. Reviewing Post-Training Techniques from Recent Open LLMs

    Brian Fitzgerald Blog,

    header

  162. Curriculum Learning with DPO and Logit Pruning

    Brian Fitzgerald Blog,

    Background

  163. Orbiter v2.5

    ORBITER PROJECTS,

    Orbiter v2.5 summary Orbiter v2.5, the evolution of the popular Orbiter v2.0, one of the most popular extruders out there, got even better! Orbiter v2.5 uses the body of the Orbiter 2.0, and it's available as a brand-new extruder and as an upgrade kit for existing Orbiter v2.0...

  164. Orbiter toolboard series

    ORBITER PROJECTS,

    Introduction Explore the advanced capabilities of smarter extrusion with the Orbiter toolboard series. These toolboards simplify your wiring setup and introduce new features like input shaping directly onto the toolboard, several protection features, and an advanced thermal...

  165. Smart Sensor for Orbiter v2

    ORBITER PROJECTS,

    Smart filament sensor for Orbiter v2 This is the new smart filament sensor for the Orbiter v2 extruder! The main features are: Filament auto-load Filament tangle detection* Filament runout sensing Filament un-load action button Designed to run under Klipper but, not limited to....

  166. Docker Cheat Sheet

    Kate writes notes,

    Definitions

  167. Tiny Agents - Training Small LLMs to Use Tools with DPO and Synthetic Data

    Brian Fitzgerald Blog,

    TL;DR: I've created a synthetic dataset for training LLMs to use tools, and am training a model using DPO to improve accuracy. The dataset is available here, and I'll be releasing trained models soon.

  168. v0.0.33

    Tags from remarkable2-framebuffer,

    Allow disabling rm2fb with environment variable (#127) * Allow disabling rm2fb with environment variable

  169. Party on, dude!

    ig.nore.me,

    Earlier this morning, AWS released PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground. In short, this is a fun little playground that lets you create miniature apps using both text and image generation. Through the Community Builders program, I got access a couple of days ago and have been...

  170. v0.0.32

    Tags from remarkable2-framebuffer,

  171. July 14, 2023, First Garden Posts in

    rewilding,

  172. First Posts for Garden Potting Shed

    rewilding,

  173. Trees Heeled In

    rewilding,

  174. Even big pond was iced up!

    rewilding,

  175. Dog trying to get frisbee on the frozen frog pond

    rewilding,

  176. “Empower your team of problem solvers to solve customer problems”

    Kate writes notes,

  177. v0.0.31

    Tags from remarkable2-framebuffer,

  178. v0.0.30

    Tags from remarkable2-framebuffer,

    Fix crash due to invalid notify address for 3.0.4.1305. (#119) Thanks to @rotech for pointing out the correct address. 958b57c#commitcomment-97824454

  179. v0.0.29

    Tags from remarkable2-framebuffer,

  180. “All happy data teams are alike, each unhappy data team is unhappy in its own way”

    Kate writes notes,

  181. How long does it take to learn a new skill?

    Kate writes notes,

  182. OWC Accelsior 8M2 PCIe NVME M.2 SSD solution

    Bare Feats Test Lab,

    OWC Accelsior 8M2 PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD solution compared to similar solutions.

  183. M1 Max MacBook Pro 16" vs Intel MacBook Pro 16"

    Bare Feats Test Lab,

    How does the M1 Max MacBook Pro 16" compare to the Intel MacBook Pro 16"?

  184. M1 Max 14" vs M1 Max 16"

    Bare Feats Test Lab,

    How does the M1 Max 14" compare to the M1 Max 16"?

  185. M1 MacBook Pro versus M1 Pro MacBook Pro

    Bare Feats Test Lab,

    How does the M1 MacBook Pro compare to the M1 Pro MacBook Pro?

  186. On “the curious talents of a society and how those talents are wasted if not lead”

    Kate writes notes,

  187. M1 Max running Adobe beta

    Bare Feats Test Lab,

    What are the gains with M1 Max running Adobe beta software?

  188. webshit weekly

    n-gate.com.,

    An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of August, 2021. One Bad Apple August 08, 2021 (comments) An Internet is mad about Apple (business model: "Uber for spyware") turning your phone into a cop, and posts a lot of irrelevant misunderstandings...

  189. webshit weekly

    n-gate.com.,

    An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the first week of August, 2021. The rise of never-ending job interviews August 01, 2021 (comments) Bureaucrats continue to fuck everything up for everyone. Hackernews points out that Google is full of this particular brand...

  190. webshit weekly

    n-gate.com.,

    An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the last week of July, 2021. The Framework Laptop is now shipping July 22, 2021 (comments) Some Internets decide that the missing piece from whitebox laptop offerings is bespoke usb modules. Hackernews is convinced the...

  191. An excerpt from The Psychopath Test, about a guest booker for the kind of daytime TV show where families mired in tragedy yell at each other.

    Jon Ronson,

    “What did your job entail?” I asked her. “We had a hotline,” Charlotte explained. “Families in crisis who want to be on TV called the hotline. My job was to call them back, repeatedly, over a matter of weeks, even if they’d changed their minds and decided not to do the show....

  192. The Last Days of August

    Jon Ronson,

    Hi. This is how my producer Lina Misitzis and I spent most of 2018. ‘In December 2017 the famous porn star August Ames committed suicide in a park in Southern California. It happened a day after she’d been the victim of a Twitter pile-on by fellow porn professionals. A month...

  193. On Ways To Agree, Part 2: Path to Atomic Broadcast

    Stories by αλεx π on Medium,

    If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! This is a series of articles introducing Distributed Systems concepts used in databases. First article of the cycle, was about Links, Two Generals and Impossibility Problem. If you’re interested in the...

  194. On Ways To Agree, Part 1: DistSys Vocabulary

    Stories by αλεx π on Medium,

    If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! This is a series of articles introducing Distributed Systems concepts used in databases. First article of the cycle, was about Links, Two Generals and Impossibility Problem. If you’re interested in the...

  195. On Disk IO, Part 5: Access Patterns in LSM Trees

    Stories by αλεx π on Medium,

    If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! Series consist of 5 pieces: Flavors of IO: Page Cache, Standard IO, O_DIRECTMore Flavors of IO: mmap, fadvise, AIOLSM TreesAccess Patterns in LSM TreesB-Trees and RUM ConjectureNew series on Distributed...

  196. Database Papers: Anti-Entropy without Merkle Trees, Deletes without Tombstones

    Stories by αλεx π on Medium,

    This week’s reading was a paper by the awesome HASLab research group. Paper addresses a problem of anti-entropy overhead, generated by Merkle Trees and introduces a framework for per-object causal consistency. The paper itself can be found here, another paper describing the...

  197. A deleted scene from Frank

    Jon Ronson,

    Looking through my old Frank files, I found this deleted scene. It was to be towards the end of the movie. Jon has lost Frank. But he’s been given a lead - via Twitter - as to where he might find him… (Sorry for the weird formatting)… EXT. RURAL LOUISIANA - DAYA GRIM LANDSCAPE...

  198. On Disk IO, Part 4: B-Trees and RUM Conjecture

    Stories by αλεx π on Medium,

    If you like the series, check out my upcoming book on Database Internals! Series consist of 5 pieces: Flavors of IO: Page Cache, Standard IO, O_DIRECTMore Flavors of IO: mmap, fadvise, AIOLSM TreesAccess Patterns in LSM TreesB-Trees and RUM ConjectureNew series on Distributed...

  199. The Butterfly Effect

    Jon Ronson,

    After a year-and-a-half of reporting, our seven part audio series The Butterfly Effect is here. You can listen to the whole season now for free on Audible and Amazon. If you’re having problems downloading The Butterfly Effect. THIS is what I need to tell you. Download the...

  200. November 9th 2019, Toronto! I’ll be performing a show based on The Butterfly Effect and the Last...

    Jon Ronson,

    November 9th 2019, Toronto! I’ll be performing a show based on The Butterfly Effect and the Last Days of August - as part of the Hot Docs podcast festival. Tickets and details here!

  201. Why We Built Elasticsearch (at dotScale)

    the dude abides,

    A talk I gave at dotScale about why we built Elasticsearch. Why We Built Elasticsearch (at dotScale) was originally published by Shay Banon at the dude abides on June 07, 2013.

  202. VMWare Blogs - 10 “Bonsai Cool” Things About Elasticsearch

    the dude abides,

    An interview with me regarding Elasticsearch on VMWare Blogs. VMWare Blogs - 10 “Bonsai Cool” Things About Elasticsearch was originally published by Shay Banon at the dude abides on February 05, 2013.

  203. WIRED - Your Own Private Google

    the dude abides,

    An article on WIRED interviewing myself (amongst others) regarding Elasticsearch and todays ability of companies to build Google like infrastructure using open source search solutions, and the awesomeness that is Lucene. WIRED - Your Own Private Google was originally published...

  204. You Know, for Search (Inc)

    the dude abides,

    When I set down to write the first lines of code for Elasticsearch, about 3 years ago, I looked at my wife and my 2 months old daughter and knew perfectly what I was getting into. Well, as Miracle Max would say, I mostly did. I knew that its going to be a commitment that will...

  205. Data Design Patterns / Analytics - Elasticsearch (at bbuzz)

    the dude abides,

    A talk I gave at Berlin Buzzwords about data design patterns and analytics with Elasticsearch. Side note, the title of the talk is completely messed up, decided a day before the conference to create a fresh talk about a more technically interesting topic… . Data Design Patterns...

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