Raymond has been involved in Windows evolution for over 30 years and created The Old New Thing website and book. He occasionally shares stories on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account.
A recruiter sent a LinkedIn message asking me to review a GitHub repo, which turned out to be a backdoored Node project. I caught the trap by using a read-only agent and reported the repo to GitHub and the recruiter to LinkedIn.
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am. A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual
The user had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to create a digital dead drop hosting banned books, inspired by a short story and Cory Doctorow's book, and decided to use Tasmota firmware to create the Banned Book Library. After purchasing a bulb with Tasmota pre-installed, the user modified the firmware to create a custom web server and storage system, but encountered several ...
Iroh is a secure, open-source networking library that allows devices to connect directly using keys, providing a stable and efficient internet experience. Its 1.0 release offers a mature networking stack, supporting multiple languages and protocols, and is already running on hundreds of thousands of devices.
Callbacks must be fast and non-blocking, returning quickly to avoid system slowdowns. Blocking or IPC calls, including waiting for work items, defeat the purpose of asynchronous work and can cause system hangs.
You're looking for local LLM setups for coding. Some users have tried Gemma 4 on Apple M4 and DeepSeek V4 Flash with RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, achieving 160 tok/s but lower than cloud offerings.
An archive of ~2500 pictorial typography and letterpress works spanning four centuries, images composed entirely of type ornaments, characters, and rule. The history of ASCII art before computers.
Tinywind is a pixel-art pirate sailing game in your browser. Outsail the Royal Navy across 7 islands with real sailing physics — beam reach, tack, jibe, broadside. Free to play, no install, 5-minute voyages.
The author's love for technology began with a computer his mother brought home from work in the early 90s, which sparked a lifelong passion for computers and programming. Now, the author feels disillusioned with the current state of technology, overrun by marketers and capitalists who exploit its potential for profit.
Experts warn of a 10-50% risk of catastrophic AI event, a concern voiced by AI lab founders. Tech must reorient towards moral purpose for it and humanity to flourish.
Cohere launches North Mini Code, an open-source agentic coding model with 30B parameters, offering strong software development performance without demanding extensive hardware. It's available for free on Hugging Face and Model Vault, allowing developers to build and shape the future of sovereign models.
The author overcame low self-esteem to send emails to strangers, finding it a meaningful way to communicate. Email's longevity and flexibility make it a special method for connecting with others.
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You set up OpenCode with Git access for homelab management, using AI for container updates and healthchecks. OpenCode runs on a VM with persistent coding sessions, synced across devices, and integrates with GitOps for deployment.
Amazon is investing in a multibillion-dollar data center campus in Missouri, creating over 400 jobs and generating hundreds of millions in tax revenue. The campus will support cloud computing and AI workloads, with Amazon committing to community contributions and sustainable practices.
You've noticed a shift in the tech industry where Kubernetes is now widely adopted by companies of all sizes. The main reasons for this adoption are uniformity, shared knowledge, and traceability, which provide non-technical benefits such as easier onboarding and compliance.
Fox Corp is acquiring Roku in a $25 billion deal, combining live news and sports with streaming platforms. This major bet on ad-supported streaming aims to shape the future of the industry.
An MCP server for SharkClean / SharkNinja robot vacuums. Lets any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, etc.) start cleanings, clean specific rooms, send the robot home, and check status — agentically, in plain language. All commands go through SharkNinja's current cloud ("skegox") — the same backend the SharkClean app uses — so the robot behaves exactly as if driven from the ...
Monash University researchers found a copper-based drug reduces toxic Alzheimer's proteins and improves memory by repairing a vital waste-clearing pump. The treatment has potential to combat Alzheimer's and may empower the brain's immune cells to consume toxic plaques.
Gamma correction is crucial for accurate image processing, but most graphics libraries and image viewers still get it wrong. Using sRGB encoded data with image processing algorithms can produce incorrect results, especially for gradients, blending, and resizing.
Salesforce acquires Fin for $3.6 billion to enhance customer support with AI Agent technology. The acquisition will improve autonomous resolution, reduce costs, and accelerate AI adoption for service organizations.
LLMs generate overly complex code due to their nature, making review more time-consuming. Rewriting AI-generated code is now cheaper, allowing for more efficient simplification and planning upfront.
A book about Commander Keen's game engine has been released in paper and digital formats, with source code available on GitHub. The book details game development in the late 80s and early 90s, covering hardware and engine specifics.
Harold Hotelling introduced Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) in 1936, which is connected to Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) models. JEPA models can be viewed as non-linear enhancements layered on top of CCA, with the same objective function of finding maximal correlation between sets of multidimensional data.
TimescaleDB achieves up to 98% compression for time-series data using its hypercore engine and specialized algorithms like delta encoding and run-length encoding. This results in significant storage cost savings and faster analytical queries.
Anthropic launches Claude Corps, a fellowship program to teach 1,000 young professionals AI skills and place them in nonprofits to advance missions. The program aims to equip host organizations with valuable tools and systems, and fellows with AI skills for their careers.
Nick is the founder of Drafted, a platform training AI to generate residential architecture from structured design constraints. Drafted aims to make home design more accessible and affordable by allowing users to create custom floor plans and elevations in seconds.