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Introduction I’m calling it now: the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents can...

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A new study published in Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journalhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07536-x has confirmed what man...

This post assumes a basic level of familiarity with the jujutsu version control systemhttps://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/. If you haven't used jujutsu, you'll still...

I’ve seen it three times in the last month. Three different organisations, three different tech stacks, the same pattern. Someone has an idea. Maybe a product m...

An especially strong motivating case for the usage of spatial probability models comes from the mining industry. During exploration for mineral resources, prosp...

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!https://www.phoronix.com/assets/categories/bsd.webp With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop supporthttps://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptop-Matr...

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UK companies are performing “yoga-level” stretches to describe themselves as AI specialists in an attempt to capitalise on the buzz around the technology, publi...

omarchy is not a distro omarchy is DHHhttps://dhh.dk/'s latest infatuation - omarchy describes itselfhttps://github.com/basecamp/omarchy like so: > Omarchy is...

She came in wanting to do right by her husband. He’d been losing weight — the kind of weight loss that says something’s wrong — and she’d spent weeks trying to...

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Today, we’re opening the vault—for real. For decades, fragments and unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC have circulated online, mirrored on retrocomputi...

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View PDFhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06445 HTML experimentalhttps://arxiv.org/html/2605.06445v1 Abstract:Large Language Model LLM agents demonstrate strong perfor...

By Susam Pal on 24 May 2026 I recently stumbled upon a nice blog post titled Childhood Computing. It made me think about my own childhood computing experience....

Abouthttps://apple.github.io/ml-pico/index.htmlabout We introduce PICO Perceptual Image Codec — the first learned codec that is both practical, and optimized d...

Toggle in-page Table of Contents Mastering Dyalog APLmastering-dyalog-apl The “Mastering Dyalog APLhttps://www.dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm” book is the...

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The Knowledge Project Podcasthttps://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/ The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-...

The Knowledge Project Podcasthttps://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/ The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-...

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Q From Maryalice Shaw in the USA: Where does the term grass widow come from, and why? A The usual meaning given in British dictionaries is of a woman whose husb...

Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday. I have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes...

Bambu Lab makes the best, most accessible 3D printers yet, but that reputation is suddenly under siege. It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private mes...

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May 24, 2026 A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally...

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contri...

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Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long domina...

For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for...

Released at the Outline Demoparty in May 2026, Ommen, NL An exploration of algorithmic density in 16 bytes of x86 assembly. Hey everyone. I learned programming...

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tiling window managers are wonderful. ultra-flexible text editors are also wonderful. for a spell, i thought i'd found the ideal solution in exwm… and i think i...

By Susam Pal on 23 May 2026 This is going to be a rant about modern web design practices. But before I get to that, let me begin with a familiar principle from...

The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive dia...

3 hours ago Tabby Wilson and Kayla Epstein California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as emergency crews raced to contain a toxic chemic...

5 hours ago Tabby Wilson and Kayla Epstein California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as emergency crews raced to contain a toxic chemic...

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For years, devices like the RbPi have been described as “credit-card sized”. And of course the message is rather the footprint, but at some point I became obses...

Pardon MIE? Sat May 23, 2026Pardon MIE? Sat May 23, 2026 Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement is no joke. Five years of design, brand-new M5 silicon, hardware m...