Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
I Love Software Rendering
Sharp pixels, gritty colour banding, and DOS games running at resolutions their own era couldn’t manage. Why I still prefer the software renderer, and why it needs a fast PC.
How Do Traffic Signals Work? — Practical Engineering
If you live in a major city, I can take a pretty good guess at one of your most common frustrations: traffic. In city driving, the journey is rarely better than the destination. In most cases, we just want to get where we’re going. Traffic is not just frustrating, but it has cons
Why Isn't The Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands
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Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini
I run a local LLM server on my M4 Pro Mac mini with 48 GB of RAM.
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (2026) - Shopify
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
Future imperfect: Five predictions for the next decade | Opinion
Rarely has the industry looked to the future with such trepidation – but this turmoil is a transition, not a crash, and some paths ahead are visible
Rewriting in Rust: Performance, Failures, 2026 Reality Check
This is a guest post by Mateusz Maćkowski and Marek Grzelak, co-maintainers of cot.rs and speakers at Rustikon 2026. You can watch the full talk here. RIIR. If you've spent any time in open source
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
How NAT broke the concept of an internet connection
How AI text watermarking works
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
Readers can't identify watermarked AI text
In the last few weeks, I’ve been complaining that everyone is wrong about AI watermarking: it isn’t really anti-consumer and it doesn’t make the outputs any…
GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy
In yesterday’s post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn’t say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio si…
How to compromise your system with a job interview
The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40,000 plays
Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead.
Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer - Stack Overflow
The “find the special ones and promote their traits” approach isn’t the best or only way to drive AI adoption and productivity on an engineering team.
“Gravity is worth asking about.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Meet the Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data Into a Video Game - exe.dev blog
Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data.
AI Model Token Cost Benchmark | Playcode Blog
If you build with an AI coding agent, your workload is basically TypeScript - and that's exactly where the model tokenizer gap is widest. The same TypeScript file becomes 1,178 tokens on Claude's newest tokenizer versus 681 on GPT-5.x's o200k: 1.73x more, before a cent of price d