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Bookmarks from 2025

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191 bookmarks from 2025

Is Life a Form of Computation?

Saved on 2025-11-17 · thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

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Is Software The UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?

Saved on 2025-11-17 · codemanship.wordpress.com

One area where software development lags far behind other technical design disciplines like electronic and mechanical engineering is in standards of evidence. To illustrate what I mean, I want to t…

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The AI ick - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-11-17 · stackoverflow.blog

How we feel about AI-generated content, what AI detectors tell us, and why human creativity matters. Also, what is art?

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This article is based on Unreal 4.17 code base, tested in Unreal 4.23. This is a step by step tutorial to write tools for your Unreal project. I would assume you are familiar with Unreal already. This is NOT a tutorial for SLATE code, that deserves a tutorial

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Stroustrup: FAQ

Saved on 2025-11-05 · stroustrup.com

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A History of Large Language Models

Saved on 2025-11-01 · gregorygundersen.com

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I'm in Vibe Coding Hell

Saved on 2025-11-01 · blog.boot.dev

When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, “tutorial hell” was enemy number one. You’d know you were living in it if you:

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Why Self-host?

Saved on 2025-11-01 · romanzipp.com

Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.

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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

Saved on 2025-09-25 · theverge.com

The mission is to keep the web sustainable.

ai tech

AI vs Gen Z: How AI has changed the career pathway for junior developers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-09-25 · stackoverflow.blog

For promising Gen Z students, a career as a software developer seemed like the golden ticket to career stability and success. But in the age of AI, the career promise for Gen Z software developers is gone.

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Blueprints vs. C++: How They Fit Together and Why You Should Use Both

Saved on 2025-09-24 · awforsythe.com

It's not an either/or decision. Learn what makes C++ and Blueprints different, what they have in common, and how to use them together effectively.

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Performance guideline for Blueprints and making sense of Blueprint VM.

Saved on 2025-09-22 · intaxwashere.github.io

In this post I’ll go through common myths about Blueprint performance bottlenecks and explain real logic behind it’s virtual machine.

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Never Enough Space! Redesigning the inventory system for Unexplored 2

Saved on 2025-09-17 · gamedeveloper.com

Two weeks after the release of Unexplored 2 we’ve redesigned the inventory system as players found it to be too restrictive and too diminishing of the fun of finding treasure during their adventures. In this post Joris Dormans looks back at this pivot.

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Intuitive Inventory Systems in VR Games

Saved on 2025-09-17 · gamedeveloper.com

We took a look at the various inventory systems used in popular VR games and share our observations.

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Poisoning Well

Saved on 2025-09-15 · heydonworks.com

An experimental strategy for contaminating Large Language Models

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Computers are for Girls | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2025-09-15 · datagubbe.se

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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver – Dmitry Brant

Saved on 2025-09-15 · dmitrybrant.com

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Unionize or die

Saved on 2025-09-13 · drewdevault.com

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Finally Starting Your Job Search - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-09-07 · stackoverflow.blog

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The good times in tech are over

Saved on 2025-09-07 · seangoedecke.com

For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…

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Game engines and shader stuttering: Unreal Engine's solution to the problem

Saved on 2025-09-05 · unrealengine.com

Take a dive into Pipeline State Object (PSO) precaching and find out how this technique has evolved to the point that it now prevents most kinds of shader compilation stutters.

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Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

Saved on 2025-09-04 · blog.jeffschomay.com

Discover the process of transforming an ASCII game into real-time AI-rendered graphics with fal.ai

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Uncertain⟨T⟩

Saved on 2025-09-04 · nshipster.com

GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean logic.

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Open Source is one person

Saved on 2025-09-04 · opensourcesecurity.io

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway,

programming tech

Moving the public Stack Overflow sites to the cloud: Part 1 - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-09-04 · stackoverflow.blog

Stack Overflow, born on the bare metal racks of a data center, ascends to the cloud.

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Bookmarks from 2025

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191 bookmarks from 2025

The Bubble That Knows It's a Bubble

Saved on 2025-08-30 · craigmccaskill.com

The four words that precede every crash: “This time is different.”

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Documents: The architect’s programming language - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-30 · stackoverflow.blog

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.

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Who does your assistant serve?

Saved on 2025-08-30 · xeiaso.net

ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

tech ai

LLMs generate slop because they avoid surprises by design

Saved on 2025-08-30 · danfabulich.medium.com

LLMs suck at comedy, art, journalism, research, and science for the same fundamental reason

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Early Legal Streaming Services: Why Pressplay and MusicNet Failed

Saved on 2025-08-30 · tedium.co

Lessons from the music industry’s initial consumer-hostile reaction to the Napster saga. Going from $16 CDs to unlimited streaming is really hard.

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How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

Saved on 2025-08-17 · outsidetext.substack.com

A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures

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A global look at teletext | text-mode.org

Saved on 2025-08-17 · text-mode.org

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A new worst coder has entered the chat: vibe coding without code knowledge - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-17 · stackoverflow.blog

In the age of AI, being able to make applications and create code has never been easier. But is it any good? Here's what vibe coding is like for someone without technical skills.

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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.

Saved on 2025-08-09 · johnwhiles.com

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How I build software quickly

Saved on 2025-08-09 · evanhahn.com

Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.

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Most RESTful APIs aren’t really RESTful

Saved on 2025-08-09 · florian-kraemer.net

When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational State Transfe

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Building better platforms with continuous discovery - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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When Swiping Supplants Scissors: The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens — And How Designers Can Help…

Saved on 2025-08-09 · caseorganic.medium.com

The history of technology is full of innovators who got their start creating with their hands. Steve Jobs cites a calligraphy class at Reed

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LLM Daydreaming

Saved on 2025-08-09 · gwern.net

Proposal & discussion of how default mode networks for LLMs are an example of missing capabilities for search and novelty in contemporary AI systems.

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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Saved on 2025-08-09 · the-nerve-blog.ghost.io

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you're working on something difficult, sketch a proof in your

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The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

So long and thanks for all the bits!

tech hardware

A new era of Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Live from the stage of WeAreDevelopers, we’re unveiling our new vision and mission for the future of Stack Overflow and our community.

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Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment

Saved on 2025-08-09 · pcgamer.com

I know that sounds bonkers, but just hear me out.

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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

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Do AI coding tools help with imposter syndrome or make it worse? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-08-09 · stackoverflow.blog

Spoiler: Yes.

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To Save C, We Must Save ABI

Saved on 2025-07-25 · thephd.dev

After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the title of the next one, ...

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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not

Saved on 2025-07-14 · charity.wtf

A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next t…

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The Drawbridges Go Up

Saved on 2025-07-14 · dbreunig.com

The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.

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Lessons From 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs

Saved on 2025-07-14 · henrikwarne.com

Since 2002, I have been keeping track of all the tricky bugs I have come across. Nine years ago, I wrote a blog post with the lessons learned from the bugs up till then. Now I have reviewed all the…

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Reliability for unreliable LLMs - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-07-14 · stackoverflow.blog

Large language models are non-deterministic by design. Here's how you can inject a little bit of determinism into GenAI workflows.

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Bookmarks from 2025

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191 bookmarks from 2025

Learn like a lurker: Gen Z’s digital-first lifestyle and the future of knowledge - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-07-14 · stackoverflow.blog

As a generation characterized as "digital natives," the way Gen Z interacts with and consumes knowledge is rooted in their desire for instant gratification and personalization. How will this affect the future of knowledge management and the technologies of tomorrow?

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Almost Fired

Saved on 2025-07-14 · engineersneedart.com

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A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

Saved on 2025-07-14 · arstechnica.com

Focusing on sound production instead of word choice makes for a flexible system.

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How Questions Build Software

Saved on 2025-07-14 · akdev.blog

Looking back, I never thought I would build a career in software. My degree is in Chemistry, a field of precise rules and predictable reactions. What could a mind buzzing with ionic bonds and benzene rings understand about software? That self-inflict...

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

Saved on 2025-07-14 · time.com

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game

Saved on 2025-07-14 · spacebar.news

John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou.

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Advanced Delegates in C++

Saved on 2025-07-14 · unreal-garden.com

All the flavours, all the considerations.

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Intro to Delegates in C++

Saved on 2025-07-14 · unreal-garden.com

How to declare a dynamic multicast delegate and subscribe to it, using C++.

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Chapter 1: Be The Idea Guy

Saved on 2025-07-14 · travismcgeathy.substack.com

An Idea Alone Never Ships a Game

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Cross Products in Game Development and Their Use Cases

Saved on 2025-07-06 · amirazmi.net

Introduction If you are coming from the Dot Product math tutorial, I thank you for going through it! The understandings of the previous tutorials are just the tools in your toolbox to becoming a ga…

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Dot Products in Games and Their Use Cases

Saved on 2025-07-06 · amirazmi.net

Introduction If you are coming from the Points and Vectors guide, let me thank you guys for reading that and I hoped it helped! If you are new to the series, I will be going over 3D and Linear Alge…

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Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks

Saved on 2025-07-02 · tomshardware.com

It's like a business graduate with no common sense.

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levered beta is all you need

Saved on 2025-06-29 · textql.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

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Component · Decoupling Patterns · Game Programming Patterns

Saved on 2025-06-29 · gameprogrammingpatterns.com

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Multiple Coordinate Spaces - 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development

Saved on 2025-06-22 · gamemath.com

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Rolling the ladder up behind us

Saved on 2025-06-21 · xeiaso.net

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

Saved on 2025-06-21 · about.gitlab.com

Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.

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Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Saved on 2025-06-21 · baldurbjarnason.com

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

Saved on 2025-06-21 · fly.io

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

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Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'

Saved on 2025-06-21 · fortune.com

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

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When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision

Saved on 2025-06-21 · softwareheritage.org

Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Inria's "Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm" from the late 80s, now archived at Software Heritage, gives a peek into early computer vision's elegant solutions.

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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

Saved on 2025-06-21 · restofworld.org

A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

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Forgotten Employee

Saved on 2025-06-20 · sites.google.com

PART ONE An epiphany was had this morning as I perused SA, sipping Code Red and toying with the notion of stepping outside for my third cigarette in an hour: Nine years and 2 months of my life have been devoted towards the goal of personal advancement within a small yet thrivin

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Why Not Just Do Simple C++ RAII in C?

Saved on 2025-06-11 · thephd.dev

Ever since I finished publishing the “defer” paper and successfully defended it on its first go-around (it now has tentative approval to go to a Technical Sp...

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Doom Engine source code review

Saved on 2025-06-08 · fabiensanglard.net

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Bookmarks from 2025

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191 bookmarks from 2025

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Saved on 2025-06-06 · arstechnica.com

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad

Saved on 2025-06-06 · solarshades.club

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

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U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

Saved on 2025-06-06 · krebsonsecurity.com

The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as “pig butchering." In January

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The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time

Saved on 2025-06-05 · thephd.dev

After the Graz, Austria February 2025 WG14 Meeting, I am now confident in the final status of the defer TS, and it is now time.

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Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era | Andreessen Horowitz

Saved on 2025-06-04 · a16z.com

Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat AI agents as a new foundation for how software gets built.

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Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity

Saved on 2025-06-04 · codemanship.wordpress.com

Here are 5 factors that make a bigger difference to software development outcomes than “A.I.” coding assistants, but teams don’t address because they’re “old news, gra…

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Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

Saved on 2025-06-04 · futurism.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

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Manual Work is a Bug: A.B.A: always be automating

Saved on 2025-06-04 · queue.acm.org

Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right, the team learns from eac

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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

Saved on 2025-06-04 · localmess.github.io

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AI safety is not a model property

Saved on 2025-05-29 · aisnakeoil.com

Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things

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The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great

Saved on 2025-05-27 · technologizer.com

In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.

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The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet

Saved on 2025-05-27 · sebs.website

pThe Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. What is it and how can we avoid it?/p

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o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data

Saved on 2025-05-27 · sampatt.com

In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer

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Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment

Saved on 2025-05-27 · fastcompany.com

Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.

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Why performance optimization is hard work

Saved on 2025-05-27 · purplesyringa.moe

I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on m

tech performance

The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

Saved on 2025-05-27 · notashelf.dev

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

tech programming

Best practices for third-party data acquisition: powering AI context - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-05-27 · stackoverflow.blog

This post explores crucial lessons learned in the trenches of data licensing, drawing insights from Stack Overflow and the growing importance of socially responsible data practices in a changing internet landscape.

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Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.

Saved on 2025-05-27 · farmingdale-observer.com

In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The

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Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-05-27 · stackoverflow.blog

If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?

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Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-05-27 · stackoverflow.blog

Money is pouring into the AI industry. Will software survive the disruption it causes?

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Reasoning models don't always say what they think \\ Anthropic

Saved on 2025-05-26 · anthropic.com

Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

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The Era Of The Business Idiot

Saved on 2025-05-25 · wheresyoured.at

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kin

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English Is Not Normal

Saved on 2025-05-02 · aeon.co

No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.

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OAuth's Role in MCP Security

Saved on 2025-04-28 · defensiblesystems.substack.com

Limits and Opportunities in the Identity Layer

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TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days | DigiCert

Saved on 2025-04-27 · digicert.com

The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.

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Bookmarks from 2025

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191 bookmarks from 2025

Like self-driving cars, fully AI-automated sysadmins don't exist - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

As with cars, there are few system administration tasks that involve little to no automation.

tech ai

Engineering teams need to adapt to AI’s scaling challenges - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

AI is not a linear process. To scale effectively, engineering leaders must account for varied edge cases, presenting a new set of challenges.

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Wait, what is agentic AI? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-27 · stackoverflow.blog

Is “agentic AI” just a buzzword, or is it the sea change it seems?

Can renewables and nuclear play nice in Australia's power grid of tomorrow

Saved on 2025-04-26 · abc.net.au

Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a grid fit for the future.

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Abstract Heresies: Why I Program in Lisp

Saved on 2025-04-19 · funcall.blogspot.com

A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.

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Demystifying the #! (shebang): Kernel Adventures - Bruno Croci

Saved on 2025-04-19 · crocidb.com

Clarifying the shebang (#!) mechanism: A step-by-step look using strace and kernel code shows how Linux handles script execution directly, revealing the shell isn't involved initially.

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Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-19 · stackoverflow.blog

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Software Architecture in an AI World – O’Reilly

Saved on 2025-04-16 · oreilly.com

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Why doing less makes you a better leader - Blog - Tech Leaders Launchpad

Saved on 2025-04-14 · techleaderslaunchpad.com

Recently I've been speaking to a lot of new leaders, and a mistake I am seeing quite often is equating productivity with the number of tasks they complete, meetings they attend, and decisions they make. Many new leaders, particularly those transitioning from individual contributo

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From training to inference: The new role of web data in LLMs - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-04-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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What is Local-first Web Development? | alexop.dev

Saved on 2025-04-13 · alexop.dev

Explore the power of local-first web development and its impact on modern web applications. Learn how to build offline-capable, user-centric apps that prioritize data ownership and seamless synchronization. Discover the key principles and implementation steps for creating robust

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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

Saved on 2025-04-13 · theaiunderwriter.substack.com

There is only one thing worse than being imitated

The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI

Saved on 2025-04-13 · dutchosintguy.com

OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you.I’ve seen it firsthand, analysts running solid investigations, then slowly shifting more and more of the thinking to GenAI tools. At first, it’s small. You use ChatGPT to summarise a d

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Health indicators and power ups: The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the ph

Saved on 2025-04-11 · bbc.com

Video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world, but sometimes they bleed into people's lives offline in surprising and disturbing ways.

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The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella

Saved on 2025-04-11 · annievella.com

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing ho

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Length and capacity in Go slices

Saved on 2025-04-06 · javorszky.co.uk

Length and capacity in Go slices confused me for a while. They're related but different, and important. This will give you more clarity on what they are.

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Nibble Stew: Writing your own C standard library from scratch

Saved on 2025-04-06 · nibblestew.blogspot.com

The C++ standard library (also know as the STL) is, without a doubt, an astounding piece of work. Its scope, performance and incredible back...

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Piranesi’s Perspective Trick. This is a quick report explaining what… | by Bruno Postle | Medium

Saved on 2025-04-06 · medium.com

This is a quick report explaining what I have been doing with some research on what I started to call ‘Piranesi’s perspective trick’. In the past I would have written this up as an academic paper…

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How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer – Joe Antognini

Saved on 2025-03-29 · joe-antognini.github.io

Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...

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Introducing command and commandfor | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Saved on 2025-03-29 · developer.chrome.com

Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.

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AI's effects on programming jobs | Seldo.com

Saved on 2025-03-29 · seldo.com

There's been a whole lot of discussion recently about the impact of AI on the market for web developers, for programmers in general, and even more generally the entire labor market. I find myself making the same points over and over, and whenever I do that it's time to write a bl

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How are sandwich generation developers dealing? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-03-25 · stackoverflow.blog

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Why Do We Have a Cache-Control Request Header? – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant

Saved on 2025-03-19 · csswizardry.com

Learn how the Cache-Control request header works, how browsers handle refresh and hard refresh caching, and when developers should use it for realtime data and offline-first applications.

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A look under the hood: How (and why) we built Question Assistant - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-03-19 · stackoverflow.blog

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Truth, Lies and Progress Bars – Cloud Four

Saved on 2025-03-13 · cloudfour.com

An early encounter with a fabricated progress indicator inspired several more honest alternatives.

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Bookmarks from 2025

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:59:58 +0000

191 bookmarks from 2025

Abusing SQLite to Handle Concurrency | SkyPilot Blog

Saved on 2025-03-13 · skypilot.ai

SkyPilot uses the venerable SQLite for state management. SQLite can handle millions of QPS, and terabytes of data. However, our efforts to scale our Managed Jobs feature ran up against the one downfall of SQLite: many concurrent writers. Since SkyPilot typically runs as a CLI on

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Black Eye Technologies on Procedural Camera Systems & Their New Unreal Engine Plug-In

Saved on 2025-03-09 · 80.lv

Black Eye Technologies' Adam Myhill and Gerald Orban have joined 80 Level to discuss their brand-new Unreal Engine add-on Black Eye Cameras, and share the tool's capabilities.

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This page is under construction - localghost

Saved on 2025-03-07 · localghost.dev

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

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Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation | Dries Buytaert

Saved on 2025-03-07 · dri.es

I tested 12 LLMs – 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based – to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

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First Steps in Game Development With Rust and Bevy

Saved on 2025-02-28 · blog.jetbrains.com

Some of us might remember this 15-year-old Abstruse Goose comic about our choices in life. Learning the theory of computations might not be the most direct path to video game development. However, you

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Do Things that Don't Scale

Saved on 2025-02-27 · paulgraham.com

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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines · Jaz's Blog

Saved on 2025-02-26 · jazco.dev

By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.

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How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster - blag

Saved on 2025-02-26 · avi.im

This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future

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Keeping Figma Fast | Figma Blog

Saved on 2025-02-26 · figma.com

When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.

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The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation

Saved on 2025-02-26 · workingsoftware.dev

This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.

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My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation — Cosive

Saved on 2025-02-20 · cosive.com

I recently had a saga with a washing machine that reminded me why one of the most feared and hated tasks for software developers starts with the question: “So how long will it take you to build that?”

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Exploring Apache Kafka Internals and Codebase | Moncef Abboud

Saved on 2025-02-20 · cefboud.com

Trying to dig into the Apache Kafka codebase and make some sense of it.

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the sudoku affair • Buttondown

Saved on 2025-02-20 · explaining.software

Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.

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The Evolution of Security at Riot | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

Hey folks! We’re Mark Hillick, Jason Clark, and David Rook from the Riot Security team and we’re here to discuss how the security program at Riot has evolved over the last 4 years.

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Welcome to the Death Dimension | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

It's time for a trip to a new dimension!

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A Story of Fog and War | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

http://riot.com/1NvPXyT #RiotTechBlog

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Riot's Approach to Anti-Cheat | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-02-17 · riotgames.com

https://riot.com/2mgcpBj #RiotTechBlog

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/dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver

Saved on 2025-02-17 · leagueoflegends.com

We’re protecting some of Riot’s upcoming games with new anti-cheat systems.

gaming tech

Monorepos in JavaScript & TypeScript

Saved on 2025-02-15 · robinwieruch.de

A tutorial how to use a monorepo architecture in frontend JavaScript and TypeScript with tools like npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces, Turborepo/NX/Lerna, Git Submodules, ...

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Memory Allocation

Saved on 2025-02-03 · samwho.dev

A visual introduction to memory allocation.

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Software Testing Anti-patterns · Codepipes Blog

Saved on 2025-02-03 · blog.codepipes.com

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Getting Things Done In A Chaotic Environment | Stay SaaSy

Saved on 2025-02-03 · staysaasy.com

Have one main focus and keep it that way.

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Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-02-03 · stackoverflow.blog

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VALORANT Shaders and Gameplay Clarity

Saved on 2025-01-27 · riotgames.com

VALORANT had three graphics priorities - competitive integrity, high performance, and a sweet art style. This article describes how we balanced these pillars by using cool shader techniques and a collaborative team philosophy.

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Demolishing Wallhacks with VALORANT's Fog of War

Saved on 2025-01-27 · riotgames.com

Anti-cheat lead Paul Chamberlain walks us through the technical guts of Fog of War, VALORANT's anti-wallhack system.

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Bookmarks from 2025

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:59:58 +0000

191 bookmarks from 2025

Five Flawed Productivity Metrics

Saved on 2025-01-26 · leaddev.com

Which commonly-used metrics aren't working and why?

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VALORANT's 128-Tick Servers | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-01-26 · riotgames.com

Engineer Brent Randall tells the technical story behind VALORANT's search for optimal server performance.

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Peeking into VALORANT's Netcode | Riot Games Technology

Saved on 2025-01-26 · riotgames.com

Take a peek behind the scenes of VALORANT's netcode.

games programming tech

Assertive communication: What it is and how to do it well - Work Life by Atlassian

Saved on 2025-01-26 · atlassian.com

Assertive communication helps you express your thoughts and feelings while still being respectful of others. Here’s why it matters and how to get it right.

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Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Saved on 2025-01-07 · jacobian.org

How do you understand what engineers are doing with that time? How do you know if they’re working on the “right” things? Here’s how I suggest answering those questions.

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Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Saved on 2025-01-07 · simonwillison.net

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

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Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder | Irrational Exuberance

Saved on 2025-01-06 · lethain.com

One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you’re already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn’t work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else.

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Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics

Saved on 2025-01-06 · newsletter.getdx.com

Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders.

career management tech

Unicode is harder than you think · mcilloni's blog

Saved on 2025-01-06 · mcilloni.ovh

history tech

Laurence Tratt: Four Kinds of Optimisation

Saved on 2025-01-06 · tratt.net

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New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King

Saved on 2025-01-06 · developing.dev

On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”

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It’s not what you know, it’s how you know you know it - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-01-04 · stackoverflow.blog

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15 Lessons From 15 Years of Indie App Development

Saved on 2025-01-04 · lukaspetr.com

Exactly 15 years ago on November 9th, 2009, I got my first MacBook and started learning how to build apps. I was fascinated with the idea that you can build something that other people will find useful and enjoy using. I also heard about those "indie developers" on Twitter who

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Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?

Saved on 2025-01-04 · injuly.in

Announcing the existence of Jam – An robust JS toolchain in Zig

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Four approaches to creating a specialized LLM - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2025-01-04 · stackoverflow.blog

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How to Think About Time

Saved on 2025-01-04 · errorprone.info

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