One of the quickest ways to determine whether particular application runs using Xwayland is to resize one of its windows and see how it behaves, for example While it can be handy for the debugging …

A great language strangled by governance

Google might be ready to share more about agents that work in Chrome and are powered by Gemini 2.0 this December with Project Jarvis. 

Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?

ABSTRACT. We propose that the ring structure found by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) as the black hole shadow of Sgr A* is an artefact ca

A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.

The long read: In avatar therapy, a clinician gives voice to their patients’ inner demons. For some of the participants in a new trial, the results have been astounding

My computer on the net

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen, and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.

The first installment of our new blog series, Beyond Their Intended Scope, covers BGP mishaps that may have escaped the community’s attention but are worthy of analysis. In this post, we review a recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia…

My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.