I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming…

My takeaways from selling TinyPilot

Solve puzzles and brag about your score. Create puzzles from any widely available image on the internet.

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.

A video about making sub-pixel art? I don't know what's wrong with me, ha ha.

[Sorry for the error at 2:33. I accidentally listed red as white. There's also no good reason why I kept all the graphics 1-bit instead of using "greyscale".]

I started making…

Boost business collaboration with DeepL Voice. AI-powered voice translations ensures team communication in meetings and conversations—without language barriers.

How has perception and computer vision changed in a decade and a half?

While in-context learning is commonly associated with causal language models, such as GPT, we demonstrate that this capability also 'emerges' in masked language models. Through an embarrassingly...

The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week.

The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.

Explores SQLite B-Tree index structure with visualizations, explaining on-disk and in-memory storage mechanisms

This study investigates the emerging phenomenon of "ghost hiring" or "ghost jobs", where employers advertise job openings without intending to fill them. Using a novel dataset from Glassdoor and...

Original purpose of King Arthur’s Hall is a mystery and archaeologists say it is unique in Europe

Intro This series of articles describes fault injection attack techniques in order to understand their real potential by testing their […]

Is it normal for the Little Snitch Network Extension to consume Gigabytes of memory? No it isn’t. Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers…

Earlier this year, I was working […]

Introduction Safely interacting with unsafe code is challenging. The C++ interoperability layer has limited safeguards in place to mitigate some sources of unsafety including hiding some APIs (like methods returning iterators) and exposing them with an “Unsafe”…

The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?

The European Commission said the company tied its classified-ads platform to its flagship social network, undermining competition.