Last week, I wrote about how Joshua Aaron's ICEBlock app, which allows people to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5-mile radius, is – unfortunately, and despite apparent good intentions – activism theater. This was based on Joshua's talk at HOPE…

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. - immich-app/immich

A huge Commodore 64 surprise to kick off the week with Games That Weren't adding the sadly cancelled playable prototype of the Indiana Jones 3 adventure. An unofficial conversion of the great Lucasfilm Games title with bags of promise, but wasn't to be.

A developer's guide to downloading and running LLMs on macOS, for experimentation and privacy.

I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that. We acheived AGI. The clankers died on Christmas.
This post is scheduled to automatically publish: 2025-12-25. Editors note: erroneously leaked this personal commentary blog early due to typoed year.

The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code

This? This is it? Instead of being broken up, Google gets a slap on the wrist.

n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup
Package managers (for programming languages) are evil1.
To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers mix…

One of my biggest mid-career shifts in how I write code was internalizing the idea from this post:
Don't Write Bugs

Accurate tuner for all: Equal/Just Intonation with realtime Strobe-like Waveform

A complete map of the Rust type system

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t…

Purpose To evaluate the associations between omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 PUFAs) and other dietary factors with myopia.

Methods A total of 1005 Chinese children, aged from 6 to 8 years, from a population-based Hong Kong Children Eye Study, were…

MIT reports 95% of AI pilots fail. Learn why most initiatives stumble on data readiness and adoption—and how Selector helps enterprises succeed.

How does being over- or underqualified at the beginning of a worker's career affect skill acquisition, retention, and promotion? Despite the importance of mismatch for the labor market, self-selection into jobs has made estimating these effects difficult.…

Ramp transaction data shows the buzzy 996 schedule that calls for working six days a week is actually gaining traction in SF, but not in other cities.

Sovereign Australia AI has unveiled plans to build Australis, a local alternative to the AI models of tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta.

Growing concerns over noisy, energy-hungry and unproductive Amazon data centers prompts Union County township to study future construction.