John Bradley, the longtime member of this community who was the founder, producer, and lead guitarist of Booster Patrol, died on March 20. He was 61. I couldn’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the man who was both a bandmate and a friend than to write…

I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.

We tend to think of fermented foods as something humans invented and then chose to eat. But the evidence shows the opposite: fermented foods shaped human biology.

In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations.…

SQLite VFS with sub-100ms cold JOIN queries from S3 + page-level compression and encryption - russellromney/turbolite

Setting up a website using Elixir and Phoenix, leaning on NimblePublisher for the blog posts.

The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals

Draw your deployment tarot reading. Pick your role, pick your intent, and let the Major Arcana decide if today is your day.

Cloudflare’s Gen 13 servers double our compute throughput by rethinking the balance between cache and cores. Moving to high-core-count AMD EPYC ™ Turin CPUs, we traded large L3 cache for raw compute density. By running our new Rust-based FL2 stack, we completely…

Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. Percy, having found a use for some of my books. And of course, less I miss a chance to note…

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 6 . Signed by Judge Rita F. Lin on 3/26/2026. (afm, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 3/26/2026) (Entered: 03/26/2026)

A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon’s effort to “punish” Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk and attempting to sever government ties with the AI company, ruling that those measures ran roughshod over its constitutional…

A lightweight AI agent that answers questions about my work by reading actual code. Architecture, security, and model selection decisions.

After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear.
I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into…

It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has...

Adaptive Test-time Learning and Autonomous Specialization - itigges22/ATLAS

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