Specialized firmware enables certain Blu-ray players to read the formatting of retro console games.

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

Or how not to do a culture fit interview

Some analysts question whether design of Luce, starting at $640,000, lives up to sportscar car brand’s heritage

The rideshare giant's COO says “it’s very hard to draw a line” between rising AI costs and useful features for customers.

System76 CEO Carl Richell shares how the open source community successfully worked with legislators in Colorado and California to secure exemptions from age attestation laws, and why the fight to protect open source values is far from over.

what cognitive scientists have called memory for fifty years, what AI engineers are calling memory now, and how the two vocabularies line up.

Ship features safely with Flagship, Cloudflare's feature flag service for controlling feature visibility without redeploying code.

Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts…

Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Stripe, with a mountain of signals. I had…

There's a quiet anxiety spreading through engineering teams right now: Am I becoming dependent on AI? Is my judgment atrophying? My take: that's the wrong…

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Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a nasal spray that appears to reverse brain aging by calming inflammation and restoring the brain’s energy systems. After just two doses, memory and cognitive function improved for months, raising hopes for future treatments…

Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus known for his inimitable improvisational skills, has died at the age of 95.

Your favourite ROP gadget

Simple and dumb internet radio thingy.

Who does things like that?!?
Apparently: me.
I have my own project, written in Rust. Not a big one, mind you, maybe approx. 30k lines of code in total. Rust is verbose so it’s not really that impressive. I’ve put it aside for some time and was toying with…

One obscure gadget/month, matched to your GitHub activity.

A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns…