So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet.

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Yakko Majuri's blog about software engineering, startups, AI agents, and open source — by the founder of Skald Labs and former PostHog engineer.

The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & m...

Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory…

Somehow, Palpatine returned.

As the U.S. approaches the 2026 elections in November, the greatest threat to voting integrity will likely not be from hackers targeting voting machines %Check Point research reveals 2026 U.S. midterm cyber risks driven by phishing, fake news sites, domain…

We’ve always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it’s hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you wan...

Cloudflare CDN pricing in 2026 starts with a free plan and scales through paid options, with business plans from $20/month and enterprise pricing available for larger needs.

I never thought it could happen to me. I mean, parentheses? In this day and age? But for the past couple years, my go-to programming language for fun side projects has been a little Lisp dialect called Janet.
(print "hey janet")
I like Janet so much that…

electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...

A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.

Michael Burry said there's "nothing" in SpaceX's IPO filing to warrant a trillion-dollar valuation, and Anthropic might never be worth that much.

Apple rejected WhisperPad under Guideline 2.4.5 for using the accessibility API to paste transcribed text. After an appeal that ended in another rejection, I split it into two versions — a compliant one on the App Store, and the original auto-paste version…

A cron job for every man, woman, and child.

We’re extending Project Glasswing to approximately 150 new organizations in more than fifteen countries

Paul McGowan makes stereos. To paraphrase his insight: The musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier. It’s what’s left when you stop ruining it. To expand: Customer delig…