I recently finished a book by Steven Pressfield, 36 Righteous Men . Pressfield is one of my favorite fiction authors; if you haven't read  Gates of Fire you don't know what you're missing. With that said, 36 Righteous Men wasn't my favorite Pressfield…

If you are of a certain age, the words 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE will do something to you that no amount of therapy can undo. You remember the...

In this blog post, we will explain how strict memory overcommit protects your database from catastrophic OOM (out of memory) kills. We will also share how a one character kernel bug forced us to temporarily disable this setting. Finally, we will explain our…

We don’t need an extra reason to be anxious

While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at a Meta town hall reported by Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen at Reuters:
In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way…

I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.

Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully.
‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between ‘perfectionism’ and ‘pragmatism’…

Everything I know about running LLMs locally. Contribute to jamesob/local-llm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rather than telling them you will replace them with a clanker

I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection problem, identifying deviations from cooperative...

America in 1926 was obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar?

Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 723 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network

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Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap

The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) has issued its decision in disciplinary proceedings involving former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik.