A streamable 4D gaussian splat format with tunable error bounds. 16–58× smaller than raw; streams and seeks over plain HTTP Range requests.

Rob (@rob_pike) is a software pioneer. His influence is everywhere: Unix, Plan 9 OS, The Unix Programming Environment book, UTF-8, and most recently the Go programming language.

Summary I found an aggregate pattern in Codex token_count metadata: gpt-5.5 responses disproportionately land at exactly reasoning_output_tokens = 516, with additional fixed-boundary spikes around ...

New therapy is turning back the clock in aging brains, healing inflammation, restoring memory and reshaping the future of brain age-related therapies.

A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells “walk” toward each other to close a wound for the first time.  An associate professor in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago…

Albert Camus Reflections on the Guillotine 1957

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address…

The historical timeline you keep in your head might not be as accurate as you think

A blog about software craft and quality

In this health-conscious population, moderate egg consumption was associated with a significantly lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. These findings suggest a potential neuroprotective benefit of nutrients found in eggs when consumed as part of a balanced…

A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize, extend, and build on. Start here then make it your own. Open Source. Open Code.

Collecting code coverage for blackbox binaries the wrong way.

On designing finger-friendly interactions

Precision file-editing infrastructure for AI coding agents. Patent pending. Three preregistered confirmatory studies. Compatible with all major MCP clients and model families.

A comprehensive beginners guide about getting your own ASN and own IP address

President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people, including nine Clean Air Act violators, claiming they were just "fixing their car" with defeat devices.

Beeg float library, a Rust port of Fabrice Bellard's libbf - lifthrasiir/libbeef

I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to …

My Happiest, Most Grounded Distraction