In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.

Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels are a double lie: Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical…

AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications

Implementation of the GPT-2 model in pure CMake. Contribute to AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake development by creating an account on GitHub.

There’s no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to “Let it Go&#822…

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.

I’ve had a Synology NAS for a very long time, and recently I started moving its ...

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How I actually use AI in day-to-day infrastructure work, and why I think it's the next layer of abstraction rather than a replacement for the engineer - the same way Kubernetes was for Ansible.