I've spent more than a decade now writing about how to make Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) fast. Really fast. Fast to the extent that sometimes, it was even too fast:

i’m breaking up with vibe coding. here’s why.

when i first started learning to code, i built apps/websites that would be considered poor in the tradition...

An essay about bad AI app design

c/ua is the Docker Container for Computer-Use AI Agents. - trycua/cua

It turns out that LLMs can make CAD models for simple 3D mechanical parts. And, I think they’ll be extremely good at it soon.

LLMs are braindead, our failed quest for intelligence

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (https://bsky.app/p…

Nature - A two-dimensional Dirac graphene-channel flash memory based on a two-dimensional-enhanced hot-carrier-injection mechanism that supports both electron and hole injection is used to make...

Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it.

In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny.

MCPs—Model Context Protocols—are set to transform AI from passive chatbots into powerful, action-taking agents. But the real story isn’t what MCPs enable—it’s who controls them.

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said…

Sail-trim simulator: animates sail-twist according to apparent wind. A-Class A-Cat catamaran. Learn dinghy sail trim basics.

"What on Earth is going on with decorators?" Is this you? They're not as hard as you think. But we need to get there step by step