If you do Linux systems programming, you will have likely pored over man pages, either on the command line or, my personal preference, using the excellent man7.org or linux.die.net. I’ve always seen the numbers in sleep(3) and read(2) and idly wondered what…

Germany's gold reserves have been stored in the US for decades. Some think they should be brought back. With US President Trump breaking up the rules-based world order, they fear he could seize the gold.

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and…

Sky — an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go. Hindley-Milner types, server-driven UI (Sky.Live), single binary output. - anzellai/sky

iTunes was really bamboozled on April Fools Day. Dallas Little, content creator, unleashed four more songs by his AI creation, Eddie Dalton. Now Little has ELEVEN spots on the iTunes top 100. He also has the number three album on iTunes! All by a singer named…

Reducto provides high-quality AI document ingestion and parsing API for large language models.

7 real claims. Most people can't tell which ones are wrong. Only 1% get 6 or more right.

A blog about software craft and quality

If you’re using Windows or macOS and have Adobe Creative Cloud installed, you may want to take a peek at your hosts file. It turns out Adobe adds a bunch of entries into the hosts file, for a very stupid reason.

Bad software is a choice you make

A benchmark that tests how well AI coding agents can read web content. 10 tests, 20 points.

Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste. - matthartman/ghost-pepper

I accidentally discovered 2 vulnerabilities in macOS Recovery Mode's Safari: one allowing arbitrary writes to system partitions and root persistence (CVSS 8.5), the other allowing unrestricted file reads (CVSS 4.6).

New York families need six-figure incomes to live without government assistance in all five boroughs of New York City, according to two new reports.