Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus known for his inimitable improvisational skills, has died at the age of 95.

what cognitive scientists have called memory for fifty years, what AI engineers are calling memory now, and how the two vocabularies line up.

Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Stripe, with a mountain of signals. I had…

Simple and dumb internet radio thingy.

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a nasal spray that appears to reverse brain aging by calming inflammation and restoring the brain’s energy systems. After just two doses, memory and cognitive function improved for months, raising hopes for future treatments…

One obscure gadget/month, matched to your GitHub activity.

Self-hosted email gateway between your apps and a transactional mail provider (Postmark, Resend, Mailgun, AWS SES, or outbound-SMTP). Three ingress shapes (HTTP form, HTTP API, SMTP). One Docker co...

A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns…

NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads.

I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what to do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was

Excel VBA integration for VS Code - Tree View / Full Direct VBA Read+Write / LiveShare Compatible / Direct Agentic AI Integrations - WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vscode

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests.

The new regional law aims to curb the uncontrolled expansion of data centres, encouraging the reuse of disused industrial areas and ensuring control over the environmental and energy impact.

The maps below all come this CIA album on Flicker. They describe the maps in the following ways:

Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The…

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key...

A big Steam Deck price hike.