I noticed how slow my ZSH had. gotten and decided to fix it. Timed, profiled, and fixed it. Read more ›
Write your novel on your own machine. Own every word. Pay no subscription. - giapnguyen74/xnovelist Read more ›
CozoDB is an embedded relational-graph-vector database created by Ziyang Hu and the Cozo Project authors. It does Datalog, vector search (HNSW), and full-text search in a single embedded engine and was created with the vision to be the “Hippocampus for AI”. Unfortunately, the project went quiet after December 2024. KuzuDB, another embedded graph database with vector and full-text indexes similar to Cozo, was archived in October 2025. Read more ›
A Roman villa with intricate mosaics has been unearthed on the outskirts of the Italian capital, in a remarkable discovery that emerged after police were alerted to a clandestine dig on government land. Read more ›
JXL art gallery with links to source code. Procedural images as tiny JPEG XL files (SDR). Read more ›
One API call turns any web page into LLM-ready Markdown. Built for AI agents, RAG pipelines and scrapers. Fetch, render JavaScript, strip the clutter. Free to start, plans from $29/mo. Read more ›
In 2025, I became fixated with zines. It led me to open my once abandoned Instagram account to follow zinesters, attend zine festivals and zine workshops. I ... Read more ›
Guest Post: AI-driven development is accelerating how software changes and how vulnerabilities are fixed. Traditional models like CVE and CVSS are struggling to keep pace. Read more ›
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“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta… Read more ›
I am geek adjacent. I lie probably slap bang in the middle of two extremes; the uber-geek/dev coder who knows internet coding and all the web server dark arts like the back of their hand, and the ‘Facebook is the internet’ person who uses the flash on their phone when taking a picture of a […]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit for more. Read more ›
Why the most beautiful structure of a protein is sometimes the least useful one — and what photography taught me about seeing dynamics instead of a single frozen shape. Read more ›
LOS ANGELES — Americans spend more than $1 billion annually on fish oil supplements, in part due to purported cognitive benefits from the omega-3 fatty acids they contain, essential nutrients that help form brain cell connections needed for cognition. However, a new Keck Medicine of USC study published today in eBioMedicine suggests that incr... Read more ›
Indexes your whole repo locally and ranks the worst code, so AI coding agents fix it instead of adding slop. Offline, on your machine — pairs with any model, including local LLMs like Qwen. Read more ›
Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furoreThe prominent literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth short story prize after one of this year’s winners drew widespread accusations of AI use.The magazine said it would no longer be involved in “external publishing partnerships” in which it had no editorial control. Read more ›
[Mise en scene: Mr. Peebles, the ever-harried manager of said pet shop because of a certain Magilla Gorilla he keepts trying to offer as a new kind of housepet, is watching blackhead-popping videos online whose collective title is “Relaxing Time With Spa” on a laptop PC otherwise designed for pet shop-related business on an otherwise slow day therefor …] MR. PEEBLES, ever the frustrated sort, Magilla or otherwise: Why would anyone want to call a blackhead-popping video “Relaxing Time With Spa... Read more ›
Convert PDF to Markdown online for free. Use local PDF to Markdown conversion for text PDFs or OCR for scans, then preview and download clean .md files. Read more ›
“A fool with a tool is still a fool.” — often attributed to Grady Booch I keep coming back to this quote when I watch teams adopt AI. Read more ›
I love nature journaling. Over time I've developed a style and approach that I like for capturing sketches quickly, using a Pilot G2 pen in combination with a waterbrush. This lets me add linework and shading simultaneously (I dual wield with the brush in my left hand) and forces me not to be too precious about the final result - there will inevitably be smudges and imperfections, and there is no undo with pen! Read more ›
Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release Read more ›