I noticed how slow my ZSH had. gotten and decided to fix it. Timed, profiled, and fixed it. Read more ›
Databricks Genie Ontology shows why the model is swappable but governed context compounds. Why the enterprise context layer should be neutral not a vendor moat. 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 ›
Fast, secure markdown parser with bidirectional HTML conversion, plugin system, and live editor. Zero dependencies, XSS-safe by default. ~17KB core / 100KB editor. - deftio/quikdown 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 ›
At a Shift CTO Craft dinner in Toronto, senior engineering leaders debated AI ROI, code review bottlenecks, hiring, cognitive debt, and vendor lock-in. Read more ›
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There is a guide on using GitHub to contribute. Anyone is welcome to share their knowledge and improve our documentation. You can also report problems using GitHub issues. 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 ›
“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” Read more ›
Notedog is a portable, private Markdown journal for Android with browser editing, optional Git backup, and no cloud lock-in. 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 ›
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans became a word-of-mouth bestseller last year and recently won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It is an epistolary novel told entirely through letters, most of which are written over several years by septuagenarian Sybil van … → Read more ›
The Simple Version When a system has too many moving parts that need to stay in sync, adding more parts often makes failures more likely, not less. Sometimes the most reliable architecture is a smaller one. The Counterintuitive Math of Reliability Reliability in distributed systems is multiplicative, not additive. If you have three servers that each run with 99% uptime, the chance that all three are simultaneously available isn’t 99%. It’s roughly 97%. Add a fourth server into a chain where a... Read more ›
Platforms and algorithmic vision are transforming graphic design into machine-readable systems 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 ›