Intellectual Fly Is Open (2025)

I Changed My License

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.

Household Laser Cuts

Learn Programming with OCaml

AI, Tools and Transformation

It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t ,It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t a path to change how companies actually work.

The revolt of the reader

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry

The pencil case model of creativity

Our columnist Isabella Saccardi caught herself envying a friend's creative job. But isn't academic research creative as well? "Somewhere along the way, I stopped recognising the creativity in what I was doing," she writes.

2026 Hugo Awards

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

High-speed, independent qubit reset boosts circuit throughput 25x over Heron while enabling accurate observable estimation on circuits with 7,500+ gates.

The Empire of Information

Roopika Risam’s new book shows how various data regimes, from clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia to today’s biometric databases, shaped human lives.

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.

New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)

Do you remember Karateka, Lode Runner, and Cross Fire on the Apple ][? Our Neo6502kbd brings it all back — an all-in-one retro computer with a real 6502 processor that can emulate the Apple ][ and Oric Atmos, letting you play all those classic games on your modern DVI/HDMI screen or TV. But it's not…

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running - it will now be my kids computer ... so I needed a new one ... but not a bigger one :) I spent way too much time finding new Mini-ITX case for the next one ... and after all possibilities ... I got…

Music Theory for Programmers

I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear.

Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death

James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages