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Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

A blog mostly about Clojure programming

Raytracing Geometries in 3D Rendering

Zig Zen Update

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looked like the perfect fit. This lens is commonly found as a kit with the very excellent full-frame Sigma FP camera series. Here is my comprehensive guide to bringing the lens back into service. I delve into the nitty-gritty details of lens PCB repair and lens disassembly techniques.

Social Cache Busting

How do you ask questions that people don’t just hippopotamus?

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.

How LLMs work

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

Not doing the reading.

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

Lockdown Mode

Learn how Lockdown Mode limits access to the web and external services to help reduce data exfiltration risk from prompt injection attacks.

Ten Years of Franz

Franz turns ten this year. Franz 6 ships now. A founder's note on a weekend prototype, a fundraise we skipped, and why one person is the point.

Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

Nasa had directed five of the seven astronauts to shelter inside the docked SpaceX Crew Dragon "Freedom" spacecraft while two Russian cosmonauts attempted an urgent repair.

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are handy for thinking about the past, but…

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

PostgreSQL in-database durable execution. Contribute to microsoft/pg_durable development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

We’re releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints, reducing memory requirements and improving on-device performance.