On The <dl>

The semantics you didn’t know you needed.

Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?

Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data?

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

The quadratic sandwich

If you have ever tried to minimize a function with gradient descent, you probably noticed that some functions are a joy to optimize and others are a nightmare. The difference often boils down to two properties: strong convexity and L-smoothness. These two concepts define a “sandwich” of quadratic bounds around your function that tells you exactly how well-behaved it is. If the sandwich is tight, life is good. If one slice of bread is missing, things get ugly fast.

Highest Random Weight in Elixir

A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library.

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

Solving the "Zork" Mystery

personal website and git server

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

I Miss Terry Pratchett

On reading Terry Pratchett at sixteen, in the back of a French classroom, and a sentence that has been kicking over the furniture in my head ever since.

A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos

The FPUT problem, chaos theory, and the rise of nonlinear dynamics—how Los Alamos scientists changed how we understand complex systems.

80386 Microcode Disassembled

Improving C# Memory Safety

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials’ names with senate

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations

ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor

Build non-destructive image pipelines with 79 composable nodes. One graph produces every color variant, every format, every export, automatically. Free native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the rust rewrite

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

Contribute to amatsuda/rubish development by creating an account on GitHub.

The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more.