De-Brainrot Vacations

– Some cows in the fields. Brain Fog My brain is not the same as it was a few years ago. When I started working as a Software Engineer, everything was novel and mentally demanding. I notably remember how during my first professional months I’d come back home and just go straight to bed due to the mental exhaustion of learning so much stuff and trying to solve software engineering problems that were mostly alien to me at that point in my career.

Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of work checks that admins can enable in their thresholds or bot rules:

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

Live map of public transport in Belgium

Elke bus, tram, metro en trein in België live op één kaart: De Lijn, STIB-MIVB, TEC en NMBS/SNCB.

The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

I challenged myself to make a tiny subset of Python in C.

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a massive amount of other improvements and bug fixes beyond that too.

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability

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Impedance Matching (2017)

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

My Withings scale now sends weight and body composition data directly to Home Assistant through an ESP32, without going through the Withings cloud.

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame

The $70 Xteink X3 puts Silicon Valley to shame.

'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

It's a reality-TV-as-hangout-movie portrait of the Theranos fraudster, which is Fielder's way to ask: What makes someone like Elizabeth Holmes tick?

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

A practical guide to speculative decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs, covering draft-and-verify mechanics, MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, DSpark, configuration, tuning, and ben