Does Internet Advertising Work?

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

The Joy of Folding Bikes

I was chatting to a friend about my folding bike and I had the urge to write about it - because this falls in the category of “Things I wish I’d had decades ago”. And maybe I can encourage some others to try these wonderful devices. Note: I’m 3 months into a new job so blogging has taken a back seat to drinking from a firehose of new domain knowledge, new people, new tech. I’m still playing with AI-assisted coding, but at a slower pace - I do hope to blog more about this when things calm down. 12 years ago I started cycling in London, commuting by train, and I used the bicycle hire scheme mis-named at the time “Boris Bikes”. It was OK but a bit of a hassle - bikes were heavy, payment was fiddly, and often the hire racks would be empty in

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size of the thing in comparison to my Thunderbolt adapters: 2.5G and even 5G USB adapters have been out for a while, but sometimes you need more bandwidth.

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980)

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles

We are thrilled to announce Day-0 support for DeepSeek-V4 across both inference and RL training. SGLang and Miles form the first open-source stack to serve and train DeepSeek-V4 on launch day — with s...

The Long Reply

How long is too long to write back?

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.

The Free Universal Construction Kit

The Free Universal Construction Kit is a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular children's construction toys.

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

Enhanced geothermal systems are poised to dramatically expand U.S. clean energy capacity by unlocking vast underground heat resources and providing reliable, round-the-clock power.

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

Flickr was among the first online communities designed to address that dilemma, and it remains one of the best.

OpenAI Privacy Filter

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy