Why I Am a Programmer

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.19428: Attention Is Not What You Need

Eunice is almost here

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

A fun little project that came out of a creative exercise around the word 'Overgrowth'.

The State of Context Engineering

As models improve, they bring surprising challenges for those building apps and harnesses. How context engineering has changed this year, and where it’s headed.

F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.

iPhone Duo Teardown

We took the Duo all the way down to the gears, followed glowing dust into its hinge, and put its crease-hiding nano-texture under the microscope.

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

What is “the true cost of a token”?

What goes into making an animated film?

From sequence to shot to frame, explore our studio pipeline.

Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC

A public release of the Steal My Bitcoin challenge - KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers

Amazon released new touchscreen tablets last week marketed specifically for toddlers to use, even as a growing body of pediatric research links such devices to developmental problems, emotional dysregulation, and poor eyesight.

Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M

He says he found treasure in his attic where the collection had been stored for 15 years.

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

Every named land and sea battle of the Romans, 753 BCE to 1475 CE: 1,709 battles on an interactive map by period and year, the Roman win-draw-loss record by opponent, state and period, and the full list with sources, doubts and the composition of the Roman armies.

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

A collaboration between the Getty Museum and the State Museum of Turkmenistan.