Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond

At NAB, I found a demo of Wi-Wi STAMP, a wireless time synchronization protocol that came out of Japan's NICT. Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry, and it uses the 900 MHz band for picosecond-level time sync, and mm-level distance accuracy, in a tiny box, currently the size of a smartphone. The system is still in development, but existing prototypes have 20ps of phase synchronization jitter, and time synchronization down to 30ns. The next generation will have time down to 5ns in real-world use.

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.

CISA tries to contain data leak

Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)

Using small angle neutron and X-ray scattering, researchers from the European Spallation Source and RWTH Aachen University have compared the nanostructure of gluten-free and normal spaghetti, finding that the kind with gluten is much more forgiving to varied cooking conditions.

What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?

The storage control blocks were destroyed.

Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.

Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug

A University of Toronto professor’s research on the physiology of sleep and breathing has paved the way for a new sleep apnea treatment that recently reported positive results in a phase 3 clinical trial.

Deno 2.8

`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.

Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

A kanban board that runs Claude Code and Codex agents in parallel. Drop a folder. Get a board. Dispatch on every card. Free, MIT-licensed OSS desktop. Cloud for teams.

Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)

Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs

A few years ago, I needed to save some cartridge space in a SNES project, and I did so by compressing that data with the LZ4 compression algorithm from 2012. I found that working within the constraints of the SNES allowed me to take some convenient shortcuts during decompression and I have since found those…

Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order

After a Spanish court ordered VPNs to block pirate football streams, NordVPN says the same court has refused to punish the provider for non-compliance.

Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

I was rushing towards the turnstile when I noticed a bundle of clothes in a corner. I walked over, peeled back a dark sweatshirt, and saw him

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

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

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

An early update on what we've learned from Project Glasswing.

A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

Wayland Compositor in Minecraft - Download the Minecraft Mod waylandcraft by a creator on Modrinth