Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.

Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]

What even is an OS now?

Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

Watch the AI decision model Jev play Pokémon Red in its entirety, live.

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

Ollaya downloads and serves open decision models on your own machine. Typed, calibrated answers in milliseconds, private and open source.

Plan mode is dead

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?

A local-first Postgres migration safety checker for developers.

Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

Floci runs AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: a fast, free, credential-free feedback loop for developers and AI coding agents. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token.

A Roman Name for Software

Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could help explain ancient plate fragments, volcanic activity, and how hidden breaks beneath Cascadia may influence future earthquakes.

Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math

I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily! Early on in my journey I was a lot more aggressive with my XP targets, but settled into a low-volume rhythm as my…

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior

Lasso Research tested SynthID-Text watermarking across six models and found it changes tool-call correctness and weakens refusal under prompt injection. On some models, watermark-induced behavioral churn exceeds what a temperature change produces.

Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers – Castle Game Engine

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians