CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

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DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

A small, opinionated collection of compact notes about useful HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features.

HTML Can Do That

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

A Pirates fan looks at 40.

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

An in-depth technical analysis of TigerBeetle's core architecture, exploring how static memory allocation, zero-copy io uring interfaces, and Zig-based…

I should have loved biology (2020)

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

I have added a link to a .cbr file (Comic Book Archive) to download and read on your electronic device if that would be easier for your enjoyment of the story.

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

The August 17 outage

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

A new way to think about brainpower.

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

OR: an apology to my English teachers

Ox Alpha

Ox Alpha is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. This model is free to use. 1,048,576 token context window, maximum output of 131,072 tokens.

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0+: Rack 3-based, with a Rust Tokio/Hyper front-end and Ractor-parallel Ruby workers and threaded fallback mode. - yaroslav/kino

The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

James Dinneen on the search for dark oxygen in the Moab Khotsong gold-and-uranium mine, outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

Backed by a $10 billion planned investment over the next decade, Micron Research Labs will unite academia, government, startups and industry to advance the memory and compute breakthroughs that will define the AI era BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today unveiled Micron Research Labs, a U.S.-based long-horizon premier research institution headquartered in Boise and backed by a planned $10 billion investment over the next decade. Building on Micron’s technology and manufacturing leadership, the new hub will bring together customers, academia, government and the broader semiconductor ecosystem to pursue breakthroughs beyond today's technology roadmaps and help define what's possible in the d

Siemens PC-X (2015)

The Siemens PC-X is one very rare breed of an Intel 80186 driven UNIX machine. A total oddball and very over-engineered. You'll loive it ;-)