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My 34-Key Keyboard: A Programmer's Journey to Efficiency

2025-05-25

This article details the author's creation of a 34-key split-ortholinear ergonomic keyboard called Ferricy, designed for enhanced programming efficiency. Building upon a Colemak base, the keyboard leverages three custom layers and ZMK combos. These layers include a navigation layer (remapping home row keys for Vim-like navigation), a symbol layer (mirroring a numpad layout), and a number layer. Home row mods and a clever 'caps-word' function streamline special character and capitalization handling. The author prioritizes accuracy and comfort over speed, resulting in a personalized keyboard perfectly tailored for their coding workflow.

(oppi.li)

Development keyboard customization programming efficiency

Chess Elo Surge: A Simple Technique Changed Everything

2025-06-15

Chess Elo Surge: A Simple Technique Changed Everything

A chess player consistently performed better in blitz than bullet chess. Switching from drag-and-drop to click-and-click piece movement shaved 0.25 seconds off his average move time. This seemingly minor change resulted in a significant Elo gain in bullet chess, halving the gap between his blitz and bullet ratings. He attributes the improvement to having more time to think and less pre-moving, reducing blunders.

(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)

Game game improvement

Intellectual Property is Dumb: A Vision for Open-Source AI

2025-02-22

The author argues that intellectual property is a flawed concept, countering President Biden's comparison of piracy to theft. Piracy, unlike theft, allows widespread access to resources, akin to photography rather than robbery. Concerned about wealth concentration, the author envisions AI delivering immense societal value without profit. He reminisces about the early internet's open-source, high-value, low-profit model and aims to disrupt current business models through open-source projects like comma.ai and tinygrad. The goal is to make the tech sector unprofitable for speculators, creating a fairer technological landscape.

(geohot.github.io)

AI

The Rise and Fall (and Persistence) of AM Radio

2025-03-29

The Rise and Fall (and Persistence) of AM Radio

This nostalgic piece reminisces about the golden age of AM radio, where even small towns boasted diverse stations and unique DJs created a shared listening experience for a generation. The author contrasts this sense of community and shared culture with the individualized experience of streaming services. While AM radio's audience shrinks, its frequency remains a constant, waiting for a new voice to reignite its potential.

(www.discoursemagazine.com)

Misc

Microsoft Releases Phi-4: A 14B Parameter Open-Source Language Model

2025-01-12

Microsoft Releases Phi-4: A 14B Parameter Open-Source Language Model

Microsoft has unveiled Phi-4, a new 14-billion parameter open-source language model. Built using a blend of synthetic data, filtered public domain websites, and academic books and Q&A datasets, Phi-4 boasts a rigorous enhancement and alignment process, ensuring accurate instruction following and robust safety. With a context length of 16k tokens, it's designed for general-purpose AI systems and applications (primarily English) needing memory/compute constrained environments, low latency, and strong reasoning and logic capabilities. Microsoft emphasizes that developers should consider the limitations of language models and mitigate for accuracy, safety, and fairness, especially in high-risk scenarios.

(ollama.com)

AI

Over 1,100 Exposed LLM Servers: A Security Vulnerability Deep Dive

2025-09-03

Over 1,100 Exposed LLM Servers: A Security Vulnerability Deep Dive

Researchers discovered over 1,100 publicly exposed LLM servers running the Ollama framework, with approximately 20% actively hosting models vulnerable to unauthorized access. Using Shodan and a Python-based tool, the study revealed a critical lack of security baselines in LLM deployments, providing a foundation for future LLM threat surface monitoring. Vulnerabilities included unauthorized API access, model extraction attacks, jailbreaking and content abuse, resource hijacking, and backdoor injection. The researchers recommend several security mitigations, including enforcing authentication and access control, network segmentation and firewalls, rate limiting and abuse detection, disabling default ports, and continuous monitoring to secure LLM infrastructure.

(blogs.cisco.com)

Tech LLM Security

Lost IBM Training Doc: Computers Can't Be Held Accountable (1979)

2025-02-03

Lost IBM Training Doc: Computers Can't Be Held Accountable (1979)

A legendary page from a 1979 internal IBM training resurfaced online, stating 'A computer can never be held accountable; therefore a computer must never make a management decision.' The original source is lost, reportedly destroyed in a flood. This statement resonates powerfully in our AI-driven age, prompting reflection on AI responsibility and decision-making.

(simonwillison.net)

AI AI Accountability Historical Document

The Design System Dilemma for Rails Apps in 2025

2025-04-10

Choosing a well-made design system for your application should be a simple task in 2025, yet for Rails apps, it's not. The author, building Business Class, faced this dilemma. Initial attempts with Bulma and Tailwind proved unsatisfactory. The article explores several options: shadcn/ui (requiring Rails integration), daisyUI (lightweight but lacks JavaScript), Flowbite (officially supports Rails, but not fully open-source), Preline (feature-rich, freemium), and RubyUI (built for Ruby, but uses Phlex and requires leaving ERB). Ultimately, the author concludes that continuing with a Tailwind-based approach, either leveraging a pre-built UI library or building a custom theme, is the best path forward.

(businessclasskit.com)

Development Design System

From Noise to Precision: AI Code Review, Reimagined

2025-06-26

From Noise to Precision: AI Code Review, Reimagined

Cubic's AI code review agent, initially plagued by excessive noise and false positives, underwent a significant transformation. Three key architectural revisions led to a 51% reduction in false positives. These improvements included requiring explicit reasoning from the AI before feedback, streamlining the toolset to essential components, and employing specialized micro-agents for focused tasks. The result? A smoother, more efficient code review process with increased developer trust and productivity.

(www.cubic.dev)

Development

Guile-powered Emacs: A Bold Rewrite Project

2024-12-16

Emacs, renowned for its extensibility, faces performance and expressiveness limitations with its core language, Emacs Lisp (Elisp). To address this, the Guile-Emacs project aims to replace Elisp in Emacs with Guile Lisp. After years of development and dormancy, Guile-Emacs has been revived by developers Robin Templeton and Larry Valkama. The project aims to leverage Guile's compiler and performance advantages to improve Emacs' speed and extensibility while maintaining Elisp compatibility. The ultimate goal is to rewrite a significant portion of Emacs's C code in Lisp, significantly enhancing its customizability. While facing technical and political challenges, the project presents exciting possibilities for the future of Emacs.

(lwn.net)

Development

Why Your iPhone Photos Don't Make for Great Prints

2025-07-30

Ever wonder why you rarely see smartphone photos printed and framed? This article explains why. By comparing iPhone photos to those from a professional camera, the author highlights several key differences. iPhone's fisheye lens creates distortion, especially noticeable in body posture and facial features. The computational photography attempts to brighten everything, sacrificing crucial facial details and shadow accuracy. The background blur (bokeh) is also far less natural and pleasing than that produced by professional cameras. In short, while convenient, iPhone photos lack the detail and realism suitable for prints and framing.

(candid9.com)

Design image quality

Sci-Net: A Decentralized Platform Built Upon Sci-Hub

2025-05-16

Sci-Net tackles the inaccessibility of some papers via Sci-Hub due to paused database updates. Users request papers via DOI; if unavailable on Sci-Hub or open access, they can upload them. The platform uses Sci-Hub meme coins to reward uploaders, but registration requires 1000 tokens, sparking 'paywall' concerns. However, unlike publisher paywalls, Sci-Net's cost is symbolic, rewarding researchers directly, not the platform. Uploaded papers remain free forever, contributing to the public domain and indirectly supporting Sci-Hub's maintenance and development.

(sci-hub.se)

Tech paper sharing

The Sludge: How Bureaucracy Breaks Us

2025-06-30

The Sludge: How Bureaucracy Breaks Us

This article recounts the author's harrowing experience with Ford's customer service after his car malfunctioned. The ordeal highlighted the pervasive 'sludge' in modern life: endless wait times, unhelpful customer service representatives, and deliberately obstructive processes. This isn't an isolated incident but a systemic issue costing individuals time, energy, and sanity, leading to feelings of powerlessness. The author explores contributing factors, including companies prioritizing short-term gains over customer satisfaction, flawed customer service design, and changing consumer behavior. The article offers coping mechanisms, like collaborative 'Admin Nights' with friends, but ultimately underscores the need for broader systemic reform to combat this pervasive 'sludge' and the despair it induces.

(www.theatlantic.com)

Misc

Unregistry: A Lightweight Docker Image Registry for Effortless Transfers

2025-06-19

Unregistry: A Lightweight Docker Image Registry for Effortless Transfers

Unregistry is a lightweight container image registry that stores and serves images directly from your Docker daemon's storage. The `docker pussh` command allows pushing images to remote Docker servers over SSH, transferring only missing layers for speed and efficiency. Bypass the complexities of Docker Hub or self-hosted registries; simply use `docker pussh myapp:latest user@server` for a direct, simple transfer. It establishes an SSH tunnel, runs a temporary Unregistry container, pushes only missing layers, then closes the tunnel. Perfect for production deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and air-gapped environments.

(github.com)

Development Image Transfer Lightweight Registry

AI Art: A Dreamlike Silver-Haired Princess

2025-03-08

AI Art: A Dreamlike Silver-Haired Princess

This AI-generated artwork depicts a princess with flowing silver hair and violet eyes, elegantly seated in a magically glowing pond, adorned in a stunning white and purple gown with floral accents. Surrounded by butterflies and petals, the image is exquisitely detailed, dreamy, and evokes a fantastical atmosphere. The intricate shading and lighting showcase advanced AI art capabilities.

(www.gentube.app)

Design dreamlike princess

Sony's Hawk-Eye Revolutionizes NFL Down Measurement

2025-04-06

Sony's Hawk-Eye Revolutionizes NFL Down Measurement

Sony's Hawk-Eye technology will become the primary method for measuring the line to gain in the NFL, starting in the 2025 season. This system uses six 8K cameras for precise distance measurement, replacing the traditional chain gang, improving efficiency and accuracy. Hawk-Eye will be deployed across all 30 NFL stadiums and integrated with the league's existing replay system. This innovation enhances game fairness, efficiency, and provides a smoother viewing experience for fans, marking a significant step in technology-assisted officiating for the NFL.

(www.hawkeyeinnovations.com)

Tech Sports Tech

Cerebras' 100x Defect Tolerance: Cracking the Wafer-Scale Challenge

2025-01-15

Cerebras' 100x Defect Tolerance: Cracking the Wafer-Scale Challenge

Cerebras has defied conventional wisdom by building a 50x larger chip than its competitors while achieving comparable yields. The secret? A revolutionary approach to defect tolerance. By designing incredibly small AI cores (1% the size of an H100's core) and implementing a sophisticated routing architecture that bypasses defects, Cerebras achieves a remarkable 93% silicon utilization in its Wafer Scale Engine. This groundbreaking technology makes wafer-scale computing not just feasible, but commercially viable, opening new horizons for AI and high-performance computing.

(cerebras.ai)

Hardware Wafer-scale Integration Fault-Tolerant Computing AI Accelerator

Modernish: Modernize Your Shell Scripting

2025-07-25

Modernish: Modernize Your Shell Scripting

Tired of shell quoting hell and glob pitfalls? Modernish is a shell library providing safer variable and command expansion, powerful loop constructs, and more, making your shell scripts more modern, maintainable, and portable. It's written entirely in shell, requires no binary installation, and integrates directly into your scripts for use across various Unix-like systems.

(github.com)

Development

Sega's Illegal Raid: The Bizarre Case of the Seized Game Prototypes

2025-09-12

Sega's Illegal Raid: The Bizarre Case of the Seized Game Prototypes

A non-profit game preservation museum attempted to save a collection of valuable undumped GBA, DS, DSi, and 3DS games, including prototypes of titles like Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. However, the seller was raided by British police, and the games were seized with Sega's involvement. The seller claims to have legally purchased the games and provides evidence, but Sega refuses to respond, and even the police warrant is questionable. This incident raises questions about the UK's warrant system and highlights the challenges of game preservation.

(www.timeextension.com)

Game police raid

POML: Revolutionizing Prompt Engineering for LLMs

2025-08-10

POML: Revolutionizing Prompt Engineering for LLMs

POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). Addressing common challenges like lack of structure, complex data integration, and format sensitivity, POML provides a systematic approach to organizing prompt components, seamlessly integrating diverse data types, and managing presentation variations. This empowers developers to build more sophisticated and reliable LLM applications. A rich development toolkit, including a VS Code extension and Node.js/Python SDKs, simplifies development and integration.

(github.com)

Development

Proposal: Add a Declarative Templating API to the Web Platform

2025-06-27

Proposal: Add a Declarative Templating API to the Web Platform

This proposal suggests adding a declarative templating API to the web platform. The author argues that while the existing DOM API is powerful, it lacks ergonomic templating capabilities, forcing developers to rely on various frameworks and libraries, increasing development overhead and application size. Declarative templating offers superior code readability, security, performance, and maintainability, aligning with modern web development trends. The proposal suggests leveraging existing Tagged Template Literals, incrementally implementing the API, ultimately supporting HTML templates, thereby enhancing the web development experience.

(justinfagnani.com)

Development Declarative Templating

ThinkPad's Iconic TrackPoint is Gone (From Some Models)

2025-01-19

ThinkPad's Iconic TrackPoint is Gone (From Some Models)

Lenovo has removed the iconic TrackPoint from its new ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition laptops. While the TrackPoint will remain in other ThinkPad models, this decision marks a significant shift. Lenovo argues the TrackPoint, a legacy design, doesn't resonate with all demographics in a predominantly touchpad world. The new Aura Edition laptops boast Intel's Lunar Lake processors, premium OLED displays, and local AI powered by Meta's Llama 3.0, aiming for broader market appeal.

(www.pcworld.com)

Hardware

Restate: Simplifying Complex AI Game Workflows

2025-03-10

Restate: Simplifying Complex AI Game Workflows

This article demonstrates building an interactive text-adventure game from a single user prompt using the Restate framework. The application orchestrates image generation, audio synthesis, and multiple large language model calls, tasks traditionally requiring complex message queues and error handling. Restate simplifies this with durable handlers and built-in concurrency primitives, providing automatic retries, state management, and guaranteed request execution. The author details the application architecture, code implementation, and challenge solutions, showcasing how Restate efficiently handles long-running workflows and improves developer productivity.

(restate.dev)

Game

Pennybase: A Minimalist Go BaaS Under 1000 Lines

2025-07-04

Pennybase: A Minimalist Go BaaS Under 1000 Lines

Pennybase is a lightweight Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution implemented in under 1000 lines of Go code, offering a simplified alternative to Firebase, Supabase, and Pocketbase. It relies solely on the Go standard library, requiring no external dependencies. Core features include file storage (versioned CSV), a REST API (JSON responses), session cookie and Basic Auth authentication, RBAC & ownership-based permissions, real-time updates via SSE, schema validation, and Go template rendering. Data is stored in human-readable CSVs, with updates creating new record versions. A clever in-memory index allows for fast lookups and updates. Permission control uses a simple RBAC model, and custom functionality is possible via hook functions.

(github.com)

Development minimalist backend

Heaney's Letters: A Poet's Life and Struggles

2025-05-30

This collection of Seamus Heaney's letters offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of Ireland's most celebrated poets. From his early struggles to his Nobel Prize win, the letters reveal the complexities of his journey. We see his friendships with other poets, his reflections on his work, his thoughts on life and death, and his conflicted feelings about fame and the demands of public life. Heaney's witty and poetic style shines through, revealing a man who was both deeply thoughtful and surprisingly humorous. The letters offer a compelling portrait of a poet grappling with the challenges of success while maintaining his integrity and compassion.

(salmagundi.skidmore.edu)

Misc

T-Mobile's Fiber Blitz: 500K+ Homes Get Gig Speeds

2025-06-03

T-Mobile's Fiber Blitz: 500K+ Homes Get Gig Speeds

T-Mobile is expanding its fiber internet service to over 500,000 US households, launching three new plans with symmetrical speeds up to 2 Gig. These plans include a five-year price lock and a $5 autopay discount (debit card or bank account required). This expansion follows a joint venture with Lumos and a pending Metronet acquisition, aiming to reach 12-15 million homes by 2030. A limited-time 'Fiber Founders Club' plan offers a 10-year price lock but is available in select locations only.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech Fiber Internet Network Expansion

Berlin Swapfest: C-base's Quarterly Electronics & Tools Exchange

2025-03-01

Berlin Swapfest: C-base's Quarterly Electronics & Tools Exchange

Berlin's c-base hackerspace is hosting its first quarterly Swapfest on April 19th. Buy, sell, or swap electronics, computer equipment, and tools. Promoting reuse and right-to-repair, the event encourages participants to bring items they no longer need. Whether you're building a home lab or seeking components and tools, this is the place to be. Selling is free, though a deposit may be required for larger items that aren't taken home. Transactions are flexible (PayPal, crypto, cash) with disputes handled by the parties involved.

(www.swapfest.berlin)

Misc hackerspace electronics swap right-to-repair

Running a Full Linux Desktop Inside a Docker Container: A Challenging Experiment

2025-08-23

Running a Full Linux Desktop Inside a Docker Container: A Challenging Experiment

The author attempts to run a full-fledged Linux desktop environment inside a Docker container, challenging the conventional use of Docker. After an initial failed attempt to build a custom image from scratch, the author switches to a pre-built image from Docker Hub and successfully runs an XFCE desktop environment. While encountering issues such as GPU rendering problems and Flatpak compatibility, the author ultimately achieves running a complete Linux desktop in a browser. Furthermore, the author explores solutions like Webtop and Kasm Workspaces, discovering unexpected advantages such as remote desktop access, enabling access to a high-performance desktop from a low-powered device.

(www.howtogeek.com)

Development

Quebec Halts Subsidies for Troubled EV Maker Lion Electric

2025-05-02

Quebec Halts Subsidies for Troubled EV Maker Lion Electric

The Quebec government announced it will not provide further funding to Lion Electric, an electric vehicle maker struggling financially and seeking creditor protection. Despite Lion Electric's past role as a flagship in Quebec's EV ambitions, the government deemed further investment irresponsible due to shifting US policy, and flaws in Quebec's own subsidy program. This decision jeopardizes the company's restructuring efforts and leaves Quebec school bus operators in a difficult position, facing mandates for electric buses. The government is reevaluating its electrification plan and exploring alternative solutions to meet its EV goals.

(www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)

Tech

PureVPN Vulnerabilities: IPv6 Leaks and Firewall Reset

2025-09-17

A security researcher discovered two critical vulnerabilities in PureVPN's client. First, an IPv6 leak allows users to access the internet via IPv6 even when connected to the VPN, exposing their real IP address. Second, the VPN client resets the user's firewall (iptables) rules upon connection and doesn't restore them upon disconnection, leaving the system more vulnerable. The researcher reported these issues to PureVPN but has yet to receive a response. Use PureVPN with caution.

(anagogistis.com)

Tech IPv6 leak

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