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Programmers Craft a Whimsical Programming Game: Droste's Lair

2024-12-17
Programmers Craft a Whimsical Programming Game: Droste's Lair

Two programmers spent two weeks developing Droste's Lair, a whimsical programming environment game. Players build and count mathematical structures through intuitive drag-and-drop interactions, using an "amb" mechanism for branching execution and recursion. The game, themed around swords and sorcery, presents challenges such as reversing list elements, generating all face card combinations, and counting ways to cover a checkerboard with dominoes. Droste's Lair cleverly blends programming and game elements, offering a novel and engaging way to learn programming and mathematical concepts.

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RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday

2024-12-30
RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday

Richard Schneeman is hosting a Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB) hackday at RubyConf 2024 to help developers learn about and contribute to Ruby deployment tools. The event offers tasks of varying difficulty, from modifying existing buildpacks to creating new ones, catering to different skill levels. Even if you can't attend in person, you can still participate using the provided resources.

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(www.schneems.com)
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AI Image Generation: Ghibli-esque Mimicry Raises Copyright Concerns

2025-04-03
AI Image Generation: Ghibli-esque Mimicry Raises Copyright Concerns

A recent update to GPT image generation allows users to transform any picture into a Studio Ghibli-esque style. This showcases AI's impressive ability to mimic styles, but also raises significant copyright concerns. The author conducts an experiment, demonstrating GPT's ease in generating images strikingly similar to well-known IP characters, even without explicitly mentioning the IP. This is both amazing and alarming, highlighting the potential for AI to facilitate intellectual property theft. While laws allow for mimicking visual styles, the precision of the mimicry pushes the boundaries of copyright law, prompting reflection on the relationship between AI development and copyright protection.

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(theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
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A Retro Computing Odyssey: The Mystery of the Yellow Commodore Disks

2025-02-12

This article recounts the author's discovery of a set of unusual Commodore 64/128 disks, 'Penny Farthing,' created by the late Commodore enthusiast David Mohr (Lord Ronin). These bright yellow disks contained chapters of Mohr's science fiction story and games by the late interactive fiction author Paul Panks. Accessing the disks required specialized Commodore hardware and software (like Wheels GEOS), highlighting the allure of retro computing and its niche community. The story pays tribute to Mohr and Panks, and their contributions to the Commodore scene.

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(www.amigalove.com)
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My Efficient Python Full-Stack Workflow: From AI to Deployment

2025-07-16
My Efficient Python Full-Stack Workflow: From AI to Deployment

This post details a complete toolchain for building Python applications, honed over six months of AI development. The author shares their preferred project structure (monorepo), dependency management (uv), linting (ruff), type checking (ty), testing (pytest), data validation (Pydantic), documentation (MkDocs), API creation (FastAPI), dataclasses, version control (GitHub Actions), dependency updates (Dependabot), security scanning (Gitleaks), pre-commit hooks, automation (Make), and Docker containerization. This streamlined workflow emphasizes efficiency, code quality, and CI/CD. The author's focus on lightweight tools and a simplified approach makes this a valuable resource for full-stack Python developers.

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(www.cesarsotovalero.net)
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Chawan TUI Browser 0.2.0 Released

2025-06-16

Chawan, a text-user interface (TUI) browser, has released version 0.2.0. This release includes all the features envisioned for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and has no known critical bugs. Source code and a static binary distribution for amd64 Linux are available, along with a .deb package. Dependencies zlib, libseccomp, termcap/ncurses, and libcurl have been removed. Future work will focus on improving the layout module's performance and correctness, and making the UI more user-friendly.

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Unraveling the PPG Wave 2.2 & 2.3: An 8-bit vs. 12-bit DAC Mystery

2024-12-15

This article delves into the subtle yet significant differences between the PPG Wave 2.2 and 2.3 synthesizers. While the 2.3 utilizes 12-bit DACs, wavetable playback remains 8-bit; only samples imported via external devices fully leverage the 12-bit precision. Oscilloscope measurements reveal a unique audio processing method: two oscillators send data interleaved, resulting in a DAC output frequency double the individual oscillator sample rate. This creates a distinctive timbre and high-frequency aliasing beyond human hearing. The article also notes the relatively slow CV update rate, yet the sound retains its character.

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(till-kopper.de)
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How I Got 100% Off My Train Travel in the UK

2025-03-19
How I Got 100% Off My Train Travel in the UK

High UK train delays led to a clever money-saving scheme. By predicting delays using strike actions, planned engineering works, and bad weather, the author consistently received full refunds, essentially getting free long-distance train travel. The 'Train Delay Prediction Paradigm' (TDPP) involves monitoring public information to maximize the chances of delays and claiming refunds. While effective, the author advises using this to get work done and to prepare for potentially long journeys.

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(readbunce.com)
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Meta Faces Legal Trouble Over AI Training Data Copyright

2025-03-11
Meta Faces Legal Trouble Over AI Training Data Copyright

Meta is facing a lawsuit alleging it illegally removed copyright management information (CMI) from material used to train its AI models. Authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden accuse Meta of using their work to train its neural networks without permission and removing CMI to obscure its actions. A judge ruled that Meta must answer to claims of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), signaling that the copyright implications of AI model training data are set to face more legal scrutiny. While some claims were dismissed, the case's progression could set a precedent for other similar lawsuits, with the Tremblay lawsuit against OpenAI being amended with new evidence.

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Apple Unveils iPad Air with M3 Chip and New Magic Keyboard

2025-03-04
Apple Unveils iPad Air with M3 Chip and New Magic Keyboard

Apple announced the new iPad Air powered by the M3 chip, boasting significant performance improvements, with up to a 4x graphics performance boost. Available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, the new iPad Air features a more powerful Neural Engine and supports Apple Intelligence, offering enhanced AI capabilities like Photo Cleanup and Image Wand. A new, lower-priced Magic Keyboard designed for the iPad Air also launched. Additionally, the standard iPad received an update, featuring the A16 chip and double the starting storage.

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Why LLMs Don't Reach for Calculators: A Deep Dive into Reasoning Gaps

2025-02-20
Why LLMs Don't Reach for Calculators: A Deep Dive into Reasoning Gaps

Large Language Models (LLMs) surprisingly fail at basic math. Even when they recognize a calculation is needed and know calculators exist, they don't use them to improve accuracy. This article analyzes this behavior, arguing that LLMs lack true understanding and reasoning; they merely predict based on language patterns. The author points out that LLM success masks inherent flaws, stressing the importance of human verification when relying on LLMs for crucial tasks. The piece uses a clip from "The Twilight Zone" as an allegory, cautioning against naive optimism about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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(www.mindprison.cc)
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Cap: A Lightweight, Privacy-Preserving Open-Source CAPTCHA Alternative

2025-05-30
Cap: A Lightweight, Privacy-Preserving Open-Source CAPTCHA Alternative

Cap is a lightweight, modern, open-source CAPTCHA alternative using SHA-256 proof-of-work. It's fast, private, and incredibly easy to integrate. Composed of a JavaScript widget (@cap.js/widget) and a server-side component (@cap.js/server), Cap offers various extensions and supports multiple runtimes and programming languages. It even runs standalone in Docker. Compared to hCaptcha, Cap is 250x smaller and, using proof-of-work, requires no user tracking. Fully open-source, Cap offers modes like invisible and floating to suit various needs.

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Google Search Goes Full AI with Gemini 2.0

2025-03-07
Google Search Goes Full AI with Gemini 2.0

Google is revolutionizing search with Gemini 2.0, its latest AI model. A new "AI Mode" replaces the familiar ten blue links with a comprehensive AI-generated answer incorporating web summaries, Knowledge Graph data, and shopping information. Initially rolling out through Search Labs, this feature will eventually be available to all users, including those not logged in and minors. While aiming for faster answers to question-based searches, the accuracy and usefulness of AI Mode remain areas for improvement.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Europe's Cloud Conundrum: A Path to Self-Reliance

2025-03-18
Europe's Cloud Conundrum: A Path to Self-Reliance

Europe's reliance on American cloud services leaves it vulnerable. Market forces haven't delivered a viable European alternative, and businesses are hesitant to adopt unproven solutions. This article advocates for industrial policy: targeted government procurement, strategic subsidies, and leveraging open-source collaboration to build a sovereign cloud ecosystem. Success hinges on governments developing deep industry knowledge, learning from past large-scale project failures, and fostering homegrown talent to achieve cloud independence.

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(berthub.eu)
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Onit: Your Local AI Chat Assistant

2025-01-24
Onit: Your Local AI Chat Assistant

Onit is an open-source AI chat assistant that lives on your desktop! It's like ChatGPT Desktop, but with local mode and support for multiple model providers (Anthropic, Google AI, xAI, etc.). Think of it as Cursor Chat, but available everywhere on your computer, not just in your IDE. Key features include local mode (via Ollama), multi-provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, etc.), file uploads, chat history, and customizable shortcuts. Future plans include autocontext, local RAG, and local typeahead. Onit prioritizes universal access, provider freedom, a local-first approach, customizability, and extensibility.

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(github.com)
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agents.json: Simplifying AI Agent Interaction with APIs

2025-03-03
agents.json: Simplifying AI Agent Interaction with APIs

Wildcard AI introduces the agents.json specification, designed to streamline AI agent interaction with APIs. Building upon the OpenAPI standard, it addresses the challenge of AI agents executing multi-step API call sequences by adding features like flows and links. The agents.json file describes API endpoints and their interactions, enabling reliable execution of API calls by AI agents. The Wildcard Bridge Python package provides functionality to load, parse, and run agents.json files, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate AI agents with APIs simply by adding an agents.json file.

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Reverse Engineering Stunts: SuperSight Mod Development Log (Part I)

2025-08-17

Alberto Marnetto details his journey creating SuperSight, a graphical enhancement mod for the classic racing game Stunts. The article chronicles his reverse engineering process, leveraging the community-driven Restunts project (containing partially disassembled code and C-language ports) to understand the game's rendering engine. Initial attempts to modify graphics settings via the in-game menu proved difficult due to the game's lack of option saving. By analyzing Restunts' code, he pinpointed the variable controlling graphical detail. He then implemented simple enhancements like altering the field of view, encountering and documenting minor glitches. This successful proof of concept paves the way for further improvements detailed in future parts.

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(marnetto.net)
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Cutting Science Funding: A Costly Mistake

2025-02-25

The Trump administration's "Department of Government Efficiency" has frozen funding for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, raising concerns about cuts to federally funded scientific research. The article uses the example of massage therapy for premature infants to demonstrate how seemingly odd basic science research can yield enormous social and economic benefits. It argues for the importance of long-term government investment in basic science and the need for reforms to research funding mechanisms. While short-term returns are unpredictable, history shows that investments in basic science offer high returns and are a worthwhile long-term strategy.

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Chronic Pain and Programming: A Developer's Journey

2025-02-18

A programmer shares their years-long struggle with chronic pain, detailing ineffective treatments like ergonomic improvements, stretching, and targeted exercises. They ultimately discovered environmental factors (direct air conditioning exposure) and referred pain as key contributors. The importance of mindset and positive mental attitude in pain management is also highlighted.

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(thomasvogelaar.me)
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Introducing NDEF: The Language of NFC

2024-12-19
Introducing NDEF: The Language of NFC

This chapter introduces the Near Field Communication (NFC) Data Exchange Format (NDEF), the common language for NFC devices and tags. NDEF is a binary format structured in messages, each containing several records. Each record comprises a header (metadata) and a payload (content). The chapter details the structure of NDEF records, including Type Name Format, Payload Type, Payload Identifier, and Payload, and shows how to write and read NDEF-formatted messages using Android apps. It also covers NDEF message size limits and record chunking for larger payloads. Finally, a sample application demonstrates creating a simple NFC tag writer app using the PhoneGap-NFC plugin, writing NDEF messages to tags to launch the Foursquare app.

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(www.oreilly.com)
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FoleyCrafter: Breathing Life into Silent Videos with Realistic, Synchronized Sounds

2025-03-04
FoleyCrafter: Breathing Life into Silent Videos with Realistic, Synchronized Sounds

FoleyCrafter is a cutting-edge video-to-audio generation framework capable of producing realistic and synchronized sound effects based on video content. Leveraging AI, it transforms silent videos into immersive experiences with rich audio details. Users can easily generate various sound effects via simple command-line instructions, even controlling the generated audio with text prompts—adding 'noisy crowds' or 'seagulls,' for example. Built upon models like Auffusion, it provides detailed installation and usage instructions.

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(github.com)
AI Audio Generation

Building a C Compiler with "Writing a C Compiler": A Step-by-Step Journey

2025-07-12
Building a C Compiler with

The author plans to work through "Writing a C Compiler" chapter by chapter, documenting their progress in blog posts. This book provides a step-by-step approach to building a C compiler, culminating in a working compiler by the end of chapter one, with additional features added in subsequent chapters. A comprehensive test suite is included, enabling thorough verification. The author highlights the book's excellent, incremental approach, comprehensive test suite, and focus on a real-world language (C), praising it as an exceptional resource for learning compiler construction.

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Tracking Code Changes with Git Hooks: A Data-Driven Approach to Development

2025-03-29

This article presents a method for tracking code modification time using Git hooks to provide a more objective measure of development efficiency. By recording the time from branch creation to merge, excluding thinking time, it offers a clearer reflection of actual coding time. This approach helps teams identify and address inefficiencies in code maintenance, such as excessively long maintenance times for certain components, or efficiency gains from AI tools. The ultimate goal is to optimize the development process, reduce entropy, and boost team productivity through data-driven insights rather than subjective estimations.

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FormBee: Open-Source Form Backend for Privacy-Conscious Developers

2025-01-06
FormBee: Open-Source Form Backend for Privacy-Conscious Developers

FormBee is an open-source form backend built for developers who prioritize data privacy. It simplifies submitting website form data, allowing you to send form submissions to email, Telegram, webhooks, and more without writing server-side code. Features include plugin support, CAPTCHA protection, domain whitelisting, and automatic reply emails. Self-hosting is easy with readily available Docker images.

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(github.com)
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HP Acquires Humane's AI Capabilities for $116M, Accelerating AI Transformation

2025-02-18
HP Acquires Humane's AI Capabilities for $116M, Accelerating AI Transformation

HP Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire key AI capabilities from Humane for $116 million, including its AI platform Cosmos, a significant patent portfolio, and a team of highly skilled engineers. This acquisition accelerates HP's transformation into an experience-led company. The Humane team will join HP's new AI innovation lab, HP IQ, to build an intelligent ecosystem across HP's product range, enhancing user experience and productivity across PCs, printers, and connected workspaces.

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(humane.com)
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HYTRADBOI: The Async Database & Programming Language Conference

2025-02-02

HYTRADBOI is a unique online conference exploring the intersection of databases and programming languages. All talks are pre-recorded and captioned, delivered asynchronously via a persistent chat room. This allows participants to join from anywhere, anytime, fostering rich discussion. Attendees rave about its asynchronous format, the depth of the talks, and the forward-thinking nature of the content, making it a highly recommended event.

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Euclid Spots a Rare Einstein Ring in a Nearby Galaxy

2025-03-02
Euclid Spots a Rare Einstein Ring in a Nearby Galaxy

The European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has discovered a perfect Einstein ring – a ring-shaped optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing – in the galaxy NGC 6505, a mere 590 million light-years from Earth. This is incredibly rare, as Einstein rings typically occur in much more distant galaxies. The discovery not only confirms Einstein's General Theory of Relativity but also provides valuable data for studying dark matter and stellar composition in the galaxy's center. Euclid's exceptionally long observation time and high-resolution imaging made this astonishing discovery possible.

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(www.euclid-ec.org)
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Thermodynamic Model Unveils Gold's Journey to Earth's Surface

2024-12-27
Thermodynamic Model Unveils Gold's Journey to Earth's Surface

Researchers have used a thermodynamic model to explain how gold deposits are formed in volcanic settings. The model reveals the crucial role of a previously unconfirmed gold-trisulfur complex (Au-S3). Under specific mantle pressures and temperatures, this complex efficiently transfers gold from the mantle into magma, ultimately leading to its surfacing through volcanic activity. This finding explains the high gold concentrations in certain subduction zone ore deposits and has significant implications for gold exploration.

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Rust's `time` Crate Gets a 57.5% Speed Boost with a Rewritten Algorithm

2025-02-03

After five years of maintaining the Rust `time` crate, the author undertook a major performance optimization. By redesigning the `Date::to_calendar_date` algorithm, leveraging Euclidean affine functions and clever integer arithmetic, the author avoided floating-point operations and branching, resulting in a 57.5% performance improvement. The new algorithm is significantly faster not only when calculating both date and month together but also when calculating them separately. This was a non-trivial undertaking, but the author believes the performance gains are well worth the effort.

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(jhpratt.dev)
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