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Bookmarkable by Design: URL-Driven State in HTMX

2025-07-30
Bookmarkable by Design: URL-Driven State in HTMX

This article showcases an elegant approach to state management in HTMX using URL parameters as the single source of truth. By leveraging the URL, developers can handle filtering, sorting, pagination, and search without complex client-side state management libraries. This results in bookmarkable, shareable application state, seamless browser history navigation, and simplified debugging. The article details three key steps: the server reading URL parameters, forms and hidden fields coordinating state, and automatic URL syncing with `hx-push-url`. Production considerations such as URL length limits and parameter validation are also discussed.

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(www.lorenstew.art)
Development URL state management

Carbon Language: An Experimental Successor to C++

2025-08-01

Google is developing Carbon, an experimental successor language to C++. Designed to address C++'s challenges in modern software development, Carbon aims for C++-level performance and seamless interoperability while offering a more modern developer experience with features like improved syntax and a powerful generics system. Currently in its experimental phase, the Carbon team is actively developing the compiler and toolchain, welcoming community contributions to shape its future.

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(docs.carbon-lang.dev)
Development

Why Software Estimation Is Always Wrong (and How to Improve)

2025-04-02
Why Software Estimation Is Always Wrong (and How to Improve)

In Scrum teams, story points estimate effort, but software estimations are inherently flawed. They predict an unknown future, and project complexity, unclear requirements, and technical debt contribute to inaccuracies. Cognitive biases like Hofstadter's Law, Brook's Law, and the planning fallacy exacerbate the problem. The article explores improvements: tracking progress, adding buffers, using the COCOMO model, and an alternative from "NoEstimates": dropping story points, focusing on throughput and cycle times, and using visual tools like Kanban.

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(newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com)
Development estimation

Kwai Leverages OceanBase's 400TB Single Cluster to Handle Massive Data

2024-12-28

Kwai, a short-video app with over 10 million daily active users, faced challenges with its existing MySQL sharding solution as data volume and concurrent requests grew. Storage bottlenecks and complex operations became major issues. Migrating to OceanBase distributed database, Kwai built a 400TB single cluster successfully supporting transaction verification and payment services. OceanBase's high performance, scalability, and ease of use solved Kwai's data storage and query problems, significantly improving system stability and efficiency while reducing operational costs.

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(oceanbase.github.io)
Tech distributed database high concurrency

LA Architecture Hack: Wearable Protest Suits

2025-05-16

Archisuit is a project featuring four leisure jogging suits designed around specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits incorporate the negative space of these structures, allowing wearers to comfortably occupy spaces designed to exclude them. The project critiques architecture's role in policing and controlling bodies based on race, class, and gender, suggesting that comfortable presence can be an act of resistance.

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(insecurespaces.net)
Design clothing design social protest

Tesla Recalls 46,096 Cybertrucks Over Detachable Panel

2025-03-20
Tesla Recalls 46,096 Cybertrucks Over Detachable Panel

Reuters reports that Tesla is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck electric pickup trucks in the U.S. due to a risk of detachment of an exterior stainless-steel trim panel, posing a road hazard. This is one of several recalls for the Cybertruck since last year. Tesla will replace the affected part free of charge. While Tesla accounts for a significant portion of U.S. vehicle recalls, many issues are resolved with over-the-air software updates. Shares remained largely unchanged in premarket trading.

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(www.cnn.com)
Tech

Frink: A Practical Calculator and Programming Language

2025-03-21

Frink is a powerful calculating tool and programming language designed to simplify physical calculations, ensure accurate answers, and provide a truly useful tool. It tracks units of measure (feet, meters, kilograms, watts, etc.) throughout calculations, allowing transparent mixing of units and verification of results. Frink also boasts a large database of physical constants, supports multiple languages, advanced mathematical functions, unit conversions, date/time math, regular expressions, and graphics, even supporting object-oriented programming and Java code calls. It runs on various operating systems and devices and auto-updates via Java Web Start.

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(frinklang.org)
Development unit tracking

AI's MCPs: A Web 2.0 Déjà Vu?

2025-06-17
AI's MCPs: A Web 2.0 Déjà Vu?

The hype around Multi-modal Connectors (MCPs) echoes the Web 2.0 story. The initial vision – LLMs seamlessly accessing all data and apps – mirrors the early promise of interconnected services. However, Web 2.0's open APIs eventually evolved into controlled systems dominated by a few winners. Similarly, while MCPs promise open access, large platforms may restrict access to prevent competition. This suggests MCPs might become controlled tools, not a truly open ecosystem.

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(www.dbreunig.com)
AI Multi-modal Connectors

Apple Unveils Most Powerful Mac Ever: Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra

2025-03-05
Apple Unveils Most Powerful Mac Ever: Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra

Apple announced the new Mac Studio, its most powerful Mac yet, featuring the M4 Max and the groundbreaking M3 Ultra chip. Boasting up to 512GB of unified memory and a 16TB SSD, this pro desktop delivers unparalleled performance, especially for AI tasks like running LLMs with over 600 billion parameters in memory. The M3 Ultra offers a massive performance leap over previous generations, featuring a 32-core CPU and 80-core GPU. Enhanced connectivity with Thunderbolt 5 and Apple Intelligence, a privacy-focused AI system, round out this powerhouse machine. Available for pre-order now, shipping March 12th.

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(www.apple.com)
Hardware

Apple Declares 2013 'Trash Can' Mac Pro Vintage

2025-07-12
Apple Declares 2013 'Trash Can' Mac Pro Vintage

Apple updated its list of vintage and obsolete products, adding several Macs, iPads, and accessories. The infamous 2013 'Trash Can' Mac Pro, after a 12-year run, finally joins the vintage list. Its unconventional cylindrical design and limited upgradability ultimately failed to meet professional user needs, serving as a notable example of Apple's design missteps. Several other products were also added to the vintage or obsolete lists, signaling the end of repair services for these devices.

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(www.macrumors.com)
Hardware

Northwestern Chemists Crack Plastic Recycling with Air and a Cheap Catalyst

2025-03-25
Northwestern Chemists Crack Plastic Recycling with Air and a Cheap Catalyst

Northwestern University chemists have developed a revolutionary method for breaking down PET plastic using only a cheap, non-toxic catalyst and the ambient moisture in the air. This solvent-free process breaks PET into its monomers, which can then be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher-value materials. The technique offers a sustainable and cost-effective solution to the global plastic waste problem, significantly improving upon current, often energy-intensive and polluting methods.

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(phys.org)
Tech catalyst

Severance Season 2: From Corporate Satire to Cult Investigation

2025-02-01
Severance Season 2: From Corporate Satire to Cult Investigation

Season one of *Severance* captivated audiences with its unique premise of memory severance between work and home life. Season two delves deeper, transcending corporate satire to explore social control mechanisms, particularly those mirroring cult dynamics. The showrunner and actors confirmed research into numerous cult documentaries, cleverly weaving parallels between cults and corporations to expose the darker sides of power structures and information control. This elevates *Severance* Season 2 beyond a simple corporate critique, transforming it into a profound exploration of social control and the nature of power.

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(arstechnica.com)
Game cult

Thirty and Redefining Travel's Purpose

2025-04-05

At 25, the author moved to Goa, India, embracing a simpler, community-focused life and pursuing various hobbies. A recent trip to Kazakhstan, however, left him feeling that travel had lost its meaning. He found people across the globe to be fundamentally similar, and the internet readily provides travel information. He now prioritizes deep, lasting connections with his home community, focusing future travels on visiting friends and exploring local nature.

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(sidverma.io)
Misc

Apple TV+ Offers Free Streaming Weekend

2024-12-30
Apple TV+ Offers Free Streaming Weekend

Apple is offering free access to its Apple TV+ streaming service from January 3rd to 5th, 2025. This three-day free trial includes access to Apple TV+'s library of award-winning shows and movies, giving potential subscribers a chance to sample its content, including popular series like Severance (with season 2 premiering January 17th), For All Mankind, Silo, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. All you need is an Apple ID to take advantage of this offer.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech free streaming streaming service

AI-Powered Romance Scams: A Growing Threat

2025-02-14
AI-Powered Romance Scams: A Growing Threat

Romance scams are evolving, leveraging AI to create fake dating profiles and personalized scripts for real-time conversations. Scammers build intimacy through 'love bombing' and portray themselves as vulnerable to gain victims' trust. They subtly request money, often citing financial difficulties, and manipulate victims into believing they're helping someone they care about. Lonely individuals are particularly vulnerable. Experts highlight the similarities between the language used by these scammers and domestic abusers, urging caution.

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(www.wired.com)
Tech AI scams romance scams

Reading to Forget: A Bayesian Approach to Efficient Reading

2025-09-14
Reading to Forget: A Bayesian Approach to Efficient Reading

A PhD student shares his efficient reading method: He doesn't try to remember all information but views reading as updating Bayesian beliefs, subtly refining his world model with each read. His goal is to stimulate thinking and generate new ideas, not memorize details. He discards most content, focusing on parts that shift his thinking or provide writing material, such as a well-written methodology section in a paper. Non-fiction that doesn't spark new thoughts or actions isn't deemed worthwhile. This approach prioritizes understanding and application over rote memorization.

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(mo42.bearblog.dev)
Misc Bayesian

Italian Town Solves Winter Darkness with Giant Mirror

2024-12-13
Italian Town Solves Winter Darkness with Giant Mirror

Nestled in a valley between Italy and Switzerland, the town of Viganella suffers from three months of winter darkness each year. To combat this, in 2006, residents ingeniously installed a massive mirror on a nearby mountain peak. This mirror reflects sunlight into the town square, providing much-needed light and warmth during the long winter. The project, a testament to human ingenuity and community spirit, has since inspired similar initiatives worldwide.

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(www.vice.com)
Tech innovation community

Styrolite: A Secure and Efficient Low-Level Container Runtime

2025-03-26
Styrolite: A Secure and Efficient Low-Level Container Runtime

Styrolite is a new low-level container runtime offering a clean Rust API for container creation and management, addressing the complexity and error-proneness of existing tools like Bubblewrap's CLI. Acknowledging the inherent limitations of Linux namespaces, Styrolite incorporates careful defaults and explicit security controls for a more robust foundation. Used within the Edera Protect platform for secure microservices, application sandboxing, and custom CI/CD environments, Styrolite boasts container initialization times comparable to or faster than traditional CLI approaches.

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(edera.dev)
Development container runtime

Claude Model Quality Issues Resolved

2025-09-09
Claude Model Quality Issues Resolved

Anthropic addressed two separate bugs last week that caused degraded output quality in some Claude models (Sonnet 4 and Haiku 3.5). The first bug impacted a small percentage of Sonnet 4 requests from August 5th to September 4th, while the second affected some Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 4 requests from August 26th to September 5th. Anthropic assures users that these issues were not intentional quality degradations but stemmed from unrelated bugs. They thank the community for detailed reports which helped identify and resolve the problems. Monitoring continues for ongoing quality issues, including reports of degradation for Claude Opus 4.1, with an update expected by the end of the week.

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(status.anthropic.com)
AI model quality

Mastering the Core Math of Machine Learning: From Bayes to Attention

2025-08-28

This blog post provides a comprehensive guide to the most crucial mathematical equations in machine learning, covering probability, linear algebra, and optimization. It explains concepts like Bayes' Theorem, entropy, gradient descent, and backpropagation with clear explanations and Python code examples. Furthermore, it delves into advanced topics such as diffusion processes and the attention mechanism, providing practical implementations. This is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the core mathematical foundations of machine learning.

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(chizkidd.github.io)
AI math equations

Netflix's Cloud Gaming Push: Co-op and Party Games on the Way

2025-01-24
Netflix's Cloud Gaming Push: Co-op and Party Games on the Way

Netflix is expanding its cloud gaming efforts, planning to launch a service featuring co-op and party games streamed directly to TVs. Co-CEO Greg Peters described this as a successor to family board game nights or an evolution of TV game shows. While a release date hasn't been announced, Netflix has been beta testing cloud gaming since 2023 and plans to continue investment. The company will also focus on narrative games based on Netflix IP.

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(www.theverge.com)
Game multiplayer games

Xbox Security: A Case Study in Epic Failure

2025-07-17

This article dissects the catastrophic failures in the design and implementation of the Xbox gaming console's security system. Microsoft, in an attempt to prevent game copying and unauthorized software, designed a trust-chain based system riddled with design and implementation flaws. From using the vulnerable RC4 algorithm as a hash function, to overlooking the Intel CPU's address space wrap-around behavior and underestimating RAM initialization complexities, Microsoft made a series of elementary mistakes, ultimately leading to the easy circumvention of the Xbox's security. Hackers exploited these vulnerabilities to successfully run Linux and homebrew software, even enabling game copying. This case serves as a stark reminder of the need for thorough security system design, cautioning against compromising security for cost savings.

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(xboxdevwiki.net)
Tech security flaws

Titan: Hubris, Neglect, and a Catastrophic Implosion

2025-06-17
Titan: Hubris, Neglect, and a Catastrophic Implosion

Netflix's documentary, *Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster*, exposes the truth behind the tragic implosion of the Titan submersible. The film centers on OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, whose ambition to commercialize deep-sea exploration clashed with a disregard for safety concerns, culminating in a devastating accident. Exclusive interviews, recordings, and footage reveal internal safety issues and shockingly poor decisions that led to the submersible's implosion during a Titanic expedition, killing all five onboard. The documentary serves as a cautionary tale about balancing technological innovation with responsibility and the deadly consequences of hubris.

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(www.netflix.com)
Tech

US Government's Massive Nuclear Power Procurement: A Historic Deal

2025-01-06
US Government's Massive Nuclear Power Procurement: A Historic Deal

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded Constellation, operator of the largest fleet of commercial nuclear plants in the US, over $1 billion in contracts to supply power to 13 government agencies for 10 years. The largest contract, worth $840 million, will provide over 1 million megawatt-hours annually, partly fueled by Constellation's investments to increase output at its existing plants. This 'historic procurement' secures a reliable, cost-competitive energy supply, advancing a carbon-free future and protecting taxpayers from price hikes. It's the GSA's largest energy purchase ever and a significant climate-focused agreement incorporating existing nuclear reactors.

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(www.nucnet.org)
Tech Nuclear Power Government Procurement Carbon Neutrality

Open-Source Protocol MCP: Seamless Integration of LLMs with External Data and Tools

2025-06-19

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol enabling seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Whether building an AI-powered IDE, enhancing a chat interface, or creating custom AI workflows, MCP provides a standardized way to connect LLMs with the context they need. Based on a TypeScript schema and using JSON-RPC 2.0 messaging, MCP features resources, prompts, and tools. Crucially, MCP emphasizes user consent and control, data privacy, and tool safety.

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(modelcontextprotocol.io)
AI

Google Cloud IAM Glitch Triggers Domino Effect, Disrupting Cloudflare and Anthropic

2025-06-13
Google Cloud IAM Glitch Triggers Domino Effect, Disrupting Cloudflare and Anthropic

A global Google Cloud IAM service outage at 10:50 AM PT on October 24th caused authentication failures across numerous GCP products. This impacted Cloudflare's Workers KV, leading to Access, WARP, and other Zero Trust service disruptions. Anthropic, a GCP customer, experienced file upload failures and increased error rates. The incident highlighted the interconnectedness of cloud services and the potential for cascading failures. Full service recovery took 7.5 hours.

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(forgecode.dev)
Tech IAM outage cascading failure

Argentina's 80s Computing Scene and the Birth of Truco

2025-09-08

This article chronicles the rise and fall of Argentina's computing industry in the 1980s and the creation of its first commercial game, Truco. Starting with the early computer project 'Clementina' led by Manuel Sadosky, Argentina's computing journey faced political turmoil and economic policy shifts. Despite a native computer, the MS101, it couldn't compete with foreign imports after import restrictions eased. The mid-80s saw a boom in home computing with the rise of clones (like ZX81 and Commodore 64 clones) and government support. However, the game market was dominated by pirated titles. Against this backdrop, Enrique and Ariel Arbiser developed Argentina's first commercial game, Truco, a computer game based on a popular Argentinian card game, which was released on TI-99/4A and DOS platforms, becoming a milestone in Argentinian gaming history.

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(zeitgame.net)
Game Argentinian gaming history 80s computing Truco game

11 Million Strikers: A Phased Approach to the General Strike

2025-02-01

The General Strike is planned in three phases. Phase 1 (0-6 million signatures): Building a broad network of participants by connecting with organizations and individuals already taking action. Phase 2 (6-10 million signatures): Focusing on concrete demands, setting strike dates and event plans, and holding meetings to gather diverse perspectives. Phase 3 (10-11 million signatures): Finalizing demands, preparing for Strike Day, distributing funds, and conducting final events. The goal is to unite 11 million strikers to fight for racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice.

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(generalstrikeus.com)
Misc General Strike Social Movement Organizing Strategy

Valve Opens Team Fortress 2's Source Code to the Public

2025-02-19
Valve Opens Team Fortress 2's Source Code to the Public

Celebrating its upcoming 20th anniversary, Valve has unexpectedly released the full client and server source code for Team Fortress 2, inviting players to modify, extend, or even rewrite the game. This move aims to empower the community and extend the life of this classic shooter. Despite recent struggles with bots, TF2 retains a dedicated player base. The open-source initiative is expected to unlock a wave of creative mods and potentially even entirely new games. However, all modifications must remain free of charge.

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(gamerant.com)
Game Community Creation
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