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Saying Goodbye to Pinboard: Migrating Links to My Own Site

2025-02-12
Saying Goodbye to Pinboard: Migrating Links to My Own Site

The author announces they're no longer updating their Pinboard bookmarks, instead migrating all links to their personal website. Reasons cited include Pinboard's lack of updates over the years, a poor mobile experience, and reservations about the Pinboard owner's views. While the author previously mirrored Pinboard links to their own site, this created a double maintenance burden. Therefore, they've decided to make their personal website the sole source of truth for links, leaving the Pinboard page as a historical record.

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(www.gyford.com)
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Mozilla's Broken Trust: Firefox's New Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Spark Outrage

2025-02-28
Mozilla's Broken Trust: Firefox's New Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Spark Outrage

Mozilla's recent update to Firefox's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy has sparked user concern over data security and privacy. The new policy includes a "non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" clause, allowing Mozilla to use user browsing data, contradicting Firefox's long-standing commitment to privacy. The author criticizes Mozilla's move as a "massive unforced error," shifting Firefox from a trusted browser to a data collection service. They urge Mozilla to revoke overly broad policies, applying them only to features requiring them, and to preserve Firefox's image as a champion of the open web.

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Data Center Projects Face Community Backlash: 16 Projects Impacted

2025-05-26
Data Center Projects Face Community Backlash: 16 Projects Impacted

Numerous data center projects across the US have stalled or been delayed due to significant community opposition. From a $14 billion Arizona project to others worth millions, developers faced intense pressure from residents concerned about noise pollution, environmental damage, and strain on local resources. Some projects were withdrawn, while others were delayed or embroiled in legal battles. This highlights growing tensions between communities and big tech, and a rising public focus on sustainability and environmental concerns.

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(www.datacenterwatch.org)
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Actionate: GitHub Actions Integration for JetBrains IDEs

2025-01-25
Actionate: GitHub Actions Integration for JetBrains IDEs

Actionate is a plugin that brings the power of GitHub Actions directly into your JetBrains IDE, creating a unified development environment. It eliminates context switching by allowing you to manage and run workflows, view detailed logs, and rerun jobs directly within your IDE. Actionate supports multiple GitHub accounts, manual workflow triggers with custom parameters, and provides comprehensive workflow run details. This seamless integration significantly boosts developer productivity.

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Hurl: Command-Line HTTP Request Testing Tool

2025-06-20
Hurl: Command-Line HTTP Request Testing Tool

Hurl is a powerful command-line tool that defines and runs HTTP requests using a simple plain text format. It supports request chaining, value capturing, and query evaluation on response headers and bodies, making it suitable for data fetching and testing HTTP sessions across various APIs like REST, SOAP, and GraphQL. Built with Rust and leveraging libcurl, Hurl is lightweight, fast, and integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines through various report formats.

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llama.cpp Integrates Qwen2VL Multimodal Model

2024-12-15
llama.cpp Integrates Qwen2VL Multimodal Model

The llama.cpp project on GitHub recently merged a pull request adding support for the Qwen2VL multimodal large language model. This model combines a large language model with a vision encoder, enabling processing of both images and text. Integration involves converting the model's LLM part and vision encoder into GGUF format and using a new command-line tool for inference. Future work includes adding support for more backends like MPS and Vulkan.

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Do I Hate Money? No, I Just Don't Like It

2025-02-26
Do I Hate Money? No, I Just Don't Like It

The author received an email from an Australian financial company with the subject line "Do you not like money?" This sparked the author's reflection on money. The author doesn't "like" money; instead, they view it as a necessary tool for survival. The author prefers what money provides—food, shelter, hobbies, travel, etc.—rather than the money itself. The author finds the idea of "liking" money unsettling.

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(rubenerd.com)
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Elegantly Solving the Problem of Anchor Links on Extremely Long Pages

2025-04-03
Elegantly Solving the Problem of Anchor Links on Extremely Long Pages

This article tackles the problem of anchor links failing to scroll to the correct heading on very long pages. The author explores several solutions, starting with simple padding adjustments, then shifting trigger lines, and finally employing a sophisticated approach involving virtual headings and an optimization algorithm. A cubic polynomial function ensures smooth transitions, addressing issues of layout and user experience. The optimal solution balances maintaining original heading positions with preserving section spacing, resulting in a robust and elegant solution for extremely long pages.

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(thirty-five.com)
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YC-Backed San Francisco Team Building High-Performance Infrastructure

2025-03-19
YC-Backed San Francisco Team Building High-Performance Infrastructure

A tightly-knit team based in San Francisco is hiring. They serve clients ranging from fast-growing startups to established enterprises, prioritizing security, reliability, and performance. They are obsessed with customer feedback and build future-proof solutions. Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, SV Angel, and founders from companies like Vercel, Slack, Dropbox, Replit, Stripe, and Algolia.

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(markprompt.com)
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Tensor Product Attention: All You Need

2025-01-22
Tensor Product Attention: All You Need

Scaling language models to handle longer input sequences typically requires large key-value (KV) caches, resulting in substantial memory overhead during inference. This paper proposes Tensor Product Attention (TPA), a novel attention mechanism that uses tensor decompositions to represent queries, keys, and values compactly, significantly reducing KV cache size during inference. By factorizing these representations into contextual low-rank components (contextual factorization) and seamlessly integrating with RoPE, TPA improves model quality while maintaining memory efficiency. Based on TPA, the authors introduce the Tensor ProducT ATTenTion Transformer (T6), a new model architecture for sequence modeling. Extensive empirical evaluation on language modeling tasks demonstrates that T6 surpasses standard Transformer baselines including MHA, MQA, GQA, and MLA across various metrics, including perplexity and a range of well-known evaluation benchmarks. Notably, TPA's memory efficiency enables the processing of significantly longer sequences under fixed resource constraints, addressing a critical scalability challenge in modern language models. Code is available.

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(arxiv.org)
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Arcan OS: A Revolutionary Approach to Operating System Design

2024-12-27
Arcan OS: A Revolutionary Approach to Operating System Design

Arcan is a single-user, user-facing, networked overlay operating system designed to provide users with complete autonomy over their computing devices. Independent of Linux or BSD kernels, it operates as a 'vagabond' across various ecosystems. Arcan utilizes a shared memory interface (SHMIF) and the A12 network protocol for efficient inter-process communication, employing 'frameservers' to isolate security-sensitive tasks. Its programmable interface ALT, Appl application model, and diverse user interfaces (Console, Durden, Safespaces) create a flexible and powerful system. Arcan aims to counter the network lock-in and security threats posed by large platforms, enhancing user autonomy and security.

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(arcan-fe.com)
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The Norman Conquest and English Spelling: A Lost Story of Diacritics

2025-07-07
The Norman Conquest and English Spelling: A Lost Story of Diacritics

This article explores how the Norman Conquest profoundly impacted English spelling. After 1066, French became the official language, and scribes carried over French writing conventions into English, resulting in letter combinations representing single phonemes, like "sh" and "th." The Renaissance saw French develop a system of diacritics through printing and standardization, while English retained the spelling conventions established during the Norman period. This explains why English lacks widespread use of diacritics today.

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(www.deadlanguagesociety.com)
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The Suburban Lawn Wars: America's Obsession with Perfect Lawns vs. Ecological Disaster

2025-03-21
The Suburban Lawn Wars: America's Obsession with Perfect Lawns vs. Ecological Disaster

The American obsession with perfect lawns is causing conflict in suburbs across the nation. This article details several families' battles with HOAs over planting native plant gardens, highlighting the clash between the cultural ideal of a manicured lawn and the environmental damage it causes. Evolving from European aristocratic traditions and popularized through government loans and suburban development, the perfect lawn has become a symbol of the American Dream. However, this devotion to a monoculture of grass leads to biodiversity loss, resource waste, and pollution. Growing numbers are questioning this tradition, advocating for more natural, eco-friendly gardening practices, but change is difficult, facing resistance from entrenched cultural norms and influenced by current political and economic factors.

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(www.noemamag.com)
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YouTube Audio Quality Deep Dive: Opus vs. AAC

2025-02-01

This article delves into the audio quality of YouTube videos. The author, collaborating with the Ralph Vaughan-Williams Society, compared original audio files with various encoded versions available on YouTube, focusing on Opus and AAC codecs. The analysis revealed that YouTube's audio processing introduces some distortion, particularly at higher frequencies. While the Opus codec performed better in some aspects, overall YouTube's audio quality shows room for improvement.

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(www.audiomisc.co.uk)
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Pro-Ukraine Hackers Hit Russia's Biggest State Procurement Platform

2025-01-16
Pro-Ukraine Hackers Hit Russia's Biggest State Procurement Platform

A pro-Ukraine hacking group, Yellow Drift, claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Roseltorg, Russia's largest electronic trading platform for government and corporate procurement. The group allegedly deleted 550 terabytes of data. While Roseltorg initially attributed the outage to maintenance, they later confirmed the attack, stating data and infrastructure have been restored. The attack impacted major Russian corporations and government agencies, including the Ministry of Defense and Roskomnadzor. This incident highlights the ongoing cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine and the potential disruptive impact of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.

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(therecord.media)
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From Self-Doubt to Software Developer: A Makers Pre-Course Week Four Diary

2025-08-08

This week's blog post details a student's journey through week four of the Makers pre-course. The author grapples with self-doubt while crafting her CV, then progressively masters Test-Driven Development (TDD) and tackles a solo coding project, showcasing her growth and challenges in learning software development. She openly shares her past experiences, including illness recovery and career changes, ultimately solidifying her commitment to becoming a software engineer. The post also highlights her passion for programming and her use of a Go-based text adventure game to reinforce her learning.

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(catzkorn.dev)
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Quickwit Acquired by Datadog: A Multi-Petabyte Search Engine's Cross-Continental Journey

2025-01-10
Quickwit Acquired by Datadog: A Multi-Petabyte Search Engine's Cross-Continental Journey

Quickwit, a multi-petabyte scale open-source search engine built by three engineers over four years across three continents, has been acquired by Datadog. This post details Quickwit's journey from an idea conceived in a Parisian gyoza restaurant to its acquisition. Overcoming challenges of cross-border collaboration, they built a highly efficient and manageable search engine using Rust, partnering with companies like Binance and Mezmo to achieve success. The acquisition marks a new chapter for Quickwit, which will continue as an open-source project under the Apache License 2.0, bringing new features.

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(quickwit.io)
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Trudeau Resigns: Canada's Liberal Party in Turmoil

2025-01-06
Trudeau Resigns: Canada's Liberal Party in Turmoil

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister on January 6, 2025. The move, following growing public dissatisfaction with his leadership and the abrupt departure of his finance minister, signals significant turmoil within the Canadian government. Trudeau will remain Prime Minister until a new Liberal leader is chosen. Opposition parties plan a no-confidence vote when Parliament resumes in late March. In his resignation speech, Trudeau criticized opposition leader Pierre Poilievre's policies and stated that Canada needs a functioning Parliament.

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(apnews.com)
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Run Local LLMs in Your Browser: Introducing BrowserAI

2025-01-22
Run Local LLMs in Your Browser: Introducing BrowserAI

BrowserAI is an open-source project enabling you to run large language models (LLMs) locally within your browser. Prioritizing privacy, all processing happens on your device, eliminating server costs and complex infrastructure. It supports multiple models, including those from MLC and Transformers, leveraging WebGPU for blazing-fast inference. A simple API allows developers to easily integrate text generation, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Many models are already supported, with a roadmap outlining future enhancements such as advanced RAG capabilities and enterprise features.

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(github.com)
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Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in OpenStreetMap

2024-12-20

The OpenStreetMap Foundation received a €384,000 grant from the Sovereign Tech Agency to ensure the stability, growth, and modernization of its core software. This funding will be used to update code, improve documentation and testing infrastructure, and enhance core infrastructure, including addressing vandalism and exploring new data interaction methods. Two new roles will be created, including an OSM Core Software Development Facilitator to coordinate developer efforts and foster community contributions.

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(blog.openstreetmap.org)
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Learning GPU Architecture Through Memory Bandwidth Microbenchmarks

2025-08-21
Learning GPU Architecture Through Memory Bandwidth Microbenchmarks

Traverse Research delved deep into GPU architecture by measuring memory bandwidth across various GPUs using custom microbenchmarks. The article explores the complexities of GPU memory access, including descriptors, buffer types (byte address, structured, typed), and texture units. It also covers GPU memory hierarchy, cache policies (write-through, write-back, write-around), and latency hiding techniques. Experiments revealed significant differences in cache and VRAM bandwidth across architectures: the Meta Quest 3's Adreno 740 showed a dramatic bandwidth improvement using textures; the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT exhibited differences between floating-point and integer loads; the Intel Arc B580 displayed unique patterns with varying data types; and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti experienced bottlenecks with many writes to the same small memory area. These findings offer insights for optimizing GPU software performance, particularly in hardware-specific projects.

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(www.evolvebenchmark.com)
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Anthropic Fixes Three Infrastructure Bugs Affecting Claude

2025-09-18
Anthropic Fixes Three Infrastructure Bugs Affecting Claude

Anthropic acknowledged that between August and early September, three infrastructure bugs intermittently degraded Claude's response quality. These bugs, causing misrouted requests, output corruption, and compilation errors, impacted a subset of users. Anthropic detailed the causes, diagnosis, and resolution of these bugs, committing to improved evaluation and debugging tools to prevent recurrence. The incident highlights the complexity and challenges of large language model infrastructure.

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(www.anthropic.com)
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LLVM Fortran Compiler Flang: A Decade in the Making, Officially Released

2025-03-12

After nearly a decade of development, the LLVM Fortran compiler, Flang, has finally been officially renamed from "flang-new" to "flang." This article recounts Flang's journey, from its initial development by the US National Labs and NVIDIA, to its adoption of LLVM's Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR), and its eventual integration into the LLVM project. Flang's creation aimed to provide a long-term, non-proprietary Fortran compiler, mitigating risks associated with single-point failures, and fostering growth within the Fortran community. Flang's journey also showcases advancements in compiler technology, such as the use of MLIR for optimizing Fortran code. Now mature and stable, with support from vendors like AMD, Flang stands as a powerful tool for Fortran developers.

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(blog.llvm.org)
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A Transputer Emulator in JavaScript: A 90s OS Reborn in Your Browser

2025-04-04
A Transputer Emulator in JavaScript: A 90s OS Reborn in Your Browser

A developer has ported their C-based Transputer emulator to JavaScript. Surprisingly fast, this emulator comes pre-loaded with a full-blown operating system from Spring 1996, including a C compiler, assembler, 3D modeler, and ray tracer. Users can experience this retro OS directly in their browser, running commands and even attempting to self-compile the C compiler! This showcases the advancements in JavaScript JIT compilation and the developer's passion for retro technology.

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(nanochess.org)
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Revisiting the Bug Council: Fixing GitHub Issues' Shortcomings

2025-05-22

The author recounts their experience using BugSplat for project management in early Silicon Valley, adhering to four key principles: all tasks are recorded as bugs, bugs have a unified and detailed schema, each bug is assigned to only one person, and flexible query functionality. The author finds that today's systems like GitHub Issues fall far short of BugSplat's efficiency, lacking a comprehensive schema, having diffuse responsibility, and limited query capabilities. The article concludes by describing how the author's team is improving the open-source project Gitea to address these shortcomings, ultimately achieving the ability to sort bug lists by priority.

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(www.bozemanpass.com)
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Clarification on Alleged ESP32 Backdoor

2025-03-11
Clarification on Alleged ESP32 Backdoor

Recent media reports claimed an ESP32 chip backdoor. Espressif clarifies that the reported functionality is internal debug commands for testing, not remotely accessible via Bluetooth, radio, or internet. These commands pose no security risk by themselves, though Espressif will provide a software fix to remove them. Only ESP32 chips are affected; ESP32-C, ESP32-S, and ESP32-H series are not. Espressif thanks the security researchers for their responsible disclosure.

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(www.espressif.com)
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C3: A Refined Evolution of the C Programming Language

2025-04-03
C3: A Refined Evolution of the C Programming Language

C3 is a programming language built upon the syntax and semantics of C, aiming to evolve it while maintaining familiarity for C programmers. It's an evolution, not a revolution: C-like for those who like C. Full ABI compatibility with C allows seamless mixing of C and C3 code. C3 introduces modern conveniences such as generics, result-based zero-overhead error handling, and defer statements, while avoiding unnecessary complexity. Version 0.7.0 is stable and supports various operating systems with pre-compiled binaries and comprehensive documentation available.

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(github.com)
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FractalU: How a Living Room Became a School

2025-05-08
FractalU: How a Living Room Became a School

FractalU started as a group of friends taking an online AI course together in someone's living room. This evolved into a thriving community school with dozens of instructors and hundreds of students. The secret? Low overhead, a focus on social learning, and high-quality courses. FractalU isn't a formal organization; it's a coordinated effort run by a small volunteer team. Most instructors have day jobs, teaching because they're passionate about their subjects and building community. FractalU's growth demonstrates the power of social learning and the appeal of integrating learning into everyday life.

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(prigoose.substack.com)
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25 Years Later: The Untold Story of the Mac OS X Dock

2025-01-06
25 Years Later: The Untold Story of the Mac OS X Dock

This blog post recounts the experiences of James Thomson, an early engineer on the Mac OS X Dock. He details his time working on the Dock at Apple in Ireland, including the initial design process, interactions with Steve Jobs, and his eventual departure from Apple. The story is filled with tension and intrigue, including secrecy surrounding the project, Jobs's demands about the engineer's location, and the challenges and triumphs Thomson faced during development. The post offers a fascinating glimpse into the creation of a pivotal piece of Mac OS X, and the journey of a software engineer.

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(tla.systems)
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