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For a long time I've wanted to spend some time writing down my recollections of what I did on the TA graphics engine.  It was a weird time, ...

At WWDC24, Apple announced Private Cloud Compute. Relying heavily on crytographic attestation, it raises the bar on cloud privacy and security.

The tech is new, and people are still unfamiliar.

Trying to answer a complicated question for myself, as a computer user during the multimedia era: Why did the CD-ROM caddy exist, and why didn’t I have one?

Scaling will run out. The question is when.

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Below is a lightly-edited transcript of a talk I gave recently at work where I walked through the story of how I built Quick BIN Lookup and how it rose and fell to irrelevancy over the last 8 years. Hello! Today, I wanted to tell the story of how I

Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

Smart glasses that combine personal computing, AI, and augmented reality could be the next life-changing consumer tech device. Here's how.

Imbuing generative AI tools with character may be important for user adoption, but how do we do it well?

Wild ramblings, raport from the field about choosing Vector Database for a particular project and a little bit of a rant about the current state of AI and how it's perceived, why human brains are a wonder of nature, and why it's far from 'thinking' and 'consciousness'.

Trends in synthetic data that I'm watching closely in the leading open and closed models.

No.316 — Books for understanding degrowth ⊗ Eyes on the Future ⊗ Can Artificial Intelligence rethink art?

I don’t think it does. Not for everything. We already have personal AI for autocomplete. Do we need Big Compute for a personal AI to tell us which pieces within our Amazon orders are in which…

Join us for the world’s first local-first conference. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 30th May 2024.

We explore how to build local-first sync on top of simple file storage

Does your team’s software give you warm fuzzies, or does it leave you filled with fear? On this episode of Maintainable, Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, shares his take on the emotional and human side of well-maintained code, how teams can overcome the fear that leads to technical debt, and the importance of finding balance between prep work and shipping.

Mugshot was a social networking website created by Red Hat. Unlike most other social networking websites, which are concerned with advertising, Mugshot offered a desktop client and web widgets.

The hugely ambitious 'Symbolic Processing Using RISC' project from UC Berkeley

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for impr…

“Oh, why did the endpoint return a user object without the dateOfBirth field?”  —  Me, during my last project

TL;DR: how I fixed my RSS feed by installing mailcap so I don't get tormented by mimes

Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not