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Lessons and tips learned while earning a Kaggle Competition Medal

At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

Oh man, what remarkable timing. I had a blog post scheduled to go up later today, in which I said some nice things about Dia, the Arc replacement from The Browser Company. I've been pretty salty towards The Browser Company for the past 18 months or so, but I was

For most enterprises, high-end GPUs are not as essential as the providers want you to think. Old GPUs or CPUs often deliver sufficient cloud AI performance at drastically reduced costs.

One of the things that makes legacy code legacy is that code, over time, rots. Some of that rot comes from the gradual accumulation of fixes, hacks, and kruft. But much of the rot also comes from the tooling going unsupported or entirely out of support. For example, many years ago, I worked in a Visual Basic 6 shop. The VB6 IDE went out of support in April, 2008, but we continued to use it well into the next decade. This made it challenging to support the existing software, as the IDE frequently broke in response to OS updates. Even when we started running it inside of a VM running an antique version of Windows 2000, we kept running into endless issues getting projects to compile and build.

I’m sitting in front of an old Sayno Plasma TV as I write this on my media PC. It’s not a productivity machine, by any means, but the screen has the resolution to do it so I started this document t…

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.

Thumb keyboards built for home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?

Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday bunker revealed something a bit surprising. Apparently, in some parts of …

*This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn’t been expecting much, because…

EHTML (or Extended HTML) can be described as a set of custom elements that you can place on an HTML page for different purposes and use cases. The goal of this library is to provide a convenient way to eliminate JavaScript code on the client side as much as possible for basic and routine tasks. The biggest focus of this library is to offer the easiest way to perform **AJAX** operations just by using HTML. Also EHTML treat your HTML code code not only as a markup language but also as a templating language.

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.

Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox.

The address that I use for this newsletter has long since been overrun by nonsense. Seemingly every PR and marketing firm in existence has gleefully ... Read more

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

The Return Of The Screwdriver Age

Platform Engineering Labs

Formae, from Platform Engineering Labs, addresses the brittleness of Day 2 operations by using Apple's robust Pkl configuration language.

A full-stack developer and Angular consultant explains how AI models can be treated as local assets, enabling better performance and privacy.

In the previous part of this series, I introduced the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) and the ONNX Runtime as the interoperable toolkit and platform for machine learning and deep models. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use an existing ONNX model for inferencing. In just 30 lines of code that includes preprocessing…

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:AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.

In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to ferret out what the other guy…