Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

Umami is a modern, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. - umami-software/umami

The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees.

Welcome to my professional portfolio and blog!

Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was ...

This month, Amazon plans to sunset its download and transfer functionality, closing a loophole used to remove DRM from its retail e-books

Some tricks and techniques for working with graph or tree like data in Postgresql

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet stream of its kind ever ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral as one of the most remarkable footage in Chile in recent years.

The new ChatGPT suggestions make me want to scream. Am I weird?

The Internet promised us a renaissance of discourse. Armed with instant access to all human knowledge and the ability to connect with brilliant minds worldwide, we imagined our online debates would elevate human understanding to unprecedented heights. 

But…

An SSRI protects from infection induced lethality by promoting immune-dependent metabolic defenses.

We discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast, and how the presence of constructors and shared libraries affects the access time.

One of the many custom-trained models to serve specific geographies, markets, and customers

Investigation reveals ineffective products being sold across Africa, with poor regulation and shortage of effective medication leading to needless deaths

Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.

Forgotten musings on the economics of AI, an intelligence explosion, and machine consciousness

Today, we are announcing a major update of SuperSplat, the open source platform for editing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune

Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?