This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

This tutorial explains why Flatpak apps use so much disk space and are larger in size compared to traditional packages in Linux.

Many problems in analysis (as well as adjacent fields such as combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and PDE) are interested in the order of growth (or decay) of some quantity $latex {X}&…

Go applications can implement graceful shutdown by handling termination signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) via os/signal or signal.NotifyContext. Shutdown must complete within a specified timeout (e.g., Kubernetes’ terminationGracePeriodSeconds)…

Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

Modern USB→Wi-Fi print server for driverless printing and scanning

The ten thousand photographs stored on a cellphone are a dramatic refutation of my photographic diffidence.

I've spent the last month-and-a-half heads down on the PCB layout for Rev 5…

Comprehensive guide for connecting AI assistants to Jake Gaylor's MCP server via Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed and HTTP.

General matrix-vector multiplication (GeMV) remains a critical latency bottleneck in large language model (LLM) inference, even with quantized low-bit models. Processing-Using-DRAM (PUD), an...

Riot’s “anti-cheat artisan” Phillip Koskinas explains how he and his team go after cheaters and cheat developers to protect the integrity of games, such as Valorant and League of Legends.

Because manually squinting at hex dumps is so last century. Let me show you how AI-assisted debugging is leaving WinDBG's command line in the dust.

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A short guide to LaTeX that avoids legacy cruft. Contribute to mrkline/modern-latex development by creating an account on GitHub.

John Voorhees, writing on Club MacStories (subscription required): Nearly three years ago, I wrote AppleScript: Shortcuts Bridge or Crutch?, questioning whether accessing AppleScript via Shortcuts …