Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming…

At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flat [...]

Young artists find a new way to resist the impermanence of modernity.

Bell Labs’ Bellmac-32 paved the way for today’s smartphone chips

The scaffolding surrounding the Charing Cross railway bridge has received an addition – two bales of hay/straw – because an ancient law requires it.

Supercharge sales enablement with intelligent, interactive demos that turn prospects into customers faster and more effectively.

There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a…

Implementations of various silly job interview questions in Haskell

In the 1980s, there were a series of writers who challenged the way people thought of the then-growing popularity of colour television and news media. I have written before about Neil Postman, and …

The full video of my Upper Bound 2025 talk about our research directions should be available at some point, but here are my slides:
https://t.co/KPM6NtSaug

And here are the notes I made while preparing, which are more extensive than what I had time to say:

Multivariate normal sampling can be wildly irreproducible if you’re not careful. Sometimes more than others. There are eldritch horrors, ill-conditioned matrices, and floating point nightmares in here. Teaching sand to do linear algebra was a mistake

Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and expressivity you get from pen & paper?

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created.

Discover how Pieces enhanced its optical character recognition (OCR) engine to improve accuracy, speed, and real-world application for software developers.

Researchers conduct chemistry simulations with sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD), a prime candidate for near-term demonstrations of quantum advantage.

At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominen