Sometimes, especially when dealing with business logic, we have to deal with data that comes in from the real world, or elsewhere, naturally very messily typed, leading to nasty type signatures and messes of macros or code generation to build data structures…

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

Run, share, and edit Python notebooks

It's 1998, the middle of the dot-com boom. Portals are advertising on TV, web developers are fighting browser companies, Microsoft and Amazon are gaining power, and Netscape is going open source.

Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed the mRNA vaccine to fight not one but any cancer. It has…

Achieving polymorphism via dynamic dispatch in Zig

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

How do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads?

When a datacenter fire threatened 142 of my servers, my backup strategy had them back online in hours. This post shares my personal philosophy on creating a resilient system, focusing on the crucial planning that must happen before you write a single script.

Since our last public update, OrioleDB has continued to evolve with a series of new releases. These updates refine the core engine, extend functionality, and improve performance across a range of workloads. Together, they move us closer to a beta release…

One man's struggle with his mortality.

The USPS has come a long way.

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech

Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say

Detect agentic coding environments and AI editors. Contribute to ascorbic/am-i-vibing development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past

Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.