Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…

Prices are set to go up from March.

As of January 6, 2025, FFmpegKit is officially retired.

Svelte 5 as a case study in how abstractions aimed at simplifying concepts can actually make software development more complex.

The description suggests that this is some kind of extended metaphor about work. It appears to be written in that _Choose Your Own Adventure_ style second-person voice, yet there are no choices to be found within. Against your better judgment, you follow…

I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check.

Thinking
✅ First, Grok 3 clearly has an around state of the art thinking model ("Think" button) and did great out of the box on my…

Broadcom has interest in Intel’s chip-design business, while TSMC is looking at the company’s factories.

The “neural correlates of consciousness” (NCC) is a familiar topic in neuroscience, overlapping with research on the brain’s “default mode network.” Task-bas...

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is still happening.

About 20,000 of the most cited researchers have 'implausibly high' publication and new co-author rates

​On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological…

The challenges of programming with chronic pain and what worked for me