An island with a renovated fort in Wales, United Kingdom, has recently gone on sale for $4 million.

I've been running the Framework Desktop for a few months here in Copenhagen now. It's an incredible machine. It's completely quiet, even under heavy, stress-all-cores load. It's tiny too, at just 4.5L of volume, especially compared to my old beautiful but…

Last weekend I was testing Bitchat with a couple of friends at Off Festival in Katowice. How did it fulfil its role as an short range communication tool?

Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.

We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find…

jack Morris's investigation into GPT-OSS training data

https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164?t=3YRhVQDwQLk2gouTSACoqA&s=09

Beale Infrastructure's Arizona site could have grown to two million sq ft

Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it&…

The Eye Security Research team has uncovered a new critical misconfiguration that exposed sensitive data at internal Microsoft applications.

A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

hiring in tech is broken and everyone knows it. what can we do better?

A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has…

Don't "let it crash". Let it heal.