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I still remember the shock I felt when I first encountered functional programming years ago. That was the moment I learned that natural numbers can be built within the language itself:
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It's that time of the year again, a new version of Python is just around the corner. With the Python 3.15.0b1 feature freeze, we know what's...
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In November 2025, a pull request was opened for the Tailwind website repository to add llms.txt as an endpoint for, you guessed it, providing an LLM-friendly version of the popular CSS framework’s documentation. It first sat idle for a while and the issuer...
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In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those...
Entities: Google
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tl;dr: ISO is seeking testimonials from “open source organizations” by June 4th on the importance of open access to ISO standards documents; this RFC is about that statement. Background Roughly speaking, under the usual…
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Why this site returns 403 Forbidden for unrecognised query strings and why I make one exception for ?v= cache busters.
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Image credit: the OpenSMTPD project © 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen The SMTP mail server for the 21st century and onwards is Op...
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Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in...
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Suppose your manager asks you next week to demonstrate that the AI coding tools your company signed up for are worth the subscription cost. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether...
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Entities: Programming
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The building blocks for the torment nexus are mislabeled. Few people would be stupid enough to build the torment nexus if the labels were honest.
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