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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
Topics: Security
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Stopping the smart TV from being used against you.
Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master? Amid the overall electronics boom thanks to A.I., one piece of electronics is almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel monitor. With good reason! The entire entertainment and...
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts
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How cats.txt showed llms.txt evidence is GEO astrology
How the joke web standard cats.txt took the fancy of some SEOs and became cited at the same evidential level as llms.txt for optimising websites for search and AI discovery.
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Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language
Pointer Stability Locks were added to std’s Hash Map containers in 2024. A pull request initially opened by Leo Emar-Kar in 2025 now brings this technique for ensuring memory safety to std.ArrayList.
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming
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Yap: a particular kind of slop
Writing code comments has always been hard, because communicating is hard. It's hard to not assume context. It's hard to use the right terminology consistently. It's hard to even put comments in the right spots to begin with. It generally takes me several...
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out...
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Nobody Argued For Your Stack
Last week, it came to light Cursor had mostly finished migrating from SolidJS to React. This... Tagged with ai, webdev, react, programming.
Topics: Programming
Entities: ProgrammingCursor
