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WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone
I'm reclaiming the title of 'webmaster' as the multidisciplinary creator who designs, develops, writes, and advocates for their own corner of the web and will save the world. Tracing the history from 1993 to the present, I argue that anyone can become a...
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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
I'm currently pulling together a bunch of sources - that are mostly recent - on the topic of LLMs and their use in software development. Some are peer-reviewed studies. Some are industry studies that haven't been peer-reviewed. One is statistical physics....
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming
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Pony's Arena Allocator - Pony
Here’s how it was. We’d been running stress tests on the TCP system in ponyc every day for a really long time. Those tests hadn’t failed in forever. There’s two ways you can look at “no tests are failing.” Either your system is rock solid or your tests...
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A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose - Walter van der Giessen
Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade.
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“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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You can just choose how many bugs you want now
There's a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I've been trying to put my finger on, and I think it's this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have now. We discovered this first with security, because of course security bugs...
Topics: ProgrammingSecurity
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A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
Dmitry Grinberg published a long piece explaining his distaste for RISC-V, you can read his article here: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR. It went to the front page of Hacker News and it started a good argument on Lobsters. It is the most...
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Anti-Social Media | Christian Heilmann
Currently I am on a half diet of social media as I am still locked out of X and by now I really don’t mind any more. Social media is dead and has been weaponised into a distraction, propaganda and rage discourse machine. I wished it weren’t that way, but we...
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CVE-2026-33696: From a Schema Name to RCE in n8n | Simon Koeck
n8n uses a user-supplied schema name as a bare object key. Set it to __proto__, pollute the prototype, chain into RCE via the Git node. One request, full shell.
Topics: Security