Oh this is super neat and convenient! I didn't know about those glob patterns modifiers in zsh.

Lots of interesting measures to reduce the risk of supply chain issues. Definitely to be considered on your projects.

So many string types! They all have a purpose of course. It's a good reminder that something mundane like a string type is not that simple.

Failing DRAM chips are real. Here is the case of debugging a single bit flip.

It's getting clearer that the industrial LLM complex will have a hard time meeting its targets.

Indeed, the giant managed to make itself weak. This means opportunities for other ecosystems to grow faster than before.

A good explanation and illustration of how natural monopolies work. This is why you want to regulate infrastructure properly.

Shows the problem with layer cakes in applications or how you might want to go toward onion architectures.

Examples of how i3 and go stamp versions. This is indeed good habits to ease dealing with errors in production.

Cryptic title to be honest. But this is a good explanation of why any "agile transformation" better start close to the code and in particular with automated tests. If you can crack that nut (and it take time), the rest will follow naturally.

Excellent piece, it show quite well the problem of skipping the "grunt work". Without it you can't really learn your trade (be it astrophysics or anything else). It also shows how the incentives on scientific careers are wrong. It's not new, but when LLM agents become available, things are definitely changing for the worst.

So much this... There are so many organisational problems that churning code faster is likely not what you need. When did we start to obsess with the number of lines of code?

A friendly reminder that one can go far mainly with awk.

It feels like it's supercharging an old bias... We tend to confuse confidence for competence.

Real innovations come from constraints. The frugal AI movement is clearly where we will see interesting things emerging. Interestingly, those approaches are closer to what AI is about as a research field than the industrial complex which got unleashed with all its extractive power.

The price hike on RAM due to the LLM as a service bubble is really killing interesting fields. Can't we have nice things? Will the arm race end soon?

You got bluray discs to encode for use on your NAS? This looks like a nice option.

Are you sure your understand how your reverse proxy works and the impacts it can have in production?

A good reminder of why destructors shouldn't throw. It really has to be a last resort measure and only carefully considered. There's a reason why they are nothrow by default since C++11.

Are we surprised? Of course depends on the browser and they're looking mostly for extensions. Clearly they try hard to map what people use, it's corporate espionage.