I am a daily Anki user (I describe how and why here and here). I've been working with my Anki data lately, which has meant exposing and manipulating the Sqlite database underlying the program. (I'm grateful to the Ankidroid project and r/anki  for having…

On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing.

The official documentation for Textile Markup Language - A humane web text generator.

The Minister of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service of France, Amélie de Montchalin announced a new action plan for open source software in the public sector at the closing of the Paris Open Source Experience conference on 10 November. It sets…

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Hide all mentions of Wordle from Hacker News feeds - StopWordle.user.js

Modern browsers are some of the most complicated programs ever written. For example, the main Firefox library on my system is over 130Mbytes. Doing 130MB of IO poorly can be quite a performance hit, even with SSDs! :).
Few people seem to understand how memory…

As I’ve progressed through my career, I’ve experienced increasing imposter syndrome. It’s never gone away.

An introduction to vector databases for non-technical folks.

Making the world's first VR Computer

I've spent the past few days working on an Inform 6 compiler patch to tighten up generated code . While I was working, I tweeted this scree...

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I wasn’t going to say anything, but since ZDNet has republished the AWS “Sustainability with Rust” blog post, a short thread about why that post is misleading (at best) about Go. 1/

Last week at the Intel 2022 Investor Meeting, company leaders reiterated our commitment to foster an open ecosystem that ensures trust, choice and interoperability for our industry. Today, in a furtherance of that commitment, we are excited to announce Intel’s…

How I reverse engineered United Airline's iOS app to shave 187MB off the total size.