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The App Store ecosystem crossed $1 Trillion in 2022. To be precise, in a report published in May 2023 by the Analysis Group the ecosystem is estimated to have exceeded $1.1 trillion. This ecosystem…

Several Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Notepad++ that can be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes.

The open-source AIOps and alert management platform - keephq/keep

I sometimes get a vibe that many people trying to ambitiously do good in the world (including EAs) are misguided about what doing successful policy/g…

Thoughts on building, shipping and iterating quickly

As mentioned on previous posts, I have spent the past few weeks dealing with a ZFS crash on my FreeNAS install. Because of that, not only was I forced to learn how to troubleshoot ZFS, but I also had to learn how to setup new volumes and come up with new…

The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past. Edition 155.

Geoff Chappell passed away today on his own terms, surrounded by family and while his good humor remained intact.

Please listen to a Beatles record and read a little assembly code in his honor.

Diversified farming is an important complement to forest protections for reversing tropical biodiversity declines.

Tourism body tries to nail down best recipe for a dish popular at home but often overshadowed abroad

WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?

In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to h…

We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years - Volume 83 Issue 3

The source code of the 'rg' crate. It is an intentional typo-squat that redirects folks to 'ripgrep'. - BurntSushi/rg-cratesio-typosquat

Austin and Houston have experienced some of the highest outward migration among major...

Ah, the last and mightiest of Apple trying to have it both ways: the 1995 PowerBook Duo 2300c, and the only PowerPC laptop in the entire s...

A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers - deadbeefsociety/sshfs

Do we think about vector storage completely wrong?

For search, we care about increasing the initial recall set. Which often can be 100s or 1000s.

Then we want to improve the precision over that with a smarter model that can use many things (BM25, numeric…

If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing history with unmatched capabilities…