Having Fun with Technology

Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched a Request for Comment on the risks, benefits and potential policy related to advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with widely available…

cuz internet is for the cats

Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables to the console. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML in it?!? I didn't! It's a neat technique that can delight the curious and further your brand for curious…

I have been playing around with Googles Gemini Pro.

Recently, I wanted to write a blog on Python's decorators and wanted to get some ideas for practical projects I could build with them. Tried GPT4 first, it gave me the standard "log analyser" that all blogs…

The best way you can contribute to an open source project is to remove lines of code from it. We should endeavor to write code that a novice programmer can easily understand without explanation or ...

What makes certain programming languages flourish while others languish? What have natural languages to teach us in this?

Love letter to @obsdmd to which I very happily switched to for my personal notes. My primary interest in Obsidian is not even for note taking specifically, it is that Obsidian is around the state of the art of a philosophy of software and what it could be.…

Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed without a trace.”

A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: An enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun's backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral ...

Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subnoscription accounts featuring minors. Meta took another approach and says its programs are well monitored.

Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.

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Precise Figma & React components. Packed with best practices, unified prop names & consistent design and code. - functional-ui/functional-ui-kit

Private utility companies are blocking new interregional transmission lines