Collection of side projects, conference talks and blog posts experimenting with frontend technologies and human-computer interaction

Screens sprayed with coffee after techies find Microsoft's latest OS in unexpected places

You may be familiar with the truffle oil scam, but everything else you think you know about truffles is probably a lie too.

In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you're updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple return value from another API.

Let's start with when you should use named tuples. Usually…

A personal perspective on the complex role English plays in Japan.

Nvidia Corp. became the largest company in the world on Tuesday, surpassing Apple Inc. and underscoring just how dominant artificial intelligence has become on Wall Street.

A new built-in system for creating and sharing your gameplay footage

Recent work suggests that large language models may implicitly learn world models. How should we assess this possibility? We formalize this question for the case where the underlying reality is...

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant used an unusual computer setup to discover a Mersenne prime that is — wait for it — 41 million digits long.

The species evolved to exploit human-built environments and exists nowhere else. So where did it come from?

Improve Rosetta performance by adding support for the total store ordering (TSO) memory model to your Linux kernel.

Three months ago, I wrote about why you might want to use panics for error handling. Even though it’s a catchy noscript, panics are hardly suited for this goal, even if you try to hack around with macros and libraries. The real star is the unwinding mechanism…

Contribute to turingbirds/ping-clock development by creating an account on GitHub.

Self-hosted environment for programming tutorial by LLM - TutoriaLLM/TutoriaLLM

Incomplete data structures challenge our notion of mutability

For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’…

Notepad isn’t safe from AI.