The recent surge in high-quality open-source Generative AI text models (colloquially: LLMs), as well as efficient finetuning techniques, have opened the possibility of creating high-quality...

If an Apple Account is only used for making purchases, those purchases can be migrated to a primary Apple Account to consolidate them.

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj

Critics accuse the company of wielding outsized private influence on public policing.

Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.

I've (mostly) given up on hand-writing HTML for my personal blog.

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'We were telling the story of a phone that would change everything. So that’s what we had to build.'

Tesla’s sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing...

I've done a shallow clone of a large repo (git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:myOrg/myRepo.git). I can push new changes to the remote but the first push is horribly slow. Subsequent pushes are fine...

Written in 1975, published in the short story collection Giving Good Weight in 1979 which you can access here or here.


THE PINBALL PHILOSOPHY

New York City, March 1975

J. ANTHONY LUKAS...

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What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel

Editors, Adam Turner and Hugo van Kemenade,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.14, compared to 3.13. Python 3.14 was released on 7 October 2025. For full details, see the changelog...

I’m building a new startup and file metadata plays an important role.

Car tires, replacement hip joints, bowling balls—these and other items are made from a class of plastics called thermosets, known for extreme durability.

US stance is “180-degree turnaround” from Biden administration.

Personal website for some random tidbits I work on