AI, chatbots, and the end of the link economy.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

💡Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool

I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a denoscription of the…

Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding. - pgdogdev/pgdog

The file was left entirely unprotected - no encryption, no password, no safeguards - just a plain text document holding millions of sensitive data entries.

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn keeps putting his foot in it when it comes to conversations about AI.

I've spent the last week or two writing code to make sense of the massive hack of data from TeleMessage, the comically insecure company that makes a modified Signal app that Trump's former national security advisor Mike Waltz was caught using. I've decided…

😈 BEWARE: Claude 4 + GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories, no questions asked.

We discovered a new attack on agents using GitHub’s official MCP server, which can be exploited by attackers to access your private repositories.

creds to @marco_milanta…

Muddled laws give them wide discretion

Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol using Silicon Labs Wireless Gecko SoCs - loopj/wavephoenix

In a bold move, TSMC partners with Avicena to revolutionize AI data centers using microLED-based interconnects. Ditching lasers for LEDs, this tech promises energy efficiency and lower costs, at the expense of more fibers. Could this be the future of AI scale…

A mathematical keypad for students and professionals - Summa-Cogni/Mathpad

This repo contains a new way to use bloom filters to do lossless video compression - ross39/new_bloom_filter_repo

Know where AI is a crutch and where it's an abstraction.

A Minecraft clone made with pure HTML & CSS – no JavaScript.

In this post, I demonstrate the optimal workflow for creating new Debian packages in 2025, preserving the upstream Git history. The motivation for this is to lower the barrier for sharing improvements to and from upstream, and to improve software provenance…

Mostly to make use of an animation I made for a different blog post that hasn't materialised, let me take a moment to explain to you the fundamental technical difference between 'streaming' and 'downloading'. Which won't take long... because there isn't one!

Don't believe what you read in the medias, you already know that. In an article about DNS censorship, TorrentFreak claims that "However, ...

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.