We wanted to congratulate you on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub! ➜ curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/1000000000 { "id": 1000000000, "node_id": "R...

Large language models (LLMs) use data to learn about the world in order to produce meaningful correlations and predictions. As such, the nature, scale, quality, and diversity of the datasets used...

PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME

About the fatal perils and traps of many modern tools that handle "shell commands" as passed through `system(3)` or `sh -c`. Or, how by the end of 2020, we still haven't given up on shell's equivalent "SQL building", or how shell's equivalent "SQL injection"…

A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next t…

Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the…

Part 7 of my software journey, getting to know developer experience.

Development journal of eyesite.

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Some expanding mechanisms, made with rack and pinion mechanisms.

Files to make an expanding 3-4-5 triangle: https://www.printables.com/model/1305045-expanding-3-4-5-triangle
You can also use copies of some of the parts to make expanding sticks and square…

Would you believe OpenAI if it told you AI is fine for the planet, actually?

This is another post that started after several toots on mastodon. Most of the things presented here were already tooted by other people, but I think this is a good chance to write a mini tutorial about what to look at. We’ll use DNS, whois, BGP and your…

A few observations after Apple’s introduction of the Liquid Glass user interface at the WWDC25 keynote.

As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed—or do depressed kids simply spend more time on social media?

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the radioactive fingerprints she left behind.

All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.

Current recommendations of agentic coding.

: Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance