I’m pleased to announce that most of my libraries for fennel are now shipped as single files! It was a long-standing issue with Fennel for me, as there was no clear way to ship both macros and functions in the same file, but after some experimentation, I…

Starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon

Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.

Over the years, I’ve written plenty about comedy writers reusing jokes. Today’s topic is one of the most famous and most-quoted examples of the lot. So let’s turn to ersatz Bond f…

GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

Do I look tired? In my defense, I recorded this at 10pm on the night before I flew to China. That's also why I say uh and um a lot.

Enjoy the first look at the final Pebble Time 2 design! Check out all the details on the blog post: https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble…

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Public transport will be temporarily free of charge in Geneva, in a first for Switzerland, as part of a series of measures aimed at tackling a spike in pollution in the city.

Think you can type fast? Prove it with Fingerjigger, a fun 2 minute test of your typing abilities!

A common source of confusion that I experience when posting my artwork on social media is: _why?_ Why use a plotter when you could use a printer? It's slower. Less exact. More expensive. It fails, far too often. Inkjet printers became ubiquitous in the 1980s…

I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen

LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment.  In the majority of cases…

Is your LLM agent spying on you? How hard is it to create a secretly malicious LLM agent? It turns out, not that hard (demo included).

Doctors were baffled when a healthy man developed hallucinations and paranoia. The cause? Bromide toxicity—triggered by an AI-guided experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. The case raises new concerns about how people use chatbots like ChatGPT for…

I wanted to share a side project I've been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground - basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this interesting statically-typed Lisp dialect. So What's Coalton? If you haven't…

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It's real and it's magnificent

In this day and age of cybersecurity professionals crying out for roles, we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent. A quick scan through your LinkedIn feed will show this is absolute nonsense: there is a mass…