beyond the green owl, from streaks and potions to pedagogy and politics

The Hénon strange attractor is a system of two simple equations that gives rise to chaotic behavior. I first encountered Jared Tarbell's
beautiful visualizations of the attractor many years ago and recently explored making my own pictures using my favorite…

Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …

The American College of Cardiology now recommends everybody measure their hs-CRP.

Today we’re sharing a human rights impact assessment on AI/ML to help Wikimedia understand effects on human rights.

A gentle introduction to the PTX ISA. This post explains the entire CUDA compilation pipeline from C++ to SASS, provides a PTX playground and fully explains a hand-written PTX kernel.

How I overcame copying and modifying my own diff library from project to project by
diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff
library in my hand.

The U.S. Army has confirmed that the Tesla Cybertruck can’t be imported into Europe and cannot obtain an exemption for...

Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.

Dear Rubyists,

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share with you. We take our stewardship of the Ruby Gems ecosystem seriously. Our mission is clear: keep the language and the infrastructure you rely on stable, safe, and trustworthy. Before we get…

BrowserPod is a WebAssembly-based, client-side container technology that brings full-stack development environments to the browser. Pods run multiple processes with real concurrency, have a persistent block filesystem, and public HTTP endpoints via Portals.…

Multi-armed bandits a simple but very powerful framework for algorithms that make decisions over time under uncertainty. An enormous body of work has accumulated over the years, covered in several...

YouTube follows Meta and X in settling with the president.

While ZFS has a well-earned reputation for data integrity and reliability, OpenZFS native encryption has some incredibly sharp edges that will cut you if you don't know where to be careful. Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way, standing in a pool of…

A few weeks ago, I changed my Slack channel sections. I’m now more responsive and engaged, while also feeling less stressed. How? By sorting my Slack channels by urgency, or how often I want to read them. Versus Sorting by “how often” lets me read my most…

I started reading software blogs before I got my first programming job 20 years ago. At this point, I've read thousands of blog posts and essays, but a small handful stuck in my mind and changed the way I think about software.

Developing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 for replacing the very slow Mattel ECS BASIC for Intellivision.

Intel’s server dominance has been shaken by high core count competition from the likes of AMD and Arm.

A decade ago, I was writing about how you should test your user interface on drunk people. It was a semi-serious idea. Some of your users will be drunk when using your app or website. If it is easy for them to use, then it should be easy for sober people…

A comprehensive list of PostgreSQL 18 new features, performance optimizations, operational and observability improvements, and new tools for devs.