Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.

Apple's iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system's internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow…

You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some…

Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.

Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

I’m sitting on a lānai in a hotel in Waikiki beach, writing this article, and wondering if the job I am starting nine days from now will be my last.This is a...

When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...

The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in...

Let’s take a photo using a piece of tape.

0:00 Intro to coded apertures
1:10 The point is the point spread function
1:50 2D convolution for optical systems
2:39 Tape can have a PSF?
3:58 Raw data & convolution theorem
4:55 A basic reconstruction
6:22 Wiener…

Duvall starred in nearly 100 films during his career, which spanned over seven decades.

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

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Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on for the past year through a series of app updates alongside posts…

Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight

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Before you read a single line more, I will give the usual but still important caveats – this blog is my opinion, based on my experiences. Take it with a big ol’...

American Express just opened a 1,000,000 sq ft office in Gurugram, India, the largest in its corporate history. I was an engineering director inside the organization behind their so-called "AI-powered innovation." My teams built the lending and buy-now-pay…