If you compile your app for AVX2 and it runs on Windows ARM under Prism emulation, is it faster or slower than compiling for SSE2-4.x? I assumed it would be roughly the same — maybe slightly slower due to emulation overhead, but AVX2's wider operations would…

“I don’t even know what to do with this,” Colbert said about the network’s news release on a scrapped interview with a Democratic politician, before putting the paper in a dog waste bag.

The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.

fragments 18 Feb 2026

The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/Mac  and  144.0.7559.75 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming d...

Frontend tooling in 2026+, with and without AI.

Work around hard NATs and tricky networks with production-grade connectivity nodes you control

Contribute to khalildh/garment-notation development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. With this chip, CAD so...

As Zig has evolved, it has become a target to avoid calling Win32 APIs from `kernel32.dll` etc., instead using lower-level ones in `ntdll.dll`. This has been discussed in [#1840][gh], but this issue serves as its replacement, and a reformulation of why this…

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway submitted its latest 13-F filing on February 17, revealing some interesting changes in the portfolio. 

The bill would require parental permission or ID checks to open the calculator app that came with your phone.

Unfortunate update: FLOSS/fund reached out to me again but due to some unforeseen regulatory constraints their partnership with GitHub didn't seem to work out. Instead they want to issue a wire...

A blog where I write about my computer science projects, usually with some animations, code, and/or simulations.

When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet…

A fast, modern SSH client for iOS and iPadOS, built for the new era of terminal tools and AI coding agents.

Uneven growth puts the outlook on a fragile footing.