On Friday, July 18th, 2025, the Arch Linux team was notified that three AUR packages had been uploaded that contained malware. A few maintainers including myself took care of deleting these packages, removing all traces of the malicious code, and protecting…

Interactive map of US mines with MSHA data: commodities, operators, safety classifications, and production history for 91,000+ mines.

Wingstop, Burger King, and others have walked away from an industry commitment to avoid using fast-growing chickens

Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"

Git only tracks files, not directories. It will only create a directory if it contains a tracked file. But sometimes you need to “track” a directory, to ensure it exists for fresh clones of a repository. For example, you might need an output directory called…

How is is possible that we’ve made incredible gains in the performance of models, but virtually no gains in the infrastructure that supports them?.
.. or what I like to call: the worst enemy of chatbots is page refresh.
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Why Elton McDonald built the Toronto tunnel that captivated the world

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Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

Bug Denoscription Starting from today's morning with the updated to CC 2.1.1 - the usage is ridiculous. I am working on the same projects for months, same routines, same time. But today it hits 5...

A way to actually see the ideas hidden in golf course architecture.

We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend. Not thousands. Millions. Our retail clients grow their businesses through Meta Ads, and for a lot of them, it’s their single most important…

Nature - Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage...

"It's time to build communities, not data centers," said one local activist.

The new law will ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe and will support the shift to a circular economy.

Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm …

24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam. I found the bug and built a working unsubscribe page.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

LibreOffice is expanding its line of attack, now targeting OnlyOffice, its rival, for being "partners with Microsoft in a strategy to lock users in."