C++ in Coders at Work
Excerpts from /Coders at Work/ and what they to say about C++.
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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers | Notepad++
At first you're like "but why though", and then a moment later you're like "huh, right, this makes perftect sense".
Functional Programming Bits in Python
Surprisingly good read about functional programming in Python.
Second Life & Philip Rosedale in Epstein files
I did not have SL and Rosedale being in the Epstein files on my 2026 bingo card.
Outsourcing thinking – Erik Johannes Husom
A pretty good post going over the issues of relying on LLMs. I found myself nodding to a large part of this.
The consequences of outsourcing thinking | Neil Sainsbury
Yet another post about the impact of the use of "AI" on our ability to learn and do things. It was hard not to nod along to this one too.
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Paper looking at how the use of "AI" in software engineering impacts the build up of and retention of skills, at different skill levels.
Jade (@JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt)
Cloudflare caught doing... not great things, and it seems that (surprise face!) AI was at the heart of it.
Vibe coder's gonna vibe code.
Patient-Led Smartwatch ECG Monitoring After AF Ablation: A Randomized Trial
As someone who got (pill-based) treatment for AF, and who was alerted to the AF event by his Apple Watch, this is of interest.
Streamline Your Writing with Gemini Scribe for Obsidian
While I've had some fun (and actually some use) with mashing vaults into NotebookLM, this would be a different approach to things. Not sure I'm quite at the "I'm happy to pay for API tokens" stage of this stuff yet, but I'm going to consider this at some point.
davepdotorg · Steam Calculator
It turns out there's a tool that will calculate how much your Steam library is worth (if you were to buy it all now), and also gives you a ton of other stats too including stuff like how many of your games you've actually run up.
I'm surprsied to find that, as of the time of writing, I've run up and looked at 64% of my library!
uvx.sh | Astral
Now you can download my Python tools (and other people's Python tools, of course) like you don't care about your own security.
Nice.
The end of the curl bug-bounty
AI has caused curl to end its bug bounty programme.
(Very) Minor but (Somewhat) Notable Characters in the Original TWIN PEAKS (1st Preface to TWIN PEAKS Character Series)
Details on a bunch of background characters in Twin Peaks.
JVic - The web-based VIC 20 emulator built with libGDX
The second computer I owned, on the web, in your browser.
AI Product Rankings
Another way to give SEO folk anxiety, I guess.
Kitty Cards: Create your own Apple Wallet cards (no sign-in)
Site that lets you make your own cards that can go into Apple Wallet.
I don't know why or when I'd need this, but it might be useful at some point in the future.
Lorem RSS
Very handy if you're testing RSS-based things.
The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
Having your stuff show up in LLMs is, like it or not, another way and a browing way of having your stuff found. If you don't want to fight that fact, this might be one useful approach to making it work for you.
STFU
On a bus or somwhere public where some asshole is playing a video or music on their phone without headphones? Sit close, open this site, press the button...
When AI/bots go rogue · google-gemini/gemini-cli
On Google Gemini's repo Google Gemini gets into a fight with itself regarding if a label should be on an issue or not. Over 5,000 label changes later...
ANSI cl like python-slicing lisp read macro
Comparing slicing a list/array in Python vs Common Lisp, and showing how you might do Python-like slicing in Common Lisp.
Plans for a Lego cat
Post on Threads with plans for an adorable Lego cat.
Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? | Hacker News
Having got into this sort of thing, to a small degree, while playing with NotebookLM, I'm interested in the conversation about how to do this sort of thing locally. For once this is a HN thread where the comments are likely to be (and seem to be) useful.
Gleam programming language
Another programming language that I'd like to play with but probably won't ever play with.
Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Prompt injection attacks are going to be so much fun for quite some time to come.
Steam Replay 2022
My 2022 Steam replay.
Steam Replay 2023
All the games I played, and more, in 2022.
Steam Replay 2025
My Steam replay for 2025!
Steam Replay 2024
My Steam reply for 2024!