I have often complained about the lack of good modern tooling for systems development. I finally decided to sit down and write up a collection of ideas and concepts I wish someone would steal and develop into a fully fledged modern integrated development environm

Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a geography of consumption, disposal, and reuse — that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.

My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.

14 of the best papers out of the 2260 papers presented at the 2024 ICLR conference, in 4 sections covering Image Generation, Vision Learning, Extending Transformers, and State Space Models.

This week, another round of AI news. I am thinking about applying agonistic pluralism in generative things and urban robots. And others -more-than-human- news and events to visit.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

A piece of growing internet.

Inventing new materials is only the first step. Getting them into mass production and use is just as hard.

Startup Userfront takes on the complexity of scaling customer accounts for SaaS companies as they grow.

This weekend, I shelled out $5.99 for a month-long subscription to the streaming service Peacock. I wanted to watch the Prefontaine Classic, the annual track and field event held at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. In particular, I wanted to watch Sha'Carri Richardson in the 100m and

WebAssembly has been the new hotness for what feels like ages. The creator of Docker tweeted that Docker wouldn’t have been necessary if WebAssembly existed in 2008. People have made talks speculating that it will eat the entire programming model. Almost every language has been compiled to WebAssembly. So why are people not using WebAssembly over 7 years after its release? Standardization Is Slow First and most obviously, WebAssembly has been very slow to standardize.

Fly.io is a highly visible cloud provider in the Elixir ecosystem and they put forward an interesting promise. They don't deliver on that promise currently but I think it would be very compelling if they get there. Especially for Elixir. Let's dig in.

Wonder Tools ✂️ Create a visual scrapbook

Shifts in the tech labor market haven’t been felt evenly across all roles. These 5 roles have proven highly resilient in the tech industry.

Book notes on "The Ascetic Programmer: How asceticism benefits programming, science, and the arts" by Antonio Piccolboni

Come along to the ‘Digital Identities Over Time’ online exhibition, where we will be showcasing work by Anshul Roy, Jeanne Jo and Mac Andre Arboleda. These artists took place in a virtual residency programme to explore futures of digital identities.

There’s a good few options for exporting data out of FPGAs, like Ethernet, USB2, or USB3. Many FPGAs have a HDMI (or rather, sparkling DVI) port as well, and [Steve Markgraf] brings us the hs…

With the news of Spotify bricking their Car Thing, now is the time to hack it. Spotify released a statement suggesting Car Thing owners reset to factory settings and safely dispose following local …

Watching a video about a scratch-built ultra-precise switch for metrology last week reminded me that it’s not always the projects that are the most elegant solutions that I enjoy reading about the …

Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott about Microsoft’s approach to building AI

Clayton Christensen continually predicts that Apple will be disrupted because his theory does not incorporate the importance of the user experience.