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The debate about open source AI has largely featured open weight models. But that's a bit like arguing that in the PC era, the most important goal would have

NotebookLM is proprietary and is enjoying incredible popularity at the moment, but did you know that there's an open source take on this technology?

To vet open source software, evaluating the business model, funding and governance behind projects you depend on is essential for business continuity.

I spent a month debugging why our service availability was all over the place. Turns out we had some 50MB markdown files hiding in our database.

A blog mostly about Clojure programming

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We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home, eager to tinker, but you soon find it’s jus…

Loko Scheme is a bare metal Scheme implementation

One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its moment in the sun, bu…

As part of Talking Points Memo's 25th anniversary, I wrote an essay on early blogging, and what I miss about it. Here it is, in its entirety: Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary will probably be that I was the founding editor of Gawker.

I was at QCon SF during the recent Cloudflare outage (I was hosting the Stories Behind the Incidents track), so I hadn’t had a real chance to sit down and do a proper read-through of their pu…

Chris Lattner on Software Craftsmanship and AI

One of the principles in our upcoming book Architecture as Code is the ability for architects to design automated governance checks for important architectural

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Don’t get me wrong, I’m up all night

Co-Founder and Former Chief Scientist of OpenAI shares what’s been keeping him up at night

Learn the differences between metrics, logs, and traces - the three pillars of observability in distribut ed systems - and how to use them effectively

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Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

And why that might be a good thing

Lessons and tips learned while earning a Kaggle Competition Medal

At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

Oh man, what remarkable timing. I had a blog post scheduled to go up later today, in which I said some nice things about Dia, the Arc replacement from The Browser Company. I've been pretty salty towards The Browser Company for the past 18 months or so, but I was

For most enterprises, high-end GPUs are not as essential as the providers want you to think. Old GPUs or CPUs often deliver sufficient cloud AI performance at drastically reduced costs.

One of the things that makes legacy code legacy is that code, over time, rots. Some of that rot comes from the gradual accumulation of fixes, hacks, and kruft. But much of the rot also comes from the tooling going unsupported or entirely out of support. For example, many years ago, I worked in a Visual Basic 6 shop. The VB6 IDE went out of support in April, 2008, but we continued to use it well into the next decade. This made it challenging to support the existing software, as the IDE frequently broke in response to OS updates. Even when we started running it inside of a VM running an antique version of Windows 2000, we kept running into endless issues getting projects to compile and build.

I’m sitting in front of an old Sayno Plasma TV as I write this on my media PC. It’s not a productivity machine, by any means, but the screen has the resolution to do it so I started this document t…

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You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.