Childhood Computing
The article is a personal reflection on childhood computing in the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the author's early experiences with LOGO programming and MS-DOS on old IBM PC-compatible machines with floppy disks and no h…
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The article is a personal reflection on childhood computing in the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the author's early experiences with LOGO programming and MS-DOS on old IBM PC-compatible machines with floppy disks and no h…
On March 1st, between 40 and 50 ships, including the bulk carrier Run Chen 2, went dark in the Strait of Hormuz after insurers withdrew war-risk coverage, effectively shutting down the world's busiest oil chokepoint. Thi…
The article describes how the author grew frustrated with uploading sensitive files to unknown online tools and decided to build their own browser-based alternatives using WebAssembly and client-side code. This led to th…
The article explains that "long-term support" (LTS) in Linux distributions primarily means receiving security fixes for a set number of years, not guaranteed stability or fewer bugs. It clarifies that LTS releases freeze…
The article describes the author's attempt to integrate the i3 tiling window manager with the Emacs text editor by creating shared keybindings. After finding that using a script with xdotool and emacsclient was too slow …
The article introduces QAC (Quality-Aware Commits), a new commit message specification designed to address the lack of traceability and intent in git histories created by AI coding agents. It argues that current commit f…
The article summarizes a backend engineer's practical benchmark of multimodal AI models accessed through a unified API endpoint. The author tested models like Qwen3-VL-32B, GLM-4.6V, and Hunyuan on vision and audio tasks…
The article summarizes a developer's hands-on comparison of 10 AI code generation models in 2026, based on real-world coding tasks and cost analysis. DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.25/M tokens) is identified as the best value, wh…
Based on the article, the author tested four Chinese AI APIs—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—to determine which offers the best value for money. DeepSeek V4 Flash is highlighted as the top choice for English tasks and codi…
The article describes "Off By One," a puzzle game developed by Niixo Labs that challenges players to identify a single, subtly incorrect element within a grid of nearly identical geometric shapes. Unlike fast-paced or me…
NVIDIA has released the Nemotron-Labs Diffusion family of open-weight language models (3B, 8B, 14B, and an 8B VLM) that can operate in three generation modes—autoregressive, diffusion, or self-speculative—from a single c…
The article describes an AI tool called the Hermes Local Business Web Scanner, built by a web design agency owner, that automatically identifies technical issues on local business websites—such as slow load times, broken…
Bun.Image is a chainable image processing pipeline built into the Bun runtime that can decode, resize, rotate, and re-encode JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, and AVIF formats without any npm dependencies or native addon build step…
The article describes the development of "affectus," a CLI component and MCP server that provides AI agents with an external emotion control mechanism based on Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions. Unlike traditional prompt-base…
Here is a 2-3 sentence factual summary of the article: The article argues that for local agent workloads like multi-turn tool use and code editing, Google's dense 31B-parameter Gemma 4 model is a better default than the…
Linear regression is a fundamental machine learning algorithm used to predict numerical values by finding the best straight line that represents the relationship between variables, such as study hours and exam scores. Si…
At Google I/O 2026, Google DeepMind announced CodeMender, an autonomous code-security agent that uses a "reasoning model" to propose patches for vulnerabilities and a separate "critique agent" to rigorously validate thos…
The Trump administration's "Economic Fury" campaign, launched in April 2025, has failed to force Iran to capitulate, despite nearly 2,000 sanctions imposed over eight years. Experts argue the U.S. has reached the limit o…
President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure revealed 3,711 trades, mostly in U.S. companies affected by federal policy, sparking scrutiny and accusations of potential insider dealing. However, a review of the tr…
The article describes Hermes Agent as the first AI framework designed specifically for platform engineers, featuring a three-layer memory architecture that automatically builds "runbook libraries" by learning from past t…