In biology class, biology wasn't presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing.

A review of Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford

A new way to think about brainpower.

In yesterday’s post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn’t say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio si…

OR: The Great Switcheroo

Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because I need some chill

Born from knowing. Forged in understanding.

Hold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all…

A blog about my unusual programming adventures

Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue.
For decades a small…

This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload…

Summary Native Codex CLI requests to Amazon Bedrock Mantle cannot opt into GPT-5.6 Sol explicit prompt caching. On an agentic coding workload, this has produced a large volume of cache-write tokens...

TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.

I have added a link to a .cbr file (Comic Book Archive) to download and read on your electronic device if that would be easier for your enjoyment of the story. The Religious Experience of Philip K.

Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.