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Kind of like math, huh? Some people burn out on "meaningless" impossible problems. Others get obsessed with them and make significant contributions along the way to failure.

I'm glad that I'm over that phase I had in university where I wanted to write a custom memory allocator for everything because "I understand my usage better". I will admit that it …

How do push notifications and similar things work on GraphenOS? Do they work reliably out of the box on most apps, or did you have to set up MicroG/whatever GrapheneOS's equivalent…

Port is finally open source! We're a communication app that supports end-to-end encrypted direct chats, group chats and calling with an emphasis on user consent. Port replaces trad…

With the rise in AI-driven spam, scams, and unchecked data aggregation, Port aims to solve this privacy nightmare upstream. We got rid of identifiers — phone numbers, usernames, ev…

I've started wearing a night guard/TMJ splint, by the recommendation of a dentist. It helps a lot in preventing my jaw from locking up during the day. Have you given that a show to…

I'm starting to find correlations that make me feel regret...

I have noticed that my traps and everything around it feel a lot better when I work out. Hopefully I can continue to work out, despite recent minor injuries.

This was above and beyond, thank you.

As someone who hasn't been a professional for too long, I'm curious. Did the general tone of tools in software engineering ever feel like this before? Where we're talking about rep…

Written in an attempt to wrangle my own thoughts about AI, the current and future state of software engineering: My ramblings about AI and software engineering.

Can you point me towards some stats for these please? Are you looking at consultancy type companies or subsidiaries that hire locally?

I feel terrible because I never did anything wrong. I never went to a concert. I never worked around loud things for prolonged periods. I never listened to music too loud. I have t…

The other archive link seems to be timing out for me, here's another one if you need it: https://archive.ph/AiEC0

I'm someone who is building a messaging app, and I make sure we subscribe to the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" philosophy. But in our case it's collect nothing so there's no d…

I never even realized that it was tivo-ized. Probably because I haven't been on windows since before WSL became a thing.

I just got started working Zod into a new project. This could not have happened at a better time. I would have needed to change so much ot migrate to v4 based on what I'm seeing.

Back in university I implemented a shoddy HDR for my phone camera. The hardest part of it, by far, was taking hundreds upon hundreds of pictures of a blank piece of paper in differ…

I love passkeys. I love them being on my phone, requiring biometric authentication before unlocking. I just hate the vendor lock in that comes with it. Does anyone know the state o…

I'm absolutely thrilled that there is an effort to make models smaller and run with less resources instead of blindly throwing more resources at the problem and expecting it to get…

I agree. With the recent Canadian election (and provincial election), I was kind of overwhelmed by the sheer number of ads being sent my way, and how he said/she said the debates w…

Are you concerned about anything in particular, or is it just the absurdity of the situation? I ask this as someone without kids who hates the way AI is being shoved down everyone'…

I've noticed that any time I'm buying software for my company I see, in detail, the subprocessors used, data collected and why. As a regular old consumer though, I get next to noth…