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I once interviewed for a senior product position at Google by a VP across many of their Web Products (including the Blink engine). He asked me "So, how would you make the Internet …

Being a bad manager. That’s a very personal attack.

4 days ago Grok 4.5 and GPT5.6 were released. In our study, they beat all Anthropic models for finding vulnerabilities in Pull Requests. We ran 10 models over the same 10 pull requ…

100% agree! I built Paisley (because it is the opposite of plaid), to host your personal finances locally and is 100% open source. Paisley pulls data from your financial institutio…

You could summarize that data using some form of machine learning. A good new skill to develop. Then you don’t need to share the exact details, just a count per category. E.g. pers…

Am I the only one who found this article a rambling mess? The first page makes a point, then it diverts off into a ridiculous rant.

This project describes how to build a quiet $20 PID-controlled thermostat controlled fan for cooling your media console or gaming cupboard. The software is ESPHome and Home Assista…

Just bloody shootin for bronze… lookin for a Steven Bradbury.

With a $10 18650 rechargeable battery you could probably get a couple months on a single charge. Esphome can deep sleep between readouts: https://esphome.io/components/deep_sleep.h…

Seems like it worked for them.

Thanks Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox!

Check your video card chipset and call support :P

Except when they're actively expounding upon and peddling bad news to ensure the stock price drops at the right time. That is what Musk is most frustrated by. In my mind, all negat…

> Even that was close, and the Republican candidate was _accused of molesting children_. There, fixed that for you. Look, I'm very progressive, but we need to firmly stand behind "…

For every service there are very relevant factors about what makes the product good or bad. If you don't separate these 2 or 3 factors, then over time everything becomes a score of…

Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno... wearing small cameras and a projector that can display text advertisements

I'm not sure they will ever implement it actually. Nginx does not support HTTP/2 server push as of March 2017 (v1.11). Owen Garrett at nginx has summarized the reasons as follows: …

This is really interesting thanks. Doesn't this lead to the most highly used static assets being pushed for every subsequent request? Isn't that wasteful? I use varnish cache exten…

Best ways to get into hobby game dev these days is PixiJS for HTML and Swift or Cocos2D for phone dev. Unity for 3D, but it is pretty hardcore. Get a good "learning 2d game program…

Fire Particle Simulator with JS and WebGL https://ethanhjennings.github.io/webgl-fire-particles/