KDE is now my favorite desktop
From my last blog post, I am now using KDE as the desktop environment for my gaming rig. The reason is because I want a reasonably easy to use Linux desktop for when my wife needs to use the PC for something other than gaming, and this was the reason why my “traditional” Sway setup […]
You Had No Taste Before AI
There’s been an influx of people telling others to develop taste to use AI. Designers. Marketers. Developers. All of them touting the same message. It’s ironic, though. These are the same people who never questioned why their designs all look identical, never iterated beyond the first draft, and never asked if their work actually solved […]
Nvidia buys $5B in Intel stock in seismic deal
In a surprising announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together, Nvidia and Intel announced today that the companies would jointly develop multiple new generations of x86 products together. The products include x86 Intel CPUs tightly fused with an Nvidia RTX graphics chiplet for the consumer gaming PC market, named the ‘Intel x86 RTX SOCs.’ […]
CircuitHub (YC W12) Is Hiring Operations Research Engineers (UK/Remote)
About CircuitHub CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid , a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production. The result? A 10x throughput improvement in one of the world’s most foundational industries. We’ve […]
Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey
11 September 2025 by Connor Boyle tags: mathematicssoftware I’m planning to write a series of posts about fast Fourier transform algorithms. This first post covers the Cooley-Tukey algorithm, which is the original and most well-known FFT algorithm. The Discrete Fourier Transform If (x) is a sequence of complex numbers with a length (lvert x rvert) […]
This Website Has No Class
Sep 14, 2025 In my recent post, “There’s no such thing as a CSS reset”, I wrote this: Think of elements like components, but ones that come packed in the browser. Custom elements, without the “custom” part. You can just like, use them. The line continued to rattle around in my head, and a few […]
Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks
Minor Changes New setting for delayed dependency updates There have been several incidents recently where popular packages were successfully attacked. To reduce the risk of installing a compromised version, we are introducing a new setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies. In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly and the malicious versions […]
History of the Gem Desktop Environment
How a gem was cut and then lost Sometime in 1988, the keyboard of my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K was finally broken beyond repair, and I asked my parents for a 128K version of the same computer. Instead, they surprised me with an Atari 520 ST. It was my first real-world experience with a graphical […]
CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice
“Stop — Think — Click”… …is the basic recommendation for securely browsing the Internet and for securely reading emails. Users who have followed this recommendation in the past were less likely to have their computer infected or their computing account compromised. However, still too many users click on malicious web-links, and put their computer and […]
European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
Queen ants in southern Europe produce male clones of an entirely different species — tearing up the playbook of reproductive biology and suggesting we need to rethink our understanding of species barriers. The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all hybrids, with queens needing to mate with males from a distantly related […]