LinkedIn Feed Blocker
A minimal Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn’s home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. What it does Hides the entire main feed on /feed Blocks infinite-scroll feed pagination Leaves profiles, jobs, search, messaging, notifications, and other LinkedIn features alone I like LinkedIn for finding jobs and chatting with recruiters. I do not like […]
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pretty bold claims. But as we’d expect from [Jeff], he’s got the benchmarks up on GitHub for both the MacBook Neo and Dell’s latest XPS 13 to back it up. We’ve embedded the full video below, which […]
Fastmail offers EU data region
US or EU? Your choice Many of you have been telling us that where your email is stored matters to you. There are various reasons for this, like local law, keeping your data close to home, or compliance. You can now make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own […]
”Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is clear many aspects of work and life will be transformed—including programming. One of the comments I hear often lately boils down to “LLMs may be good at coding, but software […]
Don’t use your phone while you poop
Don’t use your phone while you poop! – Nate’s blog Home About Now 06 Aug, 2026 Your brain needs to offload just as badly as your butt does. I know it sounds boring to sit in there, alone, naked from the waist down, staring at the wall. But that’s the point. Our hellish attention economy […]
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
In the prequel, we introduced Neptune, a Direct3D protocol forwarding layer for VirtIO. Neptune allowed us to serialize Direct3D API calls across the hypervisor boundary and this allowed us to run Wine games on a Linux guest with a Linux host faster than with DXVK directly in the guest. Admittedly, the payoff there was not […]
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator
▶ RUN ⏭ STEP ⟲ RESET RA (Accumulator) 0000 RB (Auxiliary) 0000 PC (Program Counter) 000 000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 MLD Load mem→RA MRD Store RA→mem ADD RA + mem SUB RA – mem AND RA & mem JMP Jump SKZ Skip if zero SKP Skip if + WAT Halt DW Define word
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
What it is _for-sale is a reserved DNS leaf node name, defined by RFC 10023 (Informational, July 2026) and registered with IANA. A TXT record published at _for-sale.example.com signals that example.com, although registered and resolving normally, is available for purchase. _for-sale IN TXT ”v=FORSALE1;furi=https://example.com/for-sale” The record carries a mandatory version tag followed by at most […]
Gateway 2000’s hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
PC Computing Jul ‘93 via Archive.org Party hats and sunglasses on animals are the fart jokes of advertising. Somehow lazy and effective, shallow yet infectious, and definitely not too tasteless for Gateway 2000 or its wunderkind president. ”I’ve used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world,” Ted Waitt bragged during one […]
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face 7th August 2026 OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it […]