Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer
About the Role We are looking for our first AI-forward growth marketer who wants to outperform entire marketing teams. The engine is already running. You’ll inherit real traction and real data, not a blank slate. You’ll own the acquisition channels that bring students to Emerge at scale—SEO, paid search, out-of-home, channel partnerships, content, and attribution […]
Making Graphics Like it’s 1993
Catlantean 3D is a side-project I’ve been slowly building in my spare time for over a year, and I intend to release it on Steam next year. Your browser does not support the video tag. My goal was to build a complete, shippable first-person shooter using techniques that were common in the early 90s, while […]
The iPhone’s Last Stand
Listen to this post: Apple fans would, for years and years, sneer at Microsoft’s penchant for talking about products that may or may not ship, deriding them as vaporware. After Apple’s bungled 2024 launch of Apple Intelligence and new Siri, however, vaporware is fair game, and just in time for this Article. Project Solara Last […]
GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI
A hobby operating system for vintage 32-bit PCs. Its goal is to provide a simple platform for tinkering with retro hardware and running graphical interactive apps on bare metal. At minimum, it only requires an i386 CPU, 4MB of RAM, and a VGA display capable of 640x480x16 mode. By design it’s entirely monolithic, mostly configured […]
Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone
When it comes to 80s computer brands, few flew as high as Eagle Computer flew in 1983. The aptly named company was selling 12,000 computers a month and had been doubling sales every quarter under the leadership of a talented CEO. Then Eagle lost its CEO, Dennis Barnhart, in a crashed Ferrari on the day […]
Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
Photo by Martijn Baudoin on Unsplash We’ve all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated. They rewrote most of the company’s core architecture. They introduced […]
Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. Many of the affected projects relate to Microsoft’s cloud service Azure and other tools used by developers to code with AI development apps, such […]
Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
So after a few days the code seemed to work quite fine with multiple DIMMs in different combinations. Time to upstream! Doing native raminit on x86 (in coreboot) is quite a lost art. One of the people enjoying this dark magic is Angel Pons. So I asked him if he would kindly review this code […]
Job: Head of Stonehenge
Heritage is for everybody, and we are here for heritage. Heritage lives in places and people, memories and stories, artefacts and traditions. It can connect us all to the past, and to each other. It can make us happier, strengthen every community, and help shape society for the better. Everybody should be able to enjoy […]
Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK’s latest threat to privacy [pdf]
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