Backpressure is all you need
There are two obvious ways to use coding agents. Both are bad. The first is to let the LLM run unattended and hope the repository survives. This is fast, exciting, and stupid. It leads to bugs, confused changes, and a flood of PRs that humans cannot review quickly enough, at least not without eventually lowering […]
Dav2d
dav2d A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it. Today, we announce dav2d, a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by members of the VideoLAN community. A few weeks ago, we opened the repository and started development in public. Since then, AV2 itself has reached its first official specification release, […]
London’s Free Roof Terraces
A few years ago some City speculators spotted they were more likely to get planning permission if their new skyscraper included a free public roof terrace. Free access to elevated views is always a winner in my book. So yesterday I went up a few. This was all on-the-hoof so I didn’t go up the […]
The Website Specification
Standards, not opinions Each topic links back to the source standard — WHATWG, W3C, IETF RFCs, WCAG, MDN, and the organisations defining the modern web. Platform agnostic Whether you ship WordPress, Drupal, TYPO3, Next.js, Astro, Hugo, a Django app, or plain HTML, the spec is the spec. Implementation hints follow it, not the other way […]
Avian Visitors
I was initally planning on leaving this as a ‘true’ personal project of sorts. I love a good project writeup of course, but frankly I thought this was too quick an afternoon project to warrant any more documentation than a tweet. Twitter thought otherwise … i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to […]
A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)
Abstract:In this article we present pictorially the foundation of differential geometry which is a crucial tool for multiple areas of physics, notably general and special relativity, but also mechanics, thermodynamics and solving differential equations. As all the concepts are presented as pictures, there are no equations in this article. As such this article may be […]
Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set for July 13, 2026 when a license-validation certificate used by the Office apps expires.[1] After Office 2019 for Mac reached end of support in October 2023, Microsoft assured customers their […]
Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing
Organize your writing. Keep your notes with the text. Sync your project files. Cheese Paper is a text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction. Whether it’s the story itself or notes about your characters, Cheese Paper files are simple and support syncing, so you can create, edit, move, or delete things, no matter what […]
Shantell Sans
Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation. Why make a new font? Shantell Martin, Artist Shantell Martin, Photo credit […]
The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
About AV2 AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates. It is optimized for the evolving demands of streaming, broadcasting, and real-time video conferencing. This specification serves […]