A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust
A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust Last week, I wrote a tail-call interpreter using the become keyword, which was recently added to nightly Rust (seven months ago is recent, right?). It was a surprisingly pleasant experience, and the resulting VM outperforms both my previous Rust implementation and my hand-coded ARM64 assembly. Tailcall-based techniques have been […]
EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regs Wrote Oil Industry Argument Against Them
The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist. Aaron Szabo, an assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, is listed in PDF metadata as the author […]
Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs
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Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon
The crew for Nasa’s Artemis II mission have described seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time. Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen have entered the third day of their mission on the Orion spacecraft that will carry them around the far […]
Iguanaworks has closed down. USB Infrared hardware open source maker
USB device to send and receive IR: have your computer send IR signals to your DVR; receive IR signals from a remote control. Works under Linux and Windows. Our standard USB IR Transceiver can send and receive infra-red (IR) signals. It comes in 3 different variations. Common to all versions: Receive Standard 38 kHz IR […]
Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users’ Email Address
Like all good nerds, I generate a unique email address for every service I sign up to. This has several advantages – it allows me to see if a message is legitimately from a service, if a service is hacked the hackers can’t go credential stuffing, and I instantly know who leaked my address. A […]
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, […]
Sad Story of My Google Workspace Account Suspension
As the title suggests, I have finally become the victim of Google’s account suspension. The reason given over the phone was that my account had been “hijacked” — when in reality, I was simply the one accessing it from overseas. Despite repeatedly explaining this, they ignored my assertions and continue to hold my email hostage. […]
Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
Tobias | 27. January 2026 We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Blutwurz” 2026.01. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains fixes for security problems that Hrizi Bilel has notified us about. Thanks for your report! It also contains the first results of […]
The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you’re doing
Mar 30, 2026 Imagine you’re a new assistant professor at a research university. You just got the job, you just got a small pot of startup funding, and you just hired your first two PhD students: Alice and Bob. You’re in astrophysics. This is the beginning of everything. You do what your supervisor did for […]