Please don’t spam people looking for employment. It’s just cruel
Earlier I posted in a “Who wants to be hired?” thread, looking for a place where I could apply my experience in hospitality, food tech and automation. A couple hours later I received an email: “Hi Ilia, I saw your comment on the June Who’s Hiring thread. I build production-ready TypeScript and Python systems that […]
A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle
Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October […]
Expanding Project Glasswing
Project Glasswing is our collaborative effort to secure the world’s most important software. In early April, we announced that roughly 50 initial partners had access to Claude Mythos Preview, and since then, they’ve been deploying the model to scan their codebases for vulnerabilities. We recently described how these partners have so far found more than […]
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns
About Great Question: Great Question is the all-in-one AI customer research platform for understanding your customers. Our platform enables teams to recruit participants, run research, and share insights – all in one place. Backed by world-class investors and trusted by industry-leading teams like Gusto, Experian, Canva, and Brex, we’re building the future of customer research. […]
Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
I built WhisperPad because I needed it. In the fall of 2024 the joints in my fingers started to hurt when I typed. Maybe the bill came due for spending most of my life on a keyboard: a childhood of video games, then 10 years working in tech. It got worse throughout the winter, and […]
CSS-Native Parallax Effect
jun 02, 2026 Parallax effects have a long history, and while there are countless ways and libraries to achieve them, a new CSS-native way was recently made possible with CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines. The usual recipe was a scroll event listener in JavaScript, recalculating positions on every frame and nudging an element up and down. […]
Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai
Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter characterizes as false and potentially defamatory claims about Flux, […]
You Don’t Love Systemd Timers Enough
Arguably the most important bit of information about timers is how to express a schedule, whether a repeating period of time (which the manual usually refers to as a time span) versus a calendar event (or a timestamp). Fortunately, I think the man page for this under systemd.time(7) is actually very good with plenty of […]
strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
We’ve always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it’s hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you want to filter syscalls you have to rerun the trace with a flag for each one. What you want in debugging is a tool for exploring, refining, etc., but […]
U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It’s Not at the Ballot Box
As the U.S. approaches the 2026 elections in November, the greatest threat to voting integrity will likely not be from hackers targeting voting machines or altering ballots, but from a growing war over reality itself. Voter influence operations are increasingly focused on manipulating the information environment surrounding voters, flooding social media and search results with misleading narratives and fake content, and impersonated news sources designed […]