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UMD Scientists Create ’Smart Underwear’ to Measure Human Flatulence

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A new nationwide study is recruiting volunteers to map the full spectrum of human flatulence.  Hall’s team demoing a Smart Underwear Prototype. Credit: University of Maryland. Scientists at the University of Maryland have created Smart Underwear, the first wearable device designed to measure human flatulence. By tracking hydrogen in flatus, the device helps scientists revisit […]

Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300

Pages for posting about my work until I decide to tackle websites. 2/14/26 Early GDSL Seeds 3/14/26 Compilers are enormous these days, millions of lines spanning frontend to backend to turn text to process on a system. Any small compiler gets small by making tradeoffs, it constrains itself to a shape small enough that it […]

Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager

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Traditional Wayland compositors have a monolithic architecture that combines the compositor and window manager into a single program. This has the downside of requiring Wayland window managers to do the significant work of implementing an entire Wayland compositor as well. The new 0.4.0 release of river, a non-monolithic Wayland compositor, breaks from this traditional architecture […]

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

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Once in a while new hardware is released that makes a difference. Such a device is the Intel Optane series of high-performance SSD’s for professional use, which was released in late 2017. In this case I’m talking about the Intel Optane P4800X and P5800X and their consumer counterparts (900P and 905P). All drives are based […]

Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attacks Hits Repositories

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The invisible threat we’ve been tracking for nearly a year is back. While the PolinRider campaign has been making headlines for compromising hundreds of GitHub repositories, we are separately seeing a new wave of Glassworm activity hitting GitHub, npm, and VS Code. In October last year, we wrote about how hidden Unicode characters were being […]

A Theory of the World as run by large adult children

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I have been thinking a lot lately about these two fellows. If you are not lucky enough to know them already, those are Harold and George from the Captain Underpants series of books (among others). Two supposedly prototypical boys whose wonderful imaginations are in the process of being destroyed by educators who do not recognize their […]

I’m 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion

I stumble upon a post from shannoncc called ”I’m 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion”, and it made me think. I am also (almost) 60, but AI just killed the passion. I remember all the pre-AI days, where I was enjoying coding during the day, the evening, the weekends and the vacations. […]

100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product

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Last month, I spent about 100 hours on vibecoding. Now I’m pretty sure that people who say they ”vibecoded an app in 30 minutes” are either building simple copies of existing projects, produce some buggy crap, or just farm engagement. And it’s not because I am AI skeptic. Actually, quite the contrary. At my previous […]