I’ve Sold Out
2026-04-08 What a nice WebGL shader. Look at draining your battery. So, this is awkward. I’ve joined Cristina, Jakob, Ramiz, Vegard, Armin, and Colin at Earendil. And I’m taking pi, the little coding agent that could, with me. Now, before you get out the pitchforks, hear me out. Why would you do that? Many reasons! […]
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns. Ally Piechowski · Apr 8, 2026 · 4 min read The first thing I usually do when I pick up a new codebase isn’t opening the code. It’s opening a […]
Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
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Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
Protect Your Shed
Constructing a skyscraper is a massive undertaking. You need architectural blueprints, council permits, and safety audits before the first piece of steel is even ordered. It requires hundreds of people coordinating over months or years. You can’t just throw up some drywall and hope the building holds weight. Then there is the backyard shed. No […]
OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)
Last week, the nonprofit research group OpenAI revealed that it had developed a new text-generation model that can write coherent, versatile prose given a certain subject matter prompt. However, the organization said, it would not be releasing the full algorithm due to “safety and security concerns.” Instead, OpenAI decided to release a “much smaller” version […]
US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire on Tuesday evening after a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan, canceling an ultimatum from Donald Trump for Iran to surrender or face widespread destruction. Trump’s announcement of the ceasefire agreement came less than two hours before the US president’s self-imposed 8pm Eastern time deadline […]
USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000
The real purchasing power of one US dollar from January 2000, eroding in real time. Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U, All Items, US City Average, Not Seasonally Adjusted. Series CUUR0000SA0. The displayed value is interpolated from the two most recent monthly CPI readings, extended to the present moment at the observed rate of change. […]
Bitcoin and Quantum Computing
Bitcoin’s signatures are broken if a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC) were to appear tomorrow. Bitcoin requires changes both to its code and to everyone’s wallets (at least a soft fork and many users moving coins to different types of addresses) to be secure in the presence of a CRQC. The remaining uncertainty is in two […]