Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
Here are my dotfiles. When I was still using Manjaro Linux back in 2019, I got a nudge to try i3wm. It was my first experience with any window manager. And I spent nearly 5 years with it, enjoying the absolute control over my workflow. Nearing the end of 2023, when I finally decided to […]
RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring
San Francisco – In Person About RetailReady We’re RetailReady (YC W24), an AI-powered supply chain compliance engine shaking up an antiquated (and yes, unsexy) industry. Since YC, we raised a $3.3M seed round and signed over 15 enterprise customers… we’re officially in scaling mode. What We Build RetailReady is the first AI-powered compliance engine designed […]
Manganese is Lyme disease’s double-edge sword
For decades, Lyme disease has frustrated both physicians and patients alike. Caused by the corkscrew-shaped bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the infection, if left untreated, can linger for months, leading to fever, fatigue and painful inflammation. In a new study, Northwestern University and Uniformed Services University (USU) scientists have uncovered a surprising — and ironic — […]
‘No One Lives Forever’ turns 25 and you still can’t buy it legitimately
from the abandonware dept One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as “Bobby Bonilla Day.” The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Mets decades ago and eventually bought out his contract in 2000 when they decided they were done with […]
Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable
Marco Giancotti, November 13, 2025 Cover image: Image by vackground.com, Unsplash A part of me still hasn’t recovered from learning that some people believe there is no such thing as an untranslatable word. I’ve written about why I disagree before, but that explanation didn’t satisfy me completely. There was a stronger argument to be made, […]
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce. Based on Mozilla’s official announcement on Thursday (13th), it looks like a deeper implementation than the existing sidebar that gives access to third‑party […]
AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
14 Nov 2025 Reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao, I was struck by how people associated with OpenAI believe in AGI. They really do think someone, perhaps them, will build AGI, and that it will lead to either the flourishing or destruction of humanity. Elon Musk founded OpenAI because he thought Demis Hassabis was […]
Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components
The launch of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform for AI and HPC next year could mark significant changes in the AI hardware supply chain as Nvidia plans to ship its partners fully assembled Level-10 (L10) VR200 compute trays with all compute hardware, cooling systems, and interfaces pre-installed, according to J.P. Morgan (via @Jukanlosreve). The move would […]
Gnome 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades
Although Wayland has been GNOME’s default session since 2016, X11 has continued to linger in the codebase—until now. That changed with the recent merging of two PRs (here and here), which completely removed the X11 codebase from both Mutter, GNOME’s default window manager and compositor, as well as the GNOME Shell itself. In other words, […]
V8 Garbage Collector
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about 5 years of developments in V8’s garbage collector, today I’d like to bring that up to date with what went down in V8’s GC over the last couple years. methodololology I selected all of the commits to src/heap since my previous roundup. There were […]