Sycophancy is the first LLM “dark pattern”
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was written by someone else, to counteract the model’s natural desire to shower praise on the user. With the latest GPT-4o update, this tendency has been turned up […]
Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts. Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts. by Andrew J. Hawkins Nov 28, 2025, 7:25 PM UTC Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public […]
High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
The job market drives housing demand, but the type of jobs created or lost impacts the type of housing. High-income sectors—Information, Professional Services, and Financial Activities—are shrinking across most major metros. Workers in these industries drive for-sale housing demand more than rental demand. Nationally, high-income sector employment remained flat YOY in August, well below its […]
Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility — giving you a proper VT100 implementation in the browser, not a JavaScript approximation of one. Migrate from xterm by changing your import: @xterm/xterm → ghostty-web WASM-compiled parser from Ghostty—the same code that runs the native app Zero runtime dependencies, ~400KB WASM bundle Originally created for Mux […]
Response to Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For some folks, if a tool feels good to use… that must mean it isn’t “serious.” Ruby never agreed to that definition. If it did, I missed the memo. […]
After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, and Thimbleweed Park. Given that pedigree, October’s release of the Gilbert-designed Death by Scrolling—a rogue-lite action-survival pseudo-shoot-em-up—might have come as a bit of […]
Better Auth (YC X25) Is Hiring
About us We’re a small, fast-moving team on a mission to make high-quality authentication something every developer can own. Better Auth is one of the fastest-growing auth solutions in the world. We serve 10M+ downloads a month across our frameworks, and our OSS projects – Better Auth (23.5k⭐) and NextAuth/Auth.js (27k⭐) are two of the […]
A New AI Winter Is Coming
Like many people, I got pretty excited when it was discovered that the transformer neural network architecture appeared to break through many years of stagnation in AI research. Chatbots suddenly had emergent capabilities, derived almost entirely from unstructured, unsupervised learning, far surpassing older technologies. My first experiences were with unreleased models, pre-ChatGPT, and I was […]
Boston’s subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system
Service changes are taking place in December to support Orange Line signal modernization and the replacement of overhead wire troughs on the Green Line. The MBTA today announced service changes in December on the Orange and Green lines. Riders can find more information on service changes through in-station signage, in-station public announcements, and at […]
Contextualization Machines
Contextualization Machines ~/ ~/blog ~/projects ~/bookmarks Contextualization Machines March 10, 2025 Introduction This post is meant to be an illustration of my mental model of a transformer, a sort of synthesis of a bunch of thoughts and ideas I’ve had over the past few months. It assumes knowledge on what a transformer architecture is. I […]