Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase. NTP is what ensures the reliability of billions of devices around the world, under the sea, and even in space. Accurate timekeeping is vital to the many applications which have […]
Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on ‘world models’
(RTTNews) – Meta’s (META) chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun, plans to leave the company to launch his own AI start-up, marking a major shift inside Meta as CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on “superintelligence” initiatives to compete with OpenAI and Google, according to people familiar with the matter. LeCun, a Turing Award-winning pioneer of […]
Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)
Cubemap-Overlap-Based Approaches Frustrated with the poor performance of my polygonal approach, I began to research Unity’s performance optimization tools. I chunked up and parallelized the Voronoi tessellation to no avail. I tried rearranging memory to no avail. Clearly, something about doing this amount of math on the CPU was beyond current processing capabilities… but what […]
You will own nothing and be (un)happy
You will own nothing and be (un)happy | Raccoon’s Trash Can 11 Nov, 2025 Yesterday, I checked out the Goodnotes app because I’m planning to buy an iPad to give note-taking on it a try again. I opened it and I saw that it has updated to Goodnotes 6. I looked through the changelogs, and […]
Bjarne fix your freaking language
About 23 minutes into his talk about Safe C++ [1], Bjarne shows a slide with this code: void f(const char* p) { FILE *f = fopen(p, “r”); fclose(f); } He shows this code to demonstrate how easy it is to miss resource cleanup. Any code that exits the function inside // use f that doesn’t […]
Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem. Perkeep is under active development. If you’re a […]
I can build enterprise software but I can’t charge for it
How I spent 18 months building an AI avatar platform through war, economic collapse, and 120-hour weeks—and why I’m now looking for a partner to help me turn this into a real business. Go ahead. Talk to the avatar for 2 minutes. Ask it anything in English. Watch how it responds in real-time with synchronized […]
.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by Avalonia
We are bringing .NET MAUI to Linux and to the browser, powered by Avalonia. For the past few months, we have been working on an Avalonia powered backend for .NET MAUI, with guidance and feedback from engineers in the MAUI ecosystem. What started as an experiment has grown into a project we are committing to, […]
Four strange places to see London’s Roman Wall
There are many places around the City of London to see its old Roman Wall, notably alongside Noble Street, in Barber Surgeons’ Meadow, through the Barbican, in St Alphage Garden and just outside the entrance to Tower Hill station. Here are four of the odder spots. Four strange places to see London’s Roman Wall 1) […]
Heroku Support for .NET 10
It’s that time of year for .NET when we get a new major version and a bunch of exciting features. .NET Conf 2025 kicked off earlier today, bringing with it the release of .NET 10, as well as ASP.NET Core 10, C# 14, and F# 10. Congrats (and a big thank you) to the .NET […]