General principles for the use of AI at CERN
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be found at CERN in many contexts: embedded in devices, software products and cloud services procured by CERN, brought on-site by individuals or developed in-house. Following the approval of a CERN-wide AI strategy, these general principles are designed to promote the responsible and ethical use, development and deployment (collectively “use”) of […]
Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux
Nice work! I do want to say, I don’t like having to rely on scraping ss output. But that’s not a comment on this project – I have done the exact same thing. It just proved to be the most expedient way given the constraints I was under. I suspect there is a lot of […]
Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN
trifold is a tool to serve static websites using a content delivery network (CDN). Source: https://codeberg.org/jpt/trifold/ This allows painless deployment of sites consisting entirely of static assets (HTML, CSS, JS, images) for pennies a month. It is the perfect companion to deploy sites built with static-site generators like Hugo, Zola, Quarto, or zensical. The tool […]
Quake Engine Indicators
Quake Engine Indicators Nov 24, 2025 Quake Engine Indicators I was working on a bug in Chocolate Quake netcode. The issue was an edge case where starting two clients on the same machine resulted in the second one zombifying the first one. When the bug occurred there was no disconnection but the client could no […]
Build a Compiler in Five Projects
Class website here: https://kmicinski.com/cis531-f25 Are you interested in building a compiler? Learning how functional languages are implemented? Gaining a bit of practical experience with x86-64 assembly language? If so, I invite you to try your hand at the projects in my class, CIS531. CIS531 is a masters-level class on compiler design which assumes that (a) […]
A One-Minute ADHD Test
I’m writing 30 posts in 30 days at Inkhaven. This is number 23. There is a six-question test for ADHD that takes a minute to complete. If you score highly on it, you are likely to have ADHD and have a strong reason to talk to a psychiatrist about getting medication. It’s a low-effort way […]
RuBee
2025-11-22 I have at least a few readers for which the sound of a man’s voice saying “government cell phone detected” will elicit a palpable reaction. In Department of Energy facilities across the country, incidences of employees accidentally carrying phones into secure areas are reduced through a sort of automated nagging. A device at the […]
Japan’s gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
11 hours ago ShareSave Suranjana TewariAsia business correspondent, Hokkaido, Japan ShareSave Getty Images The island of Hokkaido has long been an agricultural powerhouse – now Japan is investing billions to turn it into a global hub for advanced semiconductors. More than half of Japan’s dairy produce comes from Hokkaido, the northernmost of its main islands. […]
The Cloudflare outage was a good thing
Cloudflare, the CDN provider, suffered a massive outage today. Some of the world’s most popular apps and web services were left inaccessible for serveral hours whilst the Cloudflare team scrambled to fix a whole swathe of the internet. And that might be a good thing. The proximate cause of the outage was pretty mundane: a […]
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a […]