Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Advent of SysAdmin 2025 The Advent of Sysadmin is a 12-day Advent calendar of Linux and DevOps challenges of different difficulties that runs from December 1st to December 12th. Each day there will be a scenario that you can solve to earn points (Easy = 1 point, Medium = 2 points, Hard = 5 points). […]
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia
I woke up restless and kind of hungover Sunday morning at 6 am and opened Reddit. Somewhere near the top was a post called “TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as […]
The Differences Between an IndyCar and a F1 Car
IndyCar is often seen as the American counterpart to Formula 1, but the reality is that there are more differences than similarities. When comparing an IndyCar to a Formula 1 car, they are both formula cars with a monocoque, wings, four tires, and a hybrid turbo engine, but the differences between the two cars are […]
Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]
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Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries (developing story)
November 29, 2025 | 88 Bricklink, LEGO’s biggest online marketplace and lifeblood of the LEGO community has made quite an alarming announcement. From 12 December 2025, BrickLink Marketplace will not be available for members in 35 countries around the world, which means that LEGO and Bricklink members will no longer be able to buy or […]
A Love Letter to FreeBSD
Dear FreeBSD, I’m still the new person here, learning your ways, stumbling over the occasional quirk, smiling when I find the small touches that make you different. You remind me of what computing felt like before the noise. Before hype cycles and performance theatre. Before every tool needed a plugin system and a logo. You […]
Ty
An extremely fast Python type checker, written in Rust. Try out the online playground, or run ty with uvx to get started quickly: For other ways to install ty, see the installation documentation. If you do not provide a subcommand, ty will list available commands — for detailed information about command-line options, see the CLI […]
You want microservices, but do you need them?
A New Approach for Coding Agent Safety Coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Kiro, and OpenCode are changing how developers work. But as these agents become more autonomous with capabilities like deleting repos, modifying files, and accessing secrets, developers face a real problem: how do you give agents enough access to be useful […]
Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)
Abstract:Recently, there has been significant progress in teaching language models to perform step-by-step reasoning to solve complex numerical reasoning tasks. Chain-of-thoughts prompting (CoT) is by far the state-of-art method for these tasks. CoT uses language models to perform both reasoning and computation in the multi-step `thought’ process. To disentangle computation from reasoning, we propose `Program […]
Don’t push AI down our throats
AI is being done wrong. It’s being pushed down our throats. It’s in our search bars, our operating systems, and even our creative tools, whether we asked for it or not. It feels less like an upgrade and more like a force-feeding. It doesn’t need to be this way. Technology can be adopted slowly. Organically. […]