Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Books to the US
AUSTIN, TX 10/17/24 – In 1982, British game designers Sir Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson introduced Fighting Fantasy, a revolutionary set of solo adventure books that combined nonlinear narratives with dice-rolling tabletop RPG mechanics. Now, this fantastical, multi-million-selling book series returns to the United States thanks to an historic 50-book publishing collaboration with Steve Jackson […]
Thoughts on Daylight Computer
on the Amtrak from Denver to Sacramento When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computing could feel like. I want so much more of this […]
Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim
A Quick Tour Augment’s Vim/Neovim plugin provides inline code completions and multi-turn chat conversations specially tailored to your codebase. The plugin is designed to work with any modern Vim or Neovim setup, and features the same underlying context engine that powers our VSCode and IntelliJ plugins. Once you’ve installed the plugin, tell Augment about your […]
The Unbrickable Pledge
We made a promise to never brick your device. Here’s a progress report: 1. July 2024 – open sourced our firmware2. December 2024 – built or commissioned server clients in Ruby, Elixir, and Python3. January 2025 – began selling BYOD licenses – DIY build docs coming soon4. February 2025 – launched Framework, a beautiful and […]
NASA rover discovers liquid water ‘ripples’ carved into Mars rock
Scientists have discovered evidence that liquid water was once exposed to the air in ancient, shallow lakes on Mars. The finding is evidence that not all water on the Red Planet was covered in ice, as some Martian climate models suggest. Planetary geologists and astronomers studying Mars have known for decades that water was once […]
Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers
Home — Docs — Discord Wireshark for Docker containers Subtrace is Wireshark for your Docker containers. It lets developers see all incoming and outgoing requests in their backend server so that they can resolve production issues faster. Works out-of-the-box No code changes needed Supports all languages (Python + Node + Go + everything else) See […]
The Buenos Aires Constant
The Buenos Aires constant is 2.92005097731613… What’s so special about this number? Let’s see when we use it to initialize the following Python script. s = 2.920050977316134 for _ in range(10): i = int(s) print(i) s = i*(1 + s – i) What does this print? 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, […]
HP Acquires Humane’s AI Software
Palo Alto, CA, February 18, 2025 – HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced a definitive agreement to acquire key AI capabilities from Humane, including their AI-powered platform Cosmos, highly skilled technical talent, and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and patent applications. The acquisition advances HP’s transformation into a more experience-led company. “This investment […]
A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
(Warning, this is a long article. I got carried away.) After one year of trying uv, the new Python project management tool by Astral, with many clients, I have seen what it’s good and bad for. My conclusion is: if your situation allows it, always try uv first. Then fall back on something else if […]
Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?
There is oft-quoted advice that Kafka does poorly as a job queue. I’ve experienced this myself, and I wanted to formalize it a bit. I’ll use the common architecture of a Web application submitting background jobs to workers via Kafka (for example, to generate a PDF of some report). Except for the use of Kafka […]