Taras Glek
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Low power waveguides! What a wonderful idea.
December 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Low power waveguides! What a wonderful idea.
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joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
There is a lot of talk of LLM productivity enhancements but very few examples of useful software that would not have existed if it wasn't for LLMs. I have a small list of software that was only embarked upon due to exploration and productivity boosts that LLMs enable
December 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
There is a lot of talk of LLM productivity enhancements but very few examples of useful software that would not have existed if it wasn't for LLMs. I have a small list of software that was only embarked upon due to exploration and productivity boosts that LLMs enable
Great overview of passkeys and an interesting hosted service enzom.dev/b/passkeys/
Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
Interesting things about passkeys in webauthn
enzom.dev
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Great overview of passkeys and an interesting hosted service enzom.dev/b/passkeys/
this is the best post on what llms are good for and how most of the marketing is wrong chrisvoncsefalvay.com/posts/dorkes...
Dorkestration – Chris von Csefalvay
Why everybody missed the point about tool use in agentic AI, and how a handful of primitives can orchestrate your entire ML workflow.
chrisvoncsefalvay.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
this is the best post on what llms are good for and how most of the marketing is wrong chrisvoncsefalvay.com/posts/dorkes...
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Resurrecting some of my old Raspberry Pi projects that had fallen into disrepair, annoyed at having to look up pinouts and count pins all the time when putting Humpty back together again,
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
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Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
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December 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Resurrecting some of my old Raspberry Pi projects that had fallen into disrepair, annoyed at having to look up pinouts and count pins all the time when putting Humpty back together again,
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
🤘
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
🤘
Nice own goal
GitHub is going to start charging you for using your own hardware
GitHub is going to start charging you for using your own hardware
Engineers cry foul over plan to charge $0.002/min for self-hosted Actions runners
GitHub customers, take notice: Come March, the Microsoft-owned repository host will begin charging for some uses of self-hosted Actions runners.…
dlvr.it
December 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nice own goal
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Do you use LLMs to generate regular expressions? We do, too! Do you *review* your regexes? Is that frustrating? How can we put humans in the loop better, doing relatively few, meaningful tasks? Please try out our new tool PICK:regex, available for VSCode!
blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p...
blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p...
LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!
blog.brownplt.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Do you use LLMs to generate regular expressions? We do, too! Do you *review* your regexes? Is that frustrating? How can we put humans in the loop better, doing relatively few, meaningful tasks? Please try out our new tool PICK:regex, available for VSCode!
blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p...
blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p...
This time is different! Right?
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company https://lobste.rs/s/vtm8s1 ##browsers
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
blog.mozilla.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This time is different! Right?
Not endorsing TOON but interesting that llm comprehension of a data format is now a benchmark to consider toonformat.dev/guide/benchm...
TOON
Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, schema-aware encoding of JSON for LLM prompts
toonformat.dev
December 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Not endorsing TOON but interesting that llm comprehension of a data format is now a benchmark to consider toonformat.dev/guide/benchm...
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So Amazon buying iRobot is a competition problem, according to Lina Khan. A Chinese company "Shenzhen PICEA" acquiring it, however, is apparently no issue at all.
This reflects a deeply misguided approach to antitrust enforcement, under Lina Khan.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This reflects a deeply misguided approach to antitrust enforcement, under Lina Khan.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier.
www.bloomberg.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
So Amazon buying iRobot is a competition problem, according to Lina Khan. A Chinese company "Shenzhen PICEA" acquiring it, however, is apparently no issue at all.
This reflects a deeply misguided approach to antitrust enforcement, under Lina Khan.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This reflects a deeply misguided approach to antitrust enforcement, under Lina Khan.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This seems like a neat attempt to teach higher level programming concepts rather than any specific language implementation blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/12/b...
Finding and Fixing Standard Misconceptions About Program Behavior
blog.brownplt.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This seems like a neat attempt to teach higher level programming concepts rather than any specific language implementation blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/12/b...
@anil.recoil.org i am enjoying your aoah posts. Curious what your workflow is for checkpointing and undoing claude code work when it goes wrong
I find it infuriating that coding agents do not use git to differentiate between human and llm code. Perhaps I am just using em wrong?
I find it infuriating that coding agents do not use git to differentiate between human and llm code. Perhaps I am just using em wrong?
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
@anil.recoil.org i am enjoying your aoah posts. Curious what your workflow is for checkpointing and undoing claude code work when it goes wrong
I find it infuriating that coding agents do not use git to differentiate between human and llm code. Perhaps I am just using em wrong?
I find it infuriating that coding agents do not use git to differentiate between human and llm code. Perhaps I am just using em wrong?
Never really enjoyed working with minio. Looks like nvidia has a higher performing alternative (also in go). Minio never supported erasure codes in open source or had good performance or kept objects accessible as files. Nvidia aistore seems to do all that better github.com/NVIDIA/aistore
GitHub - NVIDIA/aistore: AIStore: scalable storage for AI applications
AIStore: scalable storage for AI applications. Contribute to NVIDIA/aistore development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Never really enjoyed working with minio. Looks like nvidia has a higher performing alternative (also in go). Minio never supported erasure codes in open source or had good performance or kept objects accessible as files. Nvidia aistore seems to do all that better github.com/NVIDIA/aistore
This seems like it could become a nice duckdb component for use in various data analysis webpages. cc @humphd.bsky.social
My DuckDB Terminal now has a user guide, and was updated to the latest DuckDB v1.4.3 and ghostty-web v0.4.0
terminal.sql-workbench.com/guide/
terminal.sql-workbench.com/guide/
User Guide - DuckDB Terminal
User guide for DuckDB Terminal - Learn how to use terminal commands, keyboard shortcuts, charts, file loading, and more.
terminal.sql-workbench.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This seems like it could become a nice duckdb component for use in various data analysis webpages. cc @humphd.bsky.social
This blew my mind a little bit. Did not know about shell ext for duckdb, cant fathom how cool it is to integrate random tools into duckdb queries via arrow support
December 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This blew my mind a little bit. Did not know about shell ext for duckdb, cant fathom how cool it is to integrate random tools into duckdb queries via arrow support
www.youtube.com/live/tOMF69d... The Wild West of Post-POSIX IO Interfaces by @anil.recoil.org - This is the single best presentation for understanding modern operating systems and hardware. Ever.
[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony SE - VMIL (Oct 15th)
YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
www.youtube.com/live/tOMF69d... The Wild West of Post-POSIX IO Interfaces by @anil.recoil.org - This is the single best presentation for understanding modern operating systems and hardware. Ever.
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if you love your beat, you’ll never work a day in your life… largely because HR keeps escorting you out of the building
Breaking: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways after new revelations and allegations about an affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.
Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
if you love your beat, you’ll never work a day in your life… largely because HR keeps escorting you out of the building
Anthropic Marketing: Claude can write code while you sleep.
Anthropic IRL: We bought a JS runtime cos have wrote too much shitty JS code and cant easily port it to another lang like OpenAI
Anthropic IRL: We bought a JS runtime cos have wrote too much shitty JS code and cant easily port it to another lang like OpenAI
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Anthropic Marketing: Claude can write code while you sleep.
Anthropic IRL: We bought a JS runtime cos have wrote too much shitty JS code and cant easily port it to another lang like OpenAI
Anthropic IRL: We bought a JS runtime cos have wrote too much shitty JS code and cant easily port it to another lang like OpenAI
github.com/vk2diy/hackb... this mac usb c mini hack is delightful
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
github.com/vk2diy/hackb... this mac usb c mini hack is delightful
Repurposing mosquito parts is the future i want to live in hackaday.com/2025/12/01/n...
Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds
A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biologica…
hackaday.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Repurposing mosquito parts is the future i want to live in hackaday.com/2025/12/01/n...
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🚨hey folks, the cloudflare outage has partially affected tangled as well!
repos hosted on knot1 are unavailable, as are avatars and camo’d images. self-hosted knots should still work as long as they aren’t proxied via cloudflare.
repos hosted on knot1 are unavailable, as are avatars and camo’d images. self-hosted knots should still work as long as they aren’t proxied via cloudflare.
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I’m thrilled to share that my new book (Spatial Data Management with DuckDB) is now published! 🎉
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I’m thrilled to share that my new book (Spatial Data Management with DuckDB) is now published! 🎉
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.
At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.