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Back in 2021 I documented a well-painted banana bench in Brooklyn. Five years later, the bench looks a bit worse for wear.


Linux on PlayStation 5. The ps5-linux project enables the installation of a Linux distribution on the original PlayStation 5 (the physically larger model). The installation isn’t easy. On the other hand, since it isn’t persistent (you need to run the exploit on every reboot), there’s no risk of “bricking” the console. OpenClaw suffers from waves […]

copy.fail documents CVE-2026-31431 , a Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability. In plain language: code that is already running as a normal local user may be able to become root This is especially relevant for shared servers, container hosts, CI runners, build systems, and systems that run untrusted code. What users should do For most users, the main action is simple: Update your system normally, install kernel sec....

My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he's never been inside. Rich like a man whose third

AI has fundamentally transformed my developer workflow, from stack choices and IDE preferences to how git is used. I using Claude and orchestration tools like Maestro to guide implementation while tests serve as guardrails.


It is really not that hard to bring your own voice and use AI to aid your writing. Have the LLM read your prior work, then give it a detailed outline, and then iterate. See my transcript on a prior post for an example. […]

have used AI tools to help me write. I promise to be forthcoming if I use AI to help me write any substantive sections of writing (in […]

Many of the initial wave of “AI writing detectors” were quite bad. The biggest issue you need to be concerned about with an AI writing detector is false positives. If you are a professor and want to check students’ writing, it is very bad to falsely accuse a student. The Pangram product, though, is quite […]

Your developers’ AI tools are only as good as what they know going in. When those tools run through the right IDE, it can give them a head start – a picture of the codebase the tools would otherwise need to piece together themselves. That means your team’s IDE choices belong on your AI agenda […]


When I pitch people on far-UVC they often ask about in-duct UV. How about putting UV inside your HVAC ducts, where you can safely blast the air with cheap toxic wavelengths. Unfortunately, it's rarely a good approach. The biggest issue is that most people don't have ducts. They're common in the US, though less so in older construction (radiators) or newer (mini-splits). Outside the US (and Canada, and Australia), however, ducted s....

When I pitch people on far-UVC they often ask about in-duct UV. How about putting UV inside your HVAC ducts, where you can safely blast the air with cheap toxic wavelengths. Unfortunately, it's rarely a good approach. The biggest issue is that most people don't have ducts. They're common in the US, though less so in older construction (radiators) or newer (mini-splits). Outside the US (and Canada, and Australia), however, ducted s....

When I pitch people on far-UVC they often ask about in-duct UV. How about putting UV inside your HVAC ducts, where you can safely blast the air with cheap toxic wavelengths. Unfortunately, it's rarely a good approach. The biggest issue is that most people don't have ducts. They're common in the US, though less so in older construction (radiators) or newer (mini-splits). Outside the US (and Canada, and Australia), however, ducted s....

Quickly compare e-commerce products across any site with an agent, a skill and an AI-powered web scraping API.

Explore how new regulations like the EU AI Act and California AB 2013 are reshaping AI data compliance in 2026. Learn why provenance, transparency, and lawful sourcing are now critical.


I'm not looking to switch from Fedora or anything, but I'm curious as to how people here view corporate-backed distros such as Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE compared to community-backed ones like Debian or Arch.

Introduction In Part I , we discussed why Grab is investing in a data mesh, referred to as the Signals Marketplace within Grab, as part of our evolving data culture. We also explained how data certification aids teams in reliably reusing data across different domains. However, cultural change doesn’t occur through principles alone; it happens when tools reshape people’s daily behaviors. Therefore, it is crucial for us to develop effecti....

Introduction In Part I , we discussed why Grab is investing in a data mesh, referred to as the Signals Marketplace within Grab, as part of our evolving data culture. We also explained how data certification aids teams in reliably reusing data across different domains. However, cultural change doesn’t occur through principles alone; it happens when tools reshape people’s daily behaviors. Therefore, it is crucial for us to develop effecti....

The past couple of weeks, I've been working with an ESP32 chip. I'm making experiments at this moment: my goal is to find out if these chips are good enough now. Many years ago I started with ESP8266 chips and they were clearly not: they were so resource-limited that they could not do TLS (and by extension, HTTPS). Any interesting use-case requires a server reachable over the internet, the lack of secure communication disqualified that chip....

A malicious release of the lightning PyPI package ships a credential-stealing Bun payload that runs on import. Snyk has a live advisory. Here's what's in the package, what to rotate, and how the payload pattern connects to the Mini Shai-Hulud npm campaign one day earlier.


After a busy March , April was a little quieter. But don’t worry, I still have a bunch of little links for you to click on. Things I published GitHub’s uptime hasn’t been great recently. Even though I dislike the Microsoft subsidiary, I wrote “In defense of GitHub’s poor uptime” , which argues that it’s not as bad as folks seems to be saying. See this Lobsters thread for some discussion. Published version 0.2.0 of setbigtimeout,....

I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the /var/log/apache dir I saw 1000s of these flying by: 2a01:4f8:1c1c:79a1::1 - - [01/Apr/2026:22:01:38 +0200] "GET /images/WINKEL2025-24/Img9369.JPG HTTP/2.0" 200 46672 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 Joomla!/5.4.4 Joomla" 2a01:4f8:1c1c:79a1::1 - - [01/Apr/2026:22:01....

I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the /var/log/apache dir I saw 1000s of these flying by: 2a01:4f8:1c1c:79a1::1 - - [01/Apr/2026:22:01:38 +0200] "GET /images/WINKEL2025-24/Img9369.JPG HTTP/2.0" 200 46672 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 Joomla!/5.4.4 Joomla" 2a01:4f8:1c1c:79a1::1 - - [01/Apr/2026:22:01....


OpenAI has rolled out two updates that on the surface seem like two separate things, but actually share a common thread. GPT-5.5 makes a big jump in terms of reasoning, coding and tool use, while GPT Image 2 focuses on image generation and editing. At first glance, it’s not the individual new features that stand […] The post GPT-5.5 and GPT Image 2: What Actually Changed appeared first on RisingStack Engineering .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzumJ-qI3qs&t=993 As tele-robotics continue to evolve in complexity and go lower in price, the risks in application increase significantly. Internet connected surgery devices become a new vector for potentially bad actors to man these systems and use them for, presumably, remote hostage situations amongst other endeavors. What do you make of this fiasco?

Book Exporter turns a structured Obsidian note tree into a real book; one manifest note, one command, EPUB and PDF out the other side via Pandoc.

Book Exporter turns a structured Obsidian note tree into a real book; one manifest note, one command, EPUB and PDF out the other side via Pandoc.

Book Exporter turns a structured Obsidian note tree into a real book; one manifest note, one command, EPUB and PDF out the other side via Pandoc.

Table of Contents VARIANT Support Hardwood CLI TUI Unified Reader API Performance Improvements Wrapping Up I am happy to announce the release of Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2! The latest version of this new parser for Apache Parquet comes with support for VARIANT columns, an interactive text-based UI (TUI) for examining and analysing the structure of Parquet files, significantly improved performance, more efficient reading ..

Table of Contents VARIANT Support Hardwood CLI TUI Unified Reader API Performance Improvements Wrapping Up I am happy to announce the release of Hardwood 1.0.0.Beta2! The latest version of this new parser for Apache Parquet comes with support for VARIANT columns, an interactive text-based UI (TUI) for examining and analysing the structure of Parquet files, significantly improved performance, more efficient reading ..

Which of the following are the worst for people to start on as their first distro? Fedora Arch Linux Linux mint 22.3 LMDE 7 Ubuntu Gentoo

Support for remote controlling Windows PCs may be added to Raspberry Pi Connect , Raspberry Pi's free remote access service. When they announced Pi Connect in 2024 , I speculated the service was launched in response to RealVNC's sluggish adoption of Wayland, leading to Pi users lacking a solid remote access solution after Pi OS 12 'Bookworm' was launched. The service was helpful for those who had one or more Raspberry Pis to acces..


Was thinking about the kid feeling listless, adrift. At that age, living by Seattle (or anywhere, really)…if one likes music, even a little, get a guitar or a piano synth, learn two or three chords, and start writing songs while working at an ice cream store. Or do some vocational training, electrician, nature guide, whatever attracts even a hint of interest. Adrift hair drawings made in an occasional co-working livestream. Words that have ..


If you’re mid-build or have just launched a FHIR implementation, my book gives you a framework to help make better decisions. What it doesn’t do is tell you where your specific architecture stands right now: what works well and what is likely to break later. That’s what I’m offering. FHIR Architectural Assessment Three days of […]

39 projects, 6 finalists, and a weekend of IDE-native AI in San Francisco. Earlier this month, we brought developers together in San Francisco for the inaugural JetBrains x Codex Hackathon. Over the course of one weekend, teams built 39 IDE-native AI projects, from which six finalists emerged. The event highlighted just how rapidly developers are […]

Table of Contents In this tutorial series, I will introduce the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme from the ground up, in rather intricate detail. Each article in this series corresponds to a pull request on a GitHub repository. The code for this article is in this pull request. Follow along by cloning the repository and checking out the code at the relevant commit. This first article will cover some of the mathematical background necessary..

Table of Contents In this tutorial series, I will introduce the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme from the ground up, in rather intricate detail. Each article in this series corresponds to a pull request on a GitHub repository. The code for this article is in this pull request. Follow along by cloning the repository and checking out the code at the relevant commit. This first article will cover some of the mathematical background necessary..

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