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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
An investigative account of how a single Flock ALPR hit led Palm Beach County deputies to jail Lindsey Isaacs for 13 days despite a mismatched car color and no damage.
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Optimizing x264 Settings and Per-title Ladders
Jan Ozer shows how to tune x264 encodes and per-title bitrate ladders to cut bandwidth while improving quality—practical encoder settings and ladder design for H.264-heavy streaming workflows.
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Jordan or LeBron? what 85 AI models think
We put "Jordan or LeBron?" to 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
16 min · 3,606 words
Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
In 2011, Apple released the Cards app. The app — which required iOS 5 — let you design custom letterpress cards, with your messages and photos printed upon them — which Apple would ship to your recipient on your behalf. I recently learned the origin story of Cards, and that it was specifically a Steve Jobs product. It also wasn’t smooth sailing. But first, some backstory, and inserting myself into the narrative, because it’s my site and I can do what I want here.
6 min · 1,445 words
Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course
Software engineer Rob Bercik documents a crash course with a desktop robot arm: why LLM-era builders should get out of the way, what broke first, and what physical loops taught him.
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Local AI on a 12 GB GPU: what survived testing, and how to set it up
Hands-on notes testing local AI models on a 12 GB RTX 3060: which stacks fit in VRAM, how context length decides spills to CPU, and a practical setup that survived the author’s trials.
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Who wins the India v West Indies ODI series? 82 AI models predict the result
We put "Who wins the India v West Indies ODI series?" to 82 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
14 min · 3,178 words
Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World
Roel Nieskens picks ten short snippets—from BASIC hello-world loops to JavaScript wat Batman and typography hacks—that shaped how he thinks about programming, fronts-ends, and fonts.
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The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
Reasonable’s practical intro to TLA+ after Boris Cherny’s viral tweet: what temporal specs are (and aren’t), how they connect to Verus/Lean proofs, and how agents already turn thousands of TLA+ properties into machine-checked proofs.
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Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue
Francis Bach reframes log-sum-exp / KL estimation as a continuum of least-squares problems with closed-form spectral solutions—cutting exploding exponential variance.
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C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
Gustavo Pezzi defends C’s platform-sized integers: how 12–60-bit machines shaped int, why minimum ranges beat fixed widths, and what Lua’s portable C still teaches.
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub’s Primer team recounts fully migrating github.com off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules—feature flags, sx-prop cleanup, theming, and the performance wins along the way.
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Marcos Magueta borrows a Roman naming practice to argue for clearer software names—how ancient cognomina habits map onto naming libraries, products, and the stories we tell about code.
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Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap
Eric Goldman analyzes Kansas v. Snap, where Snap argues it should be treated as a state actor—an unusual posture for a private internet service normally fighting that characterization.
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NetBSD: Playing with disklabels
A hands-on walkthrough of NetBSD disklabels for someone coming from Linux/DOS: how labels are structured, how to inspect and edit them safely, and the gotchas when partitioning disks the BSD way.
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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
A lot of progress was made since last year, and I made some of it! After [last year's survey](https://shnatsel.medium.com/the state of simd in rust in 2025 32c263e5f53d) I started contributing to the SIMD library that seemed the most promising. One thing led to another, and now I'm a maintainer of Fearless SIMD. To avoid a conflict of interest, I invited authors of other libraries ( std::simd , wide , pulp , macerator ) to review and provide feedback on a draft of this article.
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Yesterday, I received this email as a response to [You Can't Vibe Code Love](https://blog.codinghorror.com/you cant vibe code love/). It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well.
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Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to avoid future drama and have a position against AI. However, although I was not using AI for my FOSS contributions, I kept using it at work. In my workplace, as well as in many of my developer friends’,…
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AI Subagents orchestration are now reliable
Rafael explains what changed to make AI subagent orchestration reliable enough for real development workflows, and how he uses task decomposition in practice.
6 min · 1,397 words
claude.dev puts numbers on why two same-priced models can cost very different amounts: every turn resends the conversation, so retries and harness shape dominate the bill.
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