BlogDB

May 27, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

A Generative AI Cautionary Tale

There has been a lot of speculation and investment around Generative AI and how it will transform our society, but in the rush to capitalize on this new technology many companies are just going to ...

May 27, 2025 from Isaac Clayton

Compiling a Neural Net to C for a 1,744× speedup

tl;dr: I trained a neural network (NN), with logic gates in the place of activation functions, to learn a 3×3 kernel function for Conway’s Game of Life. I wanted to see if I could speed up inferenc...

May 25, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week — It's Mostly Wynncraft

This Week — It's Mostly Wynncraft TL;DR:I went on a work trip. Mostly, though, I played Wynncraft This blog post has approximately 250 words and may take 2 minutes to read. Hello, and welcome back!...

May 25, 2025 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

All Delta Force 1 OSTs

All Delta Force 1 OSTs extracted from the SBF assets

May 23, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #35: Diasimocracy, Four Loko Collectors, and What It's Like To Survive A Grizzly Attack

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next “Linkfest”, in which I sift through the entirety of known cyberspace to find the finest nuggets of science, technology and cultu...

May 23, 2025 from LifeDev.net

How to Avoid These Common Mistakes When Funding Your Education

Paying for college is challenging. With rising tuition, living expenses, and everyday costs, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. While there are several ways to cover educational expenses, some approach...

May 23, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Amazon Web Services - Three Years In

Today is my third anniversary with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If I had to describe this last year with one word it would be “change”. Unlike a lot of people I know who really don’t care for change,...

May 22, 2025 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Question Driven Development

A reflection on the importance of asking the right questions in software development.

May 20, 2025 from LifeDev.net

Matilde Vicenzi’s gluten-free Ladyfingers: classic taste, now for all

The gluten-free Ladyfingers reinterpretone of Italy’s most beloved recipes with a careful balance of taste, texture, and inclusivity – offering a solution for those who follow a gluten-free lifesty...

May 20, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Litestream: Revamped

Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about ...

May 20, 2025 from Heitor's log

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.

May 19, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

Axolotls, Genies, and Kaiju; a Quick TTRPG Zine Roundup #2

Another great round-up of tabletop RPG zines; Axolotl with a Gun, Game Genie Apocalypse/Reading the Apocalypse, and Home; a MECH X KAIJU RPG. The post Axolotls, Genies, and Kaiju; a Quick TTRPG Zin...

May 19, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

This post was cross-published from the SIGARCH blog. The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled paym...

May 19, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week (and Previous Week) — The Sick Edition, No. 2

This Week (and Previous Week) — The Sick Edition, No. 2 TL;DR:omg.lol hosts a charity event with a twist, two magazines launch, Archive of Our Own goes through two controversies, and I get addicted...

May 19, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Launching MCP Servers on Fly.io

This is a blog post. Part showing off. Part opinion. Plan accordingly. The Model Context Protocol is days away from turning six months old. You read that right, six months old. MCP Servers have bot...

May 16, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

🆕 Sandboxels OUT ON STEAM + New Update ♨️

Sandboxels has officially been released on Steam! To celebrate, we also have a new update (v1.11.2) with some small but neat features!

May 16, 2025 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Writing your own OS in 100 lines of YAML

The BlueBuild project is an easy and fun way to customize your own operating system.

May 14, 2025 from kmcd.dev

I made a daily word game

Taking a peek under the covers of making a daily puzzle game

May 13, 2025 from Steve Blank

How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and econ...

May 12, 2025 from Jordi Villar

Query Booster: How Tinybird optimizes table schemas for you

Original article: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/query-booster-how-tinybird-optimizes-table-schemas-for-you A customer recently reached out to us with an interesting observation: their query la...