Compression is prediction | ngrok blog
Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. Learn the fundamentals of compression and how better prediction leads to better shrinkage.
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How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.
The Agentic Web Index: AI Bot Traffic Statistics | Known Agents
A continuously updating analysis of bot vs. human traffic, AI scraping, fetching, search indexing, browsing, robots.txt compliance, and AI chat referrals across 5,000+ websites.
Guillaume Técher
Guillaume Técher
Cassava CSV Editor
Open, edit, search, filter, and clean CSV files with Cassava, a fast native CSV editor for macOS and Linux.
GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge: Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs
Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mac Classic
Tips and tricks to help keep your Mac OS 9/Early Mac OS computers usable today. Software downloads, guides, hacks and news.
SILO: S3-Compatible Object Storage by Pigsty
S3-compatible object storage, forked from MinIO and maintained by the Pigsty community: versioned releases, signed packages, the full web console, and security fixes with public advisories.
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open. — Herdr blog
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.
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WireGuard TCP Transport enhancement patch — moved to WGTCP.net
WireGuard TCP Transport enhancement patch — moved to WGTCP.net
Duty of Kisak
We decompiled COD4.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
Announcing Perspec 1.0
Perspec is a desktop app for correcting the perspective of images. After 9 years of development, version 1.0 is finally here.
An announcement from Superlogical
Building the multiplexer for all work.
GitHub - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop
Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
GitHub - AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation: This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg
This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg - AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation
GitHub - vercel-labs/scriptc: TypeScript-to-Native Compiler
TypeScript-to-Native Compiler. Contribute to vercel-labs/scriptc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Design Jam — Annotate. Jam. Ship.
Design Jam — Annotate. Jam. Ship.
linux-cve-announce.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
linux-cve-announce.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
Castle Map — Explore 2,435 Castles, Fortresses & Palaces Worldwide
A free interactive map of 2,435 great castles, fortresses and palaces across 129 countries — each pinned with its photo, founding century and story.
Regressive JPEGs: (Maurycy's blog)
Regressive JPEGs: (Maurycy's blog)
Alex Yang - Making ASCII art in Vim
Alex Yang - Making ASCII art in Vim
The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026
The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026
Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Notes on software quality
Notes on software quality
Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) | schamper.dev
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced macOS 26 Tahoe. One of the new features in macOS Tahoe is a new disk image format: ASIF. Designed for use with virtual machines (its documentation lives under the Virtualization framework), ASIF takes a lot of inspiration from existing virtual disk formats. Practically, that means it’s another sparse virtual disk format, and functions very similar to sparse VMDK, VHDX…
GitHub - librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem.
AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to librepods-org/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ship the policy, not the code
A rule has to hold on both sides of an API boundary. Do you duplicate the code, share it, or let the backend drive the invariant?
Astro 7.0 | Astro
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
Decrypting View State Messages
Investigating how IIS machine keys are generated and how to decrypt a view state.
GitHub - tiliondev/fortress: Stealth Chromium engine that stops scrapers and browser agents from getting blocked, with one line of code change.
Stealth Chromium engine that stops scrapers and browser agents from getting blocked, with one line of code change. - tiliondev/fortress
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
Copy That Floppy! - Copy That Floppy!
Copy That Floppy! - Copy That Floppy!
Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers? | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Small RPKI publication servers comprise a quiet but important part of the Internet’s trust infrastructure. Understanding who operates these servers, and why, helps reveal both strengths and gaps in today’s routing security.
densha — study Japanese in a living voxel Tokyo
Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.
You’re Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand - Minid.net
You’re Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand - Minid.net
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Tris Sherliker
Tris Sherliker
GitHub - ClickHouse/RayTracer: Ray tracer in SQL
Ray tracer in SQL. Contribute to ClickHouse/RayTracer development by creating an account on GitHub.
has_not_been_viewed_much — Will W.
Museum APIs and the art that hasn't been viewed much.
sneakerweb
sneakerweb
Steam Hardware / Steam Machine / inkterface · GitLab
An e-ink faceplate for your Steam Machine!
Parse, Don't Validate — In a Language That Doesn't Want You To
Applying Alexis King's parse-don't-validate principle in TypeScript, where the type system fights back just enough to be annoying.
Fintech Engineering Handbook
Fintech Engineering Handbook
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight" (@Lana@beige.party)
Okay I'm a teacher so let me explain this to you in as simple a way as I can. Let's say you're hungry for a sandwich. So you go to the local deli. You walk in the door, and your credit card is immediately charged $1,000. In return, the deli guy hands you a sandwich ticket - good for one sandwich. You don't get a say in this. You are required to buy this sandwich by law. What's more, there were no…
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Arbee's WIP Emporium » I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
Arbee's WIP Emporium » I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
GitWorktree.org
Learn Git Worktree from basics to advanced. Tutorials, cheat sheets, IDE setup, and guides for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
I Asked Opus 4.6 to Fingerprint Sandbox Vendors – OpenComputer
We fingerprinted 6 sandbox providers to understand their isolation models - from containers to microVMs to full hypervisors. Here's what we found.