“Type Construction and Cycle Detection” by Mark Freeman — https://go.dev/blog/type-construction-and-cycle-detection #golang

“In the UK, no-one would have gotten out of that place alive. I felt terribly alone. I longed for women wearing short skirts in winter vomiting on street corners, mad drunks screaming at passers-by, someone eating a kebab next to a dead body, the great Hogarthian beauty of my country.”

@atls.city !set GB-ENG-Brighton

Nice explanation … this is something that I've found confusing.

RIP Tony Hoare, March 5 2026, age 92 blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

"Prompt Engineering" == "UX Failure"

Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer

30th of January 1894, and the Adelaide-bound Loch Shiel attempted to take shelter in Milford Haven, jiggered it up, and sank with 7,000 bottles of whisky (according to the manifest) or absolutely no bottles at all, never seen 'em, if you looked official and asked the inevitably inebriated locals...

Tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January youtube.com/shorts/vbtmA...

They were attacked by Sir Lipsum!

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

10/10 no noots

I had a conversation about almost everything with the great @dankaszeta.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

me: This code needs to be sped up. I know, let's add some concurrency! me: now, I just need to make the tests pass me, *two hours later*: hmmm, that wasn't as trivial as it looked Every. Single. Time.

It's incredible to me that so much work has been done on this, so recently. And thanks Russ, for writing this up in a way that the mathematically challenged like myself can find readable.

Just seen it and wholly agree. An incredible piece of work, very distinctive from its predecessor

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

It's crap, and missing many things present in the previous version. I've uninstalled it.

Today I spent fifteen minutes calling customer support, successfully. I have been putting this off for at least four months 🤦🏻‍♀️

It's almost enough to make me use YouTube…

Today has been a run commands to do stuff. The most code I've written has been … 🥁 … awk!

This makes me happy even though I don't work in JavaScript much any more!

I hadn't seen this absolute deep-dive on one specific part of the new Tahoe UI. I hadn't realised quite how bad it was. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

I have publicly observed that we really don't know what our software does any more, how it does it, or what's in it. We have failed as an industry to make a sustainable, safe ecosystem for software.

Okay, might as well get this started. It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930. The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d. 1/

I've just finished my Christmas present "The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor" by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social. what an incredible book, in so many different ways. Fabulous writing, amazing art (the sepia is so good), and incredible world building. A true joy

Two prominent people in tech I know very very well (and know to be brilliant) have come up with polar opposite views on AI. One is all, “It’s powerful and interesting and the negatives are over-stated”. Another says it’s ruining the world, won’t work and will trigger the collapse of the economy.

Just insane behaviour. (Nice photo of Tenby though)

Old man is happy!

I wouldn't trust an IT department that didn't hate computers

My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...

Likewise I can't recommend this highly enough! Fun fact: Uncle Iroh was primarily played by Mako, who also starred alongside Arnie in the 1980's Conan film 😁

My postie alert system agrees

I was in Wellington for the release of Return of the King. There were giant trolls coming out of buildings. It was fantastic!

Comics... Such a great gateway to literacy. Plus they're just fun www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See, it _can_ be done without Copilot.

“Moominmamma cooks a real magic potion following Grandmother’s infallible recipe”, by Tove Jansson, as used on the cover of 1989’s exhibition catalogue of Jansson’s work as shown at Finland’s Tampere Art Museum.

So farewell, Java Applets: "The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026." inside.java/2025/12/03/a...

this is one of the more thoughtful and balanced things i've read about LLMs in a while! it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.

Day 6 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations! Divide by 512—just a shift, right? But the compiler adds extra instructions. Why? A subtle difference between what you asked and what you meant! xania.org/202512/06-di... youtu.be/7Rtk0qOX9zs #AoCO2025

A lovely intro into modern tech publishing. This sounds very similar to much of the work I was doing at Semantico, fifteen years ago! se-radio.net/2025/11/se-r...

Puffling Patrol!

movie: we can't trace their payload, it's behind two layers of base64! computer knowers: *groan* reality:

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu