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@mattchughes.ca
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Anthropic has Claude write a compiler.
www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
I'm reminded of Ken Thompson's paper, Reflections on Trusting Trust.
users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712....
I don't know where I'm going with this, other than having to consider the ever increasing need to manage security risks.
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TIL how to use jless to quickly navigate large JSON documents, find things, copy values out, and so on. It's pretty handy, check it out:
jless.io
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jless - A Command-Line JSON Viewer
jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
https://jless.io/
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rahaeli
11 days ago
--and add in a few cross site tracking pixels, you can profile people SCARILY well. Stop using Google search and block the tracking pixels and the coincidences stop, isn't that funny
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Ai2
18 days ago
Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵
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Matthew Highton
18 days ago
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
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Aaron Braver 🐧
17 days ago
I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book, and all I can say is if you’re a sci-fi fan, put this on your calendar for May when it comes out! What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions. (Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)
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Radiant Star
An electrifying new space opera of power, politics, and faith, set in the world of the Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie's ground-breaking, Hugo Award-winning scien...
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-leckie/radiant-star/9780316290357/
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Taylor Lorenz
17 days ago
LOVING the Skylight Social app for Bluesky. It's amazing, like the best of a Twitter and TikTok and IG feed all in one. This is how social media should be!! 😭
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eliza🌻
about 1 month ago
this Markdown file could have been a shell script.
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C. Thi Nguyen
about 1 month ago
You sweat in your basement for years writing a book, working that nobody will ever read it - or that they will think you are a complete raving idiot, but then you read an astonishing, soul-warming, got-everything review like this and suddenly you feel like your whole life is not actually a waste.
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idotherock
about 1 month ago
Oh, Kagi Small Web is a cool thing! Like retro internet, but with current websites.
kagi.com/smallweb
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Kagi Small Web
Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.
https://kagi.com/smallweb
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Zach Weinersmith
about 2 months ago
This is pretty amazing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8O...
If/when we finally get something like domestic robots, I wonder if companies like Disney will have an outsize role in figuring out how to make their appearance acceptable (something the various humanoid robot companies seem mediocre at)
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Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World
YouTube video by DisneyResearchHub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=235&v=-L8OFMTteOo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F
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Cassidy
about 2 months ago
For
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day 19, I wrote about all you can do with .github on... GitHub!
cassidoo.co/post/dot-git...
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Jason Gorman
about 2 months ago
While your junior developers are painting the proverbial fences, they're missing out on learning opportunities you *could* be offering them that would ripen these "green tomatoes" much faster.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/a...
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Are You Training Your Junior Developers, Or Hazing Them?
One of the ways I feel lucky in my software development career is in how I got started. I learned programming by building – well, trying to build – programs. Complete working programs &…
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/are-you-training-your-junior-developers-or-hazing-them/
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Jared Wesley
2 months ago
The UCP has made 2025 one of the darkest years for Alberta’s democracy. Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026. By simply being Albertan. Let me explain. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/drjaredwesley/p/what-can-we-do?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=evscl
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Mike Drucker
2 months ago
i stand by this statement every year
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Take 5-10 minutes a day to learn about compilers during
@matt.godbolt.org
's Advent of Compiler Optimizations series on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Bw...
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[AoCO 0/25] The Advent of Compiler Optimisations
YouTube video by Matt Godbolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BwR-Cw0Gk&list=PL2HVqYf7If8cY4wLk7JUQ2f0JXY_xMQm2
2 months ago
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Tade Thompson
2 months ago
L'esprit de l'escalier
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Paul Byrne
2 months ago
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.
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Should try to do
#blogvent
but must resist the urge to tinker with my blog set up instead of just writing...
2 months ago
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Considering an upgrade to your computer's Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with an Intel wireless M.2 2230 module? Be sure to check to ensure system interface compatibility with your motherboard first!
#PCBuilding
#Troubleshooting
#WiFi
#Bluetooth
2 months ago
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Joel Kenyon
3 months ago
New Blog Post 📝 Etymology in science usually stops at just photosynthesis, but I use it almost every single lesson. Here are a few stories of some of my lessons and the impact teaching etymology has made on pupil understanding and literacy.
inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/e...
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Chlorine is Green, Zoos Have Life and Kings are Killed: Using Etymology in Science
It started with a happy accident. I had finished a lesson with my Year 8s and, surprisingly, we had powered through the material with 15 minutes to spare. My plan for the next lesson was to introdu…
https://inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/etymology-in-science/
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DuncanYoudaho
3 months ago
Have I got the mug for this guy CC:
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social
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Managed to make a Cacio and Pepe adjacent pasta dish (linguine with cheese and lemon and spinach) that turned out pretty good, aided by science!
arxiv.org/html/2501.00...
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Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
https://arxiv.org/html/2501.00536v1
3 months ago
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Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed
3 months ago
I'm giving one of my favorite talks "Testable Architecture (Ya Gotta Keep 'em Separated" online at the Calgary Software Crafters meetup on Wednesday, December 10th at 6pm PST (7pm MST, 8pm CST, 9pm EST). Details and RSVP at
www.meetup.com/calgary-sof...
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Testable Architecture: Ya Gotta Keep 'em Separated - Ted M. Young, Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
One of the most important, yet misunderstood, aspects of Hexagonal, Clean, and Onion architectures is not their folder structure, but how they keep I/O and domain logic sep
https://www.meetup.com/calgary-software-crafters/events/312161308/
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3 months ago
Reminder to schedule a colonoscopy
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3 months ago
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jennifer uncoolidge
3 months ago
happy monday, taps sign⬇️
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Phil Plait
3 months ago
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
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Yay but not until 2028... and also a SUV. I'd take a 6e if they were in Canada but alas
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UploadVR
3 months ago
Deadly Delivery brings the comedic courier horror game to Quest and Steam early next month. Details here:
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Rereading Seveneves and kind of want to play the Arker's orbital mechanics game.... but I would probably get just as sick as i did trying to play Eve: Valkyrie
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Yves Reynhout
3 months ago
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GitHub - CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer: otel-desktop-viewer is a CLI tool for receiving OpenTelemetry traces while working on your local machine.
otel-desktop-viewer is a CLI tool for receiving OpenTelemetry traces while working on your local machine. - CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer
https://github.com/CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer
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Jason Hall
3 months ago
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
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A.L. Goldfuss
4 months ago
🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸 “Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not. Read here:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros...
Listen here:
tinyurl.com/drosera-regina
Art by the talented
@headfullopuddin.bsky.social
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Sonya 🇨🇦
4 months ago
Residents of Calgary - North West: the recall process for Rajan Sawhney is getting off the ground soon! She voted in favor of Bill 2. Website is coming, but in the meantime here is the group page if you use FB.
#FireTheUCP
#RecallRajan
#ableg
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TIL about oklch and why some colours look very different on my macbook vs external monitor.
oklch.com#0.8524,0.227...
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OKLCH Color Picker & Converter
OKLCH is a new way to encode colors (like hex, RGBA, or HSL)
https://oklch.com/#0.8524,0.227,166.91,100
4 months ago
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4 months ago
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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Kinda reminds me of crazy taxi
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Resistance Canada🍁
4 months ago
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Zach Weinersmith
4 months ago
For the record, Elizabeth talks like this too. It's how you know they're compatible. Fan theory: Pride and Prejudice is the first autism romance.
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Jenny Chase
4 months ago
3. Solar will not solve every problem. But the biggest problem is that our civilisation relies on digging up fossil carbon and burning it, which is destabilising the climate, which multiplies a lot of very unpleasant threats. Solar is part of stopping us needing to do that.
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Excellent thread on the state of solar power adoption
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I hope this comes to Canada. It would be cool to catch up with F1 , haven't followed it in like 10 years.
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The Sprawl
4 months ago
The Sprawl started this candidate list last November. Now it's complete. Bios of all 122 candidates running in the October 20 election (including trustee candidates), with links to their websites. Pass it along to anyone who needs it!
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Meet the Calgarians running for mayor and council in 2025 | The Sprawl
Learn about your candidates!
https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-election-candidates-2025
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Oooh new James S.A. Corey book coming out next year:
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james...
I really enjoyed The Mercy of Gods am I'm looking forward to the follow up. Pre-order at your local bookstore!
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The Faith of Beasts
James S. A. Corey's Expanse series has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 23 languages, establishing itself as...
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james-s-a-corey/the-faith-of-beasts/9780316525671/
4 months ago
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Ivan Reese
4 months ago
🫠
automerge.org
The new Automerge website is live!! The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo! Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.
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Jared Wesley
4 months ago
To commemorate the latest attempt to change Alberta license plates, let's look back at recent efforts to rebrand prairie political culture. Spoiler alert: All 3 of these premiers enjoyed much higher popularity ratings than does Danielle Smith. And all 3 failed.
#ableg
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Wtf no 🤮
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Mathias Verraes
4 months ago
I added three new tips to my article on "How to Read More Books".
verraes.net/2012/12/2012...
I've been growing that list since 2012!
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How to Read More Books
An ever-growing list of tips that help me read more books.
https://verraes.net/2012/12/2012-12-23-how-to-read-more-books/
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Deborah Timms
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