The Songs for Ukraine Chorus performs Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) in Westminster Abbey, after King Charles’ Christmas address🇬🇧🇺🇦 Thank you to His Majesty the King and the people of the UK for their constant support and hospitality💙💛

Oh wow, just did a bit of googling and I'd love to try it out. I had no idea about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutia

First time making traditional Ukrainian Christmas kutya all by myself 🥰

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

After years of using the default layout, moved the VSCode sidebar to the right to reduce distracting layout shifts, especially when looking at a lot of complex diagrams, and... it looks weird, but I like it? Compare the editor layout shift when opening/closing the panel on the left vs on the right.

if i hear one more person talk about arenas as the pinnacle of performant memory management i’m going to go insane

I think I broke Gemini 😂 Had to force-stop after 28 pages of... this.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (February)

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (September)

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

I remember when search engines were trying to be useful.

It's really sad that Chrome laid off one of the world's best CSS developer-designers, and now they have to fake demos of web features. youtu.be/d8J0vs-bEPE?...

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Excuse me? Average of 10.2 drinks per week? And that's their lowest figure on record? www.ft.com/content/0f42... Given how averages work, and that most people in my "bubble" only have a few occasional pints... who are all these people who go into dozens?

every person I've heard say that they have to be there for their followers has had approximately 1% as many followers as I had on that platform. Bring your community to places where they're not under siege.

Oh nice, Google release LiteRT 2.0 with more Web-friendly async APIs. ONNXRuntime WebGPU backend needs to step up their game - LiteRT.js in float32 mode is now almost 2x faster.

New soa-rs version with my contributions for generics support and no_std compatibility has been released 🥳

Sanctions are not damaging Russian economy. We made "conscious decision" for it to get smaller. I remain a master strategist

i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"

Do you remember when the entire internet could fit under 14 categories?

That's my worry about the upcoming satellite connectivity built straight into mobile phones. I go hiking in the wilderness because it's the last place where I can truly be unreachable, and that will be soon gone too.

Got ur gifts here bitch

Lmao, this is gold comedy tier. If I didn't know any better, I'd think AI is trolling me.

It's the most wonderful time Of the year 🎶

He could be the first person ever to have their FIFA Peace Prize revoked.

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Got lucky this year with the peak of the Geminids meteor shower falling on an unexpectedly clear night. Caught a few in my backyard with the Orion nebula and Pleiades in the background. #astrophotography

I do believe that LLMs increasing the usage of already existing powerful tools says as much about the usable open source software tools ecosystem

Not at all what I was going for but this looks like art.

The funny thing about personalisation instructions is that, after repeated violations, it knows exactly what I mean, no extra words necessary 😂 Now, if only it knew that before answering...

Accidentally got down the rabbit hole of largest telephoto lenses and... omg.

"Why can't I remove these small stars from my image", he wondered while staring at the dust on the screen.

My gift to the rustdoc team: fasterthanli.me/articles/my-... Merry syntaxmas, everyone!

Yes. Yes. Yes. Do it. www.thetimes.com/article/83e5...

I’m not sure that “someone could already fingerprint you so it doesn’t matter if we make that easier” is necessarily the responsible approach? @infrequently.org are there better ways to scope for performance that don’t risk fingerprinting?

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Every company shipping software to users take note: this is how you do release notes. The effort that went into this post must have been huge, and is not lost on me. Thank you 🙏

Hey Microsoft, I know you are working hard to integrate Copilot everywhere to make AI numbers go brrr - I was *so* happy to see you've added it to notepad.exe, but I think you missed one. Can't wait for this integration in the next update 😘

BTW that thread points to a handy website where you can compare the same model on different cloud providers, eg: models.dev?search=gemin... Cost comparison, context limits (yup, turns out cut-down versions are a common practice), supported inputs etc.

I love that Gemini (probably others too?) includes HTML preview, that you can apparently (ab)use for cheap and precise SVG vector visualisations where raster-oriented Nano Banana falls short. If you're like me and learn better through graphs, diagrams etc, this is pretty handy to have.

God give me the confidence of companies that still send large sums of money by cheque... in plain envelope... with no signature or verification required.

I'm playing around with JPEG XL's "JPEG repackaging" feature. It repackaged a 147kb JPEG down to 126kb, but on my Pixel 10, the new file takes 78ms to decode, vs 10ms for the JPEG. At 3g+ speeds… that feels like a performance loss. random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/apps/img-dec...

Having an even better run with Gemini 3 Pro. Things changed in particular when I found out that Gemini models provided by Copilot in VSCode are cut-down versions of the same models provided by Google despite the same name (128K tokens vs 1M tokens of context).

The last few model releases have been quite an improvement though, and it stands to reason, that they might be able to catch up again. Which means we now have a competitive EU LLM provider that also releases their models as open-source. Which is great! mistral.ai/news/devstra...

I love this future where I have to keep trying to convince AI to work and it keeps coming up with excuses not to. They're just like us 🥲

Super exciting: Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux Kernel, it is here to stay!!! lwn.net/Articles/104...

Them: it's nice that you can see all the dangerous Rust code by simply grepping for `unsafe`. Also them: AI-generating code on the fly is safe. github.com/germangb/ai-...