2025-07-08
The more senior engineers get, the more results matter
In my experience, people tend to overrate how much moving up the org chart changes the fundamentals of the job. As a staff engineer, I do more or less the...
OLED burn-in anxiety will ruin my sanity long before it ruins my monitor
Nice OLED you've got there, sure would be a shame if the pale outline of an Excel document burned into it.
Deepgram Saga
The Voice OS for Developers Discussion | Link
Apple, as Promised, Formally Appeals €500 Million DMA Fine in the EU
Here’s the full statement, given by Apple to the media, including Daring Fireball: “Today we filed our appeal because we believe the European Commission’s decision — and their unprecedented fine ...
Why Africa’s Tech Future Thrives on Resilience and Purpose, Not Raises, Not Hype
Africa’s tech ecosystem has been a global darling, with headlines trumpeting billion-dollar valuations and blockbuster exits. But beneath the champagne toasts lies a sobering truth: over 60% of African startups...
15 hidden gems in the Steam Summer Sale you've still got time to grab
Hipster picks for oddball tastes, all without destroying your wallet.
RFK Jr Has a Problem: the Synthetic Food Dyes He’s Trying to Eliminate Are in Candy Beloved by Trump
From Adderall to M&Ms, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s health policies keep running counter to president Donald Trump's preferences. As the New York Times reports, the Health and Human Services secretary...
A Theory of Structural Independence
Published on July 7, 2025 10:54 PM GMTThe linked paper introduces the key concept of factored spaced models / finite factored sets, structural independence, in a fully general setting using...
xmcp
The framework for building & shipping MCP applications Discussion | Link
How Silicon Valley Got Rich. “When Apple went public in 1980, it...
How Silicon Valley Got Rich. “When Apple went public in 1980, it created 300 millionaires. When Microsoft did in 1986, 3,000 employees became millionaires. After Google’s IPO in 2004, 1,000...
Romero Games is not closed: 'We are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that'
The studio says it's now in talks with other publishers about finishing the game it was working on prior to last week's funding cut.
'Hi modders <3': Peak devs know we're using mods to break past the 4-player limit, and they're so cool with it they're even fixing mod-specific bugs
Peak decides that modders are its friends, not adversaries.
DePin: A New Frontier and Beyond
Tesla's Cybercab rollout should prompt tech-friendly jurisdictions to encourage a physical internet revolution. Decentralized physical-infrastructure networks that pay the people who supply real-world assets with on-chain rewards can ensure that...
2025-07-07
Notable
AI Voice notes made easy Discussion | Link
“All games are cooperative. The very act of agreeing to & honouring...
“All games are cooperative. The very act of agreeing to & honouring rules, & the deeper compact, of temporarily engaging in the roleplay that the drama taking place on the...
Today's Dune: Awakening patch takes another sidestep away from the PvP-heavy endgame
The Deep Desert keeps getting more friendly to players who want to avoid PvP.
Navigating Attention
Published on July 7, 2025 9:43 PM GMTIn the last post I introduced the concept of the direction of attention existing on a spectrum. On one side of the spectrum,...
The Weighted Perplexity Benchmark: Tokenizer-Normalized Evaluation for Language Model Comparison
Published on July 7, 2025 9:43 PM GMTAbstractPerplexity remains the primary intrinsic metric for evaluating language models, yet direct comparison across models with different tokenization schemes presents methodological challenges. We...
Everything From Rookie Mistakes to a New Feature: My Passion Project's Wildest Week
Kuwguap is the founder of RAWPA, a penetration testing assistant. His passion project has completely hijacked his brain, and he wouldn't have it any other way. He's written about his...
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