2026-09-26
Advice to a beginning software engineer
In general, you should be suspicious of engineers who are trying to give you advice. Even during ordinary times, this industry is so wide and changes so quickly that nobody...
MakerMap
A living map of makers and what they’re building Discussion | Link
Mr. Choyka Is Apparently Doing Well
A reader asked if this Gary Choyka who hit two holes-in-one in the same round of golf back in 2020 is the same Gary Choyka who was my history teacher...
I did the math on my Wardogs XP grind, and now I wish I hadn't
The Wardogs grind is real, and kind of exhausting.
Evidence about risk should be transparent
All views are my own and do not represent my employer.In the wake of the recent wave of misalignment incidents, both OpenAI and Anthropic have reported slowing down RL training...
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: ‘Never Heard a Grunt Ever Say He Prefers the M16A4’: Why Marines Traded the M16A4 for the M4
The M16A4 was adopted in 1997 and was still an M16A2 at heart, but its flat-top Picatinny upper and detachable carry handle let riflemen mount an ACOG, red dot, or...
Plan R: AI Safety by ASICs
Much of the civilization-scale risk we are seeing in AI in 2026 comes from the following combination: we created a single institution (the "Frontier AI Company") that has two properties:...
The US Air Force Built 195 F-22s Instead of 750 and Destroyed the Tooling to Make More — Now China Has Exactly the Air Force the Raptor Was Designed to Defeat
At roughly $140 million a jet, the Raptor was expensive to build and costly to keep ready. Cutting the buy far below the 750 the Air Force once planned spread...
How to open the auxiliary lines in Part 6 of Silent Hill: Townfall
Complete the last puzzle in Silent Hill: Townfall.
‘The Flight Deck Was Too Short’: France Took 14 Years to Build Its Only Nuclear Aircraft Carrier and the Propeller Fell Off
Rather than design new naval reactors, France adapted two K15 pressurized-water reactors from its ballistic-missile submarines. That saved money but left the 858-foot, 42,000-ton carrier underpowered at about 27 knots,...
Reviving the PoE++ Feature on a Ubiquiti Switch
Recently [The Parallel Port] was asked to take a look at repairing the PoE++ feature on a Ubiquiti switch that otherwise worked fine. This is a pretty nice 24-port rackmounted...
10 Free Browser Games That are Actually Fun to Play
From dice-based deckbuilders to a cat civilization sim, these 10 free browser games rival anything you'd pay for
I think I have to play this game about running a pizza shop as a front for the mafia because I once lived near a pizza shop that I swear was a front for the mafia
I think I have to play this game about running a pizza shop as a front for the mafia because I once lived near a pizza shop that I swear...
The Great US Marine Corps Reboot Has Arrived
Gen. David Berger's reasoning was blunt: buy cheap, numerous systems instead of a few exquisite ones, and stop preparing for the grinding land wars of the Middle East. His Marines...
RGB2RTG v0.5 - Redirect your AMIGA 1200 RGB image to RTG display
What looks to be an incredible piece of homebrew software has arrived on Itch.io that could change the game for Amiga 1200 PiStorm owners. Developed by Astair86, RGB2RTG is an...
ZenABM
Create, optimize & report on LinkedIn Ads from any AI tool Discussion | Link
The AI Code Avalanche: Building an Adversarial Pipeline to Stop Code Hallucinations Before They Hit
Drowning in AI-generated PRs? Learn how to build a multi-agent adversarial pipeline to catch code hallucinations and enforce architecture before it hits main.
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