The Five Parameters Vadi The Dominant Note In music: In Hindustani classical music, the vadi is the most important note of a raaga, the one the melody keeps returning to, the note that gives the raag

Community Check The Noisy Room A Story About Common Confusion It began with a study. In December of 2025, Stanford researchers analyzed 2.2 billion social media posts looking for a pattern. They want

Learning Software Architecture In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist: I was attached to a bioinformatics lab early in my career, so I think I un

Every once in a while, something from the early days of my software development journey resurfaces and brings with it a flood of memories. Recently, I came across a PlanetSourceCode.com archived GitHu

Key Takeaways Material behavior in production depends on the process context that no development environment can fully replicate. In advanced packaging, the interactions that cross domain boundaries

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Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses might be leading the pack in America, but in China, they’re starting to look a little bit behind. Arguably, the toughest competition is coming from Alibaba, which just ann

ephemerides-spectral High-precision HDC reference instrument for the Sol Star System. Status: v0.26.0 — production-ready. Two-stage architecture: three interchangeable integer-ALU phase-residue enco

The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early, primitive forms. The idea is quite simple, that a well-enough-sealed boat ought to be able to submerge and resurface. It's the

TL;DR Over 170 npm packages and 401 compromised versions were published in a coordinated supply chain attack on May 11, 2026. The attack targeted high-profile packages including the entire TanStack r

General About About Boriel BASIC SDK ChangeLog A reduced list of changes/bugfixes Installation How to install Boriel BASIC SDK in your system, and prerequisites for doing so. SDK tools Tools a

It's about spending your time where it truly matters. For instance, would you really want to speed up time spent with your loved ones? When we’re able to discern what we really want, our north star,

A dispute over maintainer access in fsnotify, a widely used Go library for cross-platform filesystem notifications, briefly raised takeover concerns this week after contributors were removed from the

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Last week I had another run-in with VGA emulation, and like last time, the cause was very likely the generally woefully inadequate VGA documentation. The VGA is not, all things considered, a particul

Fake building: Claude wrote 3,000 lines instead of import pywikibot TL;DR. Claude would rather reinvent the wheel than pip install one. I wanted to fix typos on some Fandom wikis. Opened Claude Code

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words Eiko Ojala Early writing is a t

The Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available, offering a new way for AWS customers to access the full set of Claude Platform features with AWS authentication, billing, and commitment retireme

My neighborhood in Denver is experiencing a kind of slow strangulation. Today, the neighborhood is mixed-income with a range of families from different backgrounds. A decade ago, it was lower income t

Abstract machines for logic programs 06 Apr, 2026 [Based on conversations with Rob Simmons. Reader prerequisites: comfortable with inference rules, peano notation, state machines.] The following in

General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for s

Today, we’re announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding. We think interactivity should scale alongside intell

We've been working through some significant changes inside GitLab over the past few days, and I want to share them with you directly. The email I sent the team is included below for full context. The

You wake up at 3am with no idea what woke you. By the time your brain catches up, the noise is gone. So I let AI help me build a tool to finally answer that question, and to act on the answer. I try

Hey, what's up? It's Takuya. I've been thinking about how to live well in this AI era as a developer, content creator, and artist. By “living well,” I mean enjoying the act of creating while maintain

More than a half million people paid $100 each for a gold smartphone featuring an American flag that Trump Mobile promised would be "Made in the USA." The problem is, one year later, they don't seem t

I use terminals a lot. On most machines, I have anywhere from five to ten of them open across one to four desktops (there are 12 terminals open on two desktops on the machine I'm writing on). Having s

A new study by UCLA Health has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice. The findings, published in Nature Comm

For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platf

I’m just back from giving a training at ElixirConf EU about advanced concurrency patterns in Elixir. I love Erlang’s process model to death. But I also love the things that the OTP team shipped in the

An unreasonably practical update for EYG. The text syntax for EYG is now properly documented. New filesystem effects in the CLI make useful shell scripts possible. Installing the CLI from source has

30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down. Within ten minutes the rest of the company’s public web was down as well: the main site ubun

Beneath the Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston, tucked away in the basement, sits a library. A puppet library. It’s been there for decades, and despite innumerable changes in the nearby retai

Last week Microsoft Israel, the local marketing and sales office of the US software giant, announced the departure of Country General Manager Alon Haimovich after four years in the job. Behind the dry

Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media on May 8, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice president

Part I ended with a sentence that kept bugging me: "Page-cache bugs were (are?) one of the best primitives... reliable, silent, resilient, and most of the time pretty hidden in the VM code." The par