Developer and AI researcher. Writes about language models, frameworks, developer tooling, and open source releases. Covers ML papers, the tech startup ecosystem, and programming trends.
Rob Sheridan, former creative director of Nine Inch Nails, explains how Oink’s Pink Palace and What.cd built the most rigorous music curation on the internet thanks to ratio and invitation systems. Trent Reznor once called Oink ‘the world’s greatest record store’ in an interview with Vulture.
A technical walkthrough of the most curious quirks in K&R C, the origin of the null pointer problem in C and C++, and how the for loop syntax changed from 1978 to C++20. Includes progressive code examples and commands to reproduce each quirk in your own terminal.
xAI released the source code of Grok Build, its terminal code agent written in Rust. The repository already has nearly 3,900 stars and reuses tools ported from Codex and opencode under the Apache 2.0 license.
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 975B parameters, open weights, and a context window of up to 1M tokens. The company also showed how the model can retrain itself using its Tinker platform.
Telegram Serverless lets you write JavaScript modules that run directly on Telegram’s infrastructure, with a SQLite database and HTTP API included. No VPS, no containers, nothing to maintain.
A cohort study using accelerometer data from the UK Biobank found that sleep regularity predicts mortality better than the number of hours slept. We break down the metric they used, the Sleep Regularity Index, and how to calculate it with Python.
