Claude Code has been using their 'vibe-coded' Rust version of Bun for quite some time by now. Proves the haters wrong, I guess.
Tue, 21 Jul 2026Smidgeons
Inspired by Maggie Appleton's smidgeons
There has been considerable "jeopardy inflation" in movies between the 1980s and today.
Sat, 18 Jul 2026Luna is all you need (or maybe Sol?)
there's a website where you can watch trains across the UK in real time
Mon, 6 Jul 2026Lilo (of Lilo and Stitch fame) was voiced by the Ring girl
Sadly she died a couple of weeks ago.
the web locks API is implemented a bit differently in different browsers
In particular, I built myself a little bug, by assuming that navigation would release the lock. It doesn't, and in fact, navigating while the lock is held can cause the lock to be held for a very long time on WebKit.
Consider the following:
await navigator.locks.request('my-lock', async () => {
await someAsyncOperation();
});
window.location.href('/');
Safe? No! Because although the lock may be technically released in JavaScript, neither the lock release nor the navigation are fully synchronous, as they use IPC. This can cause WebKit in some places to put the page into the BFCache before the lock is released, creating a 'zombie lock', where the lock doesn't get released because the page is suspended.
In order to avoid this, you need to wait for the next macrotask before navigating, as the browser will use the task boundary to run clean up and handle its own queue (including the 'release' IPC message).
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 0));
A hyperplane divides a space of arbitrary dimensionality
This boggled my brain a bit at first, but it's less complicated than it sounds. If you have a one-dimensional space (i.e. a line), you can draw a dot at any point on the line to divide it. If you have a two-dimensional space (i.e. a surface), you can draw a line across the surface to divide it. If you have a three-dimensional space, you can put a plane through it to divide it.
If you're doing something like facial recognition with embeddings in a 128-dimensional space, you can put a hyperplane through that space to divide it.
This is useful for LSH (or 'fuzzy matching' in hyperdimensional space).
There is a specific name for the type of argument where people can’t agree on groups of stuff
Thu, 13 Nov 2025Supafly, Carter Walsh & Greg Stainer - I Just Can't Stop
Fri, 3 Oct 2025What a bop
Fri, 19 Sept 2025Albert Guillaumes has made models of (from what I can tell) basically every metro station in Europe.
Sun, 14 Sept 2025Camels actually kind of do store water in their humps
As Hank Green explains, camels store fat which they can then metabolise with oxygen to create water. And it turns out you get more water that way.
Sidewalks are a promise. A promise of connection. If there’s a sidewalk, there’s gonna be things that sidewalk connects to, be it a dog park, or a café, or a record store, or a barbershop.
I love Mike Monteiro's writing and his thoughts on life. This is a brilliant newsletter piece.
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-leave-the-house/
2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 are parsed differently by Date
This is because “2025/05/28” is considered to be a local date (and so is parsed with the users current timezone factored), while “2025-05-28” matches the ISO8601 format, and so is parsed as UTC.
New Jorja Smith is banging UK garage/bassline
Fri, 16 May 2025Kiwis lay unbelievably big eggs
I don’t really share pictures or details about my son online. The Atlantic has a great write-up of one of the things that factors into my decision on this—if my son wants to post all of his life online when he’s older, let it be his decision.
Wed, 9 Apr 2025Flying saucers might have been a US government conspiracy to decrypt Soviet communications
Apparently, it’s called “gardening”. The idea is if you can plant known phrases (like “flying saucer”) which are going to be encrypted, you can do some more sophisticated attacks against encryption.
New Coheed and Cambria album released today 💿
Fri, 14 Mar 2025If you put huge amounts of energy into small amounts of space, mass can condense out of nothing
10^26^ W/cm^2^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgafb8G7i4o
This sounds like an interesting idea to include in a sci-fi novel.