When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. I studied frameworks, libraries, and various programming languages.

I challenged myself to make a tiny subset of Python in C.

How do you find skills, keep them organized, and make sure they actually work? Do you keep improving them over time?<p>I believe skills will eventually be eating by model capabilities, but until then I&#x27;m just looking for a better way to manage things.

After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of work checks that admins can enable in their thresholds or bot rules:

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I have a self playing piano, using a system called PianoDisc Protigy. They have an online store which sells music for their system, from various modern artists along with classics such as Bach and Beethoven. Last night I saw they had released some music from Eric Satre, a 19th century French composer, which I bought. Curious if I could have just used AI to create these files, I began experimenting with Astra and Fable. Feeding the output of one into the other to critique. After an hour of LLM discussion of Rubato and fermata, solenoid response times and proper sustain pedal technique, they settled on their ultimate version of Gymnopedie No 1.<p>I then asked Fable to compare it to the open source version I&#x27;d downloaded from Mutopia, which it promptly ripped apart. No sustain, zero rubato, upside down balance.<p>Ok, what about the version I&#x27;d just bought?<p>The PianoDisc versions are mp3s encoded with the right channel carrying MIDI to be played on the piano, and the left channel containing any accompanying music to be played through attached speakers (who doesn&#x27;t want the harmonica on Piano Man?)<p>I gave the mp3 to Fable, which promptly decoded the format, identifying the right channel carrying MIDI using a 2004.5 Hz square wave.<p>It then went on to analyze the nuance of pedal lift and melody relative to the chords.<p>Fable then asked if I wanted it to build an encoder to write my own MIDI files into the right channel of mp3s.<p>Sounds great, and I instructed it to write the encoder.<p>What it came back with was a python encoder PLUS a decoder.<p>In the verbose explanation, it mentioned decoy notes.<p>Curious, I asked it to explain the decoy notes.<p>Apparently PianoDisc adds obfuscation into their format which is handled properly by their decoder, but would leave naively extracted MIDI unplayable on other systems.<p>Fable created an encoder which adds those decoy notes, and a decoder which removes them.<p>Am I allowed to publish the decoder? The encoder?

An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.

We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a massive amount of other improvements and bug fixes beyond that too.

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Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.12540: Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

TiVo has begun notifying customers of a significant change to one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features. Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode that allows users to jump over commercial breaks with a single button press on the remote will no longer be available. The company is instead preparing to […]

This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.

Math as cultural institution.

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

I'd rather argue with strangers on the Internet.

A client certificate whose private key stays in the TPM: what crypto/tls asks of a key, the Go for both ends, and what it costs per handshake.

It is polite to reposition a guest’s shoes when they arrive, but the emergency services in one city advise just skipping that part