Today
- The traditional advice for tech companies is that you should ignore your competitors. Just talk to customers and put your energy towards making yourself as great as you can be. Hit the gym, practice gratitude, focus on yourself king. At least in SaaS, I believe that this is...
- Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor, and so I decided to give it a try. I’ve been using it for 3 months now and...
- October 9, 2025 Generally, I appreciate this call for precision from Jeremy Keith: When I talk about large language models, I make sure to call them large language models, not “AI”. I know it’s a lost battle, but the terminology matters to me. However, I want to offer a...
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. October 9, 2025 Simon Højberg: But I profoundly do not want to be merely an operator or code reviewer: taking a backseat to the fun and...
Yesterday
- So tell the story you want to be true. Eventually, it will be....
- This isn’t necessarily surprising, but it’s worth noting anyway. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building a full Datasette plugin now. I’ve seen models complete aspects of this in the …
- In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of performance. Today is the 8th of October 2025, just a day after the official release...
This week
- I’ve done something few on the internet do. I’ve changed my mind. A few posts on my blog have started to unfurl social share imagery. You might be wondering, “Wait Jim I thought you hated those things?” It’s not that I hate social share imagery. I just think…well, I’ve shared my...
- Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, and for millions of PC users, that sounds like bad news, because you may not have the right hardware for Windows 11, or you may not want all of your personal data vacuumed up by Microsoft. But here’s the...
- OpenAI's dev day was today. While I wrote up a short summary of what was announced on bluesky, one of the major announcements was the AppSDK for ChatGPT. It looks like OpenAI plans to position ChatGPT as a platform for the future not unlike the Google Play and...
- the conflict between groups tasked with managing risk and those tasked with making progress is legendary but both sides need to play a role in moving forward...
- Last week, the island of Cebu in The Philippines was hit with a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake. We were on a call with our friend and colleague, Nicole, when the earthquake happened and she had to rush to get to […]...
- A Norm of a vector \(\vec{v}\) describes the magnitude or size of a vector. It is usually denoted as \(||\vec{v}||\). There are a few common norms worth discussing. Eucledian Norm (L2 Norm) Let's consider a vector v = [3, 4] we can calculate the Eucledean norm as,...
- A bytecode compiler and VM for a Forth-like language....
- Kicking the tires on an initial, naive agentic search with some thoughts on how it could be improved further...
- A fantastic deep dive into the seahorse emoji phenomena[1] was recently published by Theia[2]. It's engaging, well presented and worth reading. The post presents a case using meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct. However I wanted to verify this behavior with smaller models which...
- Locality, and Temporal-Spatial Hypothesis Good fences make good neighbors? Last week at PGConf NYC, I had the pleasure of hearing Andres Freund talking about the great work he’s been doing to bring async IO to Postgres 18. One particular result caught my eye: a large difference...
- Parquet is excellent for analytical workloads. Columnar layout, aggressive compression, predicate pushdown, but deletes require rewriting entire files. Systems like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake solve this by adding metadata layers that track delete files separately from data...
- I like many others initially dismissed Odin as that language that was primarily intended for game development. It took me a moment or should I say many moments to realize just how stupid that notion was......
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