Stories by thunderbong

Transparent Like Frosted Glass

Why are Black Boxes so Hard to Reuse? (1994)

Chipotle's testing an avocado-peeling robot and an automated bowl assembly line

Stop Designing Your Web App for Millions of Users When You Don't Even Have 100

A Novice's Misadventures in Tree of Thoughts Implementation

The Game-Changer in Machine Learning: How Autostopping Saved My Sanity

AI-Generated Code Is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses

Auditing and Versioning Data in SQLite

Universal-OS-detector: A Bash script for universal OS detection

There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish

China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online

Farmer moves border marker and accidentally makes Belgium bigger, France smaller

Bit Bang SPI with Ruby+YJIT

House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio

The Hidden Costs of Over-Collaboration

ChatVault: App to store backups of WhatsApp conversations from various sources

Restish: CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features

Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering

Monkey Selfie Copyright Dispute

Tara Polar Station – drifting polar station in the Arctic