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Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson

Notes on the WASM Basic C ABI

Claude Opus 45 and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult

sqlite-utils 40a1 has several minor backwards incompatible changes

Podcasts A 9-year-old named Kai (“The Quantum Kid”) and his mother interviewed me about closed timelike curves, wormholes, Deutsch’s resolution of the Grandfather Paradox, and the implications of time travel for computational complexity: This is actually one of my better podcasts (and only 24 minutes long), so check it out! Here’s

Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM

On time and tokens In Technology and the Lifeworld, philosopher of technology Don Ihde discusses how the invention of the clock radically shifted both humankind’s perception of time, as well as what we determined to be most salient in the measurement of time. With clocks, rather than “read the heavens” to ascertain the time

Air Lab is the Flipper Zero of air quality monitors Air Lab is the Flipper Zero of air quality monitors This air quality monitor costs $250. It’s called the Air Lab, and I’ve been using it to measure the air in my car, home, studio, and a few events

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model

How to silence the fan on a CM5 after shutdown How to silence the fan on a CM5 after shutdown Out of the box, if you buy a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, install it on the official CM5 IO Board, and install a fan on it (e.g. my