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How StrongDMs AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Exploring a Modern SMPTE 2110 Broadcast Truck With My Dad In October, my Dad and I got to go behind the scenes at two St. Louis Blues (NHL hockey) games, and observe the massive team effort involved in putting together a modern digital sports broadcast. I wanted to explore the timing and digital side of a modern SMPTE 2110 mobile unit,

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck With My Dad In October, my Dad and I got to go behind the scenes at two St. Louis Blues (NHL hockey) games, and observe the massive team effort involved in putting together a modern digital sports broadcast. I wanted to explore the timing and digital side of a modern SMPTE 2110 mobile unit,

Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work Friend-of-the-blog Salil Vadhan has asked me to share the following. The Trevisan Award for Expository Work is a new SIGACT award created in memory of Luca Trevisan (1971-2024), with a nomination deadline of April 10, 2026. The award is intended to promote and recognize high-impact work expositing ideas and results from the Theory of Computation.

Eighty eight keys and a blinking cursor In Among the Agents, Dean Ball writes: I joke sometimes that using AI, and especially using coding agents, is a bit like playing the piano. The piano is the easiest instrument to begin playing (anyone can produce a satisfying tone with no training or skill on a piano, which is not

Running Pydantics Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssembly

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop Ever since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 was introduced, I wondered why nobody built a decent laptop chassis around it. You could swap out a low spec CM5 for a higher spec, and get an instant computer upgrade. Or, assuming a CM6 comes out someday in the same form factor,

Rewriting pycparser with the help of an LLM

Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

The time I didnt meet Jeffrey Epstein Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and had zero email or any other contact with him … which is more