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Memory Safety’s Hardest Problem Jul 20, 2026 Uplifting a lobsters comment for easier reference. The central memory safety counter example, the hardest case to solve, doesn’t have anything to do with destructors or heap: const std =...
Hello, loves! Just Noticed … a simplification. At least one more instance variable should disappear. I wonder, though … Last night while waiting for something to happen in the Big Game I thought to glance at the DungeonView init: class...
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You don't have friends in your office. That's a bitter pill to swallow. You cannot be friends with someone you're competing against. There's no such thing as healthy competition. Wherever competition exists, one-upmanship follows. You...
tl;dr: https://github.com/cruftbox/llm-friendly-preview I’ve gotten into the habit of asking AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to review my draft posts before I hit publish. A second pair of eyes catches typos, confusing...
tl;dr: https://github.com/cruftbox/yolodeck Last week I saw news of an OpenAI gadget for use while running Codex called Codex Micro. I love a good gadget, but I don’t use Codex much, nor do I need another device on my cluttered deck. The...
I mentioned previously that I’d made a big mistake a few years back. The logic was that the Top Ten lists for the first half of the year would have the current year in the title, and the ones published after June would be the following...
The volume of a sphere of radius r is V = 4πr³ / 3 and the surface area is A = 4πr² and so the ratio of volume to area is V / A = r / 3. Surprisingly, the same ratio holds for all regular solids if r is the radius of the largest sphere...
I’ve written several posts about using Claude or ChatGPT to generate Prolog or Lean code to solve a chess puzzle. I didn’t think Grok would be up to the task, though I didn’t try it. I’ve heard good things about Grok 4.5, so I gave it a...
So you’re back home from EMF and you want to get your badge on the home Wi-Fi. Typing out your WiFi credentials using the badge interface is tricky. You might be able to manage for one badge, but with multiple badges you’re going to want...
Homer's epic poem The Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and a cornerstone of world literature and Western culture, directly inspiring such modern works as James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, 1995's episode five of...
Resuming a regular practice of public reflection With the return of the Pika Pulse, I return to blogging, and ultimately, return to the act of public reflection. This differs from private reflection (typically, journalling) not so much...
Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.Welcome to July, where every year we celebrate our independence on the 4th, and I celebrate another year of being vertical (#68) which I consider a win. And out in the garden, the berries are ripening....
Firstly, thank you all for your get well wishes. The aches and pains has gone, to be replaced by itchiness. I take this as a good sign. The dressings have been changed daily, and the nurses seemed pleased, saying the wound ‘is very dry’....
Bulayo - Guitar Songs From Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and DR CongoDuring a very brief visit to Portland, OR, a few weeks back, I finally made it to Mississippi Records. As expected, it was a delight — I could’ve spent several hours just...