Episode Details

Table of Contents

• AI Innovations
  • Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
  • Grok Build is open source
  • High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
• Web Development & Design
  • If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
  • Making 768 servers look like 1
  • SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
• Historical Insights and Cultural Commentary
  • The lost joy of music piracy
  • What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)
  • 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
• Tech Developments and Acquisitions
  • Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
  • Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
  • Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later
• Software Engineering Insights
  • In defense of not understanding your codebase
  • The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency
  • I also filed the corners off my MacBook