You can make up HTML tags(maurycyz.com)

514 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 171 comments

A short blog post explaining that you can use made-up HTML tag names like <cool-thing> instead of divs with classes, and style them with CSS.

Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos(maurycyz.com)

208 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 95 comments

You already have a Git server(maurycyz.com)

596 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 393 comments

Blog post explaining that any server with SSH access can host git repositories, showing how to clone over SSH and allow pushes to the checked-out branch.

Modifying a radiation meter for (radioactive) rock collecting(maurycyz.com)

58 points by 8organicbits 1 year ago | 1 comments

Feed the bots(maurycyz.com)

261 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 180 comments

Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate(maurycyz.com)

80 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 31 comments

Apple Photos app corrupts images(tenderlovemaking.com)

1128 points by pattyj 1 year ago | 403 comments

Blog post by Aaron Patterson describing how the Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images imported from his camera, his debugging attempts, and his switch to another workflow.

Regressive JPEGs(maurycyz.com)

646 points by vitaut 3 months ago | 65 comments

A blog post explaining how progressive JPEG scans work and experimenting with manipulating them to create 'regressive' JPEGs.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it(medium.com)

434 points by cyrc 9 months ago | 133 comments

A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.

A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis(nmn.gl)

417 points by namanyayg 1 year ago | 215 comments

A blog post describing an experiment in getting AI to analyze codebases the way a senior developer reads code, prompted by failures on a React codebase.

AI Makes Me Sad(mondobe.com)

121 points by mondobe 24 days ago | 120 comments

A personal blog essay in which the author describes feeling sadness and hopelessness about new developments in AI, despite being positioned to benefit from it.