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Google Antigravity Google Antigravity - Build the new way

Trying something new antigravity.google

The one ‘boring’ Docker container that completely transformed my home network Secret to my perfect home network

Something to mess with later: The one ‘boring’ Docker container that completely transformed my home network share.google/Up3dLkU4mZmg...

Behind The Scenes of Bun Install Learn how Bun is able to cut install times by up to 25×. Bun skips Node.js's overhead with direct system calls, cache-friendly data layouts, OS-level copy-on-write, and full-core parallelism.

"This is why Bun treats package installation as a systems programming problem. Fast install speeds come from minimizing system calls and leveraging every OS-specific optimization available."

bun.com/blog/behind-...

How to Choose the Best Open Source LLM for Your Project in 2025 A Blog post by Daniel Vila on Hugging Face

How to Choose the Best Open Source LLM for Your Project in 2025 share.google/40NVRHPquRVd...

I am old enough to have used Javascript in ... Netscape

I still have Quora in my mail. It's like social media in a mailing list form and it grabs my attention every now and then

How to Blur Faces in a Video from Command Line Privacy is always incredibly important, especially with visual media where you may not have the permission of individuals in the video. If you're filming

Interesting utility for videos. And it's command line

davidwalsh.name/video-blur-f...

ATO confirms $1,380 tax change for millions of Aussies: 'Updated' The ATO has increased the fixed rate WFH tax deduction, giving Aussies a bigger tax boost.

ATO confirms $1,380 tax change for millions of Aussies who work from home: 'Updated'

Source: Yahoo
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Cory Booker just made history in the US Senate. Here's why he spoke for 25 hours straight The New Jersey Democratic senator has warned his "country is in crisis" under the leadership of US President Donald Trump, in a marathon speech that has made its way into the history books.

Cory Booker just made history in the US Senate. Here's why he spoke for 25 hours straight
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

YouTube video by Alberta Tech Delete your unit tests

Please follow this train of thought 🙏

I think, you cannot get this kind of leader if they are in their 70s unless they've been smart all their lives and continues learning even if it becomes more difficult either because of age or long-held biases.

YouTube video by Veritasium The Most Useful Thing AI Has Done

This is nice from #Veritasium

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fH...

What We're Fighting For Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly ta...

I think this is a really good #bsky article.

www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fi...

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

This is like a history map of the modern world

calculatingempires.net

Not surprising from Microsoft. Big companies will want to keep you in, that's their nature. I only use it for games now for ones that can't be run on Linux. All else I do on my Arch which hasn't really been a problem for years unless I am fiddling something nasty.

Been listening to #Paramore quite a bit lately. Surprisingly good coding music for this phase.

Homepage | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Alternatives for the stuff you use online. I do have proton. It's great!

european-alternatives.eu

Finished what I wanted to do in labsweek and got to touch on Astro JS. What is next?

Girl with cat in Pompeii

Cat in Pompeii

Some more shots in #Pompeii

I am in Pompeii and this is a picture of a dog.

YouTube video by 2 and 20 Why Japan's Economy Is Awful

I have wondered why Japan, from my grade-school pov of course, doesn't exactly lead the world in innovations as much in the context of NVidia or AMD or some kind of TSMC -- it's because they are stuck and had to deal with an aging population

After messing with several Linux distros through the years, I kept coming back to Arch. And of course, I will always do the installation with MatMoul's `archfi` build script #archlinux

Doc is more active in Instagram though, really wish I can totally move out of Meta. She got good stuff about neuroscience that is palatable to blunts like me

Finally got time to rewatch some streams the summit last November. Also on my plate, Astro, web sockets, and AI. It's going to be a busy December 🤖

"Rise of Bluesky may create progressive 'echo chamber'"

Is that what they call being in a place that's not an absolute cesspool? Because I feel this is better as a place to exchange and listen to ideas.

Also can we have a blue butterfly emoji now? #bsky #bluesky

Got a new toy! A pre-loved Lenovo Flex 5 that I intend to use for travelling. Let's see if it can hold to my beloved Thinkpad T440p.

Of course it's going to have #archlinux in it. Only 512Mb disk but should be plenty for most things even with a Windows partition in it

Non-tech, non-political post

In the market for a nice pair of battery replaceable earphones. Looks like it's still earbud era and Sony WH-1000XM4 is in the lead next to Fairphones which ... is not available for purchase in Australia.

I am hesistant to use my current headphones because it's bulky and wired which can be a hassle

Only played 5 minutes after I got it. Need to upgrade my mid tier GPU 😮‍💨

There's something nice about bsky. Sure there's still political posts as it's reality now but I get a sense that there's more genuine people to listen to, especially specialists in their field.