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Friday July 10th, 2026

Sigh Dan Lyke / comment 0

Sigh. Web frameworks: Because one of the hardest problems in Computer Science is cache invalidation, and we're gonna try to abstract away the fact that caches exist, making the problem even harder.

Yes it's Amazon but the first in Dan Lyke / comment 0

Yes, it's Amazon, but the first in Cooper S. Becket's "Osgood" horror series, which I really enjoyed, is free on your Kindle app today: https://www.amazon.com/Osgood-...8acabde870449d400&language=en_US

Running Train Dan Lyke / comment 0

Kotaku: A Train Sim Created By Just One Person Is Being Called The Best Ever Made

Zoom out far enough—and for some reason it will let you—and you see the tiles, the roads that don’t line up, and the various tricks and techniques that allow it to look so realistic from low down. But don’t do that! That’s silly. This is a train sim, not a plane sim, you’ve no business in the sky.

The pictures do make it look amazing. The game is Running Train (on Steam) . This has also introduced me to the Zuiki Mascon railway controller.

Via MeFi.

What would heirloom Dan Lyke / comment 0

What would "heirloom quality" products, things worth passing down generations, look like, and is that even a goal worth pursuing?

Do we bother to build things to last, or do we just melt down the parts and repurpose them?

(Buildings, furniture, tech, tools, etc...)

Don't 'never-skill' Dan Lyke / comment 0

Don’t 'never- skill' yourself with AI

If you rent your abilities from AI companies, other people can rent them too

Via.

And, yeah, don't de-skill yourself, either. And don't fool yourself that knowing how to pull the trigger press the button will lead to being respected in a decision making role...

Okay so the line number error reported Dan Lyke / comment 0

Okay, so the line number error reported by the build process was from the bundler, not from Typescript, which is why it had nothing to do with the code I was looking at.

When I say that the appeal of LLMs for programming comes from modern languages and tools being shit: this is why.

Thursday July 9th, 2026

NanoXray Dan Lyke / comment 0

Whoah. SIPEED Nano Home Lab: NanoXray. Okay, it's in development, not actually a shipping project, but:

Have you ever wished you had your own X-ray inspection tool? A compact desktop device for BGA checks, PCB analysis, and non-destructive inspection of small structures.

Via.

$1.5T market value, $1.4T liability Dan Lyke / comment 0

Fuck yeah, let's gooooooo! Gizmodo: Meta’s Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4 Trillion Existential Threat


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