Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/3Cn9jO6ufHY🎙️ The Growing Weekly Habit EditionWelcome to What The Fudge for Sunday, July 19, 2026. This week marks a definitive tipping point where the abstract hype of open-source models meets raw regulatory boundaries and severe enterprise infrastructure reality checks.📍 Field Report: The AI Ecosystem War & On-Device IntelligenceThe competitive shift is underway from pure cloud-based proprietary frontier models toward localized, open-source…

Nikita Prokopov on his fun Tumblr-like site Grumpy Website that collects UI transgressions with light commentary: Why log in when you have to, when you can instead experience the same Kafkaesque maze of pages, redirects, confirmation emails, copying codes, and searching for a second device—all a week in advance? I agree with authentication experiences being absolutely horrible, especially in the corporate context. But I think the “your login expires in 5 days” callout is actually positive. Your…

This is a follow-up to my July 10 blog post, Apple Hide My Email bug, possibly related to disclosure vulnerability. Yesterday I happened upon a Mastodon post that inspired me to continue researching my Mac Mail app bug: curl can be used to send emails with smtp I have multiple email accounts, for example with my personal domain lapcatsoftware.com here and my business domain underpassapp.com, but email clients such as Mail app do not provide me with full control over the sent email headers,…

There's a very exciting new proposed email specification making its way through the IETF, called APRF (Aggregate Performance Reporting). The individual draft specification comes from Alex Brotman of Comcast, Tom Corbett of Iterable, and Emil Gustafsson of Google. And Comcast is already live with a beta version of this feedback. If you want to read the full spec doc, you can find it here. But read on if you want a quick breakdown of why this is hella useful, how it works and why I'm already a…

<<<<<<< HEAD ======= >>>>>>> dev home tools rss | bitty Three Dates in a Trench Coat July 2026 An Initial Pair Two dates isn't enough. At least, when it comes to blog posts. For years, I've used created and updated as the only dates for my writing. It makes sense for pages that are written and deployed in one shot. Not so much when a draft sticks around for a few days, weeks, or years before seeing the light of day. Neither created or updated feels right for a post started last October but…

One of my friends is an incredibly talented software developer. After a long stint building their own software products, they’d started freelancing again and built a great website for their first client. My friend gave the client’s website a facelift, of course; plus, along the way, they made it more efficient so the website loaded instantly (it took half a minute before). They also set up a pick up service for the client, which was there but not working before. All this, for a simple website…

Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.

A day in the life of a software developer: A: We have problem! B: OK lets fix the problem. A: The problem is fixed! B: Ok awesome full steam ahead! A: The fix has highlighted a deeper problem. B: Oh shit we have to pause the steam ship! Save everything! Let’s fix the deeper problem. A: The deeper problem is fixed! We are fucking exhausted! B: I think we can see light at the end of the tunnel! Resurrect the steam ship! A: It’s a fucking mess but we have boosters now. B: I am still quite…

today i learned that an interface can extend a shit ton of interfaces if you want it to

Hello, loves! I was watching Antiques Roadshow, as one does, when it came to me that a tiny object might be just the thing for DungeonView. Let’s find out. DungeonView needs a lot of work, but the code of concern this morning is this: class DungeonView(arcade.View): def __init__(self, dungeon, testing=False): ... self.dungeon_floor_sprites = arcade.SpriteList() self.cell_sprites: dict[Cell, Sprite] = dict() self.content_views: dict[Content, ContentView] = dict() self.content_views_by_cell:…

Finally, a relatively quiet and very productive week at work, by the simple dint of many people going to an annual event in the US and thus being unavailable to annoyhelp me. Seriously now, it was pretty OK even if my back has been troubling me again, which I tried to counter with daily outings to run errands and “run” about. Carrying loads is not a problem, so even relatively prosaic affairs like leaving the house right after stand-ups (while it’s still cool), trotting over to the market and…

Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching by Abhranil Chatterjee, Sumanta Ghosh, Rohit Gurjar, Roshan Raj and Thomas Thierauf.The post will try to explain three main things about the result. What is the result? Why is it important? And finally, how did the authors prove it? We will assume that the reader is an undergraduate student in CS (i.e., the reader knows basics of discrete mathematics, linear algebra, and…

Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1. Part 2 of this post then covers Alex Turner’s resignation, and his story about how he tried and failed to prevent Google from signing up to allow the Department of War to use its models for essentially whatever the government wants, including autonomous weapons. Demis Hassabis sold DeepMind to Google on…

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The integer complexity of a number \(n\) is the minimum number of ones needed to express \(n\) as a parenthesized combination of sums and products of ones. For instance, 10 has complexity 7 as it can be expressed using seven ones, but not fewer: \[10 = (1+1+1)(1+1+1)+1.\] The largest number with complexity \(k\) can be obtained by breaking up the sequence of \(k\) ones into subsequences of two and three ones (with as many threes as possible) and multiplying. For instance, for ten ones, you…

Back in May, I wrote a post about how I'd migrated all my repos away from GitHub. This ended up being a combination of my self-hosted Git server on my Synology (for my private repos) and Codeberg for my public ones. Well, since then Codeberg has just given me problem after problem. I had issues working with repos via SSH for weeks. It just kept timing out, or taking an age to actually do anything. So I switched to HTTPS instead, which seemed a little better, albeit still generally very slow.…

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Beyond DeepSeek: China’s Diverse Open-Weight AI Ecosystem and Its Policy Implications After years of lagging behind, Chinese AI models — especially open-weight LLMs — seem to have caught up or even pulled ahead of their global counterparts in advanced AI model capabilities and adoption. We profile and compare the capabilities and distinct features of four notable Chinese open-weight language model families, highlighting that…

It is important to acknowledge the frustration people may be feeling. You should even share your own. But you also can’t let people linger to the point that it becomes debilitating. Instead you can share the process that led to the decision. You retain agency by making your team the owner of the change. Only when your team feels agency can they work effectively. Only once they trust you will the follow you. Only once you commit can you truly lead. Source: How Not to Disagree I get where Boz is…

Ok I'm just thinking out loud so I'm not sure how coherent/eloquent this will be or how to best structure it. I wanted to write about open readings (just laying cards out without assigned spread positions), how they're better than spreads, and how I often see people do them in a way that's taking the worst of both worlds... An open reading allows the cards to exactly describe their relationship to each other just by their geometry, the images, the movement of the symbols between the cards.…

I knew of a team whose leaders had it in their heads that the executive team had no trust in them. It came after a couple of launches that were worked on for a long while were stopped just as they came close to shipping. And when their team was called to help on something nobody else wanted to work on. A negative thought like that ascribes negative intent. And in every action the executive team took subsequently, they found confirmation. Over time, the team started playing more defense as every…

I’ve heard people say, “I don’t use search engines, I just ask AI”. And I get it. It’s easy. If you use Google, the first result is always Googles AI, Gemini, replying. Earlier this week, Apple announced that it would remove support for CoreStorage. So I Googled — in other word asked Gemini — to refresh my memory. Ah, yes, it’s the container Apple used to introduce, among other things, encryption to its old HFS+ file system. After going down that rabbit hole, asking more and more questions…

In an attempt to reduce the amount of time I spend staring at my phone, I have bought myself another device. At least that is the lie I told myself for buying yet another gadget because it looked cool. After seeing Max Glenister and Neil Brown speak so highly of this device I just had to buy the XTEINK X4 e-reader. Note, this is not sponsored in any way I just wanted to share it with you! This is the 3rd e-reader that I own, so I definitely didn't need this device. I also have an old Kindle…

I still have both eyes.I don't know why I bother trying other tools. I'm just going to end up back in Emacs, anyway. ✍️ Reply by email

The Highrise Campsite by Willem De Haan is a clever idea. By using elements of construction scaffold, he was able to create a compact five-tier place for tents and space for living. I just have one question: since the tents create sail area that catches the wind, and the structure is significantly taller than it is wide, what holds down the windward side in conditions other than dead calm? Photo by Kristel Hayes on Unsplash

A bit different from the usual content I share, but this is webapp provides the best TV experience I've ever seen online. It's simple, doesn't require elaborate signups or setup, it relies on perfectly legal iptv/web sources and is incredibly responsive.

Coral is unsupported and cloud cameras keep leaking data. The Frigate NVR hardware I'd buy in 2026 - N100 mini PC, Pi 5 with Hailo, PoE cameras.

Like an 8-year-old boy, my blog has grown and changed. In case you missed it, yesterday my blog turned 8. The project and habit I’ve kept for the longest. Here’s what I’m doing differently: #1. No more SEO-optimized posts. Google killed blogging as a business. Then LLMs put the last nail in the coffin. I wrote my first posts to rank high in Google search results. I chose subjects and headlines from Google’s “People also asked” and related searches. Not anymore. #2. More subjects apart from…

OverviewThis one is landing Sunday instead of Friday. Friday got away from me, but the security news did not slow down while I caught up. The clearest pattern was pressure on the systems that concentrate trust: identity servers, SharePoint, security appliances, file-sharing controllers, developer pipelines, browsers, and the libraries sitting underneath internet services.Reality check: A late roundup is still useful if it sends you back to the right consoles. Start with the exploited systems…

Do you remember when I worried if I could think in N scale? Whether my mind would allow me to see, compose and create models in this smaller scale? Over the past few years I have deeply enjoyed the adventure, tipped over the edge by Chris. Today I find myself strangely unmoved by British OO - perhaps the transformation is complete?Bachmann and Farish Mk1 BG with a Pilot V5 pen.On my bench sits a pair of Mk1 BG models. The OO part of the collection for my weathering book, the N a feature of my…