Blogs

Latest posts from various interesting blogs related to programming, system administration and other software-development-related topics. See also Links and Bits for the curated feeds.

What’s the point of a retro case “???”
Nov 7, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, retrocomputers

Down The Atomic Rabbit Hole
Nov 7, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver
Nov 7, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Chatbots, Data centres, Nicholas Weaver

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
Nov 7, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The NEO Robot
Nov 7, 2025 | idiallo.com

Weeknote #1973
Nov 6, 2025 | rknight.me

“Backalog”
Nov 6, 2025 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, coffee shop chatter, language

We have Nvidia snow
Nov 6, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, drivers, graphics cards, linux

The Risk of AI Isn't Skynet
Nov 6, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing
Nov 6, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Papers

Micron Computers’ rise and fall
Nov 6, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Unboxing the new SilverStone FLP02 retro case
Nov 6, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, cases, retrocomputing, silverstone

Dave Farquhar discusses the Compaq Portable
Nov 5, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, compaq, retrocomputers

AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it
Nov 5, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Journalism, BBC, European Broadcasting Union, Gemini, Peter Archer

The first Compaq computer
Nov 5, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Why I Remain a Skeptic Despite Working in Tech
Nov 5, 2025 | idiallo.com

When a clear film wasn’t
Nov 5, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, home, shopping

Another iPhone SE 3, and the upgrade treadmill
Nov 4, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, phones

It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad
Nov 4, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Fake AI, Image generators, Coca-Cola

Monorail: Pioneering $999 PCs from 1996
Nov 4, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
Nov 4, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Papers, Security, CAMS, Kevin Beaumont, Michael Siegel, MIT, MIT Sloan, Safe Security

With thanks to Steven Rosenberg
Nov 3, 2025 | rubenerd.com | internet, bloggers, feedback, openbsd

I did a thing, and exit excuses
Nov 3, 2025 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, mental health

The Inevitable Drift Down from "Can't Lose" Owning Stocks to "Can't Win"
Nov 3, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Empirical Characterization Testing
Nov 3, 2025 | blog.ploeh.dk

Etoys.com and its rapid rise and fall
Nov 3, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Helping friends can boost your mood
Nov 3, 2025 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, psychology

None of us Read the specs
Nov 3, 2025 | idiallo.com

Browser APIs: The Web’s Free SaaS
Nov 2, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

Learning a bit of VGA
Nov 1, 2025 | usebox.net | programming, DOS

Why should I accept all cookies?
Nov 1, 2025 | idiallo.com

Top picks — 2025 October
Nov 1, 2025 | pawelgrzybek.com

AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot
Oct 31, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Papers

Inktober? Completed It Mate
Oct 31, 2025 | rknight.me

When Federico Faggin left Intel
Oct 31, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!
Oct 30, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Energy, Landon Tessmer, OpenAI, Oracle, ProEnergy, Stargate, Texas, xAI

Yes, Everything Crashed--Just Not For You
Oct 30, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

I Was a Guest on The Pen Addict
Oct 30, 2025 | rknight.me

Pilot Juice Space Smash Set
Oct 30, 2025 | rknight.me

Intel’s Pentium FDIV bug and recall
Oct 30, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Hello Friend
Oct 30, 2025 | idiallo.com

OpenAI goes for-profit! What happens next?
Oct 29, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Companies, California, Delaware, Kathy Jennings, Microsoft, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Softbank

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Oct 29, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news

IBM’s 2018 Red Hat acquisition
Oct 29, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The Revolution Trilogy
Oct 29, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers
Oct 28, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Consumer, ACCC, Australia, Copilot, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Microsoft

The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas)
Oct 28, 2025 | simone.org | Interconnectedness, Change and Impermanence, Existence and Being, Meaning and Purpose, Essays

TI-99/4A discontinued October 28, 1983
Oct 28, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Keeping Time across 120,000 light years
Oct 28, 2025 | idiallo.com

Electronic Arts is losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!
Oct 27, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Companies, Gaming, Electronic Arts, Jared Kushner

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