The...
OpenTimes is a database of pre-computed, point-to-point travel times between United States Census geographies. It lets you download bulk travel time data for free and with no limits.
Here's what I get for travel...

Is the „intersection of art and technology“ in the room with us right now?

The man sat next to me on this train is watching videos of jets taking off at maximum volume. I am simultaneously furious and quite interested in the jets.
This is the most helpfully packaged box of screws I've ever seen, by a large margin. I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate whomever was responsible for such a triumph of utility and empathy.

Forgot to post these games I found in IKEA the other day.


Will the future of software development run on vibes?
Will the future of software development run on vibes?
I got a few quotes in this piece by Benj Edwards about vibe coding, the term Andrej Karpathy coined for when you prompt an LLM to write code, accept all changes and keep feeding it prompts and error messages and see what...Level up.

Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1
Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1
Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps).This is a domain which existing models know some things about, but which is...
Is what you're doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it's probably going to be great at it. If you're asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you're asking it to create...
I would see the hell out of The Golden Age of the Mug

I hope this email finds you first, they won’t be able to complete the mission, right?
🦠 We program a lot of things in this office but none quite as frustrating as our new sinks. yes, sinks.
the sink settings (!) are set with an infrared remote, which you have to place in front of the faucet IR sensor — virtually guaranteeing it immediately gets drenched in a spray of water. anywayyyy

[Link] Packaging a python library | ionel's codelog
Including benefits of an src layout, and lots of example configs/scripts.
I hope this email finds you before Julian or one of his men spots you.
![STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES
• PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS
• YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES
• Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called "FTP"
• "Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect
for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them
(This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers)
[Three images of network diagrams]
"Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/855/910/591/123/188/original/351ee5a24b838a11.png)
Finally, a replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT
Finally, a replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT
BERT was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn't designed for generating text. BERT was trained for masked token prediction and was generally applied to problems like Named...