https://yourdomain.com A personal blog en Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:07:55 +0000 https://yourdomain.com/posts/cern-lhc-long-shutdown/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/cern-lhc-long-shutdown/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000 After nearly two decades of smashing particles and reshaping physics, the Large Hadron Collider has been switched off. CERN today began Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) — the most ambitious upgrade program in… https://yourdomain.com/posts/google-recaptcha-hand-gesture/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/google-recaptcha-hand-gesture/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Google is testing a new way to prove you're human: wave at your camera. The company's newest reCAPTCHA method, rolling out now as an experimental feature, asks you to switch on your webcam… https://yourdomain.com/posts/the-laziest-generation/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/the-laziest-generation/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Every generation calls the next one lazy. It's practically a law of cultural physics. But a raw and honest essay making the rounds today — Ibrahim Diallo's "The Laziest… https://yourdomain.com/posts/the-80-percent-problem/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/the-80-percent-problem/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000 A thoughtful essay making the rounds today by Jonathan Beard digs into something every developer has felt but few have named: AI coding tools get you to eighty percent completion with startling… https://yourdomain.com/posts/rocket-lab-iridium/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/rocket-lab-iridium/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:30:00 +0000 In the biggest space industry move of the year, Rocket Lab announced today it is acquiring Iridium Communications for $8 billion, combining its launch services and spacecraft manufacturing with… https://yourdomain.com/posts/geofence-warrants-ruling/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/geofence-warrants-ruling/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The Supreme Court delivered a landmark privacy ruling today, deciding 6–3 in Chatrie v. US that geofence warrants — the legal orders that compel tech companies to hand over smartphone location data… https://yourdomain.com/posts/world-cup-roundup/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/world-cup-roundup/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0000 Today delivered everything you want from knockout football — a stoppage-time winner and the biggest upset of the tournament so far. Brazil 2–1 Japan (Houston) Japan stunned the crowd by taking the… https://yourdomain.com/posts/open-memory-protocol/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/open-memory-protocol/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000 If you've ever told Claude about your coding preferences, switched to Cursor, and had to explain everything from scratch — the Open Memory Protocol (OMP) is for you. OMP is a vendor-neutral… https://yourdomain.com/posts/mysysinfo-browser-privacy/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/mysysinfo-browser-privacy/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:30:00 +0000 There's a new privacy transparency tool on the web called MySysInfo, and it's worth a visit — if only to remind yourself how much data your browser leaks by default. The Concept MySysInfo… https://yourdomain.com/posts/longcat-2.0-moe-model/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/longcat-2.0-moe-model/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0000 Meituan just dropped something massive — and I mean that in the literal sense. Their new LongCat-2.0 model clocks in at 1.6 trillion total parameters with only 48 billion activated per token, making… https://yourdomain.com/posts/fil-c-memory-safe-context-switching/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/fil-c-memory-safe-context-switching/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0000 C's setjmp and longjmp are famously dangerous — they save a register snapshot and let you teleport back up the call stack, bypassing normal function returns. They "return twice," they… https://yourdomain.com/posts/exploring-pdp-1-lisp/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/exploring-pdp-1-lisp/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000 When John McCarthy first described Lisp in 1958, he was thinking about symbolic computation — not the kind of number-crunching that dominated computing at the time. By 1960, the first implementations… https://yourdomain.com/posts/europe-ai-data-centers-iceland/ https://yourdomain.com/posts/europe-ai-data-centers-iceland/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:30:00 +0000 Iceland is sitting on a bizarre paradox: it generates more clean electricity per capita than almost any other nation — almost entirely from geothermal and hydro — yet Europe's AI boom is largely…