Claude Code for Everything: The Best Personal Assistant Remembers Things About You (A CLAUDE.md Deep Dive)
How CLAUDE.md files give Claude the context it needs to be effective, automatically, every session
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Pan-Baked Lemon-Almond Tart
This flourless, crustless tart is rich, moist, sweet and and prepared almost entirely on the stovetop (with the exception of a few minutes spent under the broiler to crisp the top). It is the ideal decadent breakfast, a new twist on the classic coffeecake or last-minute dessert.
Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Search: The Swiss Army Knife of GenAI
ANN — Approximate Nearest Neighbors — is at the core of fast vector search, itself central to GenAI, especially GPT and LLM. My new methodology, abbreviated as PANN, has many other app…
Friction Science: Why Users Drop Off - UX Magazine
Most teams worry about small changes to UI when users stop using the product. But research shows that the real problem is psychological friction. This is when your brain has hidden mental interruptions that make you think, "Maybe later." This article looks at the four types of…
Art of Roads in Games
How games implement roads
Game Theory Patterns at Work
Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…
What AI builders can learn from fraud models that run in 300 milliseconds
Mastercard's Decision Intelligence Pro uses recurrent neural networks to analyze 160 billion yearly transactions in under 50 milliseconds, delivering precise fraud risk scores at 70,000 transactions per second during peak periods.
that transaction flows through Mastercard’s orchestration layer, back onto the network, and then on to the issuing bank. Typically, this occurs in less than 300 milliseconds.
they’re not looking for anomalies, per se; they’re looking for transactions that, by design, are similar to consumer behavior
Bulk RRAM: Scaling the AI Memory Wall
UC San Diego researchers have reimagined RRAM, creating a device that could redefine AI's memory challenges. Discover how this could impact edge computing.
Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain | Quanta Magazine
Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.
Gate-All-Around (GAA) Technology for Sustainable AI - SemiWiki
Key takeaways ▼ The transition from FinFET to Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor technology represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of logic devices, driven by both physical scaling limits and the … Continue reading "Gate-All-Around (GAA) Technology for Sustainable AI"
Who are the Top 100 Landowners in the US? | Land Report 100
Land Report 100 Explore the 2025 Top 100 U.S. Landowners. View Top 100 Presented by: Land Report 100 Explore the 2025 Top 100 U.S. Landowners. View Top 100 Presented by: Land Report 100 Who is America's Largest Landowner? This question is the quest
A Non-Exhaustive List of Sources for When You Need Real Information, Not Just Content
How to find trustworthy sources for breaking news, health questions, financial decisions, and local elections.
Why You're Always Right
"The universe contains a maybe." - R. A. Wilson
Google just open-sourced their MCP server for databases. Connect any database to any AI agent in 10 lines of code. It's called MCP Toolbox…
Google just open-sourced their MCP server for databases. Connect any database to any AI agent in 10 lines of code. It's called MCP Toolbox. What it handles: → Connection pooling → Authentication → Query execution → Tool generation → OpenTelemetry tracing Supported databases: →…
Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good?
No one knows why music has such a potent effect on our emotions. But thanks to some recent studies we have a few intriguing clues.
The radical moral implications of luck in human life
Acknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening.
How to Design Production-Grade Mock Data Pipelines Using Polyfactory with Dataclasses, Pydantic, Attrs, and Nested Models - MarkTechPost
Grep Cheatsheet
Quick reference for the grep text search command
Loot Drop - The Startup Graveyard
Explore 925+ failed startups and learn from $32.5B+ in burned venture capital. Discover why they failed, their market potential, and how to rebuild them.
The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part I)
“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter in…
The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
Claude Code is the most powerful AI today. (Especially with yesterday's Opus-4.6 release) Here's why it reached $1B ARR in 6 months and how…
I just woke up Claude Code Agent Swarm on local Qwen3 Coder Next. No cloud. No Internet. No quota anxiety. No 'You've hit your limit…
The Navy’s Batwing Fighter Jet Promises Mach 4 Speed… But It’s Still Just A Concept - Yanko Design
David versus Goliath stories captivate us, especially when David brings a slingshot that looks like alien technology. Enter Stavatti Aerospace, a 25-person firm from Niagara Falls taking on Boeing and Northrop Grumman for one of the most lucrative defense contracts in naval…
What makes a grudge stick?
Plus, the personality traits associated with activism
Welcome to the Room
A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella When I was Promoted to Technical Fellow, I was “invited to the room”, joining Microsoft’s other Senior Executives. It was really something. Achieving t…
A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
DNS Explained - How Domain Names Get Resolved
Learn how DNS works: hierarchy, records (A, CNAME, MX, TXT), TTL caching, and the full resolution process. Plus commands to view and clear DNS cache.
Owning a $5M data center
Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.
Beer Is Declining in America. The Saga of One Tells Part of the Story.
The ballad of Bell's Brewery.
ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills: A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows
A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows - ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills
How to Spend a Weekend in Vega, a Quirky Route 66 Texas Town
This small town in the Panhandle offers plenty of charm and Americana through its oddball museums and delicious homemade pies.
How to coach your team (without making them defensive)
When I give honest feedback, I don’t want people to argue with me. Here's a simple technique I use so my direct reports are more likely to listen with an open mind.
Stop incentivizing surface parking lots
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
SSH Hardening: Best Practices for Securing Your Server
Learn how to harden your SSH server with best practices including key-only authentication, disabling root login, changing the default port, and setting up Fail2Ban.
Bash Positional Parameters
Positional parameters are Bash variables that hold arguments passed to a script or function. Learn how to use $1, $2, $@, $#, and the shift command in Bash.
SSH Cheatsheet
Quick reference for SSH commands and configuration
How to Generate SSH Keys on Linux
Learn how to generate SSH keys on Linux using ssh-keygen, copy them to remote servers, and set up passwordless authentication.
Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of my First Hardware Product
Building in consumer hardware as a software engineer
The Hidden Physics of Running Data Centers in Orbit - EE Times
As data centers move toward Earth's orbit, thermal management becomes a major challenge, forcing engineers to rethink system design in space.
Vector Search at Scale: The Production Engineer's Guide
IVF partitions space. PQ compresses memory. Together they make 100M vector search actually possible
This MIT Prototype Translates Images Into Fragrances That Your Mind Remembers Better - Yanko Design
At a time when memories are increasingly flattened into folders, feeds, and cloud backups, a new experimental device from MIT Media Lab proposes a far more intimate archive: scent. Developed by Cyrus Clarke, the Anemoia Device is a speculative yet functional prototype that…
25 Ways to Be a Class Act | The Art of Manliness
When I played football in high school, our head coach had one refrain that he’d hammer into us over and over again: act with class. It meant no trash talk. No showboating. Help the other guy up, even if he just tried to take your head off. Don’t scream at refs. Don’t throw your…
The House That Dizzy Built—And the City That Kept It - KOLUMN Magazine
Hidden behind Georgetown storefronts, a candlelit room has spent 60 years turning dinner service into American music history—and fighting to keep the lights on
▪️1965: "Shotgun," by Jr. Walker and the All-Stars. This hit single reached No. 1 on the R&B charts and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100…
Good AI List
AI open source projects & developers
When Hannibal Lecter Took Over - Longreads
With "The Silence of the Lambs" hitting theaters, Orion wanted a hit. They didn't anticipate an antihero.
Engineering Challenges Grow With Crystalline Defects
Tighter process control and yield optimization still cannot mitigate crystalline defects.
Factify wants to move past PDFs and .docx by giving digital documents their own brain
pandas - Python Data Analysis Library
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files
One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago, was …