IT Systems Engineer · Fort Lauderdale, FL
Systems engineer who writes the software. 7+ years as the sole or lead technologist for multi-site networks, Linux and Windows systems, Microsoft 365 and endpoint fleets, and the Python and JavaScript automation that ties them together.
Now building LLM tooling for operations: Zendesk ticket triage and an RMM troubleshooting agent. I isolate a fault to the layer it lives in, fix it there, and script the fix so it stays fixed.
What the nerds are reading. Refreshed every 15 minutes.
Developers can now build ambitious software projects much faster using modern AI tools, despite the prevalence of low-quality AI-generated code.
A ten-year-old fine-tuned convolutional neural network outperformed two frontier language models in correctly diagnosing skin cancer from a test set of 200 biopsy-proven lesions.
OpenAI and Anthropic slashed LLM prices by up to 80% through aggressive competition and decreasing inference costs, while maintaining model quality.
A developer built a Chrome extension that simulates plant overgrowth on neglected browser tabs, requiring users to slash through vines before interacting with them again.
Growing up in the pre-mainstream internet era, the author was inspired by BBS cracktros and demo scenes to learn programming and create software.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told investors that open-weight AI models are gaining traction for on-premise enterprise use because they offer near-frontier performance at a fraction of the cost.
Amazon released new touchscreen tablets marketed for toddlers, drawing criticism from pediatric researchers who warn that early screen use harms child development.
Context engineering remains challenging despite larger model windows due to persistent failure modes like poisoning, distraction, confusion, and clash.
Disney Animation outlines its multi-year production pipeline, detailing how development, technology, and art departments collaborate to produce feature films like Zootopia 2.
A developer migrated their blog away from Next.js to eliminate framework runtime overhead and achieve a perfect score across all Lighthouse categories.
A developer details the technical post-mortem of porting the F-Zero X decompilation to the Nintendo 3DS, supporting both Old and New models at 60 fps.
Keybytes is an open-source modular keyboard project featuring rearrangeable 1u key modules with individual RISC-V microcontrollers, magnetic cases, and Bluetooth connectivity.
PaperPilot is a pure-Rust, local-first PDF toolkit providing a CLI, WASM browser module, desktop app, and Model Context Protocol server for document processing.
A public proof-of-concept exploit script demonstrates memory leaks and remote code execution against a PHP 8.4 CTF challenge.
Researchers propose an attention-free sequence modeling architecture using Grassmann flows that achieves competitive performance with Transformers while scaling linearly with sequence length.
An interactive map visualizes over 2,000 years of Roman military conflicts from 753 BCE to 1475 CE, detailing opponents, outcomes, and historical records.
Current anxiety and protectionism surrounding artificial intelligence mirror the zero-sum assumptions of early mercantilism before capitalism proved wealth could be vastly expanded.
Data from Apollo shows that artificial intelligence investments have not increased revenue, profit margins, or productivity outside of the tech sector.
America's creative industries have lost over 200,000 jobs in four years amid the rise of generative AI and ongoing shifts in digital media consumption.
Cerebras explains how it distributes multi-trillion parameter AI models across multiple wafer-scale chips using pipelining and on-chip SRAM to achieve high token throughput.
AI text is harder for humans to understand because models prioritize high information density and technical tasks over natural human communication patterns.
UC Berkeley math professor Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework for correctness because widespread student use of AI makes it pointless.
Nikon stripped a researcher of a photography contest prize after scientists proved his winning microscopic video was generated using AI.
A social media post argues that relying entirely on proprietary AI services risks leaving users economically stranded if they violate a platform's terms of service.
A peer-reviewed academic paper about Z-Library published by Taylor & Francis contains multiple fake citations and hallucinates references, likely due to improper AI tool usage.
The POSIX `wordexp(3)` function is unsafe for untrusted input because it performs shell expansions and its security flags can be bypassed in some libc implementations.
A maker built a custom x86 laptop powered by swappable power tool batteries, featuring a Ryzen 7 CPU, 64GB RAM, and a 3D-printed chassis.
This guide explains how to set up a lightweight web server on NetBSD using the built-in bozohttpd daemon and acme-client for HTTPS support.
Vim Classic has released version 8.3 as a long-term support fork of Vim 8.x, maintained by humans without generative AI.
Zig's master branch now enforces partial operator precedence, requiring parentheses for ambiguous operator combinations to prevent bugs and reduce memorization.
Specific prompt engineering and interaction tricks are transient techniques that will soon be automated away and built into default software interfaces.
A developer documents their implementation of a Pratt parser in C, explaining how it improves upon the shunting yard algorithm using implicit call stacks.
This guide explains how to compile, package, and preverify Java ME applications using modern OpenJDK and ProGuard without legacy SDKs.
This conference talk outlines architectural solutions for Matrix protocol timeline limitations, including stitched ordering, timeline fragments, and state DAGs.
Analysis of the php2shell vulnerability shows that mass exploitation is unlikely because successful attacks require precise build knowledge, multi-request worker manipulation, and extensive brute-forcing.
OpenLDK is a new JVM bytecode JIT compiler and runtime written in Common Lisp that lets SBCL execute Java and JVM-hosted languages natively.
An update to the Flatpak runtime version broke Chromium audio playback because newer glibc panicked on unexpected futex error codes blocked by the browser's BPF sandbox.
Goose is a new memory-safe systems programming language featuring stack-based memory management, no heap allocator or garbage collector, and zero lifetime annotations.
A developer implemented a SIMD-accelerated FAST feature detector on the ESP32-S3 microcontroller, doubling performance and processing QVGA frames in roughly six milliseconds.
The initial ISO balloting for the C++26 standard draft was disapproved after failing to meet the required percentage of favorable votes.