Nvidia falls 14% as China's DeepSeek sparks tech sell-off

I’ve been tinkering with deepseek-r1 for a couple of weeks now, but with its newfound popularity and cries of impending doom for developers, I thought I’d do a little bit of more systematic testing with a trivial use case and post the results. What follows is my notes from a somewhat frustrating three hours of my life where I cajoled it to do a...

This was a pleasant surprise. I look fondly upon my experience with the Original Pebble ten years ago, and it would be nice to have (slightly) more modern hardware that sticks to its simplicity and week-long battery life. My OG is still around (although the bracelet has desintegrated), and I might just dust it off and see if it still works.

LeaderKey is an intriguing macOS launcher that uses a vim-like “leader key” keybinding system to launch applications and run scripts.

This week I took it easy over the weekend and put some things on hold to clear my mind from the industry’s chaos. The weather is pretty crappy and I felt like I needed to relax, so I started out by binging Noclip’s Hades: Developing Hell documentary (which, incidentally, is now available on physical media). That eventually led to my spending a...

Zed is a developer-oriented editor written in Rust with some AI features and a focus on performance. It is still in early stages of development, but is already quite usable (it has vim bindings, for starters and has a number of interesting features as well as enough extensibility to make it an intriguing alternative to Visual Studio Code.