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New blog post: https://ohhelloana.blog/overthinking-ai/
A post without any conclusion, solution or nothing. Just thoughts, processing memories and feelings.
Yesterday I was thinking about why I gave up one of my passions: films. And I jot down how the heartbreak is similar to stupid AI. Whatever.
Kenneth Reitz has been the subject of some controversy but this is worth reading:
“If you're maintaining open source projects and you notice that your productivity comes in surges, that you don't sleep much during the good periods, that your best work happens in states that feel elevated and electric, please pay attention to that. It might just be flow. It might be something else. I didn't know the difference, and by the time I learned, the crash had already happened.”
“Great news—we’ve hit our (very modest) performance goals for the CPython JIT over a year early for macOS AArch64, and a few months early for x86_64 Linux. The 3.15 alpha JIT is about 11-12% faster on macOS AArch64 than the tail calling interpreter, and 5-6% faster than the standard interpreter on x86_64 Linux.”
Some regrettable personal news:
As of ~45 mins ago I am no longer employed. I'm still trying to find my bearings, but would be gateful for whatever leads y'all have.
(I will say more in a bit, once I actually have the time to spare)
Cloudflare has a new API endpoint for crawling the web. I wanted to see how completely it crawls websites, and whether Cloudflare's caching infrastructure can help reduce the load on source websites.
It looks like the crawls can be pretty thorough (but not always). They also do appear to be drawing from cached content sometimes, but it isn't exactly clear when.
https://inkdroid.org/2026/03/16/seeing-the-web/
(apologies for fedi-cross-posting)
The @linuxfoundation, today announced $12.5 million in total grants from Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI to strengthen the security of the open source software ecosystem.
The funding will be managed by Alpha-Omega and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), to develop long-term, sustainable security solutions that support open source communities worldwide.
During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?
3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.
Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?
No.
IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.
So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.
It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.
Plenty for Finding Nemo.
Ana Rodrigues
Calcedony Prime
VM (Vicky) Brasseur
Christopher Neugebauer
ink
OpenSSF
Michael B. Johnson