Bye-bye time change.

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209

New experiment!

https://github.com/borkdude/cream

Fast starting Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image + Crema

Crema is a JVM bytecode interpreter which allows you to dynamically evaluate stuff inside of a native-image.

I have no idea where this is going yet and what the exact trade-offs with babashka are. Time will tell!

#clojure #babashka

Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design

We've been using LLMs for software and firmware for years... now we're trying hardware. Threw a MAX44009 datasheet at Gemini Deep Think, asked for an EagleCAD library file, and about 10 minutes later it popped out working XML. Loaded it in Eagle, checked the pins and dimensions, rolled with it.

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

This is the Gemini 7 spaceship, photographed from Gemini 6. There were two people in Gemini 6 and two in Gemini 7, so four people total.

At the time (1965) that was the record for most people in space at the same time. Four.