Interesting links

A collection of links that I've found interesting

  1. The Tower Keeps Rising

    An essay on how LLMs are reducing the need for a shared understanding of a codebase between the developers working on it

  2. 18 Words

    An addictive but difficult daily word game

  3. Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

    Super interesting and readable look at how roles in LLMs enable prompt injection

  4. Signalbox

    A live map of train locations in Great Britain

  5. World

    A beautiful spinning globe rendered in text embedded in its own JavaScript source code

  6. Half-Baked Product

    This rang true

  7. On the semantic web

    Don’t reinvent the wheel when building web UIs, use the semantic tags that already exist

  8. Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt

    I’ve not finished reading this series of posts yet, but it’s an interesting look at how atproto is designing private data in to the protocol

  9. The AT-URI Syntax Mess

    An article about the difficulties of standardising AT URIs

  10. How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout

    A very deep dive in to how logs are stored on disk by VictoriaLogs and how it makes searching them fast

  11. Rebuilding the computer room

    An essay on how technology has become more closely intertwined with our lives over time