Category: Allgemein

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Apple innovation and execution

People have been claiming that Apple has forgotten how to innovate since the early 1980s, or longer – it’s a standing joke in talking about the...

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Standards for ANSI escape codes

Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make...

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Taming A Voracious Rust Proxy

Here’s a fun bug. The basic idea of our service is that we run containers for our users, as hardware-isolated virtual machines (Fly Machines), on hardware...

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Publish a lint rule, get a prize

Deno’s new lint plugin system means you can extend the deno lint functionality with your own rules. We’re giving prizes for anyone who publishes a lint...

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The Deep Research problem

Most what I do for a living is research and analysis. I think of data I’d like to see and go looking for it; I compile...

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We Were Wrong About GPUs

We’re building a public cloud, on hardware we own. We raised money to do that, and to place some bets; one of them: GPU-enabling our customers....

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The Exit Interview: JP Phillips

JP Phillips is off to greener, or at least calmer, pastures. He joined us 4 years ago to build the next generation of our orchestration system,...

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A Blog, If You Can Keep It

A boldfaced lede like this was a sure sign you were reading a carefully choreographed EffortPost from our team at Fly.io. We’re going to do less...

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VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas

We’re interested in getting integrated into the flow VSCode uses to do remote editing over SSH, because everybody is using VSCode now, and, in particular, they’re...

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Some terminal frustrations

A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing...

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Intro to Wasm in Deno

Web Assembly, or Wasm, is a great way to increase performance in your web application. Here is an introductory guide to what it is and how...

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Announcing OpenAI on JSR

OpenAI, leading development platform for building generative AI products and experiences, now has a JavaScript and TypeScript SDK on JSR.

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Are better models better?

“Do, or do not- there is no try” Every week, there’s a new model, a new approach, and something new to play with. And every week,...

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Deno in 2024

We had a busy 2024 with the launch of Deno 2 and JSR, and dozens of features to simplify programming. Here are the biggest updates in...

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Stay Gold, America

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I’m concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream: The costs of housing, healthcare, and...

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“Rules” that terminal programs follow

Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s...

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Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning

Reward hacking occurs when a reinforcement learning (RL) agent exploits flaws or ambiguities in the reward function to achieve high rewards, without genuinely learning or completing...

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The AI for Science Forum: A new era of discovery

The AI Science Forum highlights AI’s present and potential role in revolutionizing scientific discovery and solving global challenges, emphasizing collaboration between the scientific community, policymakers, and...

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New microblog with TILs

I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted...

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In defense of screen time

My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media...

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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

There’s a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. This is the dominant...

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Announcing Deno 2

Our next major version of Deno combines the simplicity, security, and performance of Deno 1 with full Node and npm backwards compatibility, and much more.

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Some notes on upgrading Hugo

Warning: this is a post about very boring yakshaving, probably only of interest to people who are trying to upgrade Hugo from a very old version...

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Xen 4.19 is released

Xen Project 4.19 has been officially out since July 31st, 2024, and it brings significant updates. With enhancements in performance, security, and versatility across various architectures...

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Advancing Xen on RISC-V: key updates

At Vates, we are heavily invested in the advancement of Xen and the RISC-V architecture. RISC-V, a rapidly emerging open-source hardware architecture, is gaining traction due...

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Terminal colours are tricky

Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS),...

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Some Go web dev notes

I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the...

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Deno 2.0 Release Candidate

This release candidate, a near-final look at Deno 2, includes the addition of Node’s process global, better dependency management, and various API stabilizations, and more.

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Deno 1.46: The Last 1.x Release

Our last 1.x release before Deno 2 comes with a ton of features, ranging from a simpler, improved CLI, to multi-threaded web servers, improvements to Node.js/npm...

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Accident Forgiveness

We’re Fly.io, a new public cloud with simple, developer-friendly ergonomics. Try it out; you’ll be deployed in just minutes, and, as you’re about to read, with...

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Competing in search

A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk – a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web. PageRank used signal from links...

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We’re Cutting L40S Prices In Half

We’re Fly.io, a new public cloud with simple, developer-friendly ergonomics. And as of today, cheaper GPUs. Try it out; you’ll be deployed in just minutes. We...

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Making Machines Move

We’re Fly.io, a global public cloud with simple, developer-friendly ergonomics. If you’ve got a working Docker image, we’ll transmogrify it into a Fly Machine: a VM...

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Deno 1.45: Workspace and Monorepo Support

Deno 1.45 introduces workspaces and monorepo support, improved Node.js compatibility, updates to `deno install`, the new `deno init –lib` command, deprecation of `deno vendor`, Standard Library...

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The AI summer

My old boss Marc Andreessen liked to say that every failed idea from the Dotcom bubble would work now. It just took time – it took...

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The VR winter continues

It can feel a little odd to write about anything other than generative AI these days, but I sometimes remind people that all the things that...

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Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs

Hallucination in large language models usually refers to the model generating unfaithful, fabricated, inconsistent, or nonsensical content. As a term, hallucination has been somewhat generalized to...

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A Gentle Intro to TypeScript

Quick, digestible bites of TypeScript goodness for Deno developers. In this first bite, we introduce TypeScript, how to add type annotations to your code and why...

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AWS without Access Keys

It’s dangerous to go alone. Fly.io runs full-stack apps by transmuting Docker containers into Fly Machines: ultra-lightweight hardware-backed VMs. You can run all your dependencies on...

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Building AI products

I will fly to India on Monday for a brief trip, and so I just spent an hour struggling through a very buggy online visa application...

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Ways to think about AGI

The manuscript for ‘A Logic Named Joe’ In 1946, my grandfather, writing as ‘Murray Leinster’, published a science fiction story called ‘A Logic Named Joe’. Everyone...

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AI and problems of scale

There’s a story in one of Georges Simeon’s 1930s detective stories that I think about sometimes when talking about a certain kind of AI problem. Simenon’s...

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JSR Is Not Another Package Manager

JSR introduces a new way to share JavaScript and TypeScript code across platforms, focusing on simplifying distribution without replacing existing package managers.

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Looking for AI use-cases

This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘Microphobia’, published in 1982. It’s full of great jokes and I could have used almost any...

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How we built JSR

A modern JavaScript registry needs to be fast, reliable, and be as simple as possible for end users. Here’s how we built JSR.

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Diffusion Models for Video Generation

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong results on image synthesis in past years. Now the research community has started working on a harder task—using it for video...

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Python Syntax

This guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Python syntax, including its definition and key elements that help make your code more efficient.

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The problem of AI ethics

In the late 1990s, the UK Post Office deployed a new point-of-sale computer system, built for it by Fujitsu. Almost immediately, post-masters, who are self-employed and...

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Who cares about tech regulation?

When I look at the engagement on this website, and in my newsletter, it’s very clear that anything I write about regulation gets the least engagement....

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A month of the Vision Pro

Meta bought Oculus ten years ago this month, for $2bn. Oculus was selling a device that was amazing, and clearly part of the future, but also...

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JIT WireGuard

We’re Fly.io and we transmute containers into VMs, running them on our hardware around the world with the power of Firecracker alchemy. We do a lot...

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Fly Kubernetes does more now

Eons ago, we announced we were working on Fly Kubernetes. It drummed up enough excitement to prove we were heading in the right direction. So, we...

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The Wax and the Wane of the Web

I offer a single bit of advice to friends and family when they become new parents: When you start to think that you’ve got everything figured...

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Survey Results and Roadmap

You answered our survey and we listened. Here’s what we’re working on currently and what you can expect from Deno next.

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How to Run a Python Script

This guide will walk you through the step-by-step process of running a Python script, covering both command-line execution and using integrated development environments (IDEs).

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Webhooks suck, but here are alternatives

Webhooks, originally proposed as a way to consume asynchronous feeds, became the one-size-fits-all solution for integrating cloud software. Here’s why we think there’s a better solution.

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Event Driven Machines

We’re Fly.io and we transmute containers into VMs, running them on our hardware around the world. We have fast booting VM’s, so why not take advantage...

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Remaking the app store

There’s very little we can say about Apple’s App Store policies that we didn’t say when it launched in 2008, in 2011 when it first tightened...

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Deno in 2023

2023 marked a significant step towards our vision of radically simplifying web development. Here are the biggest updates and what’s coming up next.

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Delegating tasks to Fly Machines

We’re Fly.io. We run apps for our users on hardware we host around the world. Leveraging Fly.io Machines and Fly.io’s private network can make delegating expensive...

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Macaroons Escalated Quickly

We’re Fly.io and we transmute containers into VMs, running them on our hardware around the world. We built a new security token system, and can I...

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I am a creative.

I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through...

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