Archives for April, 2026
Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce
Once again, I had this post in drafts for a week! It's time to put it in a readable form. Artificial Idiocy at work? After the Claude Code leak, all…
ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!
It all started with a vibe-coded PyQt6 app that refused to build or to run under Windows, but it worked satisfactorily under Linux. It navigated in the archives of 15…
Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile
Întotdeauna am bombănit cu privire la nuanțele de turcoaz. Deci da, am o problemă cu unele culori. Hai să mai bat câmpii cu privire la două culori. Corai, căci estem…
Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?
I pulled from the Facebook trash bin a little piece I’d written back when the Orange Shit threatened to destroy a civilization. After his latest idea, I found my outrage…
Zău că Andrei Caramitru e mai retardat decât Călin Georgescu
Nu-l citesc pe acest oligofren arogant. Nu suport să-l văd și să-l ascult. Nu știu cum a putut un astfel de individ să treacă printr-o universitate precum cea din Geneva…
Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
While I abhor OpenClaw for reasons I won’t list here, there are some advantages of it over more traditional agentic AI workflows. To oversimplify, let’s say it’s a shift from…
On April 6, 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Now, we have GNOME 50.
Prior to that, Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990, but people didn't like it that much. Microsoft decided that the presence of Microsoft Reversi impeded sales, so it…
The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump
Oh my, that was a close call! Thankfully, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing: Today we’re announcing Project Glasswing, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco,…
Ar trebui scrisă o carte de nedumeriri privitoare la engleză
Ar trebui scrisă o carte cu dificultățile întâmpinate sau cu întrebările specifice pe care și le pot pune vorbitorii de limbi latine care învață engleză. Mă amuz să-l întreb pe…
Today, I visited China (online)
The day started with my reading this article in the BBC app: How China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing's ambition. What lobster, you…
Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)
I am a scribbler in the literal (not literary) sense: I need paper to organize my thoughts and to make lists or just to jot down something, even if eventually…
What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain
It all started from this “Devin got fired” thing: Cool, OK, but… wait, a comment is a comment, right? Well, it is, and it also isn’t, just like Schrödinger’s cat.…
Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică
E păcat că am început această discuție cu Grok în română. Chiar voiam să aflu ceva, însă ce am aflat chiar m-a uimit. Am hotărât să pun această discuție online…