https://bits.jlopes.eu A curated collection of links and bookmarks. en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:26:48 GMT https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/FreeG96-lifestreams.pdf https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/lifestreams-a-storage-model-for-personal-data-330860 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:26:48 GMT guide https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/a-weekend-with-jev-made-my-coding-agents-up-to-31-faster-934036 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/a-weekend-with-jev-made-my-coding-agents-up-to-31-faster-934036 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:55:53 GMT I spent a weekend playing with Jev, a model that scores things instead of writing text. It became a code search tool that makes Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code faster, measured over 162 sessions. ai guide https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/theory-beyond-theorems-and-proofs-828430 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/theory-beyond-theorems-and-proofs-828430 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:04:15 GMT Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below about how theoretical computer… https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/software-engineering-notes-558281 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/software-engineering-notes-558281 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:42:59 GMT Notes on essays and personal experience related to software engineering. dev https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/what-the-heck-is-jev-james-o-959239 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/what-the-heck-is-jev-james-o-959239 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:39:25 GMT Jev is a fast decision model that chooses from supplied answers and opens up new uses for AI. ai https://craft.gustavofior.com/ https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/craft-636164 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:10:53 GMT A collection of design engineering concepts. design https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-blog-posts-567623 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-blog-posts-567623 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:16:28 GMT Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. 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I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my... guide https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/parallel-development-without-the-headaches-using-git-worktre-291595 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/parallel-development-without-the-headaches-using-git-worktre-291595 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:58:21 GMT Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts. dev guide https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/everything-i-own-owned-155914 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/everything-i-own-owned-155914 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:56:06 GMT Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network. ai guide https://www.doc.cc/syntax https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/doc-syntax-553405 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:29:20 GMT This series examines core concepts shaping our designed world, tracing their origins and dissecting their practical significance. dev https://webawesome.com https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/web-awesome-991394 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:06:48 GMT Build better with Web Awesome, the biggest open source library of meticulously designed, highly customizable, and framework-agnostic UI components. dev https://www.magnific.com/free-vector https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/magnific-com-758855 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:16:04 GMT design https://www.figma.com/blog/try-these-10-skills-and-show-off-your-own/ https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/try-these-10-skills-and-show-off-your-own-figma-blog-451619 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:44:17 GMT Now you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma, to put your point of view to work. 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The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just pixels. design dev https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/technopagans-457744 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/technopagans-457744 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:17:54 GMT May the astral plane be reborn in cyberspace cyberpunk occult https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/cultivating-a-state-of-mind-where-new-ideas-are-born-641317 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/cultivating-a-state-of-mind-where-new-ideas-are-born-641317 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:27:37 GMT Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas opinion guide https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/everything-is-about-to-go-dark-066103 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/everything-is-about-to-go-dark-066103 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:31:19 GMT I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini… ai conspiracy cyberpunk https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers-307831 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers-307831 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:08:43 GMT The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c... ai opinion https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/the-grug-brained-developer-112066 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/the-grug-brained-developer-112066 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:05:50 GMT A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained dev guide https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad-noema-707918 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad-noema-707918 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:45:19 GMT A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. 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Link… ai opinion https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work-on-937217 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work-on-937217 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:09:17 GMT My keynote at ICML 2026 ai opinion https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/god-has-helped-us-and-so-will-ai-how-the-terrorist-group-bok-900264 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:32:30 GMT The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge. ai conspiracy https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/the-end-of-reading-is-here-329696 https://bits.jlopes.eu/bookmark/the-end-of-reading-is-here-329696 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:42:16 GMT Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. 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