JSON is token‑expensive for LLMs – just like Matt Pocock frequently mentions. Meet TOON, the Token‑Oriented Object Notation. 💸 40–60% fewer tokens than JSON 📐 readable & tokenizer-aware Wrap your JSON with `encode` to save half the token cost: github.com/johannschoppli…

can someone please make a short film about 2040 that's exciting. We are literally drowning in pessimism bc humans suck at visualizing what things going well looks like

Some progress with Matter protocol on ESP-IDF. Still only WiFi. Thread proving a lot more awkward to progress on. Second wired-in LED was because I became convinced the onboard one on the ESP32S3 was dead.

Or to use my favourite quote of 2025, originally coined in 1962: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

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Elon Musk came up with a pretty incredible idea during the Q3 Earnings Call, that no one is really talking about. His words: “Actually, one of the things I thought, if we've got all these cars that maybe are bored, while they're sort of, if they are bored, we could actually

How to get ChatGPT to stop agreeing with everything you say:

We have created a cage so perfect that the brightest minds of our era think it is easier to create artificial superhuman minds with silicon and software than reform governments and institutions, which when you take a step back is obviously a totally insane position to hold.

This has held up! The seed oil conspiracies have always been scientific drivel, so it's not surprising that the scientific findings haven't changed and the trials still return results consistent with this chart.

Thread Border Router in the house. There goes Saturday.

How the hell did I miss Gordon Williams's announcement about running bare-metal C on the Bangle.js back in March? Flashbacks to my first 3 jobs. Anyone with a NodeConf EU 2019 conference watch will be able to use this too. github.com/espruino/Bangl…

Still not as good as our 2017/2018/2019 NodeConf EU badges where the Espruino JS REPL worked over Bluetooth LE and we ran Tensorflow Micro in 2019 😀 It's strange how little progress has been made in 8 years with event badges. Hackaday and Defcon excepted.

I haven't thought about the Steorn Orbo in quite a few years. My "review" of it is my most watched video on YouTube. This is a great read, particularly on where the spoofers came from. computer.rip/2025-10-28-the…

Not just used in places like App Inventor back in the day but also in the Gordon Williams IDE.

Pathfounders: Our team, our stance, and how to pitch us by Mike Butcher (BlueSky/Threads: @mikebutcher) & Amelia Isaacs (link in thread)

Well I laughed.