Daylight Savings Time is proof that lazy programmers have existed long before they had computers to lazily program on. “Instead of modifying our business logic to factor in shifting sunrise and sunset times, let’s just add 1 to a global variable representing TIME ITSELF”

I have to admire Ultimate Guitar / the Tabs app for their steadfast commitment to becoming exponentially less usable every year.

four favorite films

Beyond thrilled to have a new essay up on Decoding Everything, David Chen’s newsletter about film and pop culture. As has become a tradition for me ahead of the Oscars, I count down my 10 favorite cinematic pairings of 2023: decodingeverything.com/p/10-cinematic…

The piece has been out for 12 hours, and I'm just thrilled to see it finding an audience. Long-form, ruminating stuff like this rarely gets a shot at being platformed, and that's a luxury I don't take lightly. Grateful to David Chen for taking a chance! decodingeverything.com/p/10-cinematic…

I’ll be there!

I filed my first official Cannes dispatch for Decoding Everything last night, just a few hours after the FURIOSA premiere: decodingeverything.com/p/cannes-2024-…

Last night, I attended the premiere of MEGALOPOLIS. The film itself is a bewildering, bloated mess with *occasional* glimpses of brilliance—but the communal experience of watching it at Cannes was a 10/10. I wrote about it for Decoding Everything: decodingeverything.com/p/cannes-2024-…

My fifth & final update from #cannes2024 is now live! I give a few final highlights before recapping the Closing Ceremony and responding to the Jury Prizes. I’ve had such a blast writing these dispatches. Thanks to David Chen for granting me the platform. decodingeverything.com/p/cannes-2024-…

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Excited to announce the first commercial-scale diffusion language model---Mercury Coder. Mercury runs at 1000 tokens/sec on Nvidia hardware while matching the performance of existing speed-optimized LLMs. Mercury introduces a new approach to language generation inspired by image