Flux
Exploring the new `servo` crate
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Exploring the new `servo` crate

Research: Exploring the new `servo` crate In Servo is now available on crates.io the Servo team announced the initial release of the servo crate, which packages their browser engine as an embeddable library. I set Claude Code for web the task of figuring out what it can do, building a CLI tool for taking screenshots using it and working out if it could be compiled to WebAssembly. The servo-shot Rust tool it built works pretty well: git clone https://github.com/simonw/research cd…

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Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code
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Comprehension Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Comprehension debt is the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation. For engineers, it applies most to agentic engineering. There’s a cost that doesn’t show up in your […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
★ Instant view switches with Inertia v3 prefetching
Programmation Web

★ Instant view switches with Inertia v3 prefetching

Over the past few months we've been building There There at Spatie, a support tool shaped by the two decades we've spent running our own customer support. The goal is simple: the helpdesk we always wished we had. We care about using AI in a particular way. It should help support agents write better replies, not substitute for them. The human stays in charge of the conversation, and the model does the unglamorous work of drafting, rephrasing, and suggesting links. There There is in private beta…

Freek Van der Herten
★ How we use Inertia v3 optimistic updates in There There
Programmation Web

★ How we use Inertia v3 optimistic updates in There There

A few months ago we started building There There, a helpdesk we're making at Spatie. The premise is simple. After two decades of running customer support for our open source work and our SaaS apps, we wanted the tool we always wished existed. One thing we care about in particular is using AI to help humans craft better responses, not to replace them. The agent stays in charge of the conversation. The model just helps them reply faster and a little sharper. There There is in private beta right…

Freek Van der Herten
Quoting Bryan Cantrill
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Quoting Bryan Cantrill

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone's) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but at the cost of everything that matters. As such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time forces us to develop crisp…

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Gemma 4 audio with MLX
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Gemma 4 audio with MLX

Thanks to a tip from Rahim Nathwani, here's a uv run recipe for transcribing an audio file on macOS using the 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model with MLX and mlx-vlm: uv run --python 3.13 --with mlx_vlm --with torchvision --with gradio \ mlx_vlm.generate \ --model google/gemma-4-e2b-it \ --audio file.wav \ --prompt "Transcribe this audio" \ --max-tokens 500 \ --temperature 1.0 Your browser does not support the audio element. I tried it on this 14 second .wav file and it output the following: This front…

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SQLite 3.53.0
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SQLite 3.53.0

SQLite 3.53.0 SQLite 3.52.0 was withdrawn so this is a pretty big release with a whole lot of accumulated user-facing and internal improvements. Some that stood out to me: ALTER TABLE can now add and remove NOT NULL and CHECK constraints - I've previously used my own sqlite-utils transform() method for this. New json_array_insert() function and its jsonb equivalent. Significant improvements to CLI mode, including result formatting. The result formatting improvements come from a new library, the…

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