STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSIntroducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Worke
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSHow a device finds encrypted DNS by itself
DDR lets a device discover the encrypted endpoints of the resolver it is already using.
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSFrom constraint models to playable puzzle games
I wanted to play some puzzles produced by my constraint-programming experiments. That small wish grew into nine games.
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSsocial media rabbit holes, clusters, and the relative mixing times of random walks
Twitter data shows distinct clusters of users, and differences in how tightly different groups of users cluster explains the relative success of different groups on social media
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSA shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
Event designators have been hiding in not-so-plain-sight since the late 1970s — so powerful that forgetting might be part of a massive conspiracy to wear out developer keyboards faster than otherwise.
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSI got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
My son found a copy of Compton's 3D World Atlas Deluxe in a thrift store in Port Townsend, WA. I have no idea what he paid for it. Probably not enough to justify what happened next. This is a Windows...
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSConcurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower
Increasing throughput sometimes requires reducing parallelism. A look into why this is the case for Vitess + MySQL databases
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERStl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.
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STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSAm I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out
Slowly realizing that I'm the problem on my team by interviewing another. It's not every day you get a chance to look into a parallel world that doesn't include you and see what's different.
OPEN IT →STRANGE TECH · LOBSTERSi wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
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