Weekly Bookmarks

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week.

🔖 Yubikey-Guide

This is a guide to using YubiKey as a smart card for secure encryption, signature and authentication operations.

Cryptographic keys on YubiKey are non-exportable, unlike filesystem-based credentials, while remaining convenient for regular use. YubiKey can be configured to require a physical touch for cryptographic operations, reducing the risk of unauthorized access.

🔖 The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard

Jeremy Howard is a renowned data scientist, researcher, entrepreneur, and educator. As the co-founder of fast.ai, former President of Kaggle, and the creator of ULMFiT, Jeremy has spent decades democratizing deep learning. His pioneering work laid the foundation for modern transfer learning and the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm that powers today’s language models.

🔖 Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering

You can now crawl an entire website with a single API call using Browser Rendering’s new /crawl endpoint, available in open beta. Submit a starting URL, and pages are automatically discovered, rendered in a headless browser, and returned in multiple formats, including HTML, Markdown, and structured JSON. This is great for training models, building RAG pipelines, and researching or monitoring content across a site.

🔖 Cultural Heritage and AI: How Institutions Can Reclaim Control of Their Data

MDC offers robust, secure, and controlled access to datasets and amplifies their visibility by featuring them alongside other high-value datasets. Its architecture is designed around a principle that stands in direct contrast to the extractive model currently exploited by commercial AI actors: contributors retain full ownership of their datasets and retain full control over the terms of access. Institutions can choose to share openly under existing licenses such as Creative Commons or NOODL, or build custom licensing frameworks tailored to their specific governance requirements. They can open data to all, or restrict access to specific categories of downloaders like academic researchers, non-commercial users, or values-aligned organizations.

🔖 Piotr Woźniak

Piotr A. Woźniak (Polish pronunciation: [pjɔtr ˈvɔʑɲak]; born 1962) is a Polish researcher best known for his work on SuperMemo, a learning system based on spaced repetition.

🔖 Poetica

Selected poems in French.

🔖 Cloudflare - Edward Wang & Kevin Guthrie, Software Engineers

How do you build a system that handles 90 million requests per second? That’s the scale that Cloudflare operates at, processing roughly 25% of all internet traffic through their global network of 330+ edge locations.

In this episode, we talk to Kevin Guthrie and Edward Wang from Cloudflare about Pingora, their open-source Rust-based proxy that replaced nginx across their entire infrastructure. We’ll find out why they chose Rust for mission-critical systems handling such massive scale, the technical challenges of replacing battle-tested infrastructure, and the lessons learned from “oxidizing” one of the internet’s largest networks.

🔖 Jon Leidecker / Wobbly

Archived episodes of Leidecker’s series Women In Electronic Music 1938-1982, and Variations.

🔖 Forevergreen

“Forevergreen” is an animated short film and after-hours passion project created entirely by a crew of over 200 dedicated Artists and Technicians who all generously donated their free time and talent to bring every frame of the film to life. The production took over 5 years to complete. Featuring never before seen animation techniques and handmade artistry, weaving art and technology together with heart and humor

🔖 Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: /piːˈɛər ˈhɛnriː məˈriː ˈʃeɪfər/ ⓘ, French pronunciation: [ʃɛfɛʁ]; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995)[1] was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime.