Sunday, August 31, 2025

EV: Ford's Electric Minivan @Nurburbring

Ford's Electric Minivan BEATS Every Ferrari & Lambo EVER at the Nurburbring - YouTube

Ford's Electric SuperVan Laps the Nürburgring in 6:48 @roadandtrack

the 2000 hp SuperVan 4.2 ran on slick tires. The Mustang GTD,
by contrast, completed its official lap of 6:52 with a set of road-legal tires.


The overall 'Ring record remains the unbelievable 5:19 run by Porsche's 919 Hybrid Evo in 2018.



Friday, August 29, 2025

AI cloud tool: AWS CCAPI MCP Server

AI tool to help automation of "cloud infrastructure"

Claude and Gemini, and even ChatGPT are already quite well informed... 
And this integration in not completely free... 

Is it worth it? And "what cab go wrong" will all this power and fuzzy language control?

AI for Software Development – Amazon Q Developer Pricing – AWS

AWS CCAPI MCP Server: Natural Language Infra - InfoQ

"AWS recently announced the Cloud Control API (CCAPI) MCP Server, a new tool designed to simplify infrastructure management by enabling developers and AI-powered agents to manage resources using natural language. The server is part of the awslabs/mcp project and acts as a bridge between conversational commands and AWS infrastructure deployment and management.

The AWS Cloud Control API powers the CCAPI MCP Server, which is a standardized API supporting CRUDL (Create/Read/Update/Delete/List) operations for over 1,200 AWS and third-party resources through a single endpoint. In addition"

This MCP server transforms AWS infrastructure management by allowing developers to create, read, update, delete, and list resources using natural language




Thursday, August 28, 2025

EV: Chevrolet Equinox: #3 after Tesla 3 & Y

 Chevy EV Sales Surge 770% in Shock Attack on Tesla's US Dominance - YouTube

Chevrolet’s EV sales have skyrocketed by an astonishing 770%, mounting a direct challenge to Tesla’s long-standing dominance in the U.S. market. This surge signals a major shift in consumer demand and intensifying competition in the electric vehicle space.
from $35K before incentives



EV: Ford $30k Pick Up Truck?

Ford Reveals Revolutionary EV Platform Using LFP Batteries + $30k Pick Up! - YouTube
by The Electric Viking - YouTube

Ford has unveiled a groundbreaking EV platform powered by cost-effective LFP batteries, enabling longer lifespan, lower costs, and improved charging efficiency. The first model—a rugged all-electric pickup priced around $30,000—targets mass-market adoption and could shake up the affordable EV truck segment.

The Electric Viking on X: "Ford Reveals Revolutionary EV Platform Using LFP Batteries + $30k Pick Up! https://t.co/t7LzwcA2oH via @YouTube #ev #evnews #electricvehicles https://t.co/FLwDSjSZLW" / X


Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs | The Verge

The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly plant, starting with a four-door, midsized $30,000 pickup truck in 2027. Ford touted the announcement as its “Model T moment” that will be more streamlined to help bring down costs and put the company on a path to profitability.

productivity: Ivy Lee Method , 15 mins = $400K

Ivy Lee Method | A 100-Year Old Productivity System for Stress Free Prioritization - YouTube

The "Ivy Lee Method" is a simple yet effective productivity technique developed by Ivy Lee and famously implemented by Charles Schwab at Bethlehem Steel. The method involves listing the six most important tasks for the next day at the end of the current workday, prioritizing them, and then focusing on completing them one at a time the next day, moving unfinished tasks to the next day's listThis approach, despite its simplicity, led to a significant increase in productivity for Schwab's company, resulting in a substantial payment to Lee. 

The Ivy Lee Method: A 100-year old Routine for Stress-Free Productivity - YouTube

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

1X Robotics: AI => AGI?

 Robotics CEO: Humanoid Robots Are Coming to Your Home This Decade w/ Bernt Bornich & Dave Blundin - YouTube


1X Technologies | Safe humanoids for the home

NEO Gamma robot

1X Technologies - Wikipedia

1X Technologies is a Norwegian-American robotics and artificial intelligence company developing general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments. The company has one headquarters in Palo Alto, California, with additional operations in Sunnyvale and the main headquarters in Moss, Norway.[1]



book: Stellar by Tony Seba

Tony Seba's new book Stellar reveals the DESTRUCTION of this industry - YouTube


Stellar: A world beyond limits, and how to get there.: Arbib, James, Seba, Tony: 9781067046408: Amazon.com: Books

"A bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity, Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism - a necessary antidote to the fear and despair that define our times.

Stellar uncovers the root causes of today’s biggest challenges, from war and economic instability to inequality and environmental collapse. It reveals why solutions to these issues are little more than band-aids, why our political and economic structures are failing, and how to unlock humanity’s full potential."


Monday, August 25, 2025

xAI MacroHard Doors >> MicroSoft Windows" :)

as if there is nothing more useful to solve...

Elon Musk takes aim at Bill Gates' Microsoft with new AI venture "Macrohard"

xAI was “creating a multi-agent AI software company, where Grok spawns hundreds of specialized coding and image/video generation/understanding agents all working together and then emulates humans interacting with the software in virtual machines until the result is excellent.”

Elon Musk on X: "Join @xAI and help build a purely AI software company called Macrohard. It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real! In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate" / X



Saturday, August 23, 2025

data architecture: Event Sourcing

The idea here: saving original stream of data events (insert/append only) to keep all data,
instead of doing updates of db records and keeping only the latest state.

Then the latest state can be re-calculated by "replaying" events. 

As usual, the implementation "details" matter. 
Postgres JSONB was mentioned as a powerful option for this kind of data storage
and derivative systems based on it, like Marten and Wolverine

 .NET Rocks! Event Sourcing with Hannes Lowette (podcast)

"How can event sourcing help your applications?
... helping developers utilize event sourcing patterns to build scalable applications. Hannes discusses moving away from the old habit of decomposing data from objects into rows, columns, and tables, as there's no reason to save that disk space anymore. Storing objects as event streams means you can always generate relational data if needed, but things run faster and scale better in the streams."

Links:

Event Sourcing (//learn.microsoft.com/)

The Event Sourcing pattern defines an approach to handling operations on data that's driven by a sequence of events, each of which is recorded in an append-only store. Application code raises events that imperatively describe the action taken on the object. The events are generally sent to a queue where a separate process, an event handler, listens to the queue and persists the events in an event store. Each event represents a logical change to the object, such as AddedItemToOrder or OrderCanceled.



RxJS v7, v8

rxjs - npm  52M downloads/week!



RxJS - Introduction
Reactive Extensions Library for JavaScript

RxJS is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code.

Normally you register event listeners.
document.addEventListener('click', () => console.log('Clicked!'));

Using RxJS you create an observable instead.
import { fromEvent } from 'rxjs'; fromEvent(document, 'click').subscribe(() => console.log('Clicked!'));


RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates.


Thursday, August 21, 2025

Serverless AI: Modal and Scaling AI Inference

Like AWS Lambda, optimized for AI/GPU payloads, Python, not limited on single instance.

Containers, optimized, without Docker, fast "cold start"

Used in production, i.e. by Suno (AI gen songs) and substack

interesting!

Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson - Software Engineering Daily  podcast

Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale.

It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular Luigi workflow scheduler.

...this episode ... talk about the motivation for founding his company, the market gap in ML and AI tooling, optimizing container cold start, Modal’s interface design, and more.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

architecture: Aluminaire House

Was a "house of the future", about 100 years ago.

Now is this future, it may still be ahead in some design elements.

How much time does the future needs to arrive :)

Maybe we need Tesla / Elon to get interested to speed it up.

Or BOXABL will deliver...

 Visit Aluminaire House | Palm Springs Art Museum

Aluminaire House™ was originally exhibited in 1931 without interior fittings. 


Aluminaire House - Wikipedia

The Aluminaire House is a three-story house designed as a case study by architects A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey in April 1931. Made of donated materials and built in ten days, it was the first all-metal house in the United States


Tuesday, August 19, 2025

GoLang: million-board chess, single process!

 Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process · eieio.games

One Million Chessboards is a 1000x1000 grid of chess boards. Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns, and pieces can move between boards.

I made a chess MMO - YouTube by eieio.games




Monday, August 18, 2025

AI Agent Store: Roo Code

AI Agent Store: AI Agent Marketplace/Directory, AI Agency list

https://roocode.com/


 Roo Code - AI Agent

an open-source autonomous AI agent designed to code, debug, and evolve software systems with minimal human input. It mimics a junior developer's workflow, using a cyclic process of planning, editing, running, and debugging code.




Sunday, August 17, 2025

JavaScript engines everywhere

Chrome's V8 and Safari WebKit are not the only way to run JavaScript...

A very extensive summary of JavaScript runtime engines...

 The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade • Buttondown

JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts with precise fitness for task. Through these, we've seen the language spread to the Cloud, the edge, Smart TVs, mobile devices, and even microcontrollers.

Friday, August 15, 2025

Spatial Web: World Wide Web of Everything

Yet another buzzword like IoT, or a "real deal"?

Often, "de-facto" standards are better then "official", but it can go both ways...

Spatial Web: Transforming Device Interactions - IEEE Spectrum

"When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, represented a daring leap. It combined the age-old idea of hypertext with the Internet’s global reach. Tim Berners-Lee’s new language offered up a lingua franca for interconnected information.

Today, following the social media revolution, a new phase of the Internet is emerging. The Spatial Web promises to connect a physical world full of devices, phones, wearables, robots, drones, and even AI agents. In May, the IEEE Standards Association ratified a set of standards (IEEE 2874-2025) that defines the Spatial Web.

Spatial Web puts forward a new set of defining principles. HSML (Hyperspace Modelling Language) behaves like nouns and verbs on the Spatial Web, describing what an entity is and what it does. HSTP (Hyperspace Transaction Protocol)

And the UDG (Universal Domain Graph) acts as the directory that keeps track of every entity along with its activities and relationships."



Wednesday, August 13, 2025

AI TTS (Text-To-Speech) models

Microsoft AI TTS models are currently better (more consistent) than OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-tts

March 2025: Azure AI Speech’s HD voices are generally available and more | Microsoft Community Hub

Azure AI Speech’s Dragon HD (language model-based TTS) Neural TTS voices are particularly well-suited for voice agents and conversational scenarios, thanks to the following key features:

  1. Context-Aware and Dynamic Output
    The  Azure AI Speech’s Dragon HD TTS models are enhanced with Language Models (LMs) to ensure better context understanding, producing more accurate and contextually appropriate outputs. Each voice incorporates dynamic temperature adjustments to vary the degree of creativity and emotion in the speech, allowing for tailored delivery based on the specific needs of the content.
  2. Emotion-Enhanced Expressiveness
    The Azure AI Speech’s Dragon HD TTS voices incorporate advanced emotion detection, leveraging acoustic and linguistic features to identify emotional cues within the input text. The model will adjusts tone, style, intonation, and rhythm dynamically to deliver speech with rich, natural variations and authentic emotional expression.
  3. Improved Multilingual Support
    Following the addition of more voice variety and enhanced multilingual capabilities last month, Azure AI Speech’s Dragon HD TTS have gained immense popularity across various use cases, including conversational agents, podcast creation, and video content production.
  4. Cutting-Edge Acoustic Models
    GA voices utilize the latest acoustic models, continually updated by Microsoft to ensure optimal performance and superior quality. These models adapt to changing needs, providing users with state-of-the-art speech synthesis.


Microsoft completes acquisition of Nuance, ushering in new era of outcomes-based AI - Source

Dragon Speech Recognition - Get More Done by Voice | Nuance

Nuance Communications - Wikipedia


Text to speech - OpenAI API

Model - OpenAI API GPT-4o mini TTS

OpenAI Text To Speech | Advanced Voice Engine Technology

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Web apps: CSS vs SPA

Not only that complex to build "native" mobile apps are "winning" over PWA (Portable Web Apps)
even though such web solution in many cases would be better and much simpler, that is not all.

The actual web apps are now mostly build with very complex toolsets on top of JavaScript,
including compilers, bundlers, and all kinds of libraries and tools: SPA: "Single" Page Apps.

But again, this is neither necessary, nor good.
In many cases, just using "native" web, HTML + CSS,
with minimum help of "vanilla" JavaScript would be enough.
With HTMLX maybe to fetch data.

And AI tools are making it worse, since React is often used by default
and verbose and complex result is often not humanly readable. 

So humans are becoming like dogs, getting "free" food, and unable to "hunt" for themselves. 
Just to be friendly to the master. 
And not-to-be-named master is "Complexity"

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA - Jono Alderson

Why Semantic HTML Still Matters - Jono Alderson

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson


25 CSS App Design | FreeFrontend




Monday, August 11, 2025

"Railway": "Lego Blocks" for Cloud Infrastructure

Intended to be "easy as Heroku", but without scaling limitations.
If it works as promised, that would be good!

Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper - Software Engineering Daily (podcast)

Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly known for having a developer-friendly interface.


"No provisioning servers. No paying for unused resources.
Just pay for what your app uses and not a penny more"


Sunday, August 10, 2025

GitHub Copilot supported AI models

 Supported AI models in Copilot - GitHub Docs

Now that GPT-5 is here, it become immediately available in VS Code (and other supported IDEs).
So far Sonnet was often the best results, GPT-4.1 the best speed, and Gemini best reasoning.
Many good choices. making us more productive, and sometimes more frustrated.

And there is still space for Cursor, Windsurf and other tools.



Intelligence Evolution: Human => AI ?

Is AI: "Artificial" or "Augmented" Intelligence?

It is the first, we may be "doomed".
If it becomes the second, that would be a very bright future.

Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton - YouTube

The 2024 Nobel winner explains what AI has learned from biological intelligence,
and how it might one day surpass it.

he starts with:

"If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture."


Saturday, August 09, 2025

scaling Postgres database

podcast

Bringing Vitess to Postgres with Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess (Changelog Interviews #651)


Multigres: a new open source project to add high-performance sharding to Postgres
to keep "GoLang" or back to "C" for extending Posgres?

Vitess: original solution for MySQL, from YouTube, used in many places, including Slack, GitHub
a base for new project


Supabase: Postgres variant, sponsor of new project


Neon: another Postgres scaling solution


PlanetScale: company behind Vitess


Relational Database – Amazon Aurora MySQL PostgreSQL – AWS: (slightly) more scale-able cloud based variant of Postgres (and MySQL)

Thursday, August 07, 2025

AI: new GPT-5 model from OpenAI

great code gen demos

GPT-5 Fully Tested (INSANE) - YouTube by Matthew Berman - YouTube

interview with head of research from OpenAI

Mark Chen: GPT-5, Open-Source, Agents, Future of OpenAI, and more! - YouTube


GPT-5 is here | OpenAI

OpenAI's smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available to everyone.

Introducing GPT-5 - YouTube by OpenAI


OpenAI Unveils GPT-5: Everything Announced at OpenAI's Summer Update in 12 Minutes - YouTube @CNET


GPT-5 is here and it's free for everyone @engadget


gpt-5 vs gpt-4.1 price - Google Search

  • GPT-5:
    • Input: $1.25 per million tokens. 
    • Output: $10 per million tokens. 
  • GPT-4.1:
    • Input: $2.00 per million tokens. 
    • Output: $8.00 per million tokens. 
GPT-5 Just Killed Claude – Smarter & Cheaper - YouTube


Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Intelligent Internet: AI + blockchain

Very interesting solution. 

Intelligent-Internet · GitHub

An open source project from creator of Stable Diffusion, a popular image generating AI model
(and Stability company behind it)
Emad Mostaque - Wikipedia

Using same technology as Bitcoin, just 100x more efficient.
While Bitcoin is optimizing for "proof-of-work"
|effectively wasting huge amount of energy and GPUs to avoid misuse,
the proposed "II" (Intelligent Internet) is optimizing for maximum benefit for society.

So the first objectives are to establish "open foundation" for intelligence:
focused small language models for most universally useful tasks,
like healthcare (doctors), education (teacher) etc.

Those models are trained on filtered valid and open data,
and can run even on 10 years old computers or RaspberryPi,
while achieving much better results than actual doctors for example, less errors.

Also introducing a concept of "Universal Basic Intelligence", 
effectively "AI tokens" provided for every person/citizen, 
and rewarding constructive use of it, similar to "crypto mining",
in this case "mining for intelligence".


Emad Mostaque: The Plan to Save Humanity From AI | EP #184 - YouTube

@Moonshots Peter H. Diamandis - YouTube


Master Plan (open source, not so secret 🤷🏾) - Intelligent Internet

To power this new ecosystem, we redefine money. New tokens, Foundation Coins (FC) and Culture Credits (CC), are minted only when validators attach a signed receipt that useful compute has been performed for the commons: data curated, models trained, or inference served. This is Proof-of-Benefit, not proof of waste.



Intelligent Internet Whitepaper - Emad Mostaque


Symbioism

A Third Path for the Intelligence Age

Humanity stands at a crossroads defined by a new form of power. The means of intellectual production can now be generated at near-zero cost. This inverts our world. The new scarcity is not capital, but trust, coordination, and verifiable truth. This power presents two paths to ruin.




Tuesday, August 05, 2025

gpt-oss: Open Source OpenAI model

OpenAI Dropped a FRONTIER Open-Source Model - YouTube
The Industry Reacts to OpenAI's Open Source! - YouTube



gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. Available under the flexible Apache 2.0 license, these models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks, demonstrate strong tool use capabilities, and are optimized for efficient deployment on consumer hardware. They were trained using a mix of reinforcement learning and techniques informed by OpenAI’s most advanced internal models, including o3 and other frontier systems.

apparently the smaller 20B model can run on only 16GB RAM... i.e. $500 M4 MacMini?




OpenAI’s GPT OSS models available in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI