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Web-Perf Wednesday 007 – Chrome Makes Busy Workers Measurable(opens in new tab)
Chrome 153 starts exposing dedicated-worker congestion to RUM, while browser releases tighten privacy, module recovery, and image preloading.
Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device specs; Stalwart workers; "I, Rowboat"; SMS uprising; Facebook v switching costs; Capitalism of fools. ...
Apple Ternover(opens in new tab)
Rust concurrency vs Go concurrency: stackless vs stackfull coroutines(opens in new tab)
While Rust and Go are both modern programming languages that have learned from the mistakes of the previous generation, they manage concurrency in a completely different way, which, as we
curl 8.22.0(opens in new tab)
Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from https://curl.se. If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 changes70 days ...
Try DuckDB v2.0-alpha(opens in new tab)
DuckDB's development team in Amsterdam has started getting DuckDB v2.0 ready for release in October. If you like shiny new things, try out the alpha releases now and report anything that might not be working as expected!
streamtop(opens in new tab)
A terminal monitor for debugging HLS, DASH and internet live streams.
How to protect yourself from workslop(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: etcd RangeStream Cuts Memory Use on Large List Reads(opens in new tab)
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. ...
The Witcher 3: Songs of Past looked alright in its behind-closed-doors preview, though I'm more enticed by the remaster’s combat upgrades(opens in new tab)
Well, I say behind-closed-doors. It turns out that if I wanted to watch a prerecorded saunter through a chunk of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt’s Songs of the Past expansion, I could have just tuned into the Gamescom livestream, rather ...
#494: Python Wrapture(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability linkedin2md: turn your LinkedIn export into 40+ Markdown files ...
Grown men are learning Kubernetes from cartoons..(opens in new tab)
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!(opens in new tab)
“They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. Software these days is garbage. That got me thinking; I’m good at building garbage! Why can’t I build my own text editor? VS Code is built ...
All the RPS Supporter rewards for August 2026: fatty felines, GTA 6 pondering, and a heap of barely washed radishes(opens in new tab)
You there. Have you completed the RPS Supporters survey? You don’t even need to be a Supporter. In fact, it’s better for certain questions if you aren’t. Either way, this is your chance to play a part in making sure ...
Running a big LLM across multiple GPUs with vLLM(opens in new tab)
A runbook for serving a model too big for one GPU: download to serving in seven steps, with every vLLM flag, startup log line and real error explained, plus tensor, pipeline and expert parallelism benchmarked head to head on a ...
Bad code is kudzu(opens in new tab)
Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can overtake sidewalks, houses, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 401(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Storage Version Migration Enabled by Default(opens in new tab)
I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API (storagemigration.k8s.io/v1) and control plane controller are now fully stable and ...
Cursor & OpenAI Break Up ⟡ pnpm 12 Rust Re-Write ⟡ a WebGPU Library for Agents ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
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It’s my birthday! Well, it was a couple of days ago. I was busy. Here’s an element that I made all by myself.
Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers(opens in new tab)
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get ...
What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More(opens in new tab)
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks ...
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Over the bank holiday weekend I read The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada. This is the first physical novel I’ve read in years (I read ebooks). And the first novel I’ve read — not listened to — in months ...
Zero Trust in Practice: Migrating from Istio Sidecar to Ambient Mode(opens in new tab)
A hands-on comparison of Istio sidecar and ambient mode for zero-trust service mesh. Same app, same policy, two architectures proven step by step on a local cluster.
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v56 - Persistent Mode(opens in new tab)
The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, ...
The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health(opens in new tab)
A large purple hand holds a pendulum swinging one man between standing arms-wide on a ship's prow in warm sienna and collapsed head-in-hands in a purple office chair/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp One thing I keep forgetting and relearni...
Rediscovering Sublime Text(opens in new tab)
Oops! All Shells!(opens in new tab)
Add Connect To Individual Overmind Processes Via tmux as a tmux TIL (opens in new tab)
🐧 Is Omarchy safe to use?(opens in new tab)
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on resting, or, indeed, Sundays. ...
Add Output Query Result In Nicely Formatted Table as a SQLite TIL (opens in new tab)
📸 Introducing OuijaRouter(opens in new tab)
Finally figured out a bulletproof system for landing on the best model for the job.
🔥 Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their…(opens in new tab)
Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their hand at a tricky Core Text layout issue for Japanese vertical writing: GPT 5.6 Sol xHigh: 1,581,445 tokens and 2189 lines changed Fable 5 medium: 37,000 tokens and 1 line changed ...
Turning my sad gaming PC into a media server(opens in new tab)
You have to beat the models at something(opens in new tab)
Llama Llama(opens in new tab)
The first time I heard a Llama Llama book being read was my wife reading the Ukrainian version to our daughter. Ukrainian is a very melodic language and sounds lovely in verse, which is why I just assumed the book ...
🔥 /goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in…(opens in new tab)
/goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in which it will keep working toward whatever goal you set until it gradually convinces itself that the stated goal is not what you wanted but rather some much easier objective was ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Saturdays are for actually remembering that it's a Bank Holiday weekend, rather than forgetting and coming in on Monday and getting viciously annoyed with Julian and Mark for seeming to ignore your Gchat messages. (They do that anyway, regardless of ...
🔥 Whenever I need to eke out some extra…(opens in new tab)
Whenever I need to eke out some extra intelligence from an LLM, I ask it to speak to me in a British accent.
ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause 6, Planning: Where Risk-Based Thinking Earns Its Keep(opens in new tab)
Clause 5 asked whether leadership owns the system. Clause 6 asks what leadership plans to do with it. This is the clause where the standard stops describing structure and starts demanding foresight. It has three parts: actions to address risks ...
Returning to owning things in a streaming world(opens in new tab)
Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable(opens in new tab)
It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration: # On sender... ip address add dev eth0 fd42:dead:beef::1/48 ip link set dev eth0 up # On receiver... ip address add dev eth0 ...
Mounting a UFS2 volume on Ubuntu from .raw(opens in new tab)
If you need to mount a UFS2 volume directly on Ubuntu–for example, from a snapshot of a XigmaNAS VM using UFS storage beneath a ZFS pool on the VM host–there are a few extra hurdles along the way. First, you ...
Add Register SQLite Adapter To Serialize Datetimes as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes brings a wealth of features that make it easy to run your production workloads securely and reliably. While aspects like scheduling, health checks and resource limits are probably at the front of your mind, one other important feature of ...
"Hopefully a meteor will strike the earth soon": Game devs talk genAI witchhunts and the importance of honing your visual literacy(opens in new tab)
The era of generative AI has kindled an era of generative AI witchhunts. It's routine right now for videogame developers to fend off accusations of using the technology, even when they are full-throated in their disapproval of ChatGPT, Claude and ...
I found solace from Silent Hill: Townfall's stealthy horror in the soothing Britishness of its abandoned homes(opens in new tab)
I suppose, in a way, I asked for this. Crouched and cowering behind a garden fence, inches away from the thrashing, cleaver-faced miscreation who’d quite comfortably win in a fight against my splintering plank of rotten wood, I can almost ...
Self-Host Weekly (28 August 2026) (opens in new tab)
I'll take "things nobody asked for" for $500, Alex
