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I'm finally feeling back up to speed at work after returning from my parental leave. In this post I want to share what my daily routine looks like as a software engineer with a 1-year-old. My Daily R...
A TUI system monitor specialized for AMD GPUs.
Something I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the internet. I don’t think I stopped being able to read or understand code, but now that we are automatically ...
Charcoal sketch of a seated figure whose left arm dissolves into a cascade of purple glowing phones while their right hand builds a warm wooden tower/images/creativity-vs-consumption-header.webp/images/creativity-vs-consumption-header.webp If there's one metric to watch for managing your happiness...
The View from the Office. I met up with Meb Faber, founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management, at North End Cafe in Manhattan Beach. He had a salad. I had the Buddha Bowl. Meb lives a few ...
YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives you a ...
NVIDIA's new Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on DGX Spark: how to run it with Ollama and vLLM, the tokens per second I measured, and how the two paths compare.
Diagram of the four layers a text watermark can live in, from encoding down to meaning, with the two bypasses canonical regeneration and prose rewriting crossing out the layers they strip/images/where-watermarks-hide-in-text-layers.webp/images/where-watermarks-hide-in-text-layers.webp On August 11...
Charcoal sketch of a colossal kneeling figure made of hundreds of interlocking hands, reaching down with open palms toward a vast crowd of suffering people/images/nobody-asked-for-ai-header.webp/images/nobody-asked-for-ai-header.webp With lots of competition, the argument that "nobody asked for AI...
I’ve already announced my new company half a dozen times by now. I figured it was about time I gave real details, so here’s the name and logo! Valley Fold is my new home for professional services… once I’ve finished ...
Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm; Camgirls x Amazon wishlists; 2021 State of Tech (in 2001); RIAA v grieving family; Stasi ...
Hands-on HAMi Dynamic MIG test on Kubernetes and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: setup commands, real allocations, mixed profiles, reclamation, and recovery.
This week, Anthropic shipped a new messaging feature to Claude Code. It sounds innocuous enough: Cross-session messaging lets Claude deliver a message from one of your Claude Code sessions to another. When a change in one session breaks what another ...
I have decided to run for the inaugural/2026 Python packaging council (PPC). I will say I have the support of my employer (Microsoft) to do this, but they didn't ask me to and my usual thing that I would quit ...
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects. Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Devin Outposts runs AI coding agent sessions as pods on your own Kubernetes cluster, with an open-source operator to manage the fleet.
Every company has one. The little internal tool that Jane built back in 2021, and then Jane left. Nobody understands it, nobody will touch it. There are two unwritten rules around it: don't change it, it's working. And if you ...
Today's links The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction: The only way to win is not to play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Seymour Cray's tunnels; War on moisture; $5 wrench cryptanalysis; Nauru files; People's ...
During my last vibe check the kids were still in school. Time has flown by. Work-life balance disrupted. Camps attended. Vacations were had. Bank accounts drained. A normal summer routine. Inbound and outbound travels Since the last vibe check I’ve ...
The thing I'd missed was that everything I'd been building around my harness could live inside it.
Charcoal sketch of a purple meeting room torn open, with figures joyfully building a rising sienna structure/images/work-just-became-fun-header.webp/images/work-just-became-fun-header.webp There's a narrative about AI and work that says AI was supposed to let us do way LESS work, but somehow it's ...
Today's links Digital sewer socialism: Mamdani's Public Interest Technologists are what DOGE should have been. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Robot garage takes hostages; Thermostat ransomware; Correlate audience exhalations; Judges x TOR; Expectations management. Upcoming appearances: ...
We cut our trip a day short, so I found myself with a totally free day with no plans. Naturally, I wasted it by recording a 3-hour podcast. Dang. I always enjoy shooting the shit with/at you, and if you'd ...
I've recently had the opportunity to support Apex's AS9100 Internal Auditor training. It was a huge honor, we had a great group of students and it's always so rewarding sharing this knowledge that is critical to keeping the aerospace industry ...
After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text. I am finally at peace! Do you know how relaxing it is without the daily “update available” and “view ...
There's a lot of nuance to the element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it. Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Mashfik Siddique, founder of startup Feastly, at Bryant Park. We were introduced by a friend and former colleague, Liz Goldenberg. Mashfik grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father was in the ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Gabe Einhorn, co-founder of the startup VryfiD, at Le Pain Quotidien. I had a mint lemonade; Gabe passed on getting a coffee. I stumbled across Gabe while doomscrolling on LinkedIn. He ...
I'm pickin' up good (vibe)rations
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto. Chris messaged me the other week asking if I wanted to implement zero-knowledge proofs. I initially was not interested, but then he said: What if I told you there’s a ...
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is ...
Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The Onion; Duran Duran x Second Life; Spammers x blog pings; Privacywashing v Doordash; Good ...
It’s hard to keep up with the AI evolution; new AI tools drop every week, but how are experienced practitioners actually using them? Most of us are overwhelmed and unsure about the many possibilities, yet we need to keep going ...
Today's links Google is a scammer's paradise: The internet's absentee landlord. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS; EZ realistic corpse; $300m login button; Short Uber; Who goes AI? Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, ...
Between user code and rogue AI agents, there recently has been huge regain in interest for sanboxing solutions. We've seen last time how to use landlock to drop the privileges
