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I've been leaning into agentic engineering for the past six months, and I've finally hit my stride at work after coming back from parental leave. AI token spend has been a hot topic and we have intern...
A live USB device tree TUI with Linux activity metrics.
On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty ...
The three components of becoming AI antifragile/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp I have a new idea that everything you should try to do to get ready for AI basically breaks down into three pieces. Deeply understanding how things work The firs...
If you've spent any time around a machine shop or a manufacturing floor, you've probably heard someone grumble that a quality certification is just a binder full of paperwork nobody reads until an auditor shows up. That reputation isn't entirely ...
There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — media you purchase because you love it, and share ...
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how ...
Read all about boundary-aware CSS, accessible grid lanes, time-based web designs, full-bleed, the customizable select, and new web platform features. What’s !important #15: Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics sharing; Planned LED obsolescence; PoGo v Black neighborhoods; Gnarlier trolley ...
Topics covered in this episode: The trusted-publishing debate: how to do it right vs. why you shouldn't trust it JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! Tau – new small, readable terminal coding agent Django Tasks and Django 6.1 Extras ...
I've always considered myself a software craftsman. I love clean APIs, efficient code and great user experience. If our entire world is about to be rewritten in Rust governed by
Julia Roberts? She was in that one movie with that guy, and the other one with the other guy, and like 100 more. Whatever. But she’s old news. Like all...
Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly land on a Kubernetes cluster. Kubeflow ...
1. Before you start: know what is changingKubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more ...
Coding agents have gotten really good at one kind of work. You scope a feature, edit some files, run the tests, ship it. It all happens on disk. But that is not how data work feels. You load something, you ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Matthew Gerstenfeld, the co-founder and CEO of Munichain, for lunch at the Inn by Fumo in Hamilton Heights. He had chicken and rice. I had the ravioli. Munichain builds workflow software ...
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Avoid the AI expertise trap header/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp The further away a topic is from your expertise, the smarter an AI will sound. This is a blind spot that not enough people are aware of or take seriously. The best possible way ...
Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shook out for me. Via ...
Cheatsheet with visual diagrams that explain how the iterables from itertools work. This cheatsheet contains diagrams that explain how the iterables from the module itertools work in a visual way. Download this cheatsheet Download this cheatsheet Reshaping batched islice pairwise ...
Some of you might know David as a co-founder of Tailscale. In this episode we're talking about a new kind of cloud he's building at exe.dev. The SSH-only interface is a breath of fresh air compared to the monstrocity that ...
Today's links Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? Why sell picks and shovels if you've already struck gold? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pro-logging Lorax; Anti-DRM picture book; Whose cops did America train? ...
Developers working on popular projets are inundated with hallucinated vulnerability reports, leading people to downplay the risks associated with AI-assisted vulnerability hunting. But hear me out: it should wake you
I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel. The story is usually told as one ...
As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user of Apple’s platforms. What I think of icons as a digital collector and physical ...
Sundays are for waking up before the sun and getting a bike ride in before the tarmac gets hot enough to cook an egg. Any sensible person would skip the bike ride altogether, but I, a nonsensical person, have agreed ...
Summer gets really hot, and it's not going to get better anytime soon. At my place, it isn't actively dangerous yet, but it's still unpleasant. A normal air conditioner uses a low boiling-point liquid: something like liquid propane can boil ...
Intent Engineering/images/intent-engineering.webp/images/intent-engineering.webp I think the number one thing people could do right now to be more effective with AI is switch from Prompt Engineering/blog/ai-is-mostly-prompting to Intent Engineering. This is due to Sutton's Bitter Lessonhttp://www...
Minimizing machine work maximizes human work header/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp Behavioral geneticists like Robert Plominhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plomin have shown that if you minimize environmental d...
Today's links Workplace "flexibility" isn't: What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Alanya to Alanya"; ToS are the internet's biggest lie; Soviet jokes; Fox rapists v gag orders; GBAO ...
Another horrendously hot Saturday, another wedding to go to. I am all in favour of love, but could we please reschedule it to a cooler day in the year? Mercifully this one's a London wedding and it can be reached ...
I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt like the right place for it. Plus I wanted to get in on ...
A human hand writing a manuscript while a mechanical hand places a small patch of text with tweezers/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp Daniel didn't write this one. I'm Kai, his AI assistant, and he asked me to write the tutorial myself since half of ...
Bell Labs cafeteria header/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com's Claude is named after Claude Shannonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon. I've read a couple of biographieshttps://en.wikipedia.org...
When I’m not fighting WordPress I deliver static HTML or the occasional JavaScript framework integration. For personal projects I have ‘fun’ with my own static site generator. This week was a side quest (soon to be main quest) to build ...
Everybody's mad, nobody's leaving
Today's links "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy: When we were robots in Egypt… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Awkward questions for the entertainment industry; ISP v record label death penalty; Coming out on ...
People are sometime wondering how I can be so "productive" with my blog (granted that publishing brainfarts can be called "produtivity"). Come here, I will tell you my secret. I
You ask an AI a question and it answers with total confidence. Most of the time, a confidently wrong answer is just an annoyance. But what if the question is medical, and there's a real patient on the other end? ...
Claude Tag AGI moment header/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp I think we just saw the birth of AGI, and it's from the most unexpected place. At least for me. I think it arrived in the form of a product from Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com called Claude Taghttps://cla...
