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Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this is definitely a device you should to reboot daily, even without Chrome or any Electron apps. This morning, Zed (a native Rust app) was 500% CPU without a single window open, ...
Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript destructuring. JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring originally handwritten ...
When my dad was discharged from the Navy at the end of World War II, he took the train from California first to Chicago, then to Newark, then down to the Jersey Shore. His family had no idea he was ...
Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four has started a great blog series: Cookie Consent Management in 2026, Part 1: Overview. The easiest way to avoid cookie drama is to stop tracking on behalf of your ā900 partnersā. Thatās out of my ...
āIf you choose to opt out by March 31st 2026 11:59:59 PST ,Vercel will not use your data to train AI or share it with third parties. Updates to Terms of Service - VercelāSpeaking of fascist Vercel, if youāre mistakenly ...
I had to set up my Sony a6400 fresh, and here's all the settings I used!
I codified my job as a DX engineer into a system that dispatches agents, enforces conventions mechanically, and learns from its own failures. Here's how case works and why I think every developer should build something like it.
A silly story is easier to remember .octo-canvas-wrap { width: 100%; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; margin: 2rem 0; } .octopus-graph { width: 600px; height: 460px; position: relative; margin: 0 auto; border: 2px solid #000; background: #fff; overflow: hidden; ...
Documenting how the head injury incurred on January 16, 2026 continues to affect me two months later.
https://youtu.be/g3SrYIUv-OE There's a common narrative right now that you don't need to worry about AI if you're a knowledge worker. Humans are special. Humans are unique in the way they approach work. AI is just a text generatorājust an LLM ...
Reviews of Crimson Desert, the new open world fantasy RPG from Black Desert Online studio Pearl Abyss, are surfacing across the internet as you read these words. Out on 19th March, it's the story of Kliff McDuff of the Greymanes, ...
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During production debugging, the fastest route is often broad access such as cluster-admin (a ClusterRole that grants administrator-level access), shared bastions/jump boxes, or long-lived SSH keys. It works in the moment, but it comes with two common problems: auditing becomes ...
Iāve accepted an invitation to speak at Smashingās (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. Itās free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangelist Chris Coyier will talk about how you can style things on ...
Using MacBook Neo for "real" development work and it's simultaneously juggling: ā¢ Running Claude Code in three tabs at once ā¢ Compiling multi-package Xcode builds ā¢ Automating two iOS Simulators and a Mac build of my app Hasn't missed a ...
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) Amazon's Fastest-Shipping Product Is Now Blog Posts Correcting the Financial Times I've been watching AWS long enough to develop a feel for when a company's communications shift from "informing" ...
By the time Campo Santo were reaching the end of Firewatch's development, Chris Remo was itching to start over. "I remember feeling, 'God, if we made this exact same game again now, we could take these ideas so much further'." ...
I blogged about Denoās Decline a year ago concluding: āDeno is done.ā It appears as of this week, Deno is even more done. The Ides of March strike again. Yesterday at least fiveā key employees announced they had left the ...
While Docker is now the main way to distribute backend software and CLI tools, you may be wondering how to build minimal and secure Docker images for your Rust projects.
I've spent the last few months learning Rust as part of my 12 week programming retreat at Recurse Center. I came to Rust because it scored well in my missing programming language analysis and I heard ...
A TUI for visualizing Git repository statistics.ļ»æ
Claude sure goes down a lot for being a product targeting businesses. Maybe Anthropic is just doing humanity a solid by helping us understand how much it will suck when the era of subsidized pricing for LLM-based products ends.
Sent the DLSS 5 video to some not-very-online friends and they thought it looked incredible. Shame on them for not knowing that real gamers are supposed to be outraged! (I happen to think it looks slick as hell and am ...
During a random dictionary delve last week I learned that "explore" once meant to cry out. It comes from an old Latin word formed from the prefix "ex-", describing outwardness, and "plorare", meaning to cry or weep. Compare "implore" - ...
Disclaimer: this post includes my worst idea yet! Until now my contact form submissions were posted to a Cloudflare worker. The worker encrypted the details with PGP encryption. It then used the Amazon AWS āSimple Email Serviceā API to send ...
In May 2014, the small team at Campo Santo were still in the early days of making Firewatch, a first-person narrative exploration game ā you can call it a walking simulator, they do, and with no disparagement. The developers assembled ...
Quincy Larson over at freeCodeCamp had me on their podcast to discuss how the rapidly changing software industry is impacting junior developers and what they can do about it. I don't normally spend time talking about this stuff, because I ...
We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt OSSāoften without users' knowledgeāand cut out the ...
Every container image you pull from registry.k8s.io got there through kpromo, the Kubernetes image promoter. It copies images from staging registries to production, signs them with cosign, replicates signatures across more than 20 regional mirrors, and generates SLSA provenance attestations. ...
Ben Thompson's latest rests on a single load-bearing assumption: that the harness and the model are tightly coupled, the way Apple's hardware and software are. It follows, then, that if agents require integration between model and harness, that the companies ...
Extraction shooter is a fussy, intimidating name for what was once a fussy, intimidating genre. However, now, as you'll see below the pool of the best extraction shooters on pc is thankfully deeper, wider, and warmer. The genre has a ...
Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project.
Below is a parody of Simon Willisonās What is agentic engineering? I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of casino gambling with the assistance of random superstitions. What are random superstitions? Theyāre superstitions that can both write ...
Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at ...
I think I've finally understood why some people find value and love to tinker with AI assistants such as WhateverClaw while I find them (mostly) useless or even the idea
I've thoroughly enjoyed building in Pokopia, sinking dozens of hours into organizing and optimizing my islands. But this comes at the cost of lots and lots of resources. It is PAINFUL to be halfway th...
ā¦symmetry isnāt just a preference for āprettyā shapes. Contents Introduction The HM-AM-GM-QM Inequality The two circles The Semicircle The Container The 3D container The Sum of Squares Inequality Nesbittās Inequality Conclusion Introduction While I was randomly browsing the web, I ...
Marathon is the first PVP-heavy game to get its hooks in me sinceā¦ Unreal Tournament in 2001? I fucking suck, but even playing solo it can feel incredible when you do manage to come out on top. If you want ...
Timberborn is very much my kind of game. Complex, cozy, climate change, water system design, beavers. (My friend Schuyler pointed out at one point that my preferred genre of game is āmanagement simsā, and that perhaps I was little over ...
This one goes out to all the testing neophytes who only recently realized that it's useful to have an automated means of verifying their code does what it claims to do. For the last month, I've been working on prove_it, ...
In the spring of 2020 I decided to finally do something about the lack of visualizations for how the curl project is performing, development wise. How does the line of code growth look like? How many command line options have ...
Sundays are for lying in bed and thinking of ways to interfere with your downstairs neighbour's space as much as their loud music interferes with yours. Crucially the method cannot be one that can be immediately turned around and used ...
I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of freedom and possibilities you have when building in Pokopia. In many ways it feels like a simplified factory game a la Satisfactory. I saw some cool l...