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I know. The right answer to the question in the headline is simple: whatever the developers working on it decide they want it to look like. Even though I’ve told myself that multiple times since last night’s report that the ...
Today's links Post-political: What a "leftist" is. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT x OSCON; Parental spyware; "Resurrection Man"; Brexit do-over petition; Workplace email spying; Record label internet death penalty; News should be cheap, free and ...
Hear me out: While Rust, the language, gives you all you need to build libraries and programs that can scale from microcontrollers to big servers and everything in between, in
North is up (exact, mirrored). 0.53 "/pixel [18.8' x 7.4'] FWHM = 4.2" This galaxy has a massive (and rather bright) tidal tail, but I can't see an obvious companion galaxy. The general consensus is that there's a second galaxy ...
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes sense. Who better to make the very ...
Greetings, owners of hardware who are also partial to reasonably well-made pirate game remakes. I’m trying something new and fresh and debatably sexy for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, extending the semi-usual Steam Deck performance and settings investigation with one ...
At the risk of pissing on people’s chips I figured it’d be helpful to illustrate the three classes of AI user I’ve identified in the slopageddon. You might be thinking: “Hey, those personas are all negative!” — and you’re absolutely ...
This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers several other performance ...
I code websites for WordPress (PHP), static HTML, or my own scuffed build scripts. I have a particular project for which I decided to try one of those fancy static site generators. I asked the socials “11ty or Astro?” Both ...
How to use AI for coding well? Practical tips for using AI coding tools, including context management, AGENTS.md files, planning, reviews, tests, and MCPs.
How I added Sveltia CMS to my Astro markdown blog. Setup, image optimization, mobile editing fixes, and solving frontmatter issues.
Grammars for languages or any other field are a beautiful thing. They compress complex systems into a language with a couple of rules. For the spoken language example, we know when to capitalize a letter or how to start a ...
Now that I have your attention, let's be clear, RustCrypto packages are not "slow", they are most probably "fast enough" for your use case. Yet, I couldn't unsee how faster
TL;DR - In 2026.H1, I started feeling like a real dad, took parental leave, went to a programming retreat, shipped CloudSeed Rust + QuietCut, reached 130k views, got back to building for fun, and star...
A global DNS propagation checker for your terminal.
There have been several security incidents lately that involved compromising GitHub Actions workflows. This has led some to say "GitHub Actions is the weakest link" in publishing and to GitHub publishing a GitHub Actions security roadmap update. But saying it's ...
With ever-changing models, new and better ones coming out every few months, it’s great if we don’t have to rely on them too heavily. The better your tooling, the less dependent you become on any single model. That’s also why ...
Today's links How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech: Their common enemies are Trump and his tech giants. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Sex work synonyms; Carthedral; French pirates; Suffragette surveillance; Hidden library ...
Topics covered in this episode: dust - a better du Hermes Agent: The AI agent that grows with you llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Anthony Vinci, co-founder and CEO of Vico, a startup that produces forecasts of political, geopolitical and economic events, in midtown. We both had tea. The idea behind Vico is to mine ...
1984, Minority Report, Black Mirror — bedtime stories compared to the horrors the UK Government publish, am I right? I’m led to believe “Watch this space” is the latest propaganda piece from His Majesty’s Nanny State. I haven’t read past ...
kiac runs local Kubernetes on macOS where every node is its own lightweight VM via apple/container: kubeadm or k3s flavors, Cilium on a custom kernel, built-in LoadBalancer, Grafana, Gateway API, and clusters that survive reboots.
Improve the capabilities of your agent by providing it with better tools. Introduction This tutorial builds on the coding agent you implemented in the tutorial “Write a coding agent from first principles”. In this tutorial, you'll take your agent and ...
Browser Hacks were a necessary evil in the Internet Explorer days. I thought they were a relic of the past but recently Safari has tempted a resurgence. Eric Meyer’s post on split-cell table headers uses @supports to detect Safari. I ...
“Generative AI killed that career. Towards the end, I was asked to replace my thoughtful activity with ill-gotten slop. My prior activity was supported by my unique relationship with the tools and practices learned and refined over a long career ...
While I agree that S3 is far from perfect and I would love to see a newer S4, the Super Simple Storage Service, from what we've learned in the past
I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!
I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of this writing, I have 974 “notes” that I’ve published. For ...
You know what, reader? Sundays are for whatever you goddamn feel like. Go swimming. Get lost in the woods. Take a kintsugi pottery class. Fix a broken appliance. Eat more than one hot dog. Learn Welsh. Smash your kintsugi pottery ...
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
I had another excellent PLDI this past June. It was my fourth1. I continued to meet new people and learn new things! Overall: I got to meet a lot of new people, which was exciting. I had some good chats ...
This week brought the news that Sony will stop selling physical PlayStation games at the start of 2028. Not just for their own games, but third-party, too. Here in the world of PC gaming, we've largely been without physical game ...
This weekend marks the first wedding of the season (and the first of three in July alone). There will be suiting, there will be booting, and there will be demanding the DJ plays Toxic. Though, I might change up the ...
A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not ...
We don't put handguns in the convenience aisle/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp A quick thought on this whole "control of AI models" debate. Handguns and Fentanyl are available all over the world, but we still don't put them in the conven...
I’m a front-end developer not a medical practitioner. If you’re bleeding IRL visit the hospital and stop googling medical issues! The full-bleed layout — as described there by Josh Comeau — can be done with CSS grid (and subgrid). Sometimes ...
Me, my.self, and I
Edit: sorry RSS readers! I future-posted this with the wrong date. Now you’re seeing it again because I use the timestamp in the URL and the URL as the GUID… Just skip to my next note. Reading Salma’s post “Goodbye, ...
Today's links CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Real elections v reality TV; Copyright troll ...
Ubuntu has been getting less usable year by year ever since moving to systemd init. This year, the new papercut is that NetworkManager will violently conflict with–and override–anything you set in /etc/netplan, unless you manually tell it to bugger off. ...
Why I’m leaving developer relations, and why I’m not telling you what’s next.
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project (Internet Archive): In former times printed manuals had some blank pages, usually with the ...
It is done! Slay the Spire 2 ascension 10 on all characters. The Regent was last to complete with an insanely strong deck. I collected an innate upgraded Arsenal followed by Crash Landing — also innate from Royal Stamp — ...
Today I’m introducing the next generation of code editor. A modern app to satiate the needs of the discerning coder. We’re talkin’ blazing fast collaboration between man and machine. Try out the demo below (for best experience: desktop Chrome, obvs). ...
Raph Koster's career spans the evolution of the modern MMO. Creative lead on MUDs, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and EverQuest 2, the systems and mechanics his teams developed live on in every active MMO today and many games besides. ...
Today's links The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work": Sometimes, "I got it working" is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Series of tubes; Paralyzed teen beaten bloody by TSA; "Ultra ...