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Add Cloudflare Allows CNAME For Apex Domain as a Devops TIL (opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA(opens in new tab)
Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume ...
"They were totally game to play ball": how Zachtronics almost made a Star Trek engineering sim(opens in new tab)
This week the former Zachtronics folk of Coincidence released U.V.S. Nirmana, a new "Zach-like" puzzler that has fairly spaghettified my synapses, despite being billed as "medium-difficulty". It puts you in charge of a monastic spacecraft embarked on a pilgrimage through ...
Family Reunion is a dinnertime simulation game that captures the wonder and boredom of being a loosely disciplined 7-year-old(opens in new tab)
I first played Family Reunion at Gamescom Latam last week, which in hindsight was a bit of trek, considering the demo is right there on Itch and Steam. It’s good fun, though: a unique and chaotic time-attack adventure game, in ...
Unscrewing lightbulbs(opens in new tab)
Giving lightbulbs a MAC address was a mistake that I’m living with. “I’m literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease @dbushell.com - Bluesky”Instead of enjoying the bank holiday Monday I updated my homelab software. I was ‘inspired’ by the ...
Rally Point: What's it like to be in charge of the Xenonauts? Um. Two?(opens in new tab)
Thank you for agreeing to meet me, Commander. Have you met the head scientist? I hate him. I... haven't met him yet. Should I? Don't, he's an arsehole. They call me "Commander" but won't let me fire him. "He's a ...
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Pluralistic: Lee Lai's "Cannon" (08 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Lee Lai's "Cannon": A beautiful, subtle, long-lingering tale of duty, sex, and working for a shitty restaurant boss. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Ebay paying to run newspaper classifieds; Chuck Tingle v Sad Puppies; ...
Announcing the Program of DuckCon #7 Amsterdam(opens in new tab)
We are hosting DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam on June 24, 2026. Join us at the Royal Tropical Institute for talks, lightning sessions, and a borrel.
Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish(opens in new tab)
I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I do not ...
Notes on incidents(opens in new tab)
Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search(opens in new tab)
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
Big W Engineering Values - Systems Thinking(opens in new tab)
One of the most important concepts I picked up designing and building Formula SAE racecars in college was systems thinking. A team could easily have "the best engine" or "the best suspension" or "the best controls" and get beat in ...
Constraints and intellectual work(opens in new tab)
I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you a long listen: when you think about the theory of constraints, ...
How a Group of Developers Took Back Control from Enterprise Java | Spring: The Documentary(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA(opens in new tab)
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature graduations, critical usability improvements, and new capabilities that extend ...
Lazy and Prompt(opens in new tab)
Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, an engineer at Squarespace focusing on ...
Pluralistic: Bubbles are REALLY evil (07 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Bubbles are REALLY evil: Bernie Ebbers got what was coming to him. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Mozilla v DHS wiretaps; Judge v FCC's internet wiretaps; Foxconn workers must promise not to kill themselves; ...
Delta Grows Up: Writes, Unity Catalog and Time Travel(opens in new tab)
DuckDB's Delta and Unity Catalog extensions shed their experimental tags — now with writes, Unity Catalog and time travel support.
Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?(opens in new tab)
Parallel Python at Anyscale with Ray(opens in new tab)
When OpenAI trained GPT-3, they didn't roll their own orchestration layer. They used Ray, an open source Python framework born out of the same Berkeley research lab lineage that gave us Apache Spark. And here's the twist: Ray was originally ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch(opens in new tab)
As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, paying the ...
Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links In praise of vultures: They screw you because they can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Linus v MSFT; Argentina v MSFT; Danny Hillis on theme parks v games; Smartfilter v Distributed Boing Boing; Rental ...
Buckle Up(opens in new tab)
You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and abuse hardening release, ...
Cross-platform Rust: Analyzing how WhatsApp, Signal and more are shipping Rust to billions of devices(opens in new tab)
The cheapest way to learn is to learn from others, so I always take a day every week to see what other organizations are doing and how they are doing
How To Create Portable AI Skills Across Harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Open Code)(opens in new tab)
Agentic engineering is the future. But it's still unclear which harness will win, if any. I've been hedging my bets by moving to a harness-agnostic system for AI skills so no matter the harness I use,...
nless(opens in new tab)
Excel for your logs. Pipe in anything, wrangle it into columns.
Add Get Quotient And Remainder In One Operation as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks the future ability to publish validation ...
The DevOps Routine That Made Me Rich (Not What You Think)(opens in new tab)
Eerie visual novel Schrödinger's Call explores the pain and joy of relationships via phone calls to purgatory(opens in new tab)
I don’t play a lot of visual novels, and I certainly don’t make a lot of rotary dial phone calls, so a clickin’ and speakin’ game like Schrödinger's Call is one I’d normally leave unheeded. That, however, would have been ...
Vibe Check №42(opens in new tab)
Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, instead of telling you how I’m ...
Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The three armies fighting for the post-American world: Hippies, investors and hawks. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: NK dictator's son v Tokyo Disneyland; Mainstream press and Bushies v Colbert; Taliban v Pakistan's first McDonald's; ...
How a Kubernetes Service Actually Works (and All 5 Types You Need)(opens in new tab)
Implementing Conversation Memory in my AI App - Claude Code(opens in new tab)
Add Programmatically Grab SHA For Head Commit as a Git TIL (opens in new tab)
Add Reclassify Certain Packagaes As Dev Dependencies as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Admission Policies That Can't Be Deleted(opens in new tab)
If you've ever tried to enforce a security policy across a fleet of Kubernetes clusters, you've probably run into a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. Your admission policies are API objects, which means they don't exist until someone creates them, and they ...
Earn and grow THIS much with Kubernetes(opens in new tab)
Word counter that ignores Markdown(opens in new tab)
For when I want a word count that ignores Markdown symbols
Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure: Will Trump hormuz us into the full Gretacene? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Beck, Scientologist; Citizen journalism; Podcast-killing treaty; US x Kiwi copyright; Apple did a crime; DeCSS v ...
#478: Iodine tablets and potable water(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: profiling-explorer Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 VSCode AI Co-author defaults to on, then off django freeze Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: ...
Day 7: Ship It - and What Comes Next(opens in new tab)
Your container runs as root and has 18 CVEs. A Docker Captain's guide to hardening, Scout policies, DHI, Sandboxes, and what comes after Docker.
Exploring the Black Forest - Remote Worker Vanlife(opens in new tab)
🚐 Finding New Campsite & Driving - Remote Worker Vanlife(opens in new tab)
The duality of language models in the browser(opens in new tab)
I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are available in Chrome and Edge behind an experimental flag. I know, I know. I ...
Add Open File To Specific Line In Browser as a GitHub TIL (opens in new tab)
The DuckLake Spec Is so Simple, Even a Clanker Can Build One for Dataframes(opens in new tab)
We are showcasing the simplicity of DuckLake's v1.0 specification by developing a dataframe reader/writer with AI.
Links to CSS colour palettes(opens in new tab)
Content for Content’s Sake(opens in new tab)
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked in” or “cracked.” ...
