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Race cars to nuclear grade dish soap: A spectrum of quality strategy(opens in new tab)
It’s been a long and incredibly nonlinear journey to get where I am today. I’ll start by saying that I never intended to get into quality engineering. I sought an engineering degree so I could help design the next Camaro ...
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls." Upcoming appearances: London, Edinburgh, ...
Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap(opens in new tab)
Say you’ve sprung for a Steam Machine, and are pondering how to put a personal mark on your new black cube. Upgrading the internals? Bit of a faff, it turns out. Playing with the lighting strip? Maybe, but it’s blue ...
Terminal Trove June 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2026.
High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating heap fragmentation(opens in new tab)
I'm currently working on a TLS (Transport Layer Security) implementation for stdx (Rust's extended standard library), and one of the main requirements is to be able to use it on
Which AI coding tools to use(opens in new tab)
Which AI coding tools are best? What should you use? What I recommend for development work.
Operation Floodlight(opens in new tab)
I have been thinking about the downstream impacts of AI systems having strong cybersecurity capabilities.
The Bug Bounty Singularity: Our Hackbot(opens in new tab)
This past December, it became feasible for any skilled hacker to scale up a hacking agent, spending hundreds in token cost to find thousands in bounties. I call this the “Bug Bounty Singularity”. This is the story of JD (xssdoctor) ...
ghgrab(opens in new tab)
A TUI to download files/folders from repositories without cloning repos.
If I want more IRL, I must go AFK(opens in new tab)
Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts(opens in new tab)
I, uh, completely took apart a Steam Machine by accident. What began as merely wanting a closer look at its RAM setup ended up as a more-or-less full teardown, the heavily layered, almost Russian Doll-like structure of Valve’s teeny-tiny PC ...
Canonization and the Overhang(opens in new tab)
David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number of his claims. Worth ...
I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted(opens in new tab)
The following sparkling insights about boss battle design are from Marcin Matuszczyk, principal gameplay designer on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and a former developer of Outriders and Horizon Forbidden West. He was speaking to an audience of budding Bowser-builders ...
What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), <select> field-sizing, and More(opens in new tab)
I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked couple of weeks despite few browser updates. From CSS Quake to CSS Gap Decorations, this isn’t one to miss! What’s !important #14: Gap ...
Pluralistic: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect": A mystical tour-de-force that makes you feel like your mundane life until this point has all been a boring dream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Corruption; How much (little) are ...
LLM Costs and Observability with agentgateway on Kubernetes (Part 2)(opens in new tab)
Part 2: scrape agentgateway with Prometheus, build a Grafana dashboard of token cost and per-tool usage, see blocked tool calls, and alert on spend.
#486: underscore-underscore-ghost-emoji(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future django-admin-site-search Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development A large batch of PEPs are finalized Extras Joke Watch on YouTube Show Intro Sponsored by us! Support ...
Whitespace in Astro 7.0(opens in new tab)
The way whitespace is rendered is different in the latest version of Astro, and here's how you can fix it.
Launching: AI Safety For Parents(opens in new tab)
My first public launch: a simple 10-day email course that bottles up everything parents need to know about keeping their kids safe in an AI-powered world.
wrtK8s(opens in new tab)
Parts list and build process for Linksys homelab
Exclamatory birthday edition // W26 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Today I turn 45 which is, if you think about it, half of 90! And also about 30 years older than I feel on the inside! What is age? What...
Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search: We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Microsoft antitrust overturned; Scammer carves C64; RIP Jim Baen; GOP ...
The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events(opens in new tab)
CSS has always had pseudo-classes that style things based on user interactions. Recent features, however, are blurring the line between what CSS "listens" for and how they are alternatives to what Javascript typically listens for. The Shifting Line Between CSS ...
Controlling MCP Tools with agentgateway on Kubernetes (Part 1)(opens in new tab)
Run AI agents behind agentgateway on Kubernetes: route their LLM and MCP tool calls through one proxy, keep secrets out of the agent, and block tools by policy.
Do excellent vulnerability reports(opens in new tab)
Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by providing a short guide on ...
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“While the attempts to collectively gaslight the entire world into believing this technology is anything more than an elaborate pyramid scheme branded in warm orange and transitional serifs continue unabated, there is a world of opportunities away from the noise ...
Visual novel Coffee Talk Tokyo serves up an image of 'Cool Japan,' but not much more(opens in new tab)
Coffee Talk started out as a slice-of-life visual novel casting you as a night-shift barista serving Seattle’s uniquely magical residents, from elves to vampires to succubi, hearing out and advising their whims and woes over steaming cups. Its strength was ...
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for hopping over stepping stones across a river. There's a stone missing in the middle. Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the leap and risk perishing ...
An animated radial gradient mask over text in CSS(opens in new tab)
Here's a technical walkthrough of how I made a fun little demo to mask some text in a clever way with CSS.
The Process of Smart Note-Taking(opens in new tab)
I’ve taken notes over my whole life. As a Swiss, I’m very particular about organization and structured in filing my knowledge. I’ve tried and taken notes in many different ways, from forgetting everything, to noting down every detail, to only ...
From Hydro Drift Ninjas to Sonic Napoleons: I spent far too long definitively ranking Tokyo Xtreme Racer’s best opponent names(opens in new tab)
Hmm. On the one hand, a Turbulent Thursday. On the other, a Big Mum. We’ve all had Thursdays we could describe as turbulent, so the owner of the 2014 Nissan Fairlady Z who drives with the Neo Limited crew scores ...
Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
I would like to say this missive is brought to you from a dark, ventilated room where I lay upon a bed of ice packs. However, if all goes according to masochistic plan, I will already have been cycling for ...
Operationalizing Data Orchestration: Best Practices for DevOps, Infra, and Code Locations(opens in new tab)
Operating the data orchestration layer can be as critical as the source OLTP databases, when decisions are taken from the data assets produced by downstream data pipelines. When orchestration gets at the heart of triggering and observing most of the ...
On the edge of burnout(opens in new tab)
I almost burnt out recently, but I made it through!
Saying the obvious thing(opens in new tab)
All of our tools(opens in new tab)
This episode is a fun crossover from our Python news and tips podcast, Python Bytes. We have had some big changes over there. Brian Okken has moved on and Calvin Hendryx-Parker has joined the show as the new co-host. To ...
Physical constraints and enjoyment(opens in new tab)
I’m back to thinking about constraints. This time, Terry Godier’s great video The Feeling Music Used to Give You (hat tip to Robert). Having what amounts to an infinite library of background music was fixing the wrong constraint. And that’s ...
Open source maintainership in the age of AI(opens in new tab)
AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or ...
Building an Ultra Low Profile Mechanical Keyboard - Scotto48 (PCB Edition)(opens in new tab)
How to survive the memory shortage crisis: a PC owner's guide(opens in new tab)
Urgh. Have you seen memory prices lately? If you somehow haven’t, make sure to look through your fingers, as they are truly terrifying. DDR5 RAM sticks are ungodly expensive, older DDR4's not much better, high VRAM graphics cards are ridiculous, ...
ARIA, anti-patterns, and you(opens in new tab)
Please take a minute to understand what ARIA is and is not. ARIA and especially the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) are commonly misunderstood. I read an article the other day that had this facepalm moment: “And with modern LLM ...
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation(opens in new tab)
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp Here's a more logical and less emotional way to look at what's happening with the chaotic regulation of these AI models... It took decades/centurie...
Nuclear Grade Quality for all: Lessons learned from Porsche(opens in new tab)
Learn how Big W plans to deliver Porsche performance on a Volkswagen budget.
Self-Host Weekly (26 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
We've been trying to reach you about your self-hosted identity stack
A curl mountain movie(opens in new tab)
One of my favorite visuals for known vulnerabilities in curl is the mountain. It shows how many currently known vulnerabilities were present in the code through-out curl’s history. In the end of June 2026 it looks like this: Over time ...
AI inference is obviously profitable(opens in new tab)
Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp(opens in new tab)
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It ...
Inspect Volcano workloads faster with Headlamp(opens in new tab)
Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the built-in Kubernetes resources. ...
