Announcing DuckDB 1.4.5 LTS (Andium)(opens in new tab)
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Announcing DuckDB 1.5.4 (Variegata)(opens in new tab)
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.4 (Variegata) with bugfixes and performance improvements.
My Morning Meditation Ritual as a Senior Software Engineer(opens in new tab)
I've been running a new meditation practice for the past several months and it's working great so wanted to share. Morning Pages My meditation practice is morning pages adapted from The Artist's Way....
HTMX and Web Components Instead of React(opens in new tab)
“So instead of asking "why not React?" we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none.”
clin(opens in new tab)
A TUI note management app inspired by Obsidian.
There's no point resisting(opens in new tab)
How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke(opens in new tab)
Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s a “science” experiment ...
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If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There’s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave’s I don’t want a screenshot ...
Of God and mammon(opens in new tab)
There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing. And it’s certainly disheartening to see how few Buddhist groups charge nothing for the teachings and look like little more ...
7 years ago, I left nursing for tech. I'll NEVER go back.(opens in new tab)
#484: All our tools(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pi + superpowers Terminal: Warp.dev + OhMyZSH {Blink,kitty} + mosh + tmux Claude code MacWhisper or Handy Tailscale Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses ...
I built a game where you spend Elon Musk's money(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - A game where you get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money and spend it. Try it now: Spend Elon Musk's Money What is it You get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money. Spend it on a catalog of ...
Running local models is good now(opens in new tab)
I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used Mistral 7B Gemma 3 OpenAI OSS-20B Qwen 3 ...
BLAKE3 at 13GB/s on Zen 5(opens in new tab)
Just ran a quick benchmark comparing different hashing functions on a Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., BLAKE3 on Zen 5 is crazy
All they wanted is faster horses(opens in new tab)
When something is so obvious to you, and yet the status quo is moving in the opposite direction, congratulations, you have found an opportunity. Tt's time to get your hands
Announcing What Can’t I Press?(opens in new tab)
The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding(opens in new tab)
Spotlight on SIG Storage(opens in new tab)
In our ongoing SIG Spotlight series, we shine a light on the groups that keep the Kubernetes project moving forward. This time, we catch up with SIG Storage, the group responsible for persistent data, volume management, and the interfaces that ...
The cube, the epicycles and the human face(opens in new tab)
This article should be read with the opening scene of Westworld in mind. What if Plato and Leibniz were right? Maybe some mystics were right as well. As above, so below. Everything would fit nicely if the oscillatory behaviour of ...
AI GPUs probably live longer than three years(opens in new tab)
KeyCon 2026 recap(opens in new tab)
I spoke at KeyCon, a mechanical keyboard convention!
How I Work From Anywhere Without Losing My Place(opens in new tab)
I’ve been running a new remote development setup for the last month or so, and the goal is simple: move between all of my devices without losing my place. The way I think about it, I have three default states: ...
RSS Club #008: Duck duck, swan?(opens in new tab)
This is an RSS-only post, thank you for subscribing :) If you’re only here for web and tech talk you can skip this one! I rescued an animal today! Probably… The UK has its fair share of canals. I like ...
Makera Z1 Desktop CNC Unboxing and Setup(opens in new tab)
Dangerous Technology For Americans Only(opens in new tab)
There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leadership have spent a lot of time and effort ...
Every Frame Perfect(opens in new tab)
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
The Story of PHP | TEASER(opens in new tab)
The Raven Tattoo(opens in new tab)
I’ve long been envious of my friends with sweet sleeve tattoos. It’s a cool place for a tattoo. You get to see it yourself a lot. Some of it sticks out from a rolled-up shirt-sleeve which is fun and mysterious. ...
Self-Host Weekly (12 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
An ode to what was, and what could have been
Stroll Down Startup Lane - 2026(opens in new tab)
If you've ever been to PyCon, you know one of the best parts of the expo hall is Startup Row, a stretch of booths where early-stage companies built on Python show off what they're creating. But only attendees get to ...
When Perfection Is the Enemy of Quality Culture: Lessons from the Nuclear Security Enterprise(opens in new tab)
The culture in the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE), particularly with regards to quality, was without a doubt the best I've experienced. One thing that really made it great was the common understanding that perfection is impossible. While that may sound ...
Vibe Coding Is Dangerous, Agentic Engineering Isn't—Wes McKinney(opens in new tab)
This series interviews real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time we have none other than ...
Beyond the Semantic Layer: Building a Context Layer for the Agentic Era(opens in new tab)
Writing SQL was never the hard part. Making it accurate and trustworthy against your warehouse always was. Point an AI agent like Claude or Codex at your data stack and ask a real analytics question, and the answer is usually ...
Git commit prompt injection(opens in new tab)
It's now common knowledge that LLMs / AI agents are vulnerable to all kind of injections, so attackers are being more and more creative to find new entrypoints. One commonly
Anders Hejlsberg: How to Build a Programming Language(opens in new tab)
I'm Running a PCB Design Workshop!(opens in new tab)
Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn(opens in new tab)
If you've ever heard code is an expression of free speech you have Cindy Cohn to thank. Her decades of work in courtrooms and at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been keeping Open Source, open and private communications, private. We ...
Announcing stdx, Rust's extended standard library: simplicity, performance and supply chain security for everyone(opens in new tab)
From embedded firmware (where it's badly needed) to big servers passing by cross-platform applications used by billions of people, the foundations of the computing stack are being rewritten in Rust.
Day 4: Quantization Demystified. BF16, FP8, NVFP4, MXFP4, INT4, GGUF, and Why It All Matters(opens in new tab)
A practical, beginner-friendly guide to BF16, FP8, NVFP4, MXFP4, INT4, and GGUF Q4_K_M on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Bytes per parameter, quality vs size, and which format to pick when.
Microsoft Build 2026 recap(opens in new tab)
I spoke (a lot) at Microsoft Build in San Francisco!
I built a GoodReads reading stats dashboard(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - A dashboard visualizing your GoodReads data export. Try it now: GoodReads Dashboard. What is it A small site that visualizes your GoodReads data exports. Total pages and books read Top author...
Gaslighting Openness(opens in new tab)
I have been a staunch supporter of Open Source for a long time, including experiments in funding it. I’m a true believer in the idea that Open Source always wins in the long run, but not automatically and not quickly. ...
golazo(opens in new tab)
A TUI for following football (soccer) matches in real-time.
The Most Durable Human Value(opens in new tab)
A maker offering a small glowing hand-built world to another person leaning in to receive it/images/the-most-durable-human-value.webp/images/the-most-durable-human-value.webp I think one of the most human and durable things will be able to offer to other humans is the creation of rich and ...
I Tried Every Major Linux Distro So You Don't Have To (Here's What I Found)(opens in new tab)
#483: Thanks Brian(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Vulnerability and malware checks in uv HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package alembic-git-revisions Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show ...
A new architecture for Rust monorepos(opens in new tab)
I've just saw a project using the dreaded monorepo architecture: service1-package1/ service1-package2/ service1-package3/ ... service2-package1/ service2-package2/ ... I don't like it because packages are not grouped by context and domain.
How to Rate the AI We're All Chasing(opens in new tab)
A three-axis rating gauge: the customization spoke longest, integration medium, competence shortest/images/customization-beats-competence.webp/images/customization-beats-competence.webp I'm increasingly rating the AI we're all chasing on a few major axis: 1. How CUSTOMIZED is the harness to you, ...
Taking a Look at the $120 Chosfox Geonix Rev 2.5(opens in new tab)
It doesn’t matter if it works(opens in new tab)
There are about a thousand and one debates about the ecology of AI, the ethics of AI, the governance of AI. As the technology advances, the debate with the slipperiest footing is on the actual efficacy of AI: does this ...
