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Post-AI Jobs Will Go to a Tiny Sliver(opens in new tab)
A small elite stands on an elevated platform under cold purple light while a vast crowd in warm sienna looks up from below/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp I think people are missing the point on the whole AI Jobs-Pocalypse. Yes, it will also create ...
Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the ...
Does Bjarne Stroustrup know ALL of C++?(opens in new tab)
Counterfeit Prevention in Aerospace: Lessons from Spark Plug Scandal(opens in new tab)
Take a look at a scandal where an online hero spent $500 buying spark plugs online, and discovered 1/3 were fake.
A week in the life of a seven year old(opens in new tab)
Documenting the typical schedule of my daughter in 2026.
answering your hardest questions about Linux, Omarchy, and more(opens in new tab)
Basecamp Five(opens in new tab)
The Dagster Almanack: From Complexity to Composability(opens in new tab)
I have read the “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” by Charlie Munger and thought about what it would take to write one for Dagster. A complete guide with all the insights, tips, and some predictions for the data platform engineer, just like ...
Clanker: A Word For The Machine(opens in new tab)
In my last post I used the word “clanker1” as an alternative to “agent” quite consistently and probably excessively. That choice ended up attracting a lot more attention than I expected in the Hacker News comment section of that post ...
Great Docs(opens in new tab)
Your documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit are back on Talk Python with a brand new Python documentation ...
How kube-proxy Actually Works: iptables, IPVS, and nftables Inside Out(opens in new tab)
How kube-proxy turns Kubernetes Services into kernel rules. iptables, IPVS, nftables packet paths and which to pick in 2026. Verified against k/k 1.36 source.
#481: Ways to die(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support ...
Day 1: The Local LLM Revolution. Why Your Desk Just Became the New Datacenter(opens in new tab)
Why local LLMs are becoming practical in 2026, what changed across open weights, hardware, and inference software, and why DGX Spark makes the desk feel like a small AI lab.
Oh to be a snail feasting on a sycamore // Week 21 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Are these weeknotes again? Yes they are! Is this a fluke or is it a trend? Who knows! Who cares! Let’s do iiiiiittttttt. Current situation: Monday 18 May: Went for...
A simple clustering algorithm for lists(opens in new tab)
I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!
Personalized Book Recommendations with AI + GoodReads(opens in new tab)
I've been using AI to try and automate / optimize parts of my life from software engineering to exercise and diet. My latest experiment has been to use AI to improve my book recommendations by turning...
Building Pi With Pi(opens in new tab)
Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is still Mario’s project. He has been living with its issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of the new form ...
Could Suddenly-Great Open Source AI Crash the US Economy?(opens in new tab)
A charcoal architectural sketch: a colossal monolithic tower cracked at the base, washed in deep purple, while a horizontal current of small distributed structures in burnt sienna flows beneath the fracture/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-us-economy.webp/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-u...
I had to look it up(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (22 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
750 reasons not to get back with your (Pl)ex
The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic”(opens in new tab)
update 2026-07-06: Anthropic added Playwright Chromium and an Artifact tool to their hosted environment. Feels more magical.
Everyone Dies... is on Kindle Unlimited(opens in new tab)
I wrote a new fiction book and it is now published. The first in a new series!
Test-Driving the Lance Lakehouse Format in DuckDB(opens in new tab)
Lance is an open lakehouse format with a design geared toward AI workloads. LanceDB and DuckLabs have partnered to bring you fast vector and hybrid search directly from DuckDB SQL, without leaving your analytical workflow. In this post, we explain ...
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work(opens in new tab)
Ad Infinitum(opens in new tab)
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive ...
The Razor's Edge of Human Government Design(opens in new tab)
A charcoal editorial illustration: a colossal authoritarian monolith on the left and a gilded gothic spire on the right, with a small figure balancing on a thin razor's edge between them/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp I'm fascinated by the fact ...
How to Build a WIRELESS Corne without Soldering(opens in new tab)
TIL #145 – collections.deque is implemented in blocks(opens in new tab)
Today I learned that collections.deque is implemented as a doubly-linked list of blocks. collections.deque I've written about the data structure deque from the module collections extensively. In particular, I wrote a deque tutorial with plenty of practical example use cases ...
Scaling Rust codebases: Lessons learned organizing large projects and managing errors(opens in new tab)
As a Rust project grows in size, it can take a non-trivial amount of efforts to keep it in a clean state that will not impede your and your co-workers'
DuckDB 1.5.3: Not an Ordinary Patch Release(opens in new tab)
We are releasing DuckDB version v1.5.3. While updates in DuckDB itself are limited bugfixes, the upgraded extensions shipped with v1.5.3 bring a ton of new features. These include the Quack client-server protocol, which is now available as a core extension, ...
Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0(opens in new tab)
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components ...
wrkflw(opens in new tab)
A CLI and TUI to validate and run GitHub Actions locally.
Prompts are technical debt too(opens in new tab)
I've used Kubernetes for 5 years, but I never knew these 13 facts(opens in new tab)
Your Slop, My Sludge(opens in new tab)
Throwing shit at the wall. I'm the wall.
#480: Proud Parents(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training ...
Travel notes: RubyKaigi Hakodate(opens in new tab)
I just got back from a three and a half week trip to Japan. It was the longest trip I have ever been on (aside from studying abroad in Germany, which felt different). I made the following wild circuit with ...
La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona(opens in new tab)
I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!
Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs(opens in new tab)
I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile). I’ve done this before in 2023, with GGUF Mistral ...
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon(opens in new tab)
It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese // Week 20 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Are these weeknotes? Yes they are! Will I do them again next week? Who knows! Sunday 10 May: Got home from hospital shift around 7:30pm. Exhausted, hangry. Walked into a...
AIE Singapore: The Agentic Nation(opens in new tab)
i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026(opens in new tab)
MCP on Code Mode (Changelog Interviews #681)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets ...
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager(opens in new tab)
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for ...
Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
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Building a ScottoFrog (PCB Edition)(opens in new tab)
