End of Year Reflections(opens in new tab)
A quiet end-of-year reflection on contracts, community, delivery, and heading into uncertainty with cautious optimism.
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Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal(opens in new tab)
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals ...
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Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)(opens in new tab)
Editors: Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto, Swathi Rao Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.35 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development ...
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Self-Hosted Software Names You're Probably Mispronouncing (opens in new tab)
An unofficial guide to commonly mispronounced names in self-hosted software
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Secure your Rust projects against supply chain attacks with Dev Containers(opens in new tab)
Another day, another successful supply chain attack that could have been easily mitigated with basic measures. As I've previously written many times, supply chain attacks are low effort / big
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Things I would study more if I had time(opens in new tab)
There's so much I want to learn and so little time in the day!
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What Actually Is Claude Code’s Plan Mode?(opens in new tab)
I’ve mentioned this a few times now, but when I started using Claude it was because Peter got me hooked on it. From the very beginning I became a religious user of what is colloquially called YOLO mode, which basically ...
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superseedr(opens in new tab)
A BitTorrent client in your terminal.
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China is Becoming Private Equity for the World(opens in new tab)
[](/images/china-private-equity-world.webp) I feel like China is becoming Private Equity for countries and continents. Basically, watch the world decay and sweep in for...
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Coming up with blog topics(opens in new tab)
Here's a few questions I ask myself before I start blogging.
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Iceberg in the Browser(opens in new tab)
DuckDB is the first end-to-end interface to Iceberg REST Catalogs within a browser tab. You can now read and write tables in Iceberg catalogs without needing to manage any infrastructure – directly from your browser!
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The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025 (Changelog News #174)(opens in new tab)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
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Objecting to storage(opens in new tab)
Thank you NoPorts for sponsoringhttps://fafo.fm/noportsIf the Internet is a big computer, Amazon s3 is the hard drive. So what happens when a single typo breaks the Internet's hard drive? On this episode of Fork Around and Find Out we review ...
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#462: LinkedIn Cringe(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Deprecations via warnings docs PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI. Buckaroo Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] ...
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Making sense of the video formats / codecs / containers mess (and what to use for long-term video archival)(opens in new tab)
I was wondering why sone .mkv videos can be played in web browsers, why some others can't and what would be the best format to archive videos. This led me
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A Personal AI Maturity Model (PAIMM)(opens in new tab)
[](/images/personal-ai-maturity-model-v1.png) I have been thinking about this since 2016 when I wrote the crappy book but great article, The Real Internet of Things, which I've now put online. As we think about what's happeni...
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Influencing without authority(opens in new tab)
You can be a leader without a fancy title... and hopefully that gets you the fancy title eventually!
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Statistics made simple(opens in new tab)
Announcing a simple statistics library for Clojure web servers
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Do you want to read a detailed post about eyelid surgery? Here it is. With photos.(opens in new tab)
I find this sort of thing fascinating. I looked for detailed info before my own surgery because I like to know what I’m getting into. If you’re grossed out by...
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Trying out Ente for media backup(opens in new tab)
I'm backing up my photos and videos with Ente now, and it's pretty good.
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Notes #76(opens in new tab)
Du 19 novembre au 14 décembre 2025
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anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy(opens in new tab)
For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most developers took one look and backed away slowly. Trevor Manz decided that barrier did not need to exist. His ...
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Vibe coding is boring(opens in new tab)
Vibe coding gets the job done, but there's no thrill in the build.
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Down the Linux rabbit hole (Changelog & Friends #121)(opens in new tab)
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole -- Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and ...
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We Need a New Type of Cybersecurity Product(opens in new tab)
I think we in Cybersecurity have largely failed to show its value to the busines over the last decades. And I think we need a completely new type of product to address it. And before you get excited about a ...
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Telling myself stories(opens in new tab)
To tell the story of your life would take another life of equal length. There is no such thing as a true story because every story, to be told, must...
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Self-Host Weekly (12 December 2025) (opens in new tab)
Bidding wars, mobile bookmarks, and my favorite new self-hosted apps from 2025
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Podcasts I'm listening to in 2025(opens in new tab)
I don't listen to many podcasts, but the ones I do are pretty solid!
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Anthropic's Vision Advantage is a Lot Like Apple's from the 2010s(opens in new tab)
[](/images/anthropic-vision-advantage.webp) OpenAI and Google have more than a model problem when competing with Anthropic. Anthropic right now feels like Apple in the 2010s with the iPhone. And Opus 4.5 is like their iPhone....
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Building Slink: Lessons from Creating a Self-Hosted Image Hosting Platform (opens in new tab)
Challenges and architectural decisions while building a community-driven image-sharing platform
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Adding Type Hints to my Blog(opens in new tab)
Using pyrefly to identify type failures on this site and then fixing one of them.
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🤖 Trying Out GLM with Claude Code(opens in new tab)
My friend Trey Hunner showed me the GLM set of models before Thanksgiving. While traveling to see family, I somehow messed up my Claude Code setup because of a wrapper I have with mise-en-place. I couldn’t use it for a ...
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The Abilene Paradox(opens in new tab)
What happens when you compromise too much?
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Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Changelog Interviews #670)(opens in new tab)
We're joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and ...
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Gratitude knows that there is always a gift(opens in new tab)
Whatever it is, let me start it with gratitude. Gratitude is fertile ground. Put in the seeds of your dreams and desires. Keep the ground watered and pull the weeds....
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My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 (opens in new tab)
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
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Opinionated Data Platforms vs. Open-Source: The Chef’s Choice for Your Data Platform(opens in new tab)
With the recent consolidation in the area of Modern Data Stack, the question arises: are open data stacks, a more flexible but labor-intensive way of building data platforms, out of fashion? Are we transitioning into an era where we use ...
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Food I recommend in Chicago in 2025(opens in new tab)
If you wanna eat more than a hot dog and deep dish pizza when you visit Chicago, I got you!
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qo(opens in new tab)
An interactive minimalist TUI to query JSON, CSV, and TSV using SQL.
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dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images (opens in new tab)
An introduction to updating container images from the command line with dockcheck
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Simplicity of a Database, but the Speed of a Cache: OLAP Caches for DuckDB(opens in new tab)
A constant struggle in data is to make everything fast. This holds true for the ingest, for the data pipeline, but most certainly for the visualization part. When you use a BI dashboard and present data to users, you most ...
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Encryption protects AGAINST criminals(opens in new tab)
There is this weird framing floating in the media that encryption is used by criminals to commit their misdeeds and hide in the shadows. As is too often with mainstream
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Pausing a CSS animation with getAnimations()(opens in new tab)
When your CSS animations need a break, you can work with the output of the getAnimations() method!
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Announcing DuckDB 1.4.3 LTS(opens in new tab)
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.3. Along with bugfixes, we are shipping native extensions and Python support for Windows Arm64.
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All good things must come to an end(opens in new tab)
I guess this time the game really does stop, when the stream ends.
