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GPT 4.1? In 2026? Is the State Department on a budget? Is every diplomatic cable just going to have 300 space-delimited emdashes now? https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2026/03/state-offloads-claude-underpinning-model-flagship-statechat/412022/
While most people see PostgreSQL as a simple database, like MariaDB or CLickHouse, it has in fact evolved into a "data kernel", managing how data is stored and queried, in
In this post we're going to discuss the best house in Pokopia for housing your Pokemon early to late game. What are Houses? Pokemon houses give them a place to live. This is important to improve thei...
I recently decided to move to a terminal-based workflow and here I'm going to share a bit about why I decided to make that choice and what my current setup looks like. Why Linux? TL;DR - Windows is c...
A 3D gaussian splat viewer that works in your terminal.
This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it ...
Coiled Springs and Jell-O/images/blog/coiled-springs-and-jello/coiled-springs-and-jello-header.webp/images/blog/coiled-springs-and-jello/coiled-springs-and-jello-header.webp I think I just figured out why things might be so bad in the United States and maybe elsewhere as well. > Since 1972, despit...
The Specialization Illusion — iceberg showing specialized tasks above water and general intelligence below/images/sota-models-over-custom-ones-header.webp/images/sota-models-over-custom-ones-header.webp I've never been a big believer in training custom models. I've also never believed in fine-tu...
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The Culture Series: A Complete Guide to Glanding/images/blog/the-culture-series-complete-guide-to-glanding/header.webp/images/blog/the-culture-series-complete-guide-to-glanding/header.webp In Iain M. Banks' Culture serieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series, citizens have a genetically eng...
Should we call mistakes made by humans slop?
I've just run / cut / smash / glide / surf my way through Pokopia and wanted to give an overview of where my town ended up as well as provide some tips I wish I'd known coming in. If ...
The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important topics between interested contributors. Today, we're excited to announce the formation of the AI Gateway Working Group, a new initiative ...
Topics covered in this episode: Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation Learning to program in the AI age VS Code extension for FastAPI and friends Extras Joke See the full show notes ...
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A powerful technique used in storytelling.
Wait, you can have multiple function clauses with the same name in Elixir? Let's explore how multi-clause functions, arity, and guard expressions can replace nested conditionals, and why this even matters.
These thoughts were drafted during a night, a few months ago. I didn’t want to publish them then because they felt like an emotional take on something that still seemed remote. Today, I found the notes again and realized they ...
Barely a month goes by where I can check the news without being reminded of the Cracked skit about two comedy writers who were hired to run a fake Donald Trump campaign and then accidentally got him elected https://youtu.be/8qIQbydyHwc?si=COq7K0HLng3LHI1R
In November 1928, Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann founded Georg Neumann & Co. in a Berlin workshop and by the end of that year, Neumann had debuted the CMV 3, the first mass-produced condenser microphone. The CMV designation stood for ...
Today, we're joined by a very special guest, Len Testa! You might know him from The Disney Dish podcast or from his excellent theme park travel planning app Touring Plans. Or you might not know him at all! No wrong ...
For the extremely narrow Venn diagram of people who love both I Think You Should Leave and Disco Elysium, this is amazing https://youtu.be/6OKgdTXLWIg?si=RyS95BqxFBSEVwyQ
If Nothing releases a folding phone, they should absolutely name it the Nothing Burger https://www.pcmag.com/news/hands-on-nothing-4a-series-midrange-phones
I’ve been online twenty years, and blogging for ten of them. This is the story and lessons learned of blogging online for a decade. It goes beyond blogging topics and includes note-taking (workflow), how to write well as well as ...
You're adding type hints to your Python code, your editor is happy, autocomplete is working great. But then you switch tools and suddenly there are red squiggles everywhere. Who decides what a float annotation actually means? Or whether passing None ...
Viral cheeseburgers, microslop, and a new place to run DOOM
A few new goodies for paid Self-Host Weekly subscribers
I combined some fun CSS techniques to make a little diving board drawing!
I've been using Claude Code daily in my agentic engineering workflows and have recently moved to a Linux-based, terminal-first computer setup to better manage my multiple agents across various project...
A few weeks ago I wrote about how AI is going to impact bug bounty. That post was mostly predictions. This one is about what’s actually happening right now.
I am writing to you in a moment of intense grief-induced burnout.
It’s 2026, and my interest in writing was at a new all-time low. Naturally, instead of actually writing, I did what any self-respecting developer does: I spent a week migrating the entire blog from the venerable Jekyll to Hugo. Does ...
Dear prospective sponsors, You can't pay me to say nice things about you, but you CAN pay me to not say mean things about you. Please send inquiries to [email protected] https://www.theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032
You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admit that the oil companies have been working hard to abolish ICE since before most of them were born
On AI and code review.
The tools I use in my day-to-day coding efforts in early 2026.
I love simple, boring and reliable tools. In the software world, the two best are without a doubt Rust and PostgreSQL. One example: a backend service I'm working on processes
"$599 is a fucking statement." https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo
A lot of people were confused by Trump's immediate embrace of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, but it makes a lot more sense when you consider that he thinks they spell it "Golf"
Nobody knows what the future of software engineering looks like, and that's incredibly uncomfortable. But instead of waiting for someone to hand us the answer, I think the move is to embrace the uncertainty, because these moments of deep uncertainty ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in Feburary 2026.
I recently shared some performance benchmarks of moving my blog from C# to Rust - Rust came out to be 4x faster and use 4x less memory. I've since gotten several questions about why I'm choosing Rust...
Archive a lifetime of email with analytics and search in milliseconds, entirely offline.
If you love building things, and the process of building is just as important to you as the result itself, it’s not unreasonable that you’re in a slump these days. The world is telling you that your thinking process is ...
Continuing from Part 1, where we learned what git for data is, how the architecture and use cases work, how you can achieve git-like functionality with different approaches, and how the key is to avoid moving data as much as ...
Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees. Entire system becomes unresponsive eventually. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543