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Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026) (opens in new tab)
Viral cheeseburgers, microslop, and a new place to run DOOM
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New Member Perk: Newsletter Insights (opens in new tab)
A few new goodies for paid Self-Host Weekly subscribers
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Rally Point: Whiskerwood suggests that, even without the violence, colonialism is a scam(opens in new tab)
Whiskerwood has made it undeniable: I have the opposite of a speedrunning problem. Give me a stretch of land, a supply of loyal builders, and a free hand to go nuts building some impressive metropolis, and I will, within mere ...
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404 Media writes: “A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI. Proton Mail ...
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Agentic manual testing(opens in new tab)
Agentic Engineering Patterns > The defining characteristic of a coding agent is that it can execute the code that it writes. This is what makes coding agents so much more useful than LLMs that simply spit out code without any ...
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Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager(opens in new tab)
Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager Adnan Khan describes a devious attack chain against the Cline GitHub repository, which started with a prompt injection attack in the title of an issue opened against the ...
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Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew, oh my(opens in new tab)
I combined some fun CSS techniques to make a little diving board drawing!
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How to use Vim in Claude Code(opens in new tab)
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...
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The Agentic Hacking Era: Ramblings and a Tool(opens in new tab)
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.
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I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry(opens in new tab)
I am writing to you in a moment of intense grief-induced burnout.
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The blog looks different now(opens in new tab)
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 ...
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Introducing GPT‑5.4(opens in new tab)
Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro, also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI. August 31st 2025 knowledge cutoff, 1 million token context window. Priced slightly higher than the GPT-5.2 family with a bump in price for both ...
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Stammtisch(opens in new tab)
The word of the day is Stammtisch. I was at a dinner party of a group of guys in Manhattan and we were talking about how we can communicate more regularly and effectively. Right now, we meet three to four ...
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🔥 Dear prospective sponsors, You can't pay me to…(opens in new tab)
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
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Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction(opens in new tab)
Today's links Blowtorching the frog: If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bill Cosby v Waxy; Rodney King, 20 years on; Peter Watts v flesh-eating bacteria; American authoritarianism; ...
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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?(opens in new tab)
Over the past few months it's become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a "clean room" implementation of code. The most famous version of this pattern is when Compaq created a clean-room clone ...
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The Different Ways to Select <html> in CSS(opens in new tab)
Sure, we can select the element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it? The Different Ways to Select in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which ...
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🔥 You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admit…(opens in new tab)
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
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Socialize the Plan(opens in new tab)
On AI and code review.
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Oblivion Remastered multiplayer mod announced by company aiming to give a bunch of single player games their GTA 5 moment(opens in new tab)
From Skyrim Together to the more recently released Witcher Online, modders bringing multiplayer to big single player games isn’t new. Folks spend hundreds of hours mucking about in Tamriel or on The Continent alone, so the idea of being able ...
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Top Terminal Tools(opens in new tab)
The tools I use in my day-to-day coding efforts in early 2026.
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“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives. Propellant. - Ethan Marcotte”Before you kneel down ...
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Using Rust and Postgres for everything: patterns learned over the years(opens in new tab)
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
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AI And The Ship of Theseus(opens in new tab)
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different design for that implementation. In many ...
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🔥 "$599 is a fucking statement."…(opens in new tab)
"$599 is a fucking statement." https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo
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★ Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo(opens in new tab)
The MacBook Neo is the first major new Mac aimed at the consumer market in the Apple Silicon era. It’s meant to make a dent — perhaps a minuscule dent in the universe, but a big dent in the Mac’s ...
