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it was annoying to refind the text of jenny holzer’s truisms(opens in new tab)
I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day. It’s not so different from pulling a Tarot card or finding a line in a reading – except I’m lying, it ...
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Notes #72(opens in new tab)
Du 16 au 28 septembre 2025
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The era we’re in(opens in new tab)
Impactful quote from Dense Discovery
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Using Notebook Navigator and Cupertino in Obsidian(opens in new tab)
My latest iteration in how I take notes on mobile is using the Notebook Navigator plugin and the Cupertino theme in Obsidian!
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Open Social(opens in new tab)
The protocol is the API.
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I am 40(opens in new tab)
Letters from The Internet.
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The Problem with Human 2.0 and the Promise of Human 3.0(opens in new tab)
[](/images/human-3-creator-revolution.png) So here's what I've been thinking about lately. We've got 8 billion people on this planet, right? And maybe—*maybe*—0.01% of them are actually set up to be creators. Everyone else is ...
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Announcing Changed Block Tracking API support (alpha)(opens in new tab)
We're excited to announce the alpha support for a changed block tracking mechanism. This enhances the Kubernetes storage ecosystem by providing an efficient way for CSI storage drivers to identify changed blocks in PersistentVolume snapshots. With a driver that can ...
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nihilism re: attention difficulties(opens in new tab)
The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running ...
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My GitHub account has been blocked. Edit: Solved. Thank you all!(opens in new tab)
Hello everyone, Today was a good day as I was happy to share the progress I made on Pingoo: Implementing automatic TLS for Pingoo: here is what it takes to
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Why do I love my Pika guestbook so fucking much? Let’s discuss.(opens in new tab)
This blog is on Pika. Part of having a Pika blog is having (if you want it) a guestbook. I have it, I want it, I fucking love it. I...
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⛔ I Do Not Want Discord's Nitro(opens in new tab)
I do not want Discord’s Nitro. I do not want it, friend or foe. I will not boost, I will not pay, I do not want it any day. I do not want it on my phone, I do not ...
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Implementing automatic HTTPS / TLS for Pingoo: Here is what it takes to build a secure internet(opens in new tab)
TL; DR: Visit the GitHub repository to get started: https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo I'm currently implementing automatic TLS certificates management for Pingoo (the fast, secure and easy-to-use Load Balancer / API Gateway /
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AI Comprehension Gaps: When Humans and AI See Different Things(opens in new tab)
There’s an AI Security and Safety concept that I’m calling “AI Comprehension Gaps.” It’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s an important concept. It’s when there’s a mismatch between what a user knows or sees and what an AI ...
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lue(opens in new tab)
A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS).
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Thoughts on Charlie Kirk's Assassination(opens in new tab)
We lost our common frames, and the ability to tell the difference between disagreement and hate
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The Year in Agents - AI Engineer Paris(opens in new tab)
I gave a short address for the first AIE Paris conference organized by Koyeb!
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annie mueller on rituals(opens in new tab)
Rituals? I can’t stop myself. They’re so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity’s finest work, perhaps. They make no sense. It’s all about beauty, about made-up meaning, about art. Rituals add unnecessary, arbitrary extra requirements to a simple action. Light a candle ...
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pyx - the other side of the uv coin (announcing pyx)(opens in new tab)
A couple years ago, Charlie Marsh lit a fire under Python tooling with Ruff and then uv. Today he’s back with something on the other side of that coin: pyx. Pyx isn’t a PyPI replacement. Think server, not just index. ...
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Walking around the compiler(opens in new tab)
Walking around outside is good for you.[citation needed] A nice amble through the trees can quiet inner turbulence and make complex engineering problems disappear. Vicki Boykis wrote a post, Walking around the app, about a more proverbial stroll. In it, ...
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Kubernetes v1.34: Pod Level Resources Graduated to Beta(opens in new tab)
On behalf of the Kubernetes community, I am thrilled to announce that the Pod Level Resources feature has graduated to Beta in the Kubernetes v1.34 release and is enabled by default! This significant milestone introduces a new layer of flexibility ...
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Project Management As An Engineering Manager(opens in new tab)
As an engineering manager, project management isn’t just a skill—it’s part of the job. In this episode, we unpack what effective project management looks like from the EM seat.
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The Glorious Pipe Operator(opens in new tab)
Let's talk about how how the functional pipe operator helps to simplify and improve code readability and composability, and how it contrasts with the fluent interface design pattern commonly used in OOP.
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Privacy Policy Effective date: September 22, 2025 The Cynical Developer (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. Information We Collect Personal information you provide: ...
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graphic design for all the in-world advertised brands in mario kart(opens in new tab)
I think I’ve pointed to Elliott before. This video does itself to the point of absurdity. (Watching it, I found myself pretty sick of heavyweight fonts, somehow, but the graphic elements were largely far better than I’d’ve expected)
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2000 Poops(opens in new tab)
I used the app Poop Map for over 5 years, for the memes. A tale of perseverence and triumph.
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The Mercy of Gods, l'espoir au bout de l'impuissance(opens in new tab)
Critique du livre The Mercy of Gods, de James S.A. Corey
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Emad Mostaque on the End of Capitalism(opens in new tab)
https://youtu.be/ziLmtuLm-LU Ok all, I have a video I'm going to ask **everyone** to go and watch within like 72 hours. This is from a guy named @EMostaque , who I consider to be one of the most intelligent future-thinking guys ...
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Kubernetes v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)(opens in new tab)
Have you ever made a typo when expanding your persistent volumes in Kubernetes? Meant to specify 2TB but specified 20TiB? This seemingly innocuous problem was kinda hard to fix - and took the project almost 5 years to fix. Automated ...
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optimalism (parody)(opens in new tab)
This is all done by a Quirky Personal Site Haver (really: don’t miss the main site!) but this subsite is more pointed at a lot of content you’ve surely come across before:
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Python’s True Superpower(opens in new tab)
Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some ...
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Kubernetes v1.34: DRA Consumable Capacity(opens in new tab)
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) is a Kubernetes API for managing scarce resources across Pods and containers. It enables flexible resource requests, going beyond simply allocating N number of devices to support more granular usage scenarios. With DRA, users can request ...
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Data Science Cloud Lessons at Scale(opens in new tab)
Today on Talk Python: What really happens when your data work outgrows your laptop. Matthew Rocklin, creator of Dask and cofounder of Coiled, and Nat Tabris a staff software engineer at Coiled join me to unpack the messy truth of ...
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Questions to ask when you think you need to finish something(opens in new tab)
When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.
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Kubernetes v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health(opens in new tab)
The rise of AI/ML and other high-performance workloads has made specialized hardware like GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs a critical component of many Kubernetes clusters. However, as discussed in a previous blog post about navigating failures in Pods with devices, when ...
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Colocating Data with David Aronchick(opens in new tab)
David has worked on a lot of cool tech you know like Kubernetes and Kubeflow, and he's usually a few years ahead of the game. So getting to catch up with him about what he's working on now is probably ...
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teach the history of history to defend it(opens in new tab)
In short, science classes pair a description of our best knowledge at the present with a story of discovery of how we came to know what we know now, with the clear implication that this method is how we will ...
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Announcing Pingoo: The fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway with built-in service discovery, WAF and bot management (in Rust)(opens in new tab)
99.9999% of the web use some kind of load balancer or reverse proxy ... and yet this important piece of infrastructure has seen very little love, especially since the AI
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lazyssh(opens in new tab)
A terminal-based SSH manager.
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Kubernetes v1.34: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2(opens in new tab)
Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes 1.27 release and moved to Beta in the Kubernetes 1.32 release. The recent release of Kubernetes v1.34 moved that support to a second beta. The support for volume ...
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Coolify vs Dokploy: Why I decided to use one over the other(opens in new tab)
Coolify & Dokploy are two of the most popular open souce platforms as a service, but which one is right for you? Well, in order to answer that, I decided to put each one, head to head.
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Big W: A Family Tradition(opens in new tab)
A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation.
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Playing with Fliiip Book(opens in new tab)
I made a fun little gif with this handy animation tool!