Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025)(opens in new tab)
Discover the most representative low- and mid-tier mobile devices for web performance testing in 2025.
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Magic floating-point numbers: NaNs(opens in new tab)
After following Laurie Kirk down a rabbit hole on subnormal numbers in the IEEE 754 float specification, I stumbled upon other interesting properties of floating-point numbers, specifically how NaNs (Not a Number) are represented in binary. After more than 10 ...
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Who's Not Getting Laid Off?(opens in new tab)
[](/images/tech-layoffs-signal.png) Who's _not_ being laid off? That's my question. I'm thinking about all these layoffs and trying to figure out if there's anything we can learn about the future of tech by looking at who's getting laid off...
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10 CLI apps that have actually improved the way I work in the terminal(opens in new tab)
Out of all of the cli applications out there, few have really transformed the way I work in the terminal. However, there are some that have had a huge transformation, so much so that I thought it worthwhile to share ...
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Building Trust with Sean Goedecke(opens in new tab)
SoCal Linux Expo - discount "FAFOF" -https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/Kubecon EU Amsterdam - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/Linuxfest North West - https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/Newsletter - https://sub.fafo.fm/What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably ...
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Beyond Booleans(opens in new tab)
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
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Notes #67(opens in new tab)
Du 11 au 16 août 2025
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238: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish(opens in new tab)
A farewell to a fun 10 years.Also, I should have tested it better. :)In the audio I got the numbers wrong. Doh!This is episode 238, not 237. Oh well.I'll still be around, of course, at:pythontest.com - where I write about ...
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What is NEW NET ART ??(opens in new tab)
A short explainer of New Net Art for the uninitiated!
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The Two Faces of a Failing Culture(opens in new tab)
An open review of workplace culture and patterns I've seen across the years.
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Syncthing 2.0 Upgrade Notes(opens in new tab)
Syncthing 2.0 was released last week, and I upgraded my Macs and my Intel NUC. I’m pleased with the performance. I never had complaints about it being slow, but the new app is much faster. I like that they’re using ...
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Checkpointing performance in Write-Ahead-Logs(opens in new tab)
Making Checkpointing fast Since I began working for turso officially in May of this year (relevant post), I had been spending most of my time learning the inner workings of the cloud platform, and familiarizing myself with the other codebases ...
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cariddi(opens in new tab)
A tool to crawl urls, scan endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.
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Navigating the Obvious Shoulds(opens in new tab)
Have you noticed there are a lot of dumb little decisions to make? Have you also noticed that most of these decisions, while dumb, are not necessarily easy? There’s not an obvious answer. Sometimes there’s an obvious “I should” feeling, ...
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237: FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez(opens in new tab)
In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses deployment challenges small teams face. He shares his transition from open-source ...
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Rustdesk Server on Ubuntu 22.04(opens in new tab)
As usual, I’m self-documenting a project while I work on it. Rustdesk is an open source remote control utility that caught my eye about a year ago; it’s cross platform and allows you to self-host your own “relay server” so ...
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Durable Python Execution with Temporal(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/515
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Notes #66(opens in new tab)
Du 4 juillet au 10 août 2025
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Learn systems, not langauges(opens in new tab)
Due to the nature of my story and the attention that it's received, as mentioned in my last post, I frequently get emails from developers, college kids, or other people with troubled pasts that are looking for advice on either ...
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Grand écart(opens in new tab)
Morceau #3
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Key Derivation with ChaCha20 (or ChaCha12)(opens in new tab)
One thing that I have greatly overlooked when working on ChaCha12-BLAKE3 is encryptionKey and authenticationKey derivation, as well as nonce extension, using ChaCha12 (or ChaCha20) itself instead of 2 expensive
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Enabling Hugo static site search with Lunr.js(opens in new tab)
There comes a time in every woman’s life when she only wants one thing: for her mininmal static site to finally have some of the same features that dynamic blogging platforms do, namely search. So now I’ve implemented search on ...
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🤖 VibeOps: Using Claude Code on Cheap VPS Servers(opens in new tab)
Today I came across Pieter Levels' post about “VibeOps,” a workflow that involves SSHing to a cheap VPS server and installing Claude Code directly on it. I’m running this setup on a cheap Hetzner box. While this approach might sound ...
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The Career Ceiling No One Talks About: Senior Dev, Stuck Forever(opens in new tab)
For many developers senior is the quiet end of the road.
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My 2025 New Mac Setup(opens in new tab)
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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ChaCha12-BLAKE3: Secure, Simple and Fast authenticated and committing encryption for any CPU(opens in new tab)
For the impatients, the official implementation of the algorithm in Rust is available on GitHub: https://github.com/bloom42/chacha12-blake3 Introduction An AEAD function provides at the same time encryption (confidentiality) and authentication (integrity),
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ChaCha20-BLAKE3: Secure, Simple and Fast authenticated and committing encryption for any CPU(opens in new tab)
I'm happy to announce ChaCha20-BLAKE3 and extended-nonce variants, a new generation of fast and secure Stream/AEAD ciphers. In this document I'm presenting a new Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) primitive that should be at the same time the fastest ...
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exosphere(opens in new tab)
A CLI / TUI for aggregated patch reporting & system status monitoring via SSH.
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Liberté(opens in new tab)
Morceau #2
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Poltergeist: The Ghost That Keeps Your Builds Fresh(opens in new tab)
Meet Poltergeist: an AI-friendly universal build watcher that auto-detects and rebuilds any project—Swift, Rust, Node.js, CMake, or anything else—the moment you save a file. Zero config, just haunting productivity.
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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment(opens in new tab)
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
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Notes #65(opens in new tab)
Du 28 juillet au 3 août 2025
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Making a customizable wooden phone for my toddler(opens in new tab)
I designed and laser cut a screen-swappable wooden phone for my baby to play with!
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Don't read this Startup Slop(opens in new tab)
My website was banned from Lobsters as 'startup slop' for using AI agents to help write blog posts. When does tool-assisted writing become slop, and why are we having the wrong conversation about AI in content creation?
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Vibe Code is Legacy Code(opens in new tab)
Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse
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Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers - July 2025(opens in new tab)
Fresh insights on AI-assisted development: practical experiences with Claude Code and the evolving landscape of full-breadth developers in the age of AI
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The React Blog Post: Reflections and Reactions(opens in new tab)
“To dismiss this entire problem as a "skill issue" and imply all is good now because an external library solved an issue that React will allow you to do is very curious to me. [...] You would think you can ...
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Terminal Trove July 2025 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2025.
