The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for wondering why the neighbour’s cat is mad at you. I thought we were getting along well – I’ve been letting her into the block regularly, and we have a little ritual where she runs partway up the ...
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I spent an hour this weekend to move projects from Cloudflare to Bunny. If a project has too many deployments on Cloudflare the deletion attempt errors. I followed the error link to a “known issues” documentation page. “You may not ...
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What I miss about London(opens in new tab)
Thoughts about things I really enjoyed during the approximately two years we lived in London.
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2026.02 - Release Notes(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - In 2026.02, I built an AI orchestrator, launched CloudSeed Rust, moved to a terminal-focused dev workflow, wrote several posts, stuck to my exercise routines, and generally led a very balanced...
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Interactive explanations(opens in new tab)
Agentic Engineering Patterns > When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt. For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data from a database and outputs ...
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Python in Digital Humanities(opens in new tab)
Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today I’m talking with David Flood from Harvard’s DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What ...
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The Great Transition(opens in new tab)
https://youtu.be/6pP8x8sXoaM [](/images/the-great-transition.webp) I'm going to try to encapsulate a whole bunch of stuff that's going on right now and wrap it into a single container. It's actually very difficu...
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Cool little aside in Marcin Wichary’s How to shoot a screen using a board of keys: Acorn 8, a graphic app, has a delightful screenshotting feature parked under ⌘⇧7 that does something incredible: it takes a screenshot, but does so ...
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🔥 Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK…(opens in new tab)
Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions
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Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners: These are the right states' rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Octavia Butler; "Midnighters"; Freeman Dyson on "The Information"; Korean Little Brother filibuster; Privacy isn't ...
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What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Edwin got beat up the other day, so I suppose it’s up to me to ask what everyone’s playing this weekend. No extended joke here. He’s just absolutely battered. In pieces, really. God, that must have been humiliating for him. ...
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Pattern Match Made in Heaven(opens in new tab)
Pattern matching is one of the first things you'll learn in Elixir that might just completely rewire your brain. Let's dig into how it can change the way you handle data, errors, and control flow.
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Why does C have the best file API?(opens in new tab)
Ok, the title is a tongue-in-cheek, but there's very little thought put into files in most languages. It always feels a bit out of place... except in C. In fact, what you get is usually a worse version of C. ...
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Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data(opens in new tab)
Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data Because users lose their passkeys all the time, and may not understand that their data has been irreversibly encrypted using them and can no longer be recovered. Tim Cappalli: To ...
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Opus 4.5 changed everything (Changelog Interviews #678)(opens in new tab)
Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and ...
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An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail(opens in new tab)
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail Another in the genre of "OK, coding agents got good in November" posts, this one is by Max Woolf and is very much worth your time. He describes ...
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Computers and the Internet: A Two-Edged Sword(opens in new tab)
Dave Rupert articulated something in “Priority of idle hands” that’s been growing in my subconscious for years: I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me […] This is hard ...
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★ A Sometimes-Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the iOS 26 Phone App(opens in new tab)
Apple’s solution to this dilemma — to show the “Tap Recents to Call” in Settings if, and only if, Unified is the current view option in the Phone app — is lazy. And as a result, it’s quite confusing.
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Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers(opens in new tab)
Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers Anthropic are now offering their $200/month Claude Max 20x plan for free to open source maintainers... for six months... and you have to meet the following criteria: Maintainers: You're a primary ...
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Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests(opens in new tab)
Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests Here's a little prototype I built this morning from my phone as an experiment in HTTP range requests, and a general example of using LLMs to satisfy curiosity. I've been ...
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Marathon might be the perfect 2026 shooter in that I feel like I'm stuck in a giant Nvidia graphics card(opens in new tab)
Among the first things you see in the Marathon reboot playtest is a close-up of a barcoded moth, gleefully chowing on some larval diodes. It’s not even the first cybernetic insect motif I’ve encountered in an FPS this week, but ...
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What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More(opens in new tab)
Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts! What’s !important #6: ...
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Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know(opens in new tab)
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today. This blog highlights these behaviors so that you ...
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The Steam Deck is an adequate vessel for Resident Evil Requiem, despite missing desktop-grade smoothness(opens in new tab)
Resident Evil Requiem has, in terms of technical fidelity versus PC power demands, one of the best bang:buck ratios to come out of a triple-A'er in donkey's ages. It’s not terribly surprising, then, that Requiem can run well enough on ...
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Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element(opens in new tab)
TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers! Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the ...
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Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026) (opens in new tab)
Legal threats, exposed vulnerabilities, and a fond farewell
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📍 Sushi Izuki(opens in new tab)
Finally got a chance to visit @izukiorlando with @instantsal this week. Generally, I set my expectations for sushi in Florida to quite low, especially if the restaurant isn't Japanese-owned. Izuki blew away those admittedly reserved expectations with one of the ...
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The x86 CPU and Graph Theory demos are things I never imagined possible with modern CSS. Whilst I can’t pretend to fully understand the code, it’s not entirely indecipherable.
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Friday, February 27, 2026(opens in new tab)
When I was born my dad drove a 1957 turquoise and ivory Chevy Bel Air convertable. It’s what brought me home from the hospital that first time. Wasn’t long before he had to sell it because it was impractical once ...
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Croissant and CORS proxy update(opens in new tab)
Croissant is my home-cooked RSS reader. I wish it was only a progressive web app (PWA) but due to missing CORS headers, many feeds remain inaccessible. My RSS feeds have the Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header and so should yours! Blogs Are ...
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🔥 The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a…(opens in new tab)
The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a thorough simulation that I think it's convinced me to abandon my dreams of joining Starfleet when I grow up. Being a captain is no fun at all!
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How I Use django-simple-nav for Dashboards, Command Palettes, and More(opens in new tab)
I first got exposed to django-simple-nav while working with Josh Thomas at the Westervelt Company over the last two or three years. It quickly became a go-to library in my toolkit. django-simple-nav lets you define nav items and groupings in ...
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Constance Crozier: Forecasting s-curves is hard(opens in new tab)
There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that everything is exploding as an exponential ...
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Benchmarking my Markdown Blog in Rust and C# - 4.6x Less Memory, 2-8x Faster Latency on the Same App(opens in new tab)
I recently rewrote my blog from C# to Rust as a way to further explore High-Level Rust. Both versions serve the same 1,025+ posts from memory using the same architecture: parse all posts at startup, b...
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Writing My First Evals(opens in new tab)
I had no background in evals. I built two very different evaluation systems for two AI-powered developer tools, and they taught me the same lesson: trust isn't a feeling, it's a measurement.
