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USB-C is overrated! #mechanicalkeyboards #raspberrypi #3dprinting #keyboard(opens in new tab)
AIL Badges(opens in new tab)
AIL badge scale showing levels zero through five/images/ail-scale-chart.webp/images/ail-scale-chart.webp AI Influence Level/blog/ai-influence-level-ail has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did. Text ...
★ Temu Is a Comically Bad App(opens in new tab)
Shop like a billionaire.
All the RPS Supporter rewards for July 2026: space battles, messy desks, and puzzling dreams(opens in new tab)
As previously explainderised, not only do we want to do a better job of rewarding RPS Supporters with exclusive articles and other fineries, we want to a better job of highlighting what your patronage gets you, including the chance to ...
Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek(opens in new tab)
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for ...
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Email from Apple: We’re reaching out to let you know that the iPhone Upgrade Program is coming to an end. Thank you for being a loyal member. Awwww. Sad trombone. I’ve been on this program for as long as I ...
NVIDIA is taking on Anthropic?(opens in new tab)
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!(opens in new tab)
We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property! Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! originally handwritten and ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 127(opens in new tab)
End of the contact form saga(opens in new tab)
I can’t take it anymore! If you want to speak to me, send an email. My contact form is out of service indefinitely. This is actually in lieu of moving my professional services to a yet to be announced limited ...
What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More(opens in new tab)
The soon-Baseline sibling-index() function for animations, CSS and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, use cases for the infinity keyword, container "stuck" queries, and more. What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More ...
20 years ago, Dead Rising showed a different path for open worlds, and more games should pinch its ideas(opens in new tab)
Photojournalist Frank West is heli-dropped into the Willamette Parkview mall, following a tip-off that there’s something sinister going down in the sleepy Colorado town. Impressively undeterred by the sight of people eating each other by a school bus during his ...
Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Poul Anderson; P2P at PC Forum; Waitress handed her own stolen ...
Self-Host Weekly (31 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Yes, but can it run Jellyfin?
Friday, July 31, 2026(opens in new tab)
Add Another Way To Mark Keyword-Only Dataclass Fields as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
116: Coldcard Wallets Compromised(opens in new tab)
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work(opens in new tab)
Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.
AI models need moral support to make discoveries(opens in new tab)
What the Singularity Actually Means(opens in new tab)
What the Singularity Actually Means/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp The singularity might be my favorite idea in all of AI, and it has a real, specific meaning that I find way more interesting than the way the word usually gets used. ...
Open Weight AI Models Explained for Everyone(opens in new tab)
Dog destroys vacuums! 🐶💨(opens in new tab)
Camping in an EV?(opens in new tab)
Battery Wasn’t the Problem(opens in new tab)
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load(opens in new tab)
CodePen 2.0(opens in new tab)
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and ...
2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD(opens in new tab)
Thursday, July 30, 2026(opens in new tab)
Codeberg, wtf is this ban(opens in new tab)
To escalate its relationship-straining putting contests, Golf With Your Friends 2 is turning to chaos and custom courses(opens in new tab)
Before friendslop, there was friendgolf. Sorry, Golf With Your Friends. Released in early access in 2016, Blacklight Interactive’s devilishly competitive crazy golf sim ended up joining Among Us as a Covid lockdown darling, allowing those of us bored with pretending ...
I'm Running a Live Handwired Keyboard Workshop!(opens in new tab)
NVIDIA calls out Anthropic(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Wau Holland; Diebold voting ...
🔥 When I'm AFK, I want to just create issues and…(opens in new tab)
When I'm AFK, I want to just create issues and reply to them and have an agent spin up, do stuff, and wind down. order_taker seems to do that p well. https://github.com/searlsco/order_taker
Book Recommendations and Notes(opens in new tab)
These are my recently read books and some comments and notes from when I read them. As I love books and recommendations by others, I want to share them in a collective format so others can read gems of books, ...
The Answer to the Harness Question(opens in new tab)
The Answer to the Harness Question/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp Martin Casado posted something about AI harnesses that captures where a lot of smart people are stuck right now. On harnesses, I vacillate between three beliefs: the...
You have been mislead about lightbulbs(opens in new tab)
There's a story that goes something like this: In 1925, lightbulb manufactures secretly colluded to standardized lifespans at 1,000 hours. They would test each other's products to ensure compliance. This is true. At the time, many bulbs lasted longer than ...
Add Run Scheduled Action To Commit Regular Updates as a GitHub Action… (opens in new tab)
The Dink (2026) ★★★(opens in new tab)
The AI Aesthetic(opens in new tab)
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of existing software interaction paradigms. For example, there’s the hamburger menu (≡) which saw a ...
How the controller-runtime Cache Actually Works, and Why Your Controller Does Not Crash the API Server(opens in new tab)
This article has been revised since it was first published, to correct several significant technical inaccuracies in the original text. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for distributed workloads, and writing your own controller for it is now a ...
I'm not going to 100% roguelite strategy spinoff Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, but it does breathe new life into some of the series' oldest features(opens in new tab)
I’d put my six-pounder anti-tank guns in the perfect position to halt the Tigers’ advance. The German tanks would have to cross the bridge, keeping them packed together, and the derailed train on their flank would keep them from spreading ...
Before Satoshi(opens in new tab)
ATPROTO isn’t just for Bluesky weiners(opens in new tab)
Wednesday, July 29, 2026(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM; Aussie mall v photos; English town x CCTVs; Pay no taxes x Big ...
Fix indentation of latest TIL (opens in new tab)
Add Dedent Common Whitespace From Multiline String as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Web-Perf Wednesday 002 – The Metrics Don’t Tell the Whole Story(opens in new tab)
CrUX’s seasonal decline, Safari 27’s user-experience fixes, richer INP attribution, and long-session third-party costs all demand better interpretation.
