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This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows. I have fully adopted uv into my workflows and most of the time I want my coding agents to use uv workflows as ...
Today's links Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender": The history of digital rights, from the very beginning to this very moment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Tariffs and monopolies; Paperclip dodecahedron; Class war comix; Glenn Beck's brain; Iceland ...
Vibecusation - noun - an accusation that a human has presented AI generated work as their own, without explicitly disclosing the work is slop. Typically done with scorn and asserted without evidence. Found on social media and comment sections. I ...
Release: asgi-gzip 0.3 I ran into trouble deploying a new feature using SSE to a production Datasette instance, and it turned out that instance was using datasette-gzip which uses asgi-gzip which was incorrectly compressing event/text-stream responses. asgi-gzip was extracted from ...
Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...
A few months ago, I did something radical. For radical, picture me skateboarding ungainly while installing Linux - or, to be more precise CachyOS - on my PC. Windows 11 had just been bugging me too much. On top of ...
Today's links Process knowledge: We also serve who stand and wash. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chicken Little; "Anya's Ghost"; Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty. Upcoming appearances: Toronto, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, London, Berlin, NYC, Hay-on-Wye, London. Recent ...
While Rockstar continue to delay GTA 6, there's at least one developer out there with the guts to release their open-world crime 'em up. In Samson you slip into the well-worn getaway driver shoes of the eponymous hero as he ...
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
Morning coffee read: Under the hood of MDN’s new frontend. Big fan of this code snippet: MDN are using a similar conditional import technique to the one I stumbled upon. The difference is that I lazy load based on a ...
For the past several years I've been building server-side rendered apps using hypermedia libraries like HTMX and Datastar to sprinkle in interactivity where it's useful. I like this approach because i...
Today I’m very happy to share that Mario Zechner is joining Earendil. First things first: I think you should read Mario’s post. This is his news more than it is ours, and he tells his side of it better than ...
An extensive financial terminal, in your terminal.
While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...
We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp We're missing a much bigger point on Mythos. It wasn't even trained specifically for cybersecurity.https://x.com/slow_developer/status/2041913962623611032?s=20 It's just that mu...
There’s so much going on in the AI space, and how to work with AI agents is changing every day. Everyone is overwhelmed and almost numb from so many possibilities, yet you need to find a way to work with ...
I don’t see the path from here to there, where *there* is a justification for a trillion-dollar-ish valuation.
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up ...
Sometimes you can say a lot by talking less. A good illustration is the approach taken by the leaders of the four big bulge bracket Wall Street firms – Goldman, JPMorgan, Citibank and Morgan Stanely — on earnings calls. I ...
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...
Aiming to do for Scrabble what Balatro did for poker, Beyond Words gives you the same framework of a rack of tiles and a board upon which to make words, and also a set of ridiculous power cards that see ...
Cascade layers, specificity tricks, smarter ordering, and even some clever selector hacks can often replace !important with something cleaner, more predictable, and far less embarrassing to explain to your future self. Alternatives to the !important Keyword originally handwritten and published ...
Imagine going from a 100-million-row dataset to an interactive analytics app with just a few prompts. What used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes by combining local-first databases and BI tools with an agentic coding ...
We’re seeing a sharp rise in Big Tech and unscrupulous VC-funded grifters piggybacking the good name of open source. These parasites love their buzzwords and doublespeak. Look out for red flags like: “Developer experience” “Unified toolchain” “Production grade” “Privacy-preserving” “Democratising” ...
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Check out Big W's new ISO 9001 Lead Implementer certification!
Did you know that Jesus gave advice about prototyping with an LLM? Here’s Luke 14:28-30: Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money ...
Chrome 145 introduces the column-height and column-wrap properties, enabling us to wrap the additional content into a new row below, creating a vertical scroll instead of a horizontal scroll. Looking at New CSS Multi-Column Layout Wrapping Features originally handwritten and ...
It seems that every week we're reporting on news of another wave of layoffs at a big game studio. In March alone, we saw 1000 staff let go at Epic Games, 124 at Eidos Montreal, and over 100 at Ubisoft's ...
