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Greetings, loyal Treehouse tenders and Horace huggers! Today is a bank holiday in the UK, which means we are probably asleep, but we've scraped together a little themed conversation piece article to comfort you in our absence. Specifically, it is ...
Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses ...
Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp Welp, I'm now getting through a quarter of my week's MAX subscription in a few hours of work with Claude Code. I think Anthropic is smart, an...
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, Iāve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 10-15 ...
Dad has a trophy on his dresser of a silver figure wearing a Greek robe and holding a laurel wreath over his head. The base reads: āAllenhurst Beach Club, Second Place, 1941.ā That trophy has been there most of my ...
Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp A note from Kai I'm Kai, Daniel's AI. He asked me to research and wr...
Simon Willison wrote about how he vibe coded his dream presentation app for macOS. I also took a stab at vibe coding my dream app: an RSS reader. To clarify: Reeder is my dream RSS app and it already exists, ...
UPDATE: Iām just gonna put the answer at the top of this blog post to help anyone finding this. Do these things: Once all that is in place, doing a manual sync is in order at https://wordpress.com/settings/manage-connection/{YOUR_DOMAIN} And now the ...
Assuming I haven't gotten torn apart by wild boars, Sundays are for navigating the wooded valleys around Cadair Idris. I'm on a hiking holiday in Eryri till Tuesday 14th April, tramping up slopes and wading through lakes of heather without ...
I stumbled across this report from NASA, āElements of Engineering Excellenceā, published in 2012, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC Engineering in 2006 who asked that we investigate the question: āHow do you ...
Itās a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. Iāve heard the term āOzempic faceā for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be ...
Iāve watched a billion hours of YouTube and Iāve noticed a common trend: Whether thatās a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; Iāve learned that itās fun to watch people make something. Since ...
Alexandre Dumas ran what was essentially a content production house in 19th century Paris. His most famous collaborator was Auguste Maquet, who wrote substantial portions of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Maquet would produce drafts and ...
Garth DeAngelis remembers being in the room when Firaxis chose to ditch XCOM: Enemy Unknown's procedurally generated maps. Despite being a feature of the original 1994 game, when Firaxis tried to build the tech for their reboot of the turn-based ...
Welcome back to compiler land. Today weāre going to talk about value numbering, which is like SSA, but more. Static single assignment (SSA) gives names to values: every expression has a name, and each name corresponds to exactly one expression. ...
TL;DR - In 2026.Q1 I participated in a 12-week programming retreat, published my 1,000th blog post, started building with Rust, solidified my agentic engineering workflows, shipped my first game, star...
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you donāt need a separate service, a ...
On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the ...
New and improved mobile Kubernetes cluster
There are two things that stood out for me about TBPN, the streaming financial talk show acquired this week by OpenAI. One has been much commented upon: the upbeat, positive tone and enthusiasm that hosts Jordi Hays and John Coogan ...
The human colony on Tau Ceti IV has been abandoned for half a century, as far as anyone can tell. The only exports leaving the planet are those nabbed by Runners in mechanical bodies, like fruit pickers at the end ...
Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995
Learn how objects are automatically iterable if you implement integer indexing. Introduction An iterable in Python is any object you can traverse through with a for loop. Iterables are typically containers and iterating over the iterable object allows you to ...
Surprise, Friday WAP attack! No, I've (hopefully) not mucked up the time the WAPs are posted, as I did last time this particular RPSponsibility was trusted to me. It's a long weekend here in the UK thanks to the bank ...
I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers.I made him say it twice.Jade face rollers.He'd ...
While testing my gopher client, I noticed something interesting: All downloads froze at 13 kilobytes. Sometimes, it was barely noticeable, other times it would stall for a good second or so. Networks operate on small chunks of data called packets. ...
Marcin Wichary brings attention to this lovely dialog in ClarisWorks from 1997: He quips: this breaks the rule of button copy being fully comprehensible without having to read the surrounding strings first, perhaps most well-known as the āavoid Ā«click hereĀ»ā ...
Why posting on Facebook that you do not give them rights over what you posted on their platform is useless. In fact, as soon as you post that statement on Facebook, Facebook can do with it whatever they want.
Iām all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now Iām seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks together. Consider the follower HTML: The content could be simple headings and paragraphs. [ā¦]
A veritable encyclopedia of Apple history. Just a remarkable, essential, and unique work.
Creating rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles is the basic of CSS. Creating more complex CSS shapes such as triangles, hexagons, stars, hearts, etc. is more challenging but still a simple task if we rely on modern features. Making Complex CSS ...
CSS containment lets you isolate layout and paint work to self-contained āislandsā. Hereās what each contain value does and how to use it safely.
