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I've been experimenting with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode for the past couple weeks, running GPT 5.6 Sol through OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro (5x) plan. Before this I only used the Claude Max plans for perso...
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Midnight Commander (mc), La Terminal, SwiftTerm, TermKit and Xogot.
A TUI to manage GitLab and GitHub projects.
The View from the Office. I met up with Jack Forehand, co-host of the Excess Returns podcast, at the Bryant Park cafe. I had the quinoa salad. Jack had a grilled chicken and Swiss sandwich. We were introduced by Sunpointe ...
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always ...
Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: How to help with computers; Batman equation; Fuck and the law; NC's ...
Topics covered in this episode: Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? Where Did All Your AI Tokens Go? AgentsView to the rescue! Careful with phishing all Extras Joke Watch on YouTube ...
Originally published on Rails At Scale. We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete ...
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistive technology: it should operate a site ...
The View from the Office. I caught up with Eric Pachman, founder of Data 4 the People, via Zoom. He was at home in Dayton, Ohio, where he moved in 2016. Eric is building an AI-assisted platform designed to lower ...
Putting themselves in customers’ shoes today, how many ads do Apple’s executives want stuck in the results when they search for an app in the App Store?
After a long absence I’m back coding with Sublime Text. I can’t remember when or why I switched to VS Code. I moved to VSCodium for a short period last year and then gave Zed a spin. These modern apps ...
Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chilling Effects; Billy Bragg v Myspace; Glenn Beck calls murdered Norwegian ...
The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes ...
In the same way that correct software architecture can bring many benefits in terms of costs and performance, a good architecture for infrastructure can significantly improve the reliability and reduce
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release and I applaud the ...
For years, "Django and async" came with an asterisk. The docs themselves warned you off it. Scary performance notes, a story that felt half-finished. Well, that story just got rewritten, literally, and the person who rewrote it is here to ...
Measure how entire components render with the Container Timing API: how it differs from Element Timing, where it helps, and how to try it today.
Sundays are for sobbingly lifting exactly one boulder from the groaning dreampile that is my backlog. Good news, Vacuity, cpt_freakout and the rest – I'm trying out your precious, precious Troubleshooter game. I hear it's a hundred hours long, so ...
Lightning CSS is not fit for purpose. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ It’s practically impossible to control what CSS is actually output. The documentation and config are infuriating on missing details. It’s not a problem until it’s a problem. As soon as you ...
Integration, studies, parenthood, the small things
The View from the Office. I met up with Kaelan Yim, a rising junior studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Bryant Park Cafe. He had quesadillas; I had the sliders. Kaelan grew up in the ...
The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion.
It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository ...
Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly credit cards; Mapping airport power outlets; EMI loves pirates; Mexican indigenous phone co-op; Sewer cover textiles; Surge ...
I spent most of last Saturday laid out in a Baku hotel room, muscles in both legs ground to flecks of useless meat by the decision to walk down a mountain when there was a perfectly good funicular right there. ...
Ultimately, when you install a content blocker extension, you take responsibility for any overzealousness in what they block.
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, was on the David Senra podcast and I quite enjoyed the interview. (If you like the interview, you should read his book.) Ed talks about what he considered his ...
If the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike’s analogue clickers were all about fine-tuning the sensation at the very tips of your mousing fingers, the HyperX Pulsefire Saga is all about adjusting the parts nestled in the rest of your hand. ...
