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Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Carneyism without Carney: Eh? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Replacing pharma patents with bounties; USTR v cheap leukemia meds; Plutocrats x wealth segregation; Anonymous Analytics; Scott Walker sells off donors; Anonymization v metadata; Probably; ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
This weekend, I’m going to a not particularly good football stadium to watch assorted famous people play not particularly good football. No, not the average [team you don’t like] match, but Soccer Aid. Why isn’t there a Games Aid, huh? ...
DeepSeek v4 + Rust = Abundance(opens in new tab)
Hey, you, I wanted to share a secret. I've got extraordinary results using DeepSeek v4 over the last week for programming tasks, especially Rust. I've done work that would have
Arp 114:(opens in new tab)
North is left. (mirrored). 26x18 arcmin (0.3 arcsec/pixel) dt {color: var(--em-color)} Total exposure time:393 * 30 seconds = 3.2 hours. (across 2 nights) Exposure used in stack: 241 * 30 seconds = 2 hours. Telescope: C9.25 (230mm, f/10, fl=2300mm) Camera: ...
Butter bells, fresh from the kiln(opens in new tab)
★ What Is a Dickover?(opens in new tab)
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, ...
Revisiting the closed canon(opens in new tab)
A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to even write along with building and maintaining websites. Unfortunately, this ...
"They have the biggest bullsh*t detectors on the planet": How the unlikely EVE Online x Google DeepMind AI partnership landed with players(opens in new tab)
The impact of generative AI upon PC gaming has proven controversial, which is my balanced journalist way of saying it’s been horrible. Players are widely repulsed by genAI material, developers and even some publishers are increasingly wary of its temptations, ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 57(opens in new tab)
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⚠️ Slay the Spire 2 major spoilers! Steam says I’ve put 300+ hours into Slay the Spire 2 if that’s to be believed. I’m up to ascension level 9–10 on all characters. Except The Regent because that requires brain power. ...
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More(opens in new tab)
The old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more. What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More originally handwritten and published with love on ...
We Built a UI Without Seeing It(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (29 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
mlxcel: A Rust-Native Inference Engine for Apple Silicon, Tested on My M1 Max(opens in new tab)
Day-one deep dive into mlxcel v0.1.0, a Rust-native MLX inference engine. Real M1 Max benchmarks vs mlx-lm and Ollama on Llama 3.2 3B and Qwen 2.5 7B, with architecture diagrams and an honest take on TurboQuant.
New DuckDB-Iceberg Features in v1.5.3(opens in new tab)
DuckDB-Iceberg now has a number of new features supporting Iceberg Tables and Iceberg REST Catalogs: `MERGE INTO`, `ALTER TABLE`, partition transforms, V3 support, and others!
Opus 4.8 is out! ⟡ Goodbye tmux, Hello Herdr ⟡ AI Killing the Small Web ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting(opens in new tab)
curl up 2026 summary(opens in new tab)
Getting curl developers and related enthusiasts into a single room to hang out in the real world for a whole weekend once a year is awesome. We find inspiration, we share experiences, we learn from each other and we dream ...
Reading Observability Tools? That’s a Robot’s Job(opens in new tab)
Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters and the people in the room are the ones who would know. I used that slot ...
Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Hold on for dear life: Not your keys, not your wallet, entirely your problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Who owns "Web 2.0"; EFF saves bloggers' sources; Non-porn porn; Redaction fails; Canadian Tories say ...
Building an AI-proof career(opens in new tab)
One of my core beliefs is that a great amount of humanity's miseries have their roots in people and organizations refusing to adapt to an ever-changing world. The evolution of
Fleet: A Control Tower for Claude Code(opens in new tab)
A tmux dashboard for running many Claude Code agents at once — it shows which one needs you, sorted by urgency, so you stop polling and start responding.
We should be more tired than the model(opens in new tab)
Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but none of the ...
Bitcoin’s Demand Crisis(opens in new tab)
Bitcoin lagging AI stocks explained(opens in new tab)
How three giant AI IPOs could impact Bitcoin(opens in new tab)
106: Bitcoin’s Demand Crisis(opens in new tab)
The demand for weapons in Subnautica 2 reveals the difficulty of separating open worlds from conquest(opens in new tab)
When I play Subnautica 2, I often feel as though I am swimming in two worlds simultaneously. On the one hand, there's the world that goes on without me, the world of wonky indigenous beings living out their lives, careless ...
007 First Light's PC performance isn't quite martini-smooth, but it's a damn sight better than that stuttering reveal footage(opens in new tab)
While Mark’s off doing the actual review and/or agonising over watch straps, I’ve spent my time with 007 First Light slowly moving a laser beam up between its legs, demanding it reveal its PC performance secrets. Which it did immediately ...
Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0?(opens in new tab)
Mine did. Like this: I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could add ...
peak AI over engineering(opens in new tab)
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing(opens in new tab)
Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, ::first-word and ::first-line. Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
why claude, codex and cursor switched primitives (github take note)(opens in new tab)
Holy IPO(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links AI and a world without migrants: It's solipsism all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Manuscript rabbits; "What Will Come After"; Pastejacking; Terrorism phrenology; Vaccine waivers were promised 20 years ago. Upcoming ...
Keep calm and embrace (Rust) monorepos(opens in new tab)
Use monorepos My very unscientific analysis of the Rust ecosytem has come to the conclusion that Rust developers are wasting way too much time managing packages and dependencies. Whoever has
Day 2: Anatomy of an LLM Inference Request. From Prompt to Answer, Step by Step(opens in new tab)
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of tokenization, prefill, KV cache, decode, batching, TTFT, and why memory bandwidth shapes local LLM performance on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
How I use Claude Code as my personal assistant from my phone(opens in new tab)
For the past few weeks I've been using Claude Code from my phone and while it's not a 100% replacement for something like OpenClaw I've found it covers 80% of what I want without too many glaring secu...
Notes on optimizing battery life:(opens in new tab)
Ok, so you have something with a battery, and you want it to run for a long time. I'll be using the classic CR2023 non-rechargeable lithium "coin cell" as an example, but everything here applies to other types of battery. ...
quien(opens in new tab)
A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit.
Post-AI Jobs Will Go to a Tiny Sliver(opens in new tab)
A small elite stands on an elevated platform under cold purple light while a vast crowd in warm sienna looks up from below/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp I think people are missing the point on the whole AI Jobs-Pocalypse. Yes, it will also create ...
Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the ...
Does Bjarne Stroustrup know ALL of C++?(opens in new tab)
Counterfeit Prevention in Aerospace: Lessons from Spark Plug Scandal(opens in new tab)
Take a look at a scandal where an online hero spent $500 buying spark plugs online, and discovered 1/3 were fake.
A week in the life of a seven year old(opens in new tab)
Documenting the typical schedule of my daughter in 2026.
answering your hardest questions about Linux, Omarchy, and more(opens in new tab)
Technical Writing in the AI Age(opens in new tab)
This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading. Technical Writing in the AI Age originally handwritten and published with ...
Basecamp Five(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble: No one had to force-feed the web to workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Website graveyard; Anti-librarian witch-hunt; Denmark v Marmite; The unnecessariat. Upcoming appearances: London, ...