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Everything Is a Leaky Abstraction* *in ma­chine learn­ing One of my fa­vorite blog posts of all time was writ­ten by Andrej Karpathy nearly ten years ago. In it, he de­tails how he would re­quire the…

JavaScript arrays are a famous source of trouble. E.g. when you access index out of bounds, you don’t get an exception, you get undefined. This, by the way, breaks type […]

Installing custom models, benchmarking engines, running custom llama.cpp versions and more with the Lemonade CLI.

The plan in Keep the Gems ended with "Falcon and Ractors last, once each request is cheap enough that the server model is what matters." Last week that point arrived. On the Campfire benchmark , the…

If you're interested in contemplating your dreams, we made an app for that. Dream Club does everything I want a dream app to do: Jungian, Lacanian, and Deleuzian interpretations, reflections on…

…that is not missing anymore :) I just added the source code for the following games that were (for some reason I guess) missing from my GitHub:

It’s finally October and as you may know that means Hacktoberfest! This year the theme is open-source and AI. If you want to share Ham Radio / AI tools check out the event next week at the…

Beni is a statically typed functional language that compiles to JavaScript.

A weird but powerful machine tool calculator The post The funky IRMO calculator appeared first on Nathan's Possibly Interesting web site.

https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/ Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick

Intro Rarely, but consistently, people using regular expressions meet a scenario where a regular expression becomes incredibly slow. This is called "catastrophic backtracking". There are multiple…

Cron is useful for scheduling backups, cleanup scripts and other recurring tasks. Its compact syntax can be difficult to read, especially when a schedule combines lists, ranges or several day…

I built composable Copilot CLI statuslines so you can check PRs, issues, and subagents at a glance, then open GitHub links without searching your session.

Ghost served me well for nine years, but I wanted my blog to be plain Markdown in a git repo. Here's how GitHub Copilot CLI helped me get the initial migration working in an afternoon, then polish…

This post shows how to use a type of infinitary trees to characterize the behavior of lambda terms.

events: communication operations as values Wrapping events Composing choice Building on events Guard events Handling cancellation Cancellation in the print service Wrapping up loose threads closeing…

This complements the previous link I shared nicely: most developers don’t properly use the platform, but why? This goes into possible reasons without being judgemental, and to me they make a lot of…

ygo says a Go program and a JavaScript Yjs client produce identical bytes for the same edits. I checked, found where that holds and where my own test setup broke it, and probed what the decoder does…

Replace Wolfram Alpha holiday lookups with local Python calculations while keeping Home Assistant countdown sensors, personalized speech, and seasonal lighting.

I’m fairly certain that most software should be open source. Over several decades I’ve developed the habit of starting projects that I strongly desire to be around for many years only to…

A Game Boy cartridge on which a small robot learns a maze by trial and error, inside the ROM itself, with no PC, no server and no stored answer.

📌 Summary 84% of 1,800 surveyed Rails developers use PostgreSQL in production. While PostgreSQL is less popular than Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server today, the gap is shrinking. Win a signed…

It is about 5 years since I published Yet another incarnation of my ongoing scrobbles in which I wrote about my music database that I am entertaining since around 2005 and that I used for various…

Over the past year, I’ve wanted to learn how to build with the new generation of AI coding tools. I’ve spent most of my career working with engineers and product...

For all my Mac apps of any notable complexity, I like to include a comprehensive (hand-written!) user manual. See the Octavo user manual and McKinley user manual for examples. The documentation is…

How I use Linear to write articles, work on my website, and publish from anywhere without a local development setup.

I will use the term “consoom”. It is not a typo for “consume”. You will understand what I mean.

Building an app that scratches your own itch has never been easier. All I had was a link, two station names and “if that would not be too much”. From that I got a detailed spec, and an…

Learn how to apply MVVM in SwiftUI. Find out what a view model actually is, what it’s responsible for, and how it fits between your views and your data. A clear, practical introduction with real…

Vibe code your own harness tools. Like building your own lightsaber, it teaches you how the thing actually works, and it should be cheap enough to throw away.

Hey friends! In this week’s newsletter I write about the interfaces for data in light of Claude Dashboards. There’s also links to articles on software factories and data, agentic…

Some time ago I read this blogpost. They wrote about logging changes to table using a trigger, but one thing that caught my attention was: Storing only the changed columns made the log five times…

Understanding hydration mismatch errors and what to do about them.

The SwiftLeeds Talkshow 2026 Today, I’m getting ready to pick up my wife and son at Manchester Airport. I’ve been in Leeds for the last couple of days attending SwiftLeeds 2026. This was…

Last time we started a JezzBall clone by allowing you to move a cursor around the screen and draw lines across the playing area. This time, we add balls bouncing around. Will we get far enough for…

serde is one of the foundational crates in Rust. Its serde_core/Cargo.toml contains a dependency that can never be compiled. # This cfg cannot be enabled, but it still forces Cargo to keep…

As a kid I began my foray into the world of programming with Liberty BASIC, thanks to a free copy in the back of a "For Dummies" book. I looked it up recently and the website still looks like…

I’m sure this will age like fine wine, but the title is obviously an allusion to Epic’s statement “programming is hard”, with which they justified their decision to fully vibe…

The background on this site has a groove now, and you get to pick it: eight genres, from downtempo all the way up to drum'n'bass.

I was travelling last week, and got back to Mike rebasing the zink-video branch and using LLM powerups to fix the final bits of it. We had been locked in a death stare for a few years, and he…

Week of October 10 – October 16, 2026: the Bytecode Alliance patched a high-severity filesystem sandbox escape in Wasmtime, the engine many products use to run customer plugins; Cloudflare acquired…

Many programmers learn TLA+ through PlusCal, with a model checker that keeps telling them they’re wrong. The syntax is never the hard part. What takes time is the meaning underneath it. What exactly…

In some previous posts, “Pushing NuGet Packages To An Online Repository with the NuGet Client” and “Pushing NuGet Packages To An Online Repository with dotnet nuget” we looked at how to push nuget…

A practical reference for managing Ruby versions and project dependencies with rbenv, RubyGems, and Bundler.

Twenty years ago I wrote WGAfakap.exe, a simple windows application that removes the Windows XP Genuine Advantage Tattoo. WGAfakap was widely used around the world to help individuals or companies…

If you’ve built anything with PocketFlow, you know its appeal: the whole framework is about 100 lines of Python. A workflow is just a graph of nodes, each with a prep → exec → post lifecycle,…

What better way to learn Lean than to implement a bespoke home battery management system? I’m going to do that in this series of blog posts, porting my Go implementation over to Lean4. The UI…

This week, I had some time to play with Astra and work on tasks I had left aside for a couple of months (or years…). And the good thing with AI is that sometimes, letting those tasks and projects sit…