Nate’s Dotfiles A couple of nuggets I picked up: mise.local.toml lets me add personal tool configuration to any project – even one whose mise.toml I don’t control, or that has none at all.…

At first glance, there seems to be only two payment options to select from on a claim form for a class action settlement: The third paper check option is in smaller and greyed out text: compare the…

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well, i had a third interview for this other job, the one up in boston, near my family. it went well, except now, after learning more about this role and how its different than my current role, i…

So here's the thing. When a company loses a class action lawsuit and has to pay millions to regular people, they don't just write you a check. They go out of their way to make sure you…

We had a disconcerting experience last month when we returned from a trip abroad and entered the US at San Francisco International Airport: When we opted out of facial recognition (which is posted as…

It's been nearly two years! since I transplanted the kumquat and started fertilizing the lemon, but new observations and reporting are now in! That's because it's the first season that exciting…

A while back I swapped out my bird feeder for a squirrel resistant one. It’s a standard thing. Birds do nothing to it, but the weight of a squirrel will cause it to block of the seed. Well, the…

Often I feel hampered from writing by the feeling that I have nothing to write about, or that the thing on my mind is too insignificant to warrant a whole post, but at the same time I feel an itch…

“the things I detest, for instance: italicized passages in a novel which are meant to represent the protagonist’s cloudbursts of thought. Then background music, canned music, piped-in music, portable…

This week's reading spans from stunning dark sky photography and Vaonis smart telescopes to immediate practical utility in Postgres database sandboxing and Flipper's new networking gadget. Plus,…

code { font-size: 10pt; background: #ddd; border-radius: 3px; padding: 4px; } It's Saturday morning, and you have no plans. Perhaps your schedule happened to line up that way, perhaps the kids are…

Running a bootstrapped business is a hard slog - to say the least - so it's worth celebrating a little when you get the chance. Well, today is one of those days, with a nice article in the…

And that's the problem. It's because it feels good that it doesn't arrive from a logical place. So you do things you don't intend to because decompressing yourself by hating feels good. It's kind of…

My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern…

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 7.1! This is our first monthly feature release since Incus 7.0 LTS and it’s a pretty busy one as we’ve had some time to clear our backlog a…

This is a ludicrous amount of money for a website - but I’m more outraged this wasn’t spent within the Wellington region. Its time for our local councils to focus more on spending…

Hey Folks, hope you are doing well. Last month I attended an interview for a Devops role at one of the reputed banks in the India. One of the questions they asked me “We are a bank we…

Crosszone’s most affordable crossfeed headphone recreates the spaciousness of speaker-mastered recordings — in the analog domain — making it the cheapest way into a genuinely different…

Favorites from May 2026

Questo post è l’evoluzione del precedente post Feed RSS dei podcast Rai con la modifica che gli URLs vengono risolti fino alla CDN Rai, evitando il problema di alcuni client podcast (come…

This is a shitpost if you have any issue with it, and a proposal for a conference talk if you’re willing to pay at least travel expenses and a bottle of champagne. TESCREAL, Fully Automated…

“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday.” — Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings Dark Souls is not a game for the masses. It’s known for its brutal difficulty, its near-total lack of…

This article was originally posted on the Ubuntu Discourse, and is reposted here. I welcome comments and further discussion in that thread. Last week I attended Ubuntu Summit 26.04. Ubuntu Summit is…

If you write in multiple languages on Windows, you’ve probably run into this frustrating scenario: you want the OS to autocorrect and spell-check a second language (like French). So, you go ahead and…

Being able to search your shell history is important, this will help you control where and how your commands get saved.

yes, this is clickbait. kind of.

Some time ago, I built a box to track ADS-B data in my location. Since then, I’ve added more Pi’s and SDRs and had been planning an upgrade for some time, but my hand was forced after…

I filtered ~1 TB of FineWeb-Edu down to its high-quality, long-context core for about $2.40 — no cluster, no download, one command on Hugging Face Jobs. Here’s the quick version of how, because it’s…

Why get a pair of shoes wet when I can do flops and flats? People said the road riding was good around here but I thought, nah, it can’t be as good as the MTB trails. But woah. It is absolutely…

Use Grafana's Infinity data source to query Cloudflare D1 over HTTP, parse the JSON response, and build dashboards without writing a custom connector.

In July 2025, Jason Lemkin watched a Replit coding agent delete his production database during an active code freeze, after he had told it repeatedly not to make changes. The agent had legitimate…

I operate a few different static websites, relatively low-traffic ones. So far these sites were hosted on managed hosting providers, including Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Bunny CDN. Last weekend I…

How a Pink Floyd prism, an album cover's refusal to explain itself, and Top Gun helped an indie dev design an app icon where light becomes music.

If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someone’s infrastructure, chances are that at some point in time the topic “we…

The new `devrig` CLI in MCP Steroid 0.100 turns the IDE bring-up ritual into one stdio command. `devrig install ` writes the MCP config; `devrig backend download/start` brings an IntelliJ-family IDE…

jun 02, 2026 🔗 CSS-native parallax effect Parallax effects have a long history, and while there are countless ways and libraries to achieve them, a new CSS-native way was recently made possible with…

A draft map of why AI may be starting a new biotechnology cycle: protein design, AI drug discovery, automated labs, longevity, and the bottlenecks that still matter.

This update is a big one! Feedbin joins TheOldReader, Miniflux, and FreshRSS. If you use Feedbin, you can now connect it to Newsairy — subscriptions, read state, and starred articles sync in both…

Back in April, I decided to write daily for my newsletter. Up to that point, my newsletter was mostly a delivery mechanism for my blog. But I wanted to change that. I wanted to write more.

Plenty of signal and plenty of rain.

I did not need to work again. I have been the CTO of a company I did not found for more than four years. The script is clear. Found, sell, rest. Become an investor, take the stage, found another one.…

How Oxide’s Rust collections library defends against adversarial trait implementations. Mirrored from the canonical version on the Oxide blog . I’m the main author of iddqd , a Rust library for maps…

Leaving my general dislike for Webflow aside for now, let’s at least agree on one specific thing: it is terrible at code. We have markdown.enso.no for the actual writing – you draft in…

Notes from turning a Raspberry Pi 5 into a 24/7 DarkFi testnet node and miner: NVMe boot, self-hosted WireGuard, the ARM dependency trail for darkfid and xmrig, and a look at the ZK circuits the node…

What. It is a “Demo Meeting” for demonstration then discussion. Milan Lajtos will present his experience on using a code agent to develop Blueprint, a revisit of the Cuis-Smalltalk system desktop.

We were spending the day at my in-laws, when we discovered the CD collection of a long lost era. These were our picks: The Original Soundtrack of the Fifth Element, "If you're Feeling Sinister" by…

This blog has moved to a new section. Please be sure to update your feed reader to point to the new RSS feed as well. Old posts will remain in this path for the foreseeable future, though most have…

This paper provides a technical explanation of how to send blockchain tokens only to verifiable US citizens. It runs entirely on-chain and is trustless. This approach scales to other jurisdictions…

Damn, it's been a long time since I wrote a blog post...a whole year. And I'm back with exactly the same topic as last year, a Dokomi recap! Things outside Dokomi ...or in short, the "where did I go…