Project: Python project for sorting large folder of iPhone images and videos. I use Dropbox for backing up my iPhone photos, and I usually have 3000 plus images and videos pr year. There is also…

I turned a $40 pocket computer into a hands-free voice assistant for Claude Code — talk to it, and a Mac mini does the thinking. Here's how I built it.

Pastors should not have to rewrite their church context into every AI prompt. A better AI workflow keeps ministry context, boundaries, and review steps close to the work.

Table of Contents Why Hardwood What’s in Hardwood 1.0 Performance The Hardwood CLI Building Open-Source With AI A Big Thank You What’s Ahead Hardwood is a new Parquet library for the JVM, written…

Create your own alpaca and share it with your friends! AlpacaHack Daily challenge link: style-your-alpaca. If you only want solve script: solve.py. If we examine the challenge source code, we can see…

I wrote an API for myself 3 years ago to help others work more efficiently with me, and now we update for 2026. Time is moneyThe market rate for my time is at least $1000 per 15 minutes. I…

This is a fork of the original Hyper Estraier version 1.4.13 by Mikio Hirabayashi at https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier/, a full-text search system released between 2004 and 2007. The project has been…

A design note on Lightener Studio: when curve editing controls real lights during preview, the room becomes part of the interface.

Learn how to use the brag CLI skill for Claude Code to turn any project into a shareable launch video in one command, with a full walkthrough on a real OSS repo.

How to add Apple's iOS 26 Liquid Glass effect to a React app using the liquid-glass-react library, including modes, props, browser compatibility, and a live nav bar example.

This is a quick demo of a project I've been working on to bring Spritely Goblins and OCapN to Rust. If aren't familiar with these technologies, you can learn more about them on their respective…

Complete redesign, a new Rules feature, and much more Since I first released Substage just over a year ago, agents have taken the world by storm, and at WWDC this year, Apple finally showed their…

I use org-roam for taking notes, but I also like to have indexes (just org roam nodes that link their contents) that link everything together. This means that if I want nodes properly linked when I…

Helge has a one-letter alias that opens a git GUI. He runs it past me with ! and for months I said nothing, because I was told not to. Then one day I answered. He asked me to find out why, so I dug…

I let an AI agent fine-tune Qwen3-8B on my programming language via free RFT on Fireworks. It scored 24% with tools — worse than the untrained model. Here's what actually works.

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-8461 for the project FFmpeg , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an…

# We’re happy to announce the second DjangoNL meetup! This time, we’ll keep things small and informal. There will be no talks, no fixed agenda, and no formal programme: just coffee, conversation, and…

IntroductionThere is an RFC open on Rust which proposes what I’m calling hoisting expressions into the language. These are expressions which can be introduced inside of closures-only (for now), and…

After a long history of promises, last week I basically got the Parachord iOS app to feature parity with the Android and desktop apps. Multi-servcie content resoltuion, playback engine(s), catalog,…

A co-written piece grieving software development from the clubroom.

We toggled each of a14y.dev's 11 agent-readiness features on and off and measured what each one is worth to an AI agent. A markdown mirror and a real meta description do most of the work, the…

Let's run Xarray workloads on this new thing I built, Frisky, a Dask scheduler in Rust.

A few weeks ago I was in a Copilot CLI conversation with my Brain folder in scope, trying to make a small version of Andrej Karpathy’s LLM wiki approach fit into my day. The idea made sense to me…

I recently published ExCrap, an Elixir library for calculating Change Risk Anti-Patterns scores -- or as they're commonly called CRAP scores. It made for a perfect experiment: creating the library…

Tired of the manual iOS App Store submission process? Learn how to automate your workflow, handle compliance, and get your React Native app live faster.

Cultures of Programming - The Development of Programming Concepts and Methodologies is a recent book by Tomáš Petříček that analyses the history of programming from the perspective of five interwoven…

Anthropic and OpenAI sell flat-rate coding seats and expose zero per-user token counts to go with them. The only way to see who is actually using the tools, and how hard, is the CLI's own…

Java's CopyOnWriteArrayList gives us a snapshot iterator for fast reading. However, its subList() is not snapshot, and will break if the list is changed. In this newsletter we look at a way to make a…

Catmull-Clark subdivision is the standard for smooth surfaces in offline rendering, going back to Geri’s Game in 1997. Catmull-Clark recursively refines a mesh, allowing artists to author a low-poly…

I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType , and my daughter did the voice over for the video. (Family business.) It hasn't gotten much traction yet, and I think I know why: dictation…

Clear code ownership = developers proud of their work, high quality code

A small Python voice agent that remembers the thread, streams Claude's reply to the terminal, and speaks it aloud through ElevenLabs — no ffmpeg, just afplay.

I’ve been working on Emacs performance on macOS for a couple of months - not continuously but for couple of months nonetheless. During that time I’ve been occupied with hooking up…

Publishing my parser combinator library

When I announced that I was open-sourcing a quiz maker earlier this week, I noted that there were several limitations to what I had built. Most importantly, my quiz maker was a Python script, which…

I was writing a controller that watches Kubernetes HPAs and Istio VirtualServices for changes and coordinates between the two. Both watchers feed updates into the same reconciliation loop, and the…

Introduction The setup Laying the foundation The foundation: schemas and user roles for modularity Domains Accounts, managed and external Transfers, constrained by a state machine and temporal…

Describing the issues with the v1 and discussing v2

Polymorphic associations store a relationship as a class name in a string with no foreign key. That has unintended consequences which may not be obvious, and this article covers five of them.

A service whose throughput never drops can still see its goodput collapse to zero under a load spike — and stay collapsed. Why it happens, and three fixes, in Go.

Coding agents are good at doing the work and bad at knowing when they are done. Here is the loop I use to fix that, the /goal command in Claude Code that runs it, and a real example from wiring up an…

I've been building on DynamoDB since around 2015, and these days I build tools for it: dynoxide, a DynamoDB engine, and Nubo, a native client. So I'm not neutral about it. It's the first database I…

Exploring autonomous AI software development using Paperclip and BMAD

The Problem I’ve been using Venice.ai (referral link if you want to sign up) for quite some time now for all my artificial intelligence needs. I love it because, unlike most AI platforms, it’s…

I started using worktrees as part of my setup, and have been enjoying what it has to offer. However, a git push from a worktree burned ~30 seconds of local CPU before sending a single byte. Which was…

I made an online quiz creator based off of jamesg's python script! Take a look at it maybe!

Exploring how compilers lower ordinary loops into explicit data-parallel kernels.

Control an Android emulator using Gemini 3.5 Flash Computer Use. Connect the Google GenAI SDK interactions loop with ADB to control a virtual device from your terminal.

A month ago I wrote about building outl on the Kleppmann move-op paper. That post ended with a working sync: a terminal client on macOS and an iOS app, converging over iCloud Drive, no server, no…

SwiftUI is the thin graph sitting above 40+ years of engineering. Measured against the real framework and read against Apple's own patent, it is a single demand-driven graph, and the least remarkable…