Two conferences in one. You can see France in the distance but then they pour wine from a can into plastic glass to remind you where you are.

I’d like to introduce gitRmap: a semi-automated map of locations that you can add your own points to. It’s designed for people who are new to GIS, but who know a little bit of Git. You can create a…

Once again, I got the chance to come to Folkestone, UK. I think this was my fifth time, but the first one at ACCU On Sea. Yes, there is no more C++ On Sea, there is no more ACCU in Bristol — they got…

What Was Radical Speed Month? While I was looking back through my archive of posts on this blog, I realized that I never concretely defined what Radical Speed Month was. I have talked about it a lot,…

Eigengemaakte, eigenzinnige projecten zijn de leukste projecten. Zeker als ze twee van mijn interesses combineren. De Poolse Daniel Janus maakte in 2022 al een handgeschreven blog met behulp van zijn…

What's new in Relay 0.5.4 (Build 19)? Reactions redesign New iMessage-inspired emoji picker: a horizontally scrollable capsule of recently used emoji appears above the message bubble. Frequently used…

Nnenna Ndukwe, AI Developer Relations Lead at Qodo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss all things agents for developers shipping software.

While building Vulcard for the Game Programming Lab at ETH Zurich, we accumulated dozens of individual sprite PNGs for icons and UI elements. Loading each as a separate texture works fine early on.…

Like many other engineers in the field I have started using Claude Code to be more familiar with the tech and to keep up with the trends. I have used Claude Code in several personal projects at this…

Volume 10 , Issue 25 ; 23 Jun 2026 Exploring the intersection of ambiguity and serialization in iXML. A, uh, tagging Tuesday post. I’ve missed a few markup Mondays. I’ve been … busy . I’ll try to…

My Standard Library [dependencies] # COMMAND LINE PARSING clap = { version = "4.5.53", features = ["derive"] } # ERGONOMIC DATETIMES chrono = "0.4.42" # SIMPLE PRETTY ERROR HANDLING color-eyre =…

If you are interested in running such demos, look into --demo mode in my local model swiss army knife localpi https://t.co/LyjwJWDjmi Thank you @googlegemma for the shoutout

Somewhere in the mid-aughts eXtreme Programming (XP) practices became widely-discussed in software. From that time forward, a strange chasm emerged in the discourse. I would stumble across large…

A couple of months ago, I wrote about starting to use Claude Code . I’m still there, still living in Claudeville. I’m still feeling plenty of things, including being conflicted in many ways. And it…

Part 2 of building cratemind: the unglamorous 80%, tempo that lies by an octave, key from 1990s music theory, and a downloader that never quietly loses a track.

In our previous post, we drew a line between two layers of an urban energy digital twin: the Truth Layer, a relational system of record that protects the structural integrity of a city's data,…

This post shows how to call the GUPTRI algorithm from C. The GUPTRI algorithm solves the generalized eigenvalue problem $A x = \lambda B x$. The algorithm can properly handle the cases when $A$, $B$,…

CVE volume is accelerating and most teams are running scripts that can't keep up. We used an agent to build a scanner that queries three databases, classifies and scores every CVE on actionability.…

This is the door handle the previous blog post was talking about. There remain a few more bells and whistles to add to it, like favourites and a directory navigation dropdown, but this perfectly…

The industry just figured out AI agents lie about their own work. In a homelab, there's nothing between the lie and your infrastructure.

Sometimes the most entertaining way to test a new orchestration tool isn't to run a standard benchmark, but to lock two state-of-the-art AI models in a virtual room and make them debate historical…

I'm a fan of not breaking the chain, and after 365 days of at least 1 code commit a day, I think I'm a better engineer.

Open source web application for learning to play piano that listens to your MIDI instrument input while you play to songs displayed as sheet music or falling notes, both with extra notation to help…

The Import Job Nobody Wants to Own Every team has one. It might be called an import service, a feed processor, or a sync job. The name varies. What stays constant is the shape of the problem: a large…

This is really a meta-level post... after attending two meetings as a visitor, most recently in Santiago, Chile, I was recently invited to join the IFIP working group on programming language…

Nobody Agrees on What a “Good” AI Code Reviewer Is. So I Studied How Uber, Meta, and Google Measure Theirs.

This week I made a refactor to remove a job ( ActiveJob::Base ) that was used only in recurring.yml , and call a class method directly instead. Sometimes it is ok to have a job, but sometimes using…

My home audio system goes through a Denon AVR-X1700H as the primary receiver. My house has three pairs of ceiling speakers: one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one in the kitchen.…

I've written about “writing the software isn’t the hard part operating it is” before. Today, I think we can say the popularity and success of LLMs generating code is proving the first part of the…

Non-commercial prebuilt Qt versions below 6.9 currently fail to link on macOS Tahoe (macOS 26). Two quick specific examples are Qt 6.5.3 and 6.8.3, both offered in the maintenance tool at the time of…

Temporal Difference (TD) learning is one of the foundational concepts in reinforcement learning (RL). It combines the notion of updating estimates before the final outcome is known, similar to how…

The Zig 0.16 release brought a complete I/O system redesign. Here is my experience migrating `cmdtest`, including the new Child process API, file operations, and what I had to learn along the way.

Use plot(1) to display tiled maps. The zoom factor decides the grid dimension. osm.js: Download tile images using hget. Cache the images. Convert the PNG image into Plan 9 format using png. Display…

Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting…

LLM Experiments: Recent Slop Projects Skip to the bottom for project list Slop that I generated and have been "orchestrating" for the past 2 months in order to "learn" LLM code generation and…

In a previous post, I covered what Retrieval-Augmented Generation is and how to prepare data for ingestion. A companion post on the ingest pipeline walks through the data cleaning techniques that get…

In part eleven of this series on event sourcing, we make a small detour to discuss consistency boundaries. I never thought much about this aspect until recently, when I watched a couple of conference…

The world runs on legacy code—hundreds of millions of lines of it. Can we rewrite it all in Rust? And is that even a good idea?

In a Slack conversation recently, someone asked “Isn’t it a big assumption that breaching WIP is always bad?” It’s a great question, and the answer is more interesting than it first looks.

What we covered:– It's been a few months since our last podcast, and in that time, we've seen a huge increase in the number of schools wanting to use Math Academy for this upcoming school year.– Now,…

It’s about agentic engineering (of course). But it’s also for the whole team working on software products as well as practicing knowledge work.

The Why Agile Works slide deck can be used for a two-hour interactive session exploring the reasoning behind agile software development, without referring to any specific agile method.

System prompts don’t work reliably for smaller models. Guidance injection delivers instructions at the exact moment they’re needed instead.

Procman is a tool written in Rust that offers a TUI interface to manage processes defined in a Procfile.

Greetings, traveler! Swift has had Result.init(catching:) for a long time. It is a small convenience initializer that runs a throwing closure and stores the outcome as a value. If the closure returns…

The 29th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (IME 2026) will be held in Seoul, I will present on Friday our joint work with Bertille Tierny and François Hu, Direct and…

I’ve been exploring and engaging in agentic software deeply for a couple of months now with a number of my own projects to learn with. Thus far, nearly all of what I’ve done has been…

Formatting should be boring, in the best possible way.

In reply to Searching for and navigating Git commits.

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