A piece of feedback to the Rails community crossed my feed this week. A team had migrated an application to Rails 8.1.3, adopted Propshaft — the asset pipeline that replaced Sprockets as the Rails 8…

gtucker.io https://gtucker.io/posts/2026-06-23-splitk-no1/ -This story started back in February when I was still finalising the core VIXI features ahead of the Renelick v1.0-rc1 release. While doing…

I've been a happy ready-player user for some time now. I consider the Emacs package fairly feature-complete, for my needs anyway. Well almost. While I've successfully migrated most of my…

After a rough start, Mango recovers and ends on a high note. Entirely improvised and played live, nothing prerecorded. Recorded in Switzerland, going from melodic electronica to some crazy noisy…

Techno to "what is this?" to let's just get done with it. Live electronic music recorded in Switzerland. Entirely improvised and played live, nothing prerecorded. If you are new to this: Hi, I'm Nils…

My Machine-Learning Instagram Bot: @rowdy_the_stuffed_dog I ran a finsta @rowdy_the_stuffed_dog for a few months in 2015, powered by the now more restricted Instagram API, a basic logistic regression…

Why a useful personal AI assistant is a systems problem, not a model problem. The runtime, memory, skills, notes, tools and cron that make it actually work.

In other shells, when you want to add a custom function, you add it to your config. Obviously. Maybe you put your functions in a separate file and then source it, but same difference. Bash, zsh; even…

A manifesto and repo policy hook which rejects commit messages with `Co-authored-by:` trailers whose entry matches common AI model names or AI-bot email identities.

In this article we look at animating the element using the View Transition API . We’ll follow progressive enhancement so it’s only used when supported and when the user allows animations to run.…

Benjamin Bürki M.Sc. thesis in Cyber

I already wrote about Toolbar APIs a few times because it is one of the most important and widely used APIs in SwiftUI. Toolbars play a crucial role, especially with the recent update to the design…

Part 6 of The Agent Platform Handbook. From Loop to Platform. Previous: Retrieval Is a Tool, Not a Layer. Next: The Model Is a Dependency. Post five gave the harness a read path. A retriever.ts…

DaVinci Resolve on Arch Linux is one of those setups that can be perfect for weeks and then break after one system update. The problem is not that Arch is bad or Resolve is bad. The problem is that…

Learn how Bulletproof React uses feature-based architecture, public APIs, TanStack Query, Zustand.

MySQL’s built-in AVG() computes the arithmetic mean — the sum divided by the count. That is the right default for many questions, but it is not always the right measure of central tendency.

Flatpak website deserved a better backend.

## Why you need the Command Line Tools On a fresh Mac, most developer tooling won't work until you install the Xcode Command Line Tools. This is a lightweight package (you don't need the full…

Recently I've had to delve into a lot of legacy products to understand how we can migrate them to a newer, more modern stack. This is something I've done a number of times throughout my career under…

A few days ago, I was thinking about the different file extensions of programming languages and realized that they look like symbols of chemical elements. Then I thought: "we could make a periodic…

I have had exactly two conversations this week about denormalization, which is a sign that it is time to write a blog post. If you already know what denormalization is, you will likely find this blog…

Gentle tour of type inference for records

There’s an interview with Simon Peyton Jones*I’m a huge fan of his trademark presentation slides set in Comic Sans I highly recommend watching. It’s full of interesting observations…

Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.

ButterKit is a fantastic resource. Creating screenshots, uploading App Store connect metadata, localization, it does it all. Buy it once forever, or just subscribe for when you need it. Made by a…

Re-ran the Xcode agent-skill export against beta 2 (27A5209h). Ten skills, none added or removed — here's every diff from beta 1, one line each.

For a long time, if you wanted to send a “Push Notification” to a user’s phone or laptop, you needed a native mobile app. For solo developers, this was a huge barrier. We had to rely on emails that…

An Entity Component System (ECS) in C23 can generate incredibly optimized SIMD instructions on Struct of Arrays (SOA) entities while emphasizing maintenance with this X-Macro approach: #define…

We'll take advantage of using temporary mpv chapter markers and FFmpeg to avoid needing to re-encode the video.

While refactoring an OCaml project, I wanted to deduplicate some code, although it was not obvious whether that would be possible. To illustrate the situation, I have extracted the following cute…

I've been a happy ready-player user for some time now. I consider the Emacs package fairly feature-complete, for my needs anyway. Well almost. While I've successfully migrated most of my…

The Polling API gives PHP 8.6 native epoll and kqueue at last. Here's why the RFC nobody discussed is the most consequential in years.

A developer's review of Tabstack, the Mozilla-backed web API that gives AI agents clean extraction, browser automation, and cited research without a scraper.

I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the last months I have watched more and more people…

A developer guide to the Gemini Interactions API, text generation, streaming, multi-turn chat, multimodal inputs, structured output, tool use, managed agents, and background execution from a single…

Why every avatar in my chat app looked green or purple (and how color science fixes it)

Your Most Reliable Employee Is a Folder What never sleeps, never negotiates, has no opinion on return-to-office, and cannot be left alone for ninety seconds without doing something you will have to…

I have a copy of SICP, or as it is also known, The Wizard Book. This book is widely praised, but I can’t take the time to work my way through all of it. However, sometimes I jump into parts of…

A 256 byte adaption of an infamous screen saver for ROMA.EXE 2026.

--> --> --> For the past few years I’ve kept this chart running: the daily mean temperature in Spain against its climatological normal, with the anomaly shaded in red (above normal) and blue (below).…

Contents A Damaged Painting and a Legacy System Pose the Same Question The Original State Is a Myth That Destroys What It Touches Preventive Conservation Acts on the Environment, Not the Work Brandi…

Why forward momentum — not planning, not tooling, not the perfect architecture — is the only thing that actually ships a data platform.

A free, browser-based toolbox for fintech engineers and payment ops teams - parse NACHA ACH and ISO 20022 files, validate in real time, anonymize sensitive data, and track Fed cutoff windows. No…

I created an extension of my indieBlog bundle for Pure Blog, to implement workout mapping, tracking and analytics on your own Pure Blog site. Demonstration indieFit project is here:…

Switching from the regex crate in Rust to Resharp makes Ratchets run 15% faster on the Sculptor codebase

Loop engineering convinced me. Not because it’s clever — because done right, it doesn’t bankrupt you. This post captures where I’ve landed: a responsible way to run loops at scale…

See what's new in `munki-mscp-generator` 2.0, built on mSCP 2.0.

Using a Custom Deployment Protection Rule (GitHub App) to enforce environment promotion ordering and ServiceNow change ticket validation across any workflow, in any repo

I love Honker, I just wish they simply published prebuilt extensions to download, rather than requiring rust to build it from source… So here's a quick solution: github actions spinning up runners…