I’ve been thinking a lot about code generation with AI agents lately, and wanted to start writing a bit about how I’m approaching the pro

Expanding into Latin America is not the UK game of branding. Here is how traditional data science found the hidden, government-backed markets the incumbents never saw, and turned a sub-$1,000 trickle…

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who…

Before Orbit can place a workload or reclaim a core, it has to know how to say what a workload is. That sounds like the boring part. It isn't. The shape of the object model is where Borg and…

(Note: I've updated this post: see the solution at the end .) Emacs has a useful function called bookmarks, where you can make short names for files you visit often. But bookmarks has one terrible…

Posted 28 June 2026 When I work on significant projects like the vision-enhanced robot project, I generally hold two different but related mental maps for the overall project. One map describes the…

Yesterday’s post, “.NET 11 Preview - MIME Type Lookups”, looked at how to get the MIME type of a file given its extension using the new MediaTypeMap class.

tl;dr; The pls package on PyPI is an abandoned Python version (last released as v6.0.0 in 2023). The actively-developed pls was rewritten in Rust and now lives at pls-rs/pls. If you installed it with…

Agentic coding and Free Software - getting started with LLMs with WindSurf systemd for Linux SysAdmins - there is a book out about systemd - history and usage vmsync - released vmsync . A small…

There is a familiar version of the Amiga story. It is the one filled with bouncing balls, sampled drums, scrolling game maps, ray-traced logos and teenagers learning how far they…

Bloom filters and their descendants trade a bounded, one-sided, tunable error for a space collapse exact structures can't match. The whole family, with the math.

I am working on a project that combines Swift, Raylib, and Raygui. I don’t really know what the end-goal is here, but I am having fun. That’s enough for me to work occasionally on that. I…

Hello, SDL! 2026-06-28 Commit: 03feb13 All projects have to start somewhere. The rendering infrastructure is set up to render a fullscreen quad. SDL_GPU is used as the rendering abstraction. The…

Even order-of-magnitude improvements in performance may not matter.

Interesting tutorial by Jonas Hietala on designing a personal Pebble watchface . I like the idea of using a watchface to display personal information, and this tutorial provides a good starting point…

Traditionally, when setting up a developer machine, instructions include something like “install the following tools using Homebrew”. What if we could always have tools available without…

I made a classic mistake when building my voice journal cleanup system: I tried to orchestrate everything at once. The idea was elegant. Spawn multiple subagents, process all unprocessed journal…

Added demos of subqueries, series, and aggregate functions.

I decided to add this to my online notepad because it's such a simple thing to want to do, but trying to look it up often returns excessively complex solutions (using Perl, for example). It's doable…

Friday's release post announced wearable support. This post covers both wearables in detail: how watchOS works, how Wear OS differs, and the small amount of code you write to reach either one. What is

How many tokens does “building a SaaS project” cost and how many of those are non-requirements? The parts you need but are not core to the product. I have asked my trusted codex to build…

Ray Zeitler has a useful post that describes how to solve a niche problem involving Emacs diary and Org mode. The problem is you have an event scheduled in your diary and you want access to an Org…

Anthropic ran a randomized trial in early 2026 where engineers learned a new Python library, half with AI assistance and half without. Both groups finished the tasks at the same speed. But the AI…

I've just done a quick update to BlogMore , bumping the version to v2.44.1. This release fixes an issue with auto-cover generation where, if you changed some properties relating to a post (or the…

I keep my recipies on my website, and like most of my website it grew over time instead of being designed. A couple years ago I added some progressive enhancement that puts checkboxes on the…

After getting sick of no reliable, token-efficient way to collaborate on docs with agents and humans alike, I built my own.

Starting is free now, so I start everything and finish nothing. On the compulsion loop of agentic coding — and why stopping and resuming are _the_ skills to play with now.

Sometimes my tmux sessions will crash. This is super-rare and seemingly random so I just accept it. Today I figured out why and resolved it.

Three ways to do it, and the plumbing that's reshaping all of them.

As a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) my job is to manufacture customer-product alignment.As Nina has pointed out, I love documentation, guides, thinking in procedures, and systematizing relationships…

A Blender issue #152467 (“File Browser thumbnail cache broken with large amount of images”) reminded me to write this up. This particular issue is a (documented) surprise that when you…

In this post I like to describe the current dilemma of using JSON Schema for structured AI outputs and how TypeSchema can be used as a clean, alternative data-modeling layer to generate both native…

Recently I’ve been experimenting with local LLMs for coding. Up until a couple of months ago I was a happy GitHub Copilot subscriber. I’d been quite satisfied to let other companies take on the cost…

Export a [[git difftool]] as text, HTML, PDF, or image for seeing and sharing changes with others in a nice visual way.

Modern application with a UI running in [[Terminals]]. Tools Development & APIs posting - [[API Client]] like [[Postman]]: A modern API client that runs in the terminal. Neovim option:…

Your system can be scalable, secure, and beautifully designed. And still be the wrong thing to build.

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I’m happy to announce the release of Newspipe 12.1.0. This version brings a reimagined reading experience, a few features I’ve wanted for a long time, and a much smarter crawler under the…

Every CRM quietly fills up with the same person entered three different ways — and you pay for it in wasted marketing, wrong reports, and split histories. I measured three ways to find the duplicates…

I've updated Rogallo to v0.4.0. The main new feature in this release is support for capsule-requested user input. There are some other simple additions too. I've added a Reload command, bound to F5…

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In the article on the multi-armed bandit we used Bayes to decide between variants: shifting traffic toward the one converting best while the test is still running. Now we take a step sideways, while…

Here’s a question I can’t stop chewing on: why is some software so damn good, and most of it so… not? Not buggy. Not slow. Just bad. Bad in a way you feel in your gut the moment…

Self-review your pull request before requesting eyes: catch the cheap defects at the cheapest point and halve reviewer round-trips. A five-minute pass.

Basic Proof Techniques for Software Engineers

The problem that started this was not philosophical. We were trying to write down our SDLC. Not the aspirational one on a Confluence page, the real one, the one an auditor could follow and a team…

BumpPtrAllocator is LLVM's bump allocator (arena allocator): each allocation bumps a pointer within a slab, and everything is freed at once when the allocator dies. It backs Clang's ASTContext, lld's…

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A few days ago, in The Rungs , I reached for a phrase to describe something I'd found reassuring: two doors, one room . I'd been teaching a Rails application to compile itself into nine languages,…