A long time ago (Before AI, before agentic engineering), we created code by hand. As a .NET developer, one of the most time-consuming things was crafting complex LINQ queries for the database. I’d…

I’ve watched the same mistake a dozen times over twenty years, and it never looks like a mistake when it happens. It comes in as progress. A team decides to clean something up and draws a diagram…

Cal Newport's On AI Coding and Its Discontents lands on an uncomfortable point: the speed AI gives you is paid for with the thinking that made us good engineers in the first place. Read code instead…

vitaut.net https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/complete-to-chars/ - libstdc++'s floating-point std::to_chars, every format and precision for float through long double, adds about 256 kB to a statically…

While checking if the train's onboard internet system had improved, I discovered an nice web-based dashboard showing my trip on a map fed with accurate real-time data. One thing led to another, and I…

Each week on The Great British Bake Off, the Technical Challenge gives bakers a neat sheet of instructions and a pile of ingredients, then asks them to recreate a bake they may have never seen…

Yegge's agents write 250 commits a day, so he stopped gating main. The math is right. But he didn't delete the merge queue, he deleted the one thing that makes a fix cheap.

A Modernist hydraulic tile floor, one motif rotated across the whole room, is something you'll find everywhere in Barcelona. Let's build our own in CSS Grid. Six real motifs, a whole floor of…

How Family Dashboard v3.34 enlarges the weather summary text and removes the AI-generated commentary line — and what six months of daily use on a wall-mounted iPad teaches about readability, service…

Last Saturday, my GitHub log shows thirty-one pushes across three repositories, and two brand-new repositories created eight seconds apart at 20:04. First push at 06:41, last at 22:04. I didn’t…

I’ve long been a fan of Brett Terpstra’s Marked for easily reading Markdown files. Over the years, he’s added more and more features. He’s recently released Marked 3 which, if…

zipmi – https://github.com/zenfish/zipmi – is a pure-Python IPMI/BMC stack — an `ipmitool`-style CLI plus a library where every byte is an inspectable and mangleable object. Built for…

A Better Reads system for tracking books in Org Mode.

Retro preservation treats recompilation and decompilation as rivals. They produce different things — infrastructure and understanding — and the work worth watching uses both.

Photo by @tanyabarrow. Today I’m pleased to introduce okr, a small Rust CLI for giving coding agents reproducible source context from R packages and other reference repositories. Recent coding agents…

FeedPost is a tool for automatically posting content to social media platforms.

I’ve always been a bit curious about the idea of hypnosis, and every once in a while I’d revisit the topic. I never did really know how much of hypnosis is the real deal is how much is…

Salesforce OAuth Setup for `simple-salesforce` Salesforce is retiring the SOAP API login operation on June 1, 2027, ending username-password authentication for all SOAP, REST, and Bulk API…

How we brought our Rust CI from 20 minutes to less than 5 for Comper AI Disclaimer This post was written by GPT-Sol 5.6 mimicking my writing style. After multiple 12h+ days of optimizing CI I could…

Wildfires are no longer just seasonal anomalies, they are increasingly frequent, destructive, and unpredictable global events. By the time a traditional satellite pass registers a thermal anomaly, a…

Embedded firmware must be resilient and recover even from impossible conditions because eventually the impossible happens. This post discusses techniques to make firmware more resilient and keep on…

Aliases are basically nicknames for commands. They save a few keystrokes, but more importantly they save you from having to remeber the exact command every time. In PowerShell, Set-Alias is great for…

It for now works like an advanced AI Agent, but the amount of steering needed is minimal for actual tasks, and can be done via Telegram or my MacBook via Tailscale's tailnet. It does not really get…

Event loops are a paradigm for processing events different than your typical single-threaded or multi-threaded application. Your request gets broken down into async "events" that are executed in a…

One of the dumbest questions I see asked on the Ruby/Rails subreddits is "Are Ruby & Rails still worth learning today?" (plus other variations, such as "Are Ruby and Rails still relevant today?" and…

Every time Claude Code uses the Chrome MCP it adds a new tab group, but it never cleans up after itself. This was of course already reported many times in the 5000+ open issues Claude’s GitHub.

Like many software developers, I’ve been considering the future of my profession in the face of AI.AI can write code. Our job is to write code. It seems natural that we’d be replaced by…

DRY is not free. When duplicated code is cheaper than shared abstractions: coordination costs, incidental duplication, library vs service, composition.

TL;DR: A frustrated dive into Zola’s jump to Tera 2 — where macros vanish, shortcodes die, components misbehave, and a “20‑minute migration” turns into hours of template chaos. Spoiler: I rolled back…

Qwen 3.8 is out since Friday, 17 of August. I am running it on my own server since Saturday. I am running Q4 quants from unsloth. So far it feels like a step up from Qwen 3.6 27B, which sometimes had…

This is the second of a two-part blog post on the past and future of automated evaluation of predicted semantic mappings. This part describes the implementation of a new automated workflow for the…

The developer says: [SDR Oxide is a] powerful SDR transceiver client with a GPU panadapter, dual VFOs, neural noise reduction, built-in skimmers, a full stack of digital modes, Winlink radio email,…

There is a Code Golf Stack Exchange challenge from 2020 called Fastest yes in the west . You write a program that prints y\n forever; you are scored on your source length times how much slower you…

A few weeks ago I attended VCF West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. One of my favorite talks was Making Games in the 1980s by David Crane and Garry Kitchen about the unique…

NUMBAT seminar Consistently formatted source is easier to read, review and diff, and linters alert you to problems before they become bugs. I will survey and demonstrate the current generation of…

The list-item factory this series waved past last time, done properly: setup, bind, unbind, teardown — and the leak you only see once a row gets recycled.

Originally published on the MongoDB Research Blog. There’s an arms race in database research. Every year, papers have more and more benchmarks. Researchers are spending more effort, writing…

My journey developing for Apple’s automation platform.

“Here’s today’s batch,” he said gleefully, handing over a double-bagged parcel of half-brewed slop weighing exactly two pull requests and 11,700 lines of code. The batch will reach a…

Generate tailored review personas for any project. Reads the codebase, presents a role menu, and produces persona files with domain-specific expertise, review criteria, and voice.

And with DevCon over, that's half of the year down, and I can finally start getting some rest and working on my projects! Here we go for yet another blogpost about DevCon, the local…