I keep coming back to the same wall. Onboarding to an API does not scale. We have built a generation of tools that are supposed to act on our behalf, that are supposed to wire themselves up to the…

Here is a tension I have watched play out on every API team I have ever worked with. The examples in your OpenAPI live a double life. On one hand they are marketing copy — the pretty product with the…

CAP supports the Model Context Protocol , and treats it beautifully as "just another protocol". The support comes in the form of the @cap-js/mcp plugin, which has these feature flags : { "cds" : {…

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In my last article on AI agents I talked about using Claude Code AI agent. This is an easy-to-set-up commercial solution that gives excellent results. The risk is that the pricing may not remain as…

By 2006, TOCA Race Driver 3 was compressing the per-track AI. The racing lines sit inside a pack whose first four bytes are JPAK. There is no public specification. I did not start by guessing the…

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I debated whether I should write anything about my CP application and came to realize that I need this article to provide context for formulas and scripts in later articles. You might see some large…

This article outlines modifications that I came up with to expand Chromatic Polynomials into a fully-capable language of logic. Constants instead of variables The traditional Kronecker Delta compares…

Andy and I got together earlier this week to nurdle about some more on our little quest to reimplement gunzip. As we sat down, I genuinely thought we had a tight 45 minutes. I think there is a tight…

Hello, Here’s some thoughts on software for August. Bear with me on these broad categories but I think you can group most software projects into one of these groups: art, infrastructure, and…

♠ Previously. CodeBurn shows Gen AI / LLM code usage: where did all the money burning tokens ($$) go? CodeBurn is a free, open-source, local-first tool that tracks AI coding token usage and cost…

La aplicación (o el juego) es un tocadiscos de escritorio, es decir, un reproductor musical que solo permite escuchar álbumes. No canciones sueltas, ni artistas completos, ni radios, ni listas. Hasta…

Four flags hidden in one Quantum Tetris screenshot: PRNG seed recovery, a blind-QC one-time pad, the No-Cloning 0-solve I was the only player to crack, and the Gottesman-Knill design of the one that…

A couple years after putting together the HDMI-CEC to Onkyo RI Bridge I decided to give it a bit of an update and subtle name change. There were a couple problems that I wanted to fix: The name was…

So after reducing the Flash of Unstyled Text caused by the text re-rendering when the custom fonts load, I was still getting some flashing on the “heros” (the post banners with the…

lab web experiments. details table a b c blah blah 1 2 three blah blah 1 2 three 4 5 6 seven blah blah 1 2 5 6 seven details tabs "hi" "bye" "hi" "hi!" "hi" "what's up?" details lazy embed click to…

Cancellation in asyncio is a counter, not a flag — and TaskGroup only knew how to check it for zero - Here is a program that wraps a task group in a half-second timeout, and then does not time out:…

RFC API Problem RFC API Problem implements RFC 9457 : Problem Details for HTTP APIs. This allows you to produce HTTP error responses that are structured, machine readable, and consistent. Table of…

Over the summer of 2026, I worked towards bringing the option of playing Vocab-Style puzzles to GNOME Crosswords as part of Google Summer of Code. This entailed adding support to the puzzle library,…

TL;DR: My self-hosted feed reading stack quietly shrank from hundreds of feeds down to 33 over the course of a year, and I didn't notice until my reading list got eerily quiet. The culprit: an…

Just a few days ago this little project was the poor brother of the two projects that succeed it. But hey – things change and this is now a VERY useful tool – I hope you enjoy. The…

I've shared a few posts recently talking about how I'm using Cursor to learn and employ agentic development. Primarily that work has all been done via our Agent view, but this is just one of the…

In our theory, the development lifecycle is compressed, and the decisions that are made at “transition” points are moved to later. Even “transition” here is a bit nebulous, as stages of the lifecycle…

ProjectGlass 2.0 is a search engine I've been building, and it comes down to three things I care about more than anything else: proving it's actually getting better instead of just saying so, staying…

RFC Web Link RFC Web Link implements RFC 8288 : Web Linking. This allows you to process links via the HTTP link header when processing HTTP responses. For example, the following demonstrates a HTTP…

When an application uses external components such as databases or cloud services, it’s important to test how everything works together. That’s where integration tests come in. They help ensure your…

When writing tests, it is quite common to mock a module. It can be a database, an API, or a cloud service for which you need a testable alternative. One way is to inject a custom module into…

Notes Installs cljrs ( needs Rust to be installed first ) $ cargo install cljrs Start repl $ cljrs repl Run a .cljrs file $ cljrs run somefile.cljrs Start nrepl $ cljrs nrepl Clojurust project…

This applet will export copies of the files of the tracks in one or more selected playlists to a single user-selected folder. Also see M3Unify, an app that provides many more options for…

I noticed this three days ago. I was mid-feature on my Agentic Development Environment Classis when I realized it had crossed a threshold. It could be used to develop itself. Not perfectly, but it…

Every millisecond counts during Emacs initialization. A potential performance cost in modern Emacs configurations is defaulting to setopt, customize-set-variable, or the use-package :custom keyword…

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post about previewing an Org file in your browser. If you’re like me your first thought is probably, “That’s easy. Just export the Org file to HTML…

For tech-oriented people, the AI LLMs we're all playing with are a bonanza of itch scratching. Things that previously would have been too big an undertaking to tackle are suddenly easy. I build iOS…

The same feature took a weekend on a laptop and a quarter in the product. The model was identical both times. Everything around it was not.

import mpmath milinillionthlimit = mpmath.power(2,mpmath.power(10,3003)-1)-1 decillionthlimit = mpmath.power(2,mpmath.power(10,33)-1)-1 mpmath.nstr(mpmath.log10(milinillionthlimit/2) % 3 ,1500) ->…

In Java, you find the location of a substring using indexOf. String haystack = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; String needle = "fox"; int index = haystack.indexOf(needle); Naively, you…

This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers. In this part, we'll switch to Go and see how it tackles the challenges described earlier in the series. All posts in the…

Kevin Wells has released a new version of Currency, his application that provides a way to check exchange rates for different currencies, as well as the GDP (gross domestic product) and population…

This week, I had to write CSS for a design where a list of elements got a bit of extra design treatment if there were at least three nested items inside it. <!-- Base design --> <ul…

Last Updated on 22nd August 2026 by peppe8o tested by peppe8o | DietPi v10.6.2 | RPi 4 B 4GB In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install DietPi on Raspberry Pi computer boards with…

Something interesting is happening in the app world. With the arrival of more powerful AI, everyone is building their own. We do weekly meetups in the Robot Assistant Field Guide, called…

On the rename system call.

How we built an MCP server for our guests to book their next Shoffr trip.

Claude helped me build a thing. There, I’ve admitted it, not that my use of LLMs has ever been a secret. But this was a big thing, a thing I could not have done on my own. I know because I tried,…

Discs (() => { const theme = localStorage.getItem("theme") ?? (matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches ? "dark" : "light"); if (theme === "dark")…

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