Using Cursor and Claude, a 5-person engineering team can now build a billing webhook handler, a customer import tool, a Slack alert...Read More... Source

Step one in the quest for good transit in Kingston: hexagons, census data, and a whole lot of ST_Intersection.

AI-built SaaS apps can work, but the expensive cleanup starts when nobody supervises the system design, data model, auth boundaries, and production workflows.

Python is open-sourced?! Wow I really want to learn how it use it now...

--> Hello, loves! Some thoughts on how I work. It takes me a while to get there. If I got there. There must be an idea in here somewhere. How I [think I] work. Added in Post It takes me a long time…

My work here documents the transition from building features to building reliable, transparent interfaces. I've learned that the most important code I write is often the 'truth' I report to the…

I have shifted my view of the development environment from a sequence of commands to a persistent physical space. This methodology focuses on the 'spatial' reality of the terminal, turning accidental…

Recently I was reviewing some shell script a colleague had written: if grep -e '@[^@]\+@' "$DIR/install.sh" ; then I thought the \ before the + was a mistake, and also pointed out…

Godot supports loading resources asynchronously. This is extremely important; when creating a game, if you ever need to load anything from disk, you don't want your game to freeze while things are…

I narrated my book in my own voice without recording a single chapter. The whole thing runs locally on a Mac, costs nothing, and sounds like me. This is the build, step by step, including the failure…

You give an agent everything a project has produced: every Slack message, every deck, every status update since kickoff. Then you put a dashboard and a chatbot on top, so anyone can ask where things…

As part of my previous post reverse engineering the Denon XML API I talked about my love for the Golf sound effects in Nintendo Switch Sports, complete with a way to build an ambient soundscape. But…

Recently an interesting series of commits landed in Prometheus with the goal of reducing the size of the Prometheus binary by allowing the Go linker to remove more unused code ( something it's quite…

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It is indeed not optimal. Unfortunately, it is also hard to solve.

Use custom --commands with a native command event listener and a React callback ref cleanup. Read it on the web

For the past few months I've been on and off working on a new package for Emacs, which is my first attempt at a proper major mode "application". It is a wrapper/frontend for Gomuks, which is a Matrix…

A small story about CAD software, ownership, and changing while it is still your choice.

Hot, hot, hot, man. Too hot. Uncomfortably hot. Dynamic Ecto Queries and PostgreSQL Query Plans – this is an interesting demonstration of how small code changes can ruin query performance. Well,…

Over the last six months I’ve been polishing and optimizing Tofu Engine’s software renderer. Yeah, I know… a full and detailed devlog on this topic post is due, but while I’m organizing my thoughts…

A walkthrough of setting up Nous Research's Hermes Agent on a Hetzner CX23 box — OpenRouter, Telegram gateway, Obsidian sync, cron jobs, and the skills that make it feel like home

The more distributed a system, the harder it is to secure. Code crosses JVM boundaries. Objects are serialized across trust boundaries. Third-party proxies run inside your process. The usual answer…

i’m getting a bit allergic to the way Chat Box Generated Prose always overuses headings so i might just not put any headings at all in this post. we’ll see. make a terrible comic day might have been…

I wanted to do an analysis of where the Node ecosystem is going into the next few years, and in particular around the security layer Node provides. With the rise of AI, supply chain attacks are…

IT Philosophy. Perfectionism, as the industry practises it, is the chase for the last ten per cent, and that last ten per cent costs more than the ninety that came before it; the polish rarely earns…

This post is a reflection on over ten years of Emacs usage. Why did I even start using it? How has my usage changed over the years? What's the future looking like? I'll discuss this and a whole lot…

CodeMine https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260610-custom-software/ -Using LLMs for vibe agentic coding teaches you some things. For example, building working prototypes doesn’t require you…

Every successful Rails monolith becomes a ruin if it survives long enough. This post is about why, and what a recovery looks like from the inside.

After one year of using Omarchy, the thing I value most is not the Linux setup itself. It is the learning environment I built around it.

I am developing two new themes for my minimalist 'doric-themes' package.

In an earlier post about gguf-runner I made a point that kept nagging at me afterwards. The point was this: prebuilt binaries are compiled for a conservative baseline so they run everywhere, and if…

Improving my self-hosted Laravel deployments. I updated a handful of Coolify-hosted Laravel apps recently to get zero-downtime updates. Gone are those few annoying seconds of “no server available” I…

I started programming on calculators in the late 70s. Always fascinated with the HP-41 that came out in the 80s. Did a huge number of projects on that beauty, including lots of Assembly programming.…

The bug your angriest customer is emailing about and the bug wrecking the most lives are almost never the same bug.

tmux trick #3: open URLs without the mouse

Last time I hand-rolled a 256-way sharded map and crowned it the best concurrent cache in Go’s standard library. The top question back: what about the popular libraries? So I added xsync and…

The pace of AI improvement has meant the way I build software looks very different to how I did six months ago, and again six months before that. The change over time is now so constant that it's…

I gave an agent one brief and pointed it at my own platform: connect as a real MCP client, exercise every tool, and find every place where what the tool says and what the tool does disagree. Review…

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With regard to builds, a cohort of companies using agents are leaping across the Bazel ROI boundary. The way that software companies tend to grow and evolve is that they start out with a few people…

There's a browser game called You are the OS where you play as a computer's operating system. Processes request memory, users get impatient, the machine dies if you can't keep up. It's a sim about a…

A simple rule for choosing between Scheduled Tasks and Scheduled Messages in Codex.

Three separate people sent me the Fintech Engineering Handbook this week, which is usually a sign the document is answering a frustration engineers already had. It covers the fundamentals of building…

Now we get to the part everyone thinks is the whole thing. Spectral is the open-source linter that runs rules against your OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, or honestly any JSON or YAML artifact you…

Wenn ein Coding-Agent ein Ticket abarbeitet, baut er sehr häufig eine zweite Implementierung neben den vorhandenen Pfad, ohne den bestehenden zu benutzen. Das Feature funktioniert, die Tests werden…

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Most programming languages have a way to detect if it’s being run in a terminal.

I learned about the Sub-1€ TRX challenge from Ismo (OH2FTG) - thank you (maybe for getting me addicted?). The constraints Sub-1€ TRX, with LCSC parts. This excludes the PCB, so it can be 10x10…