I have three shell aliases (j, s, z) for just, stree ., and zed . I dug through 7 months of shell history to find out how many characters they've saved.

As I get older, I have to recognize that some pains are inevitable . I worry a lot about my health and I get anxious about small symptoms. I know that I am kind of a hypochondriac. My pattern is as…

tag(s): #random-thoughts #pic This weekend I had to head to Home Depot to get supplies for some house repairs.[1] And of course I took some time to wander the aisles and look at tools and supplies…

A desktop research workspace in Laravel and NativePHP. Streaming SSE into a queued job, distilling reports with a local model, and why cosine similarity cannot tell a paraphrase from a contradiction.

Ten files open for a one line change is either layering working correctly or one idea smeared across a codebase. The count does not tell you which, and git history does.

Uber burned its entire annual AI coding budget in four months — the full allocation gone by spring, no controlled overrun flagged in planning. Three-quarters of enterprises watched AI costs blow past…

The Catharsis of Robot Gore... Keep reading

Imagine you're enjoying a really premium SSH session when the remote host's network drops out long enough to cause your client connection to hang, and things are past the point of recovery. And,…

Since 1975, U.S. newspaper publishing employment rose from 376,000 to a peak of 474,000 in 1988-89, then collapsed to 82,000 by 2025 — an 83% decline from peak, even as total U.S. private employment…

Caching can make an AWS application faster and cheaper, but the wrong cache can serve stale or private data. Learn where each AWS caching option fits and what it costs you in complexity.

When games start feeling more like work than fun - complexity, grinding, multiplayer, and just messing around.

The iOS Simulator is a wonderfully fast place to build an app — right up to the moment the app needs something that belongs to the physical world. Bluetooth discovery returns nothing. There is no…

Why spec-driven development is useful to product managers, designers, and engineers, especially when AI can write the code.

Listen to the audio version A foggy coast is a machine for making us overconfident. A pale flash appears beyond the water. We look once and say, “Lighthouse.” It is a wonderfully useful word. It…

Late at the bench, I put a question to ATLAS: What's the best use of our planet's resources? Here's what came back. Big question, and an honest one. Let me answer it straight rather than dodge into…

Qwen 3.8 27B This week was interesting for local models with the open-weights release of Qwen 3.8 27B. It was highly anticipated, because Qwen 3.6 held the crown for a long time in open models of a…

TLDR I am not working full time right now, which means I have free time which is dangerous. You start by reading one V8 blog post and somehow end up trying to make Google’s Chrome open…

Web Wandering 2 Spidah. It’s been rather sticky of late. The plants are suffering and my sun screen budget has spiralled out of control. Luckily it seems we’re through the worst of it for this year…

I had a need to deploy a small VPS recently and I wanted it to be reliable and secure so I gave FreeBSD a try. This was also a great excuse to play around with something I've been curious about for a…

My fair(s) experience.

Which mostly meant having less of it.

There has been constant fighting with the latest crop of AI models.

Introduction In previous articles, we showed how to test whether two qualitative variables are related thanks to the Chi-square test of independence in R (and how to compute it by hand). Both…

The Scooter I still remember using an electric scooter for the first time and feeling a strong sense of guilt and physical laziness as I effortlessly glided over the concrete. With a few hours of…

I watched a team write a careful test suite for a feature, then kill the feature two weeks later because nobody wanted it. The tests were wasted effort, and worse: they made the feature harder to…

A production system ran reliably for years until bot traffic exposed hidden technical debt, exhausted its SNAT ports, and brought API calls down. Let's dive into what happened and explore how it…

You can bypass/automatically solve Hcaptcha on any website

A lot of people have the wrong idea about fundraising. They make fundraising a really complex thing, making it seem that you have to change your entire personality, or lie, or somehow try to fool…

If I go through the halls of X, I would probably come back with a very confused opinion on the state of open source today. On the one hand there are examples like opencode with tons and tons of open…

In 2017 I wrote a post called Modernizing Pedalwrencher: Whatever That Means, about dockerizing a two-year-old Flask app and moving it from Heroku to AWS ECS. Reading it now is like finding a letter…

Mofy is a personal, offline-first movie app with no cloud API calls. Making search understand human-like queries meant ruling out generative models after four failed attempts, and fine-tuning a…

My latest library haul Quiet places for soothing your soul. Unassuming spaces where you can wander for hours, lose yourself browsing the shelves, discovering hidden gems or just enjoying the peace. A…

A new PHP test-double library built for developer experience.

cli.dev is a shared home for the tools, products, and experiments I build and maintain.

I don't have much to write in regards to my work in progress today because, well, it's the same sweater I've been knitting all month! I'm very happy with the progress I've made on the Lillesol…

A home mail server with no open ports, reachable from my phone over WireGuard, without any subscription fee.

Part of the Nifty Django features series: The documentation now includes mentions of third-party packages and community maintained solutions, go check them out!

Over the last months I have purchased and become interested in 3D printing. ...

Let's render a simple page with Ktor server and kotlinx.html : get ( "/users.html" ) { call . respondHtml { myLayout ( title = "Users" ) { userList ( users = db . users . value , ) } } } A reusable…

Kubernetes is a container orchestrator, which requires a compute. To power a compute unit, you need electricity. Creating electricity can result in carbon emissions, which is bad for the climate.…

My baby boy isn’t really a baby any more, at the ripe old age of 13 months.

Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual…

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Learn how to guard against losing data when deserializing JSON to limited properties and the serializing the object again.

No part is the chariot. Yet "chariot" is a useful name for parts assembled in a certain way. Nāgasena says it is the same with him.

Earlier this week Michael made a request on their blog to post about some kind of obscure game, and of course I wanted to participate. I considered talking about Mirrors , a fascinating PC-88…

The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything. It is building an orchestration of models and letting a local orchestrator choose the right one for…