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Every pixel should mean something. A product that does this is as if its creator is saying: I respect your time.

I know, I know. It's all you're hearing about. That, and the number 4 . Don't get me wrong, there's clearly a bug here and it really does matter. But this is not easy to exploit. It is certainly…

Markdown Mate is a simple, quick editor that gets most things right Markdown Mate is a free markdown editor available on the App Store. It is simple, quick, but does not do wiki links, so you won’t…

My institute wants me on a VPN to send mail, but I made that VPN carry only my mails and nothing more.

A new package to add hearts, reads, reader highlights and a stats page to your own Astro site

This week AgentTacho, my small incubating macOS menu bar app for tracking agent usage, got a feature that refreshes its numbers whenever I open its menu. Before the merge, agents reviewed it at every…

I now follow three websites or feeds whose authors write in French; in at least two cases, the authors write in both French and English. When I see posts in different languages, I use Firefox’s…

My notes on how Mohnish Pabrai built his career by copying Warren Buffett, plus the research on why copying a proven method works and how to do it well.

My notes on David Epstein's talk for Inside the Box: why limits on how you work beat a bigger goal when the path isn't clear, his four reasons and examples.

SpaceX's third-quarter report & DeepSeek's inference disclosure together price one GPU card-hour four ways, from DeepSeek's theoretical $38 maximum to SpaceX's realized $2.44. Combined with a payback…

elote v1.3.0 added four rating systems: Massey, Keener, Pythagorean expectation, and Whole-History Rating. Three of those were invented specifically to rank college football teams. The library…

PHP When I was conceiving the current iteration of twoprops.net, I made a deliberate decision to move away from WordPress and other web content delivery systems that I felt were too complex to be…

A small macOS app for preparing LinkedIn posts, built with Tauri, Rust, React and Tiptap. It's an experiment for learning technologies I don't use day to day, not a product.

Remember that death is the best form of reinforcement learning. A scenario where mutable rogue software exists, and 99.9% of it is successfully caught, is one where we’re guaranteed to get highly…

Your workload shape decides your Snowflake or Databricks bill far more than the rate card does. The units measure different things. A Snowflake credit pays for warehouse compute, billed per second…

My one-year-old has taken his first steps!

Originally published on Rails At Scale. The title was bait to get you to open this article. But fear not! We will be generating code at run-time today. (See the PR for a sneak peek.) Sam popped into…

Or, IC UC we all C for ICs. In many dynamically typed programming languages, objects look like a big ol’ mapping of names to values. The languages encourage this flexibility. Consider for example…

Domestic models carry the volume, and US models are kept for the hardest coding.

Attention in a transformer is usually explained with math: queries, keys, values, a dot product, and a softmax, as in the paper that introduced the transformer, Attention Is All You Need. The math is…

Flagpole is a feature flag service built on kit, where every HTTP standard is there because the domain needs it. Building it found four bugs that kit's own tests never caught.

Epic just announced "Connectors," a framework that invites outside software developers to plug their services into Epic’s AI assistants using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Testing begins late…

As you may have noticed, September was a productive writing month, while October seems not be; you would be mistaken, for I have taken upon the challenge to write my Sunflowers story more thoroughly…

I juggle between personal and work accounts for both Claude and Codex, and I wanted all of them available in OpenCode . Most people set up local LLM proxies to pool their accounts into one bucket and…

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Today, the PHP team disclosed two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The highest risk is mod_php , where an exploit can run before application code even…

I weighed the ingredients of 32 meals to determine precise nutrients, and then compared the numbers against AI estimates. Claude Sonnet 5.5 underestimates protein and energy, enough to ruin a typical…

Every web developer knows this email: “Can you make the button on the about page a bit bigger? And the text under the photo is wrong.” Which button? Which photo? Be more specific! Then…

A list of books read or listened to by me in 2026.

A good deal of digital ink has been spilled on the benefits (or lack thereof) that AI may bring to the field of accessibility. Thus far, most of this discussion has been focused in two areas. First,…

A report for the 1st session of my Mythic Bastionland campaign.

Previously i already reviewed [ultra budget IEMs] . And they are totally worth their price in the budget category. CORE METHODOLOGY OF IEM TESTING Aim of this methodology is to deliver simple…

I don't use Chrome, as I dislike Google's blatant disrespect for my privacy, so instead I use Ungoogled Chromium as my browser [1] . Because Ungoogled Chromium is a community-run project, they are…

Dynoxide 1.4.0 is a smaller release than 1.3.0. There's a community contribution, a new way to stop an embedded server, and another round of fixes that bring updates and scans closer to DynamoDB.…

For a long time, visual SaaS apps have been the go-to solution for professional tooling. But with coding agents, this is changing – and the apps we build now need to work just as well for the agents…

Part two of the MXC field report: before wiring containment into an agent harness, I mapped every place it actually executes something — and discovered my plan had a category error. What a review…

Where I think AI takes science over the next decades, and why everything outside math has to be checked against nature.

How fast is a diffusion LLM in practice, what does it get right, and what does it cost per right answer? Two use cases, 13 model configurations, about 63,000 jobs, measured end to end over public…

I have an app in my head I'm tempted to 'vibe code'; the reason why I'm reticent might not be what you think. (But it might be that, too.)

An autonomous loop is an expensive way to run a for-loop you have not written yet. Use agents to map messy work, then compile stable paths into code.

One week of Inselnova development in numbers: 66 AI sessions, 154 tickets, two releases, and the development lifecycle I use as a solo indie developer with a day job.

On automated code reviews:

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Brand rules and structured content empower live sites and designer Figma files.

On an Arduino there are libraries to drive sensors. On a Linux desktop the hardware is automatically configured and abstracted. But what about embedded Linux? What about a Raspberry Pi? This is where…

Taking a second after trying to reconcile some weird work documentation differences to play with clouds some. Low scatter, high haze, zeroed out Mie scatter, high rayleigh scatter, low star…