Dialing up sensitivity for explosion testing, it won’t be (quite) this easy to trigger a platewide evacuation. The shockwave is faster than the speed of sound and the light front advances slower than…

Intensely fixated on the upcoming BDSiM update, which is rapidly becoming my single longest piece of writing by a wide margin, to the detriment of my sleep cycles and other hobbies. Now tinkering…

I met with Salve J. Nilsen briefly on 2026-10-21. Salve is in the process of writing up an OSS Ecosystem Steward document with all the details. In brief, the Perl Mongers relevance, if I'm…

How to decide what an agent should remember, where it belongs, and whether it helps the next task.

Every current OpenAI model, ChatGPT plan, and tool, with prices and what to pick by job. Checked regularly.

From mathematical proofs to biological discoveries, AI is connecting ideas across disciplines, bringing new scale to Don Swanson's "undiscovered public knowledge".

The hardware and software I currently use

Apps I’ve been using regularly this year. This is my second year doing this. Here is last year’s list. Inspired by Jeff Triplett and catalogued by Robb Knight’s App Defaults. What…

An honest braindump on how pairing Gemini Antigravity (Gemini 3.8 Flash on Medium effort) with Cloudflare eliminated site maintenance friction, accelerated content, and transformed both my blog and…

Vagrant has long had a hosted service for boxes. 2014’s v1.5 release announcement contains the earliest reference I could find, and not long after in early 2015, I’d created a Ruby client in…

After years of business continuity management for large e-commerce platforms I cannot build systems without infrastructure as code, full automation, and a tested recovery story any more. Nobody…

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-94300 for the project BIND 9 named , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to…

Summary In today's episode, I explain why creators should judge content that AI writes by its quality and customer value rather than reject it solely because a machine wrote it. Here's what…

Island Operations talk at PART On Tuesday evening, October 20, 2026, I gave a talk at the monthly meeting of PART of Westford, my local radio club. The meeting had an island activation theme. I went…

A deep dive into the three major versions of HTTP that dominate the web today and how they evolved to meet the needs of the modern internet.

Actualización: los parches ya están disponibles (PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 y 8.2.35). Las versiones corregidas, los detalles de los dos fallos y las mitigaciones oficiales están en PHP2Shell: ya hay…

Mensara gives your team and its AI agents a shared Mind, with access and changes you control. We're opening a waitlist for our founding group.

I've built this app for myself to trim down demo videos by cutting off sections where nothing happens, e.g. when waiting for a command to finish. I could use a video editor, but I don't want to spend…

With cheap code, learning matters more than implementation

=== was true in dev and false in prod

A leaked Cellebrite datasheet quotes a working range in meters, skips the entire iPhone 17 generation and stalls at iOS 26.4. A researcher thinks he knows why. I review the argument, check where it…

AI didn't make software less valuable. It removed the disguise that building it was the hard part. Notes on supply and demand, where things may be moving.

Exploring the benefits of creating an MCP server for AI agents and its potential for growth and distribution.

My brain loves to draw comparisons across fields, especially if they are visually based. The Gartner hype cycle was created in the '90s to represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of…

Neutrinos don’t interact strongly with regular matter. Countless neutrinos stream through us all the time with no effect. But neutrinos weren’t always so weakly interacting. In the…

For a decade, 'rewrite it in Rust' was a joke, because rewrites took years. In 2026, Ladybird, Bun, Meta's React Compiler and GitHub's Copilot runtime were all ported to Rust with AI agents in weeks,…

Coding agents are writing more and more Rust, and a lot of people who know Python or TypeScript are about to start reviewing it. Rust from hello world to ownership and borrowing, explained with…

Several years ago, I had to tell an engineer that their performance was unacceptable. This is a conversation I’ve had several times over my career as a manager, and it’s never an easy conversation.…

View from BenCab Museum's Café SabelI’m out of the corporate world since April. I felt a huge weight lift off me the week I sent my resignation letter. The past year has been really tough and I kept…

I had to make a personal decision this week. I don't feel comfortable sharing details, but I want to reflect a bit on the process. I used AI (Claude Opus 5) as a consultant. It's good at rephrasing…

I guess it's a good time for a new Rust Glancer version (BTW, if you're seeing this for the first time, Rust Glancer is a new experimental LSP that targets using no more than 100MB of memory while…

#243 — Updated installation guidance : Documented Mason and Scoop support, linked the merged Neovim configuration, and clarified how to install a newer server binary independently of editor…

Marisabel is hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival on a theme of Pages . It’s no secret I love notebooks . Whenever I start a new job, one of the best parts is going to the book shop and picking up…

Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, they’re technical, but I don’t think they will tinker too much with the media stack…

Smart leaders are scrutinizing where AI can genuinely lighten their load, versus piling more on their overworked brains. Here’s how.

I’m sharing this message to my kids after they came up with an algorithm for the CSES Movie Festival problem this morning.

It turns out that my legacy PHP 7.4 applications on life support are still alive, kicking, and now even more vulnerable than before. Earlier this morning, the PHP project put out a security advisory…

"The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being." — Konrad Lorenz, Man Meets Dog Let me say up front that the…

Web services in Japan keep getting hacked, reportedly with help from AI agents. It made me think of the dark forest and the sophons in The Three-Body Problem.

In business communication, the writer should pay the cost of clarity. Slack reactions, bare instructions, and abbreviations push it onto readers.

God knows, the finish line of human is not the stars.

A 360M model that pretends to be a terminal, and remembers what you did

I have used pretty much every admin panel in existence. I’ve even been content with some, but mostly it has always felt like settling. Sure, in the beginning it’s great, but then there’s that point…

Fixing two PHP vulnerabilities rated 9.2 CVSS 4. Critical for server security.

Identifying the wrong tools for the job.

I've been having a lot of fun recently building broadcast mode for Veilamp, and it just keeps getting cooler and cooler, too. This mode is so damn cool for a few reasons. ALLOW ME TO ENUMERATE THEM…

ReverseMarkdown more than doubled its NuGet downloads this year, from 3.7M in January to 7.5M. The 6.3.0 release cuts allocations by up to 58% on real-world pages by making the unclosed script and…

In my last post, I began my side quest into automatic differentiation , trying to implement it from scratch as a learning exercise, in F#, to understand how it works. In part 1 , I decided to start…

Introduction This post is part of a series in which I define important concepts in software development. The first post was about breaking changes. This one is about idempotency. Idempotency is a key…