I grew up in Southern California, amidst orange groves (all gone now) and eucalyptus trees. There were always monarch butterflies around. Sometimes there were only a few. Other times, during their…

A semi-personal note on how security, privacy, and self-hosting change when your life is no longer designed for one user.

2005 birthed the iPod Video and YouTube.

What changes when a contract-first agent workflow becomes an installable Codex App plugin, not just a Claude Code command.

Towards the end of April, my husband and I went for a walk between Ueno and Nippori stations. After going on a walk between Shibuya and Harajuku last year, I'm half-inclined to attempt to do mini…

Building analytics on well-known public datasets earns stakeholder credibility before you write a single custom pipeline. Once the framework proves itself on familiar ground, automation and analytics…

To my surprise, I have a new app to announce. That’s it. That’s all it is. Stask is a task tracking app that uses a stack to manage all manner of work items, from massive projects to tiny…

Can someone explain TikTok algo-crafting to me? Seriously, I think it might just be an insanely massive cope for screen addiction, but at the same time it's such an easy way to stay Tapped In—so I…

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, announced that 25% of Winter 2025 startups had 95% of their code generated by AI. The internet applauded. I read it twice to make sure that was actually the claim.…

sparkly, ethereal, jam session

I’ve been a fan of security tokens for a decade now and have accrued quite a collection. This redundancy isn’t a bad thing, as security tokens are easily misplaced and the only way to…

Together with Javier Fernández Píriz, a PhD student at the University of Luxembourg, we are working on HomogeneousTools, a collection of packages meant to efficiently deal with homogeneous varieties…

I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs, specifically Amin's upcoming ffs.el package.

Three months on from the last status update , three posts shipped, and the Eignex rewrite, splitting one experimentation library into focused pieces, has actually moved. This is a quick checkpoint:…

Enterprises run on AI agents. So do the attackers. What does it mean to build, secure, and operate AI systems when both sides - defenders and attackers - are automated? Jonathan Jaffe, CISO at…

Some happiness depends on not knowing, and once you know, you can’t get back. The child’s joy, the contented spouse, the loyal citizen—each rests on something unexamined, and examination…

Inspired by The Online Webring , I made an Indieweb webring button that has mapped clickable regions for previous , next and webring links. < area shape =" <span style="color: #B8BB

Halfway done.

What the rise of agents means for software UIs

Note: This post turned out a little different from the previous ones. It's more of an essay than a dialogue. I tried restructuring it multiple times, but it kept wanting to be linear. And you know,…

Recently I had an idea while exploring a new project that had some Tailwind components - why be forced to use UI I don’t want to use? In this age of LLMs, is it possible to take a component created…

I did not enjoy this short story collection quite as much as I&rsquo;ve enjoyed some of Langan&rsquo;s other work. Horror is not really my genre of choice &ndash; although I am coming to appreciate…

Tentative topics Runxi Yu An introduction to applied cryptography: post-quantum primitives, protocol design, and further research directions Emily &amp; Gladys Western Feminism vs. Asian Reality:…

When Epilogue announced the Retrace app for iOS and Android I was over the moon excited. In theory this meant I could archive ROMs from the GB Operator directly to my iPhone where I play the games…

Now seems as good a time as any to reflect on my career, such as it is, and such as it has been, so far. In truth, I&#39;ve been trying to get myself to write this post for months, if not years. I…

My first in a decade, sort of.

Paying homage to a tradition, this time, with a more radical change.

How my blog is setup (•̀ᴗ•́)و

Drew fan art for the awesome horror comic, Masonry of the Body (it’s scarier than my drawing, I assure you).

Drew the player characters in the Monsterhearts campaign I’m running! I’m having a blast in the game. Full drawings under the cut.

Whatever you bolt onto the model today is what the next model will eat. - If you have been building agentic products in the last twelve months, you have been writing harness code: system prompts,…

This week's tech layoffs aren't just about cost-cutting. They're a structural reorganization toward AI-native pods — the working shape solo builders have lived in for years. The seats disappearing…

for free! (with used disks and parts from a previous PC)

Patching a YAML file programmatically is straightforward in principle: parse, modify, serialize. Ideally the process should also be respectful — that is, preserve the following properties of the…

I don't own anything anymore.

A proxy that holds real AWS credentials, gives agents fake keys, re-signs outbound requests, and generates a least-privilege policy from observed behavior.

I decided to participate in Jack Harrhy's "game jam-like" for text-based projects, textjam . It's my first time participating in any kind of a jam. The requirements are pretty permissive. We just…

Today I had a fun one, where I finally dove into something that was bothering me for days: since a couple of days I had been getting questions from my different GitHub Copilot sessions to close some…

After attending recent conferences and learning that I can swap out buckets of JavaScript for the HTML native popover property, I've been using it liberally throughout my own projects. For little pop…

A CLI and MCP server that aggregates trust signals about open-source code, projects, and the people behind them — so humans and LLM coding agents can decide, on evidence, whether to adopt a…

Hardware breakpoints can trigger eBPF programs when specific memory addresses are accessed, leveraging CPU hardware support for low overhead. By utilizing these hardware breakpoints, we can…

Two product managers fought head-to-head for two weeks over the same project. The line got cut. Sun Tzu left three retreats 2,500 years ago: don't step onto the field, don't fight head-on, don't drag…

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Cruise ships are bad for the world.