I’ve been working on Taste Library for some time. It’s a web app that lets you manage and show off your collection. Here is what it looks like: The main inspiration behind Taste Library is Delicious…

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A moss-covered Toyota Land Cruiser sits wedged in a forgotten sunken road, and nobody can say how it got there.

At long last, Velvetlori's site rehaul is COMPLETE! Thank you so much for your patience during the site's construction period (人´∀`) I'm so excited to post more content soon!

Even though you might have already lost so much, like a few friends of mine which lost their cars in a car crash, essentially totaled them (they are fine, though), it got me thinking, after seeing…

I think a root cause for why I have been struggling so much with everything in life is that I am desperately fearful and unhappy, and I don’t know what to do about it. Our civilizational crisis…

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TL;AI is a recipient-first communication principle built from BLUF, the Pyramid Principle, SBAR, speech-act theory, progressive disclosure and AI transparency.

A place to find answers for my questions. Another monday in the life of a 26 year old who is in the rat race but do not know what he is running for. Woke up the morning with a heavy heart, confused,…

New starter is in1, and it Works! Your browser don't support HTML5 video I had some help from a family member. And by help, I was the help. I was the tool monkey, they did the…

The purpose of this post is clear from the title so I'll just get right into it. Start working out regularly I started going to the gym regularly around 3 years ago, but I actually did workout…

Filesystem operations in Python can feel clumsy, because the relevant operations are distributed over so many different modules in the standard library: some are in os (itself very large and…

For as long as I have known my youngest, which is about 7 years now (😅), she has never been a sauce kind of girl. Ketchup, Luna? No! BBQ Sauce,...

The Lego bricks of the web, HTML, are now available on your happy Pika (Pro) blog! You can insert custom hypertext markups in posts and pages, including your default home page, via the small text…

Before the Internet things were different; this was the First Age. If you wanted to get your message out there you needed either a lot of money, fame, or power. Usually you needed some combination of…

The following snippet doesn't compile: struct A { static constexpr size_t size() { return 42; } int data_[size()]; }; The problem is that the size (and therefore the type) of data member `data_`…

I have started a new podcast called &#8220;Every Sound There Is: Exploring The Beatles&#8217; Songs&#8221;. I know you&#8217;ve got friends and family who love The

The industry spent two years teaching you to call your agent a teammate. Now watch what happens the first time something breaks.

Games are in fact occupation of childhood and adulthood. We pay with out time to play, form social community or just kill time playing it. Early childhood The best game that really filled my early…

I set up an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini as a Proxmox homelab host, ran Ollama in an LXC container, and measured about 5.8 tokens per second—roughly 2.3× faster than my older AMD A4 box—while adding…

I tested an old 2014 AMD A4 machine to see if it could run Ollama with a small model, having Claude handle the setup and prompts. It generated roughly 2–2.6 tokens per second—usable but slow.

In this article, we are going to learn about Rust variables and types by building a simple scientific calculator.

Don't use AI to ship software faster. Use it to ship better software.

Volume I of my Fuchsia Internals report series is the graphics and display pipeline, and it is a deliberate choice for the first deep-dive: graphics is a complete worked application that exercises…

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory (1931) Between January 2023 and July 2026, my AI conversation archive accumulated 6,604 conversations: 100,694 message turns and 35.7 million words. They…

This is one of those bookmarks for future me, from https://infosec.exchange/@hal_pomeranz/115220370083388046, wherein it is stated that the following incantation against the /proc filesystem will…

&quot;Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...&quot; &quot;Nor is there anyone who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it,…

&quot;If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.&quot; — Carl Sagan Most mornings I make a cheese sandwich. Two slices of bread, some butter, a few slabs of…

The lack of nuance you can explicitly express as an individual is one of the many, many things I dislike about the algorithmically-determined content recommendation systems we are trapped inside of.…

The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the move and making developmental leaps. Time is this sort of weird compressed experience, not dissimilar…

Some things feel more authentic than others. My favorite singer appears, she jumps onto a table in front of an ecstatic crowd that has completely forgotten how to behave. We're collectively losing…

Introduction: The &ldquo;Engineering Over Programming&rdquo; Era Link to heading In the Go community, we often reflect on the distinction between &ldquo;programming&rdquo; and &ldquo;software…

A strategy that says yes to everything is just a to-do list with ambitions. The core skill of a senior engineering leader isn't picking what to build — it's deciding, out loud, what you won't.

Negative father and positive mother... Keep reading

This is a long-overdue follow-up to my 2023 essay AI Pessimism.

Not as little anymore

OpenMarkdown is a single-pane markdown editor An occasional post1 from The Markdown Handbook. Among today’s links2 are markdown editors3 Many Notes, HermesMarkdown, OpenMarkdown and FoldNotes. We…

This is a blog post that had been percolating in my brain for probably about a week or so, and one that I had thought that perhaps I shouldn't write. Internet discourse, especially around politics,…

choudoufu is a fork of OpenTofu with identity hooks. This blog takes a look at Cursor&rsquo;s recent migration from Terraform to OpenTofu, and how it could have gone differently if it wasn&rsquo;t…

How jf-hosting-command wraps the WP Engine and PressWP REST APIs behind a single command surface — jf-host sites list pulls installs from both platforms into one table, jf-host cache flush detects…

Claude redesigned a bunch of our webpages and app screens. 3 months later I'm undoing it all

Next.js ships its documentation inside the package. MUI ships an MCP server and four skills. Storybook ships one too, and Playwright ships three test agents. Four teams solved the same problem within…

Three hours of code, $200,000 in a week, 190+ clones nobody remembers. Four laws on why copying a viral hit almost never works.

Listen to the audio version At three in the morning, a refrigerator can become a philosopher. It hums in the dark with the calm confidence of an appliance that has never once wondered whether it…

This will work with 1 or multiple monitors, it allows you to adjust the zoom level without switching your resolution.

SQL. You either love it or you hate it. I fall in the love camp. My introduction into coding was through SQL. Everyone has their native language they think in and mine is SQL. While I love SQL I also…

The Problem with ‘mental health’ is that we label many problems as mental in nature when they are not.

The Discovery Ceiling

The sponsorship-forwarding initiative redistributes funds to the dependencies and contributors that make open-source work possible. This living post tracks those redistributions.

Accessibility Custom Content was introduced back in the 2020 releases “[to deliver] accessibility information from complex data sets to your users in measured portions.” Put another way, it allows…