Quick post with some life updates!

Hugo builds static pages; publishing determines whether deployed artifacts carry accurate cache validators and whether search engines receive explicit update notification. The implementation…

The HTML Sanitizer API is a new browser feature that helps developers prevent XSS vulnerabilities by safely sanitizing HTML content.

An AI-generated projection of React's public API, shaped around what a TanStack Start app needs. ~9KB client, 2–3× faster on our workloads. Powers this blog today; capable of running tanstack.com…

Every week I update a series of charts that help my wife and me monitor the health and performance of our solar panels. Each visual answers a different question, and together they’ve changed…

How far back in time can you understand English? The same passage written in 100 year intervals, here’s how English in the year 1000 reads: And þæt heo sægde wæs eall soþ. Ic ƿifode on hire, and heo…

London's shape was decided by a Roman bridge at the narrowest practical crossing of the Thames around 50 CE. Two thousand years later, every commute, every property value, every neighborhood boundary…

The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively…

We are self-hosting LaSuite, an open-source Google Docs alternative, for our small agency - and opening it up for others to try.

We are happy to share that the paper The Antipodal Method: Fast, Accurate, and Robust 3D Generalized Winding Numbers has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026. This is joint work between Université de…

Enjoy it, play video games, read books, read documentation, code, increase complexity, deploy your code, use it, look for community, and maybe find a job if that’s what you want.

Many companies today are facing increasing pressure to adopt AI and launch AI-based features. While AI is a transformative new technology, such pressure can be unhealthy and counter-productive. Faced…

RC 2 of the book is out. When I asked for readers a few weeks ago, I half expected polite “looks great!” replies. I got that, but also the opposite, which honestly is more helpful. Almost…

It’s been some time since I updated this blog. I was on a family vacation to Singapore and Malaysia for close to two weeks. Now that I’m back to my regular routine, frankly speaking, I’m stuck in a…

The forecast is: record-breaking heat, wildfires in the West, and extreme rainfall mayhem across the world. Maybe the strongest El Niño in 150 years. Following breaking climate news, we explore a…

One of the great things about LLMs is how prevalent voice-to-text apps have now become. I first found out about this segment of apps with WhisperFlow, but was shocked by what they were charging,…

A loose review of an album that was released in 1994.

Short snip of a thought but this was something I thought about today. Allowing yourself to be corrected when wrong by someone you know has that experience you lack (that happened to me today) is…

Hyperion Cantos is a four book set. Hyperion gets a lot of press because of its device of a Canterbury Tales structure: tales of the main protagonists as told by themselves. As a single book that is…

An easy no-bake Eton Mess sundae made with strawberries, vanilla bean whipped cream, and crunchy (store-bought!) meringue. This easy Mother’s Day dessert is simple, fresh, strawberry sweet, and…

chiefmartec.com and team published “2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe)“, 5-May-2026: Download a hi-res, clickable PDF of the full martech…

I turned 31 this year!

drawing comfort from the same moon all questions of intercession reflect and project, now the traditional floodplain - you can ruin anything with the right line other things said roomy tidings…

The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. www.wsj.com #

I’m working on something I’m very passionate about. I’m learning and doing things with WordPress I never imagined. Do you want to know what it is? I think you’ll find interesting, even if just to see…

Bending the needle with geometric probability

here you go i wonder if I’ll ever be someone who wants to watch TV or films but so long as youtube exists i doubt it. the only tv show i am prepared to watch is the pitt. do not ask me how many…

Ingredients 2 chicken breasts, sliced lengthways into thin strips 1 red pepper, sliced into strips 1 medium red onion, sliced 1 tbsp smoked paprika 1 tsp ground cumin Juice of ½ lime Black pepper…

I’m moving into a new role at Node4, as a vCTO (the “v” is for virtual). It formalises the type of work I’ve found myself doing more of over time — working with clients to…

I guess it’s my lucky day.

I’ve been canvassed more in the past month than for any other election I can remember, whether Scottish (like this […]

A field guide to making coding agents useful without pretending the agent is the whole factory.

Yesterday, I wrote about a compilation video featuring 1 second from every episode of Malcolm in the Middle. Today, I have a video featuring 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode (by the same…

New Diary Entry!

A fake CEO voice, gift cards, urgency, and secrecy almost worked. The defense is simple: break isolation, verify through known channels, and never treat voice as identity.

AI is a sword for cutting through blockers, not a shield to hide behind.

A small zsh function on top of just that renames tmux windows, falls back to a global justfile, and shows project + global recipes in one fuzzy picker.

Tonight, the role of Dave will be played by ChatGPT. What is ChatGPT wearing today? ChatGPT is wearing a charcoal gray cardigan over a perfectly neutral blue button-down shirt that somehow…

Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.…

The forbidden LEGO is available with 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB of RAM.

There it goes... Welp, RIP the 6 killmark hookbill. You will be missed. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135293342/ I fought an artillery thrasher, but I did bunch of mistakes while flying, so I couldn't…

I have a Raspberry Pi that's been sitting in a drawer for years. Pulled it out recently, popped in a fresh SD card with the latest Raspberry OS, and decided to actually do something useful with it.

Since about three years past time immemorial, the RSS feed for this site has been very anaemic. It had article titles and dates, and that was it. Many readers have requested that I include the full…

Added Uldren Sov shrine.

Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.

Wearables arrive with the kind of confidence that two-decimal precision allows. They are describing one substrate, not the whole organism. This post is about how to demote the watch from judge to…

Do you struggle with interviews? You're not alone! You can have the best interview notes in the world, but when you start having that vocal conversation, you might end up a deer in the…

A professional transition, twelve months of ALG1, a MacBook Pro, and the open-source immune system for the post-AI internet. Every word is true. And it’s AI slop.

Let’s see where this goes. (Source.)