We often talk about LLMs in terms of reasoning and generation. I have found it more helpful to think in terms of transformations and semantic layers. There appears to be some general principles that…

Three ways to do it, and the plumbing that's reshaping all of them.

Sometimes my tmux sessions will crash. This is super-rare and seemingly random so I just accept it. Today I figured out why and resolved it.

As a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) my job is to manufacture customer-product alignment.As Nina has pointed out, I love documentation, guides, thinking in procedures, and systematizing relationships…

A Blender issue #152467 (“File Browser thumbnail cache broken with large amount of images”) reminded me to write this up. This particular issue is a (documented) surprise that when you…

In this post I like to describe the current dilemma of using JSON Schema for structured AI outputs and how TypeSchema can be used as a clean, alternative data-modeling layer to generate both native…

Recently I’ve been experimenting with local LLMs for coding. Up until a couple of months ago I was a happy GitHub Copilot subscriber. I’d been quite satisfied to let other companies take on the cost…

Export a [[git difftool]] as text, HTML, PDF, or image for seeing and sharing changes with others in a nice visual way.

Modern application with a UI running in [[Terminals]]. Tools Development & APIs posting - [[API Client]] like [[Postman]]: A modern API client that runs in the terminal. Neovim option:…

Your system can be scalable, secure, and beautifully designed. And still be the wrong thing to build.

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I’m happy to announce the release of Newspipe 12.1.0. This version brings a reimagined reading experience, a few features I’ve wanted for a long time, and a much smarter crawler under the…

Your weekly digest of Cloud-Native AI, Docker Sandboxes, and Model Context Protocol innovations.

In the article on the multi-armed bandit we used Bayes to decide between variants: shifting traffic toward the one converting best while the test is still running. Now we take a step sideways, while…

Here’s a question I can’t stop chewing on: why is some software so damn good, and most of it so… not? Not buggy. Not slow. Just bad. Bad in a way you feel in your gut the moment…

Self-review your pull request before requesting eyes: catch the cheap defects at the cheapest point and halve reviewer round-trips. A five-minute pass.

Basic Proof Techniques for Software Engineers

The problem that started this was not philosophical. We were trying to write down our SDLC. Not the aspirational one on a Confluence page, the real one, the one an auditor could follow and a team…

BumpPtrAllocator is LLVM's bump allocator (arena allocator): each allocation bumps a pointer within a slab, and everything is freed at once when the allocator dies. It backs Clang's ASTContext, lld's…

Use custom invoker commands to format selected textarea text as Markdown. Read it on the web

A few days ago, in The Rungs , I reached for a phrase to describe something I'd found reassuring: two doors, one room . I'd been teaching a Rails application to compile itself into nine languages,…

How I run my Home Assistant config like production: an AI coding agent edits the live YAML, I review the diff, and everything is versioned in Git.

Using Cursor and Claude, a 5-person engineering team can now build a billing webhook handler, a customer import tool, a Slack alert...Read More... Source

Step one in the quest for good transit in Kingston: hexagons, census data, and a whole lot of ST_Intersection.

AI-built SaaS apps can work, but the expensive cleanup starts when nobody supervises the system design, data model, auth boundaries, and production workflows.

Python is open-sourced?! Wow I really want to learn how it use it now...

Recently I was reviewing some shell script a colleague had written: if grep -e '@[^@]\+@' "$DIR/install.sh" ; then I thought the \ before the + was a mistake, and also pointed out…

I narrated my book in my own voice without recording a single chapter. The whole thing runs locally on a Mac, costs nothing, and sounds like me. This is the build, step by step, including the failure…

You give an agent everything a project has produced: every Slack message, every deck, every status update since kickoff. Then you put a dashboard and a chatbot on top, so anyone can ask where things…

As part of my previous post reverse engineering the Denon XML API I talked about my love for the Golf sound effects in Nintendo Switch Sports, complete with a way to build an ambient soundscape. But…

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Use custom --commands with a native command event listener and a React callback ref cleanup. Read it on the web

For the past few months I've been on and off working on a new package for Emacs, which is my first attempt at a proper major mode "application". It is a wrapper/frontend for Gomuks, which is a Matrix…

Great games come with LAN co-op. Even greater games allow you to directly enter the game lobby's IP address. Saints Row: The Third doesn't and relies on UDP broadcasts, instead. And because WireGuard…

The best Astro.js courses for learning one of the fastest-growing content-focused frameworks, from free YouTube tutorials to premium paid courses.

I gave an agent one brief and pointed it at my own platform: connect as a real MCP client, exercise every tool, and find every place where what the tool says and what the tool does disagree. Review…

The more distributed a system, the harder it is to secure. Code crosses JVM boundaries. Objects are serialized across trust boundaries. Third-party proxies run inside your process. The usual answer…

I am developing two new themes for my minimalist 'doric-themes' package.

A walkthrough of setting up Nous Research's Hermes Agent on a Hetzner CX23 box — OpenRouter, Telegram gateway, Obsidian sync, cron jobs, and the skills that make it feel like home

I learned about the Sub-1€ TRX challenge from Ismo (OH2FTG) - thank you (maybe for getting me addicted?). The constraints Sub-1€ TRX, with LCSC parts. This excludes the PCB, so it can be 10x10…

Hot, hot, hot, man. Too hot. Uncomfortably hot. Dynamic Ecto Queries and PostgreSQL Query Plans – this is an interesting demonstration of how small code changes can ruin query performance. Well,…

There's a browser game called You are the OS where you play as a computer's operating system. Processes request memory, users get impatient, the machine dies if you can't keep up. It's a sim about a…

In an earlier post about gguf-runner I made a point that kept nagging at me afterwards. The point was this: prebuilt binaries are compiled for a conservative baseline so they run everywhere, and if…

CodeMine https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260610-custom-software/ -Using LLMs for vibe agentic coding teaches you some things. For example, building working prototypes doesn’t require you…

Improving my self-hosted Laravel deployments. I updated a handful of Coolify-hosted Laravel apps recently to get zero-downtime updates. Gone are those few annoying seconds of “no server available” I…

My entry for the newschool intro for NOVA2026

The pace of AI improvement has meant the way I build software looks very different to how I did six months ago, and again six months before that. The change over time is now so constant that it's…

i’m getting a bit allergic to the way Chat Box Generated Prose always overuses headings so i might just not put any headings at all in this post. we’ll see. make a terrible comic day might have been…