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As a programmer, I spend most of my time in a terminal application like Kitty. I use Neovim as my code editor. I use CLI based AI agents. But the biggest pain, even in 2026, is that there is no…

opencode’s edit tool doesn’t trust LLMs to give exact string matches.

One afternoon, at the end of a long and productive work week, I channeled what remaining energy I had left into building my own static site to display showtimes.

Introduction Perceived safety in public spaces is closely linked to intervisibility, the ability of people to see and be seen by others. A pedestrian who can observe other people nearby may feel…

Personalize your software

I've been writing Drafts actions for years, and in at least 90% of them I just use a scripting step to achieve what I want. While it kind of became second nature to me to write those scripts, I have…

I was testing my vector engine and added a rotation.The curve disappeared — not off by a bit, completely gone, rendering at x=-649. Here's what was happening and how affine transforms fix it…

The autoresearch technique promoted by Andrej Karpathy is easily accessible in the pi coding agent.

Jelly writes on the NetNewsWire Discourse forum: I’ve drafted a naive implementation of NNW MCP support through AppleScript. It supports listing feeds, getting/searching articles, subscribing new…

How I learned words matter... ALOT

How we stopped AKS PDF workers from OOM-crashing using KEDA scale to zero, a dedicated high-memory node pool, and a Postgres queue trigger. (142 chars)

A handshake should be firm, but not overpowering. Look the person in the eye; looking away while shaking someone’s hand is a sign of disrespect, and most people will notice that. Also,

My first OSS commit turns 20 todaySome time ago I realized that it was 20 years since I started to contribute toOpen Source. It's easy to remember, because I started to work on PyPy as part of…

LLMOps Part 13: Exploring the mechanics of LLM inference, from prefill and decode phases to KV caching, batching, and optimization techniques that improve latency and throughput.

Ben Nadel explains his external link interception workflow for Big Sexy Poems. This shows a warning to the current user that they are about to leave the site....

NemoClaw is a show-don't-tell technology. Labspaces are show-don't-tell teaching. After running NVIDIA's new enterprise AI agent platform on Jetson AGX Thor and Apple Silicon, I turned the whole…

It may make sense to use a mature feature flag library or pay for feature flags as a service in your complex application....

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Superhttps://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12bNvidia presented their new model - Nemotron 3 Super, an open hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE model: 120B total / 12B…

Enlaces y recursos en español para aprender el lenguaje de programación Rust.

Eran Feit YOLOv11 Guide: Extract and Crop Objects from Video Python Last Updated on 21/03/2026 by Eran Feit Master Automation: Extract Objects from Video Python Building a high-quality dataset is…

A work of speculative fiction grounded in historical research and Lean-Agile practice. All team members, company names, and ticket IDs are invented. Benjamin Franklin is not. “In this world…

A couple of months ago, I wrote about friction in saving files. Emacs, of course, tries to protect you from unsaved buffers by periodically backing them up to a special file. Recovering data from…

I created a small command line tool named aivo, it helps to manage API keys from OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway or any other providers.

TL;DR — I switched from an Apple Watch to a Garmin and wanted to bring my workout history with me. Apple’s data export turned out to be surprisingly lossy — heart rate gets aggregated into…

Use OS text replacement to expand prompt boilerplate

The previous article showed that PostgreSQL 18 makes optimizer statistics portable, but left one gap open: It's not worth trying to inject relpages as the planner checks the actual file size and…

In May 2010 we merged support for the RTMP protocol suite into curl, in our desire to support the world’s internet transfer protocols. RTMP The protocol is an example of the spirit of an…

A subset of Go that transpiles to regular C, with zero runtime.

Step forward for FbNetExternalEngine today – version 7.0 is ready, you can go and download it right now.

gcode 0.7.0 is on crates.io. If you have been on 0.6.1 (the last stable line that matched the mental model I shipped years ago), this release will break your build on purpose. That is intentional…

A write-up walkthrough on how to solve open source challenge exercise #028 by Sofia Santos on Gralhix with answers.

https://github.com/eggricesoy/filmkit Browser-based preset manager and RAW converter for Fujifilm X-series cameras for desktop and mobile. Just like Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO, FilmKit uses WebUSB to…

Ways to arrange, compose and sequence sound. Some can stray into the sound design territory but generally these are the things I can open to try and layer some sounds together to find something new…

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Sorry for missing last week. We had our granddaughter over and I wasn’t able to get my writing completed before she woke up. Today we have our…

I was 12 when I learned VIm. It's almost useless now.

Gram 1.1.0 releasedToday I'm happy to announce the release of Gram 1.1.0! A huge thanks to everyone who has contributed by raising issues, submitting patches and artwork and giving me feedback and

Its been a while since I blogged… Anyway I have not been completely idle. As well as booking a long-desired holiday to CHINA (oh yes!) I have still been working on this weird project that I…

Introducing the new TinyCsvParser 3.0.0 API.

Kết hợp LiteLLM và CliProxyAPI nghe có vẻ tiện, nhưng làm sai là bạn đang mở cửa cho rủi ro bảo mật nghiêm trọng. Bài viết này hướng dẫn bạn mô hình tích hợp an toàn nhất — dùng LiteLLM làm lớp kiểm…

A practical guide to getting the engagement your project deserves.

QRV v0.16: Working Shell, Working IPC v0.16 boots to a working shell prompt on QEMU. pwd prints the working directory, echo works, ls lists the root filesystem, and non-existent commands report "No…

Notes I am.a web developer Most of my money came from Ruby on Rails Clojure blew me off Pulled me away from Julia Writing a stock trading bot My ring success Injee Biff This course is completely free…

The Manual Pain The Level 5 workflow described in an upcoming post was a workflow that worked. Four git worktrees, four Warp panels, four Claude Code sessions. Each one on its own branch, its own…

Part of the methodology series. Builds on Blind, Blind, Merge. One prompt to Claude Code with codex CLI: Problem description is in PROBLEM.md, code is in src/. Volley with codex to a spec, then…

Part of the cognition series. Builds on Ambient Category. I have a half-baked theorem and no credentials. I’m a software engineer who happens to be an early adopter of AI-assisted search tools. The…

I recently cloned a repository and noticed it was 486MB. The actual source code? About 6MB. That’s a 98.7% overhead. Here’s how I found the bloat and fixed it.

A quick port to support the ESP32S3 mini over Wifi. The pic below is a ESP32S3 debugging a bluepill board (still over wifi) Github page