Here's a quick tutorial on how to work around an annoying issue on Windows. Suppose that I have Git Bash installed on Windows that I got with my install of Git, and that I like to use to run various…

Jwt should not be persisted

I am talking to a number of folks about documenting their MCP servers. Others about discovering them. Others about governing them. Generally, we are mostly talking about being able to just see the…

Eight optimization attempts on Echo-TTS CPU inference, the five that worked, quality evaluation with voice cloning, and how the optimized CPU path ended up faster than the GPU hybrid.

RubyLLM 1.15 adds image editing, cost tracking, inferred tool parameters, additive callbacks, and Rails fixes.

I have been vibe coding a lot. Like, a lot a lot…. and it’s been leaving me feeling a bit conflicted. I’ve been committing hard, and feeling tremendously productive. But I also get this weird flash…

In The Last Programming Language Might Not Be for Humans, I argued that if AI becomes the primary author of code, the source language has to bend around that author. In What Comes After the Last…

The Blueprint and the House: Ruby Classes and Objects Explained

This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup"…

Extending libuv's uv_udp_t with ECN, PMTUD, pktinfo, and GSO/GRO support for QUIC and beyond.

In two recent blogposts I have outlined the history of our field, one on the history of proof assistants and another specifically about earlier work on the formalisation of mathematics by machine.…

1993, PUC-Rio Tecgraf: Ierusalimschy, de Figueiredo and Celes merged DEL and Sol into Lua, originally as a portable configuration language for Petrobras. Lua's table is array, hash, record, object…

MIDI to JavaScript Converter

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…

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

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.

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.…

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…

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…

This is a transcript of Lex Fridman Podcast #496 with FFmpeg & VLC. The timestamps in the transcript are clickable links that take you directly to that point in the main video. Please note that…

This is the seventh chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you! Starting…

Here is what we got as new Jetpack artifacts this week!

Since the project began, taskman has run in S-mode — the RISC-V supervisor mode, shared with the kernel. It was kerlinked into the kernel address space at boot, called kernel functions by name, and…

If you have been on invent.kde.org lately you might have seen some merge requests about “Install Qt metatypes” and wondered what that’s all about. When defining QML types in C++ the buildsytem tries…

Photo by Oleg Solodkov on Unsplash I wrote Release Manager because I needed something to build, sign, notarise, package, and ship every Jorvik app from one window. I wrote it in Swift because Swift…

Utilities Are Good For You Every week, I participate in Winlink Wednesday. I do my check-ins with pat. Once a month, they as for a weather snapshot to go with the check-in. This isn’t…

Suppose that x is a variable of an unsigned type. In C/C++, it could be of type size_t for example. You have an expression like 6 * x and you want to know whether 6 * x overflows. That is, you want…

hljs.configure({languages:["python","bash"]});hljs.highlightAll(); We’ve just uploaded mypy 2.0.0 to the Python Package Index ( PyPI ). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes…

Why coordinate-level optimizers can behave differently on weights that represent the same model, and how quotient-aware updates remove the hidden gauge.

The best software engineers are endlessly curious about how things work in a way that can bewilder other brain orientations. Once upon a time I attended a DEFCON talk given by an engineer who found…

On May 23, 2011, I bought Building Java Programs 2nd edition from bokkilden.no to learn how to program. A week later, product.support@pearsoned.com emailed me a password I had registered an account…

Need to randomize things? I did too. Here's a tool that's helpful to me and might be helpful to you. 🔷 These tools aren't server-side, so they probably won't work without JavaScript enabled. Shuffle…

Waterfall 2.0 - The Quiet Return of the Methodology We Micked Open any AI-coding repo on GitHub today and count the markdown files. Then count the lines of code. The ratio has been climbing for two…

Create a new browser context with a narrow screen, then get `document.body.scrollWidth` to get the width of the displayed page.

Developing for the Playdate part 2

For quite a few years the Rails project has been working with the Internet Bug Bounty (IBB). The IBB is an organization that awarded cash to security researchers that reported issues to OSS projects…

So first the immediate news: I just released version 0.14 of Logic for Programmers! This release is pretty similar to 0.13. There are a few rewrites but the vast majority of the changes are layout,…

Python 3.15 beta 1 is out! This is a really impactful release, with some really big additions. A new lazy import system, a powerful sampling profiler, not one but two new builtins, the usual…

By customizable I mean letting the people using your app add, remove, and move toolbar items. Making a customizable toolbar in a SwiftUI app requires you to do the following: Give the .toolbar…

A couple of months ago I moved to a new team at work. The team had been running for a while before I joined, and there was a lot of context I didn't have — issues, discussions, strategy docs, repos…

Get better at: handling multiple files, multi-indexes, pivot tables, and plotting with Plotly.

Demystify AI agents by exploring the case for moving the loop to the browser. Learn how client-side orchestration enables tight UI integration and data control.

Answer It’s kinda complicated. i3 exposes a scratchpad_state on every node, but it is not relevant for the node you initially check. The window node of the application you are targetting. Today…

This post introduces a project that Gabriel Desfrene did in my group as an intern last summer. Gabriel will present his project in a paper coauthored with my PhD students Quentin Corradi and Michalis…

Shipyrd started as a Kamal-first tool. You'd add the shipyrd-gem hook to your deploy.yml, and Kamal would ping Shipyrd at the start and end of each deploy.At the end of the day, though, Shipyrd…

In this article: How to Choose Who to Measure: Types of Sampling Sample Size: The Math Behind the Estimation Let’s Calculate It in R and Python From Estimation to A/B Testing Sampling Error vs…

While most new applications use the GPU for rendering to achieve better performance and battery life, there are some new applications and a lot of older applications that still use CPU rendering.…

Migrating this site from Hugo to Astro on Cloudflare, a real-world agentic coding project

I had 40 screenshots saved, three false starts, and 20 years of content with no coherent structure. I used Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and Claude Code to rebuild the whole thing. Here's how each…