Last week, I needed to make some pretty major updates to a web component in a design system I use for clients. I’m a big fan of TDD, but I wasn’t mentally in a place to write my tests…

“In the spirit of ancient Athens, where the greatest minds gathered to question the gods, challenge the powerful, and pursue the nature of truth, a new symposium rises. “Four disciplines.…

So I've posted before how I think ClickHouse is great. Its columnar storage is fast, it has amazing compression. I won't bore you with those details, you can see them all here:…

Chest tubes are a common tool in managing thoracic injury. Inserting them is relatively straightforward. However, there is considerable variation in practice around their management. Standard…

Hi there!🛡️ Security & PrivacyScott Helme rebuts the “passkeys are a trap” claim: synced passkeys send no attestation, and falling back to TOTP leaves you…

My lovelies, have you read The Secret Language of Victorian Jewelry, the new jewelry book by Amy Azzarito? Because I just did, and I could not be more impressed. Let’s discuss. The Secret…

Normally I am not a fan of stacked bar charts. They do not allow users to easily compare the constituent elements of the stack. In spending a number of years working with economists I became familiar…

Complexity is a difficult beast to deal with. One of the core challenges of complexity is the strange independence between the parts and the whole. You may find yourself in a situation where learning…

The Ask LukeW feature on my website has been answering people's questions about digital product design for over three years. How well it answers depends on the content available to it. So in addition…

Turns out, a Github based publishing workflow comes with its own headaces.

Merge a change, get a versioned Cults3D listing. How a catalog of printable models ships itself from GitHub, what a version number should mean for a thing you print, nine traps in Cults3D's API, and…

Buy a coffee, a tank of fuel or a bag of groceries in Portugal and the cashier will ask “contribuinte?” or “quer número de contribuinte na fatura?” before printing the…

Many users, including some large projects, migrate to nftables by running their existing iptables rules through iptables-translate and leaving it at that. It works, sure, but it only changes the…

On the 14th October, fifteen freelancers met up in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub to talk freelancing, tech, AI and motor racing. This is some of what we talked about: Switching from…

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James Carville finally admitted it.

There was a time when a reasonably proper, performant HTTP server was a thing that required a significant investment. Apache, Lighthttpd, Nginx. To make your own was a multi-year commitment, so you…

some people have hidden their up votes and I unhide them in dev tools just to upvote them when I like that Out of spite of course

You don't want to miss Dave's Interesting Assemble II. I've had a sneak preview and it's going to be great. it's free! Tickets are hereHere's a video (sound from the…

Originally Published July 14th, 2000 When you think about the typical roleplaying game made available over the internet for free, the thing that springs to mind is that it is, above all else, free.…

Hamburg has always been known for its wild nightlife, fueled by the St. Pauli red-light district. But Germany's second-largest city is having an urban makeover, starting with the Elbphilharmonie…

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#coffeeneuring2026 No. 3 20.1km round-trip I needed some new inner tubes for the Brompton, and although local bicycle shops stock them in the right size, only the LBS seems to stock Schwalbes which,…

From native driving controls and road guidance to Turbo preservation and weapon combat: the experiments, references and repeated adjustments behind NullG’s learning pilots.

When I began my sex therapy training in 2000, I thought of myself as reasonably sex positive. I remember hearing a celebrated and renowned sex therapist/researcher say at a conference, that people…

Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronize their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of super exciting features being considered! In this…

Interview recorded in 1980 and provided courtesy of York Oral History Society More information on the Mystery Towers. Transcription: VOICES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR PROJECT INTERVIEW WITH JOHN TEAL.…

The Anthropic Institute’s newest report says that the company’s junior recruitment has begun to slow down. All block quotes below are from this report. Anthropic has been hiring for a smaller share…

In Code Complete Steve McConnell argues that software development is a wicked problem, one you cannot fully understand before attempting to solve it. I think most developers who have created software…

Humans are by nature supposed to have many more senses and limbs and organs, but something has been cutting them out before the emergence of any given human life. It wasn't until the stochastic yet…

The Samsung Odyssey G7 is an excellent monitor, but its out-of-the-box settings are aggressive. Its settings can be adjusted for comfortable reading, coding, and reducing eye fatigue. Here are the…

My wife and I had nothing scheduled yesterday, so we took the opportunity to vote early. On election day, everyone votes in their voting district. For early voting, the entire town votes in one…

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Riots Are Easy. Ballots Are Harder

I recently dropped a comment about how modern tabletop roleplaying game systems don't differentiate between door-opening approaches substantially enough and I implied that I, sexy gaming genius that…

Not too far into Hettie O’Brien’s The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself, it occurred to me that I was reading a familiar story. The financial sector found a…

Yep...the Yams went for their first pottery class on Saturday. *happy music plays in the background* The class was small - 2 other ladies along with us. The instructor gave us a 20 minute…

Last weekend I organized a van down from Boston to NYC for EA Global: I'm very happy I did this, and would definitely do it again. Being able to talk with folks both ways was like a bonus 8hr of the…

Log into a Linux server that’s dual-homed to a pair of data center switches and check its bond. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 prints exactly one partner System ID. As far as that server knows,…

Segments de cinq minutes, grille fermée, pondération par chaîne, seuils et audit : la mécanique derrière les statistiques de SIGNAL, avec ses angles morts.

Men need a dragon to slay. That’s how we’re built. Give a man something real to fight for, like his family, his work, a problem nobody else can solve, or someone who needs protecting, and…

Fine-tuning Qwen3-0.6B on a Mac so it stops making things up when it summarizes my blog in your browser. What worked, what didn't, and how to do it for your own site.

SortListModel has no watch-items, so a list goes stale when an item's data changes. Have the store report its own changes with items_changed(pos, 1, 1), and every filter and sorter above it keeps…

Occam’s News reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That’s…

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments. Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

Warming up for Web Studies in Alessandria, I spent most of the day in Pavia looking at Medieval churches and early modern universities. The back to Alessandria and a lovely dinner at Gallo d’Oro,…

badgers in the rafters or the vvoak

For a Tinderbox demo tomorrow at Università del Piemonte Orientale, I put together this assortment of recent publications that are about Tinderbox and adjacent topics. In case that’s useful to…

vrfy, for those few who don't remember nineties email debugging tools, reports on an email address. I run it occasionally and made a git repo ten years ago, github:arnt/vrfy . Today I converted the…