Unlike most members of OPIG, I don’t work on small molecules, antibodies, or protein structure; I use hypergraph representations of protein complexes to predict gene essentiality and drug targets. I…

It has been one of those weeks where the diff is bigger than the headline. The headline is short — Codename One now ships modern native themes: an iOS "liquid glass" look and an Android Material 3…

Dawn is a new open-source project for building embedded data acquisition and control devices on top of Apache NuttX. It started from a common problem: many embedded projects need the same kind of…

How several Claudes and Simon Willison's example got me a Starlark interpreter in pure Python.

Introduction I just returned from RubyKaigi 2026, held from April 22nd to 24th in Hakodate, Hokkaido. For those unfamiliar with it, RubyKaigi is the biggest Ruby conference in the world, drawing…

A system-level language with Go syntax and zero runtime.

Building an agent sounds straightforward until you actually start. Before you write a single line of business logic, you're already deep in infrastructure decisions: How do you manage context across…

Claude Code is a terminal-based AI assistant that reads your files, runs commands, edits code, and iterates on errors. Describe what you want in plain English, and Claude Code determines which files…

Ruff replaces flake8, Black, isort, pyupgrade, pydocstyle, and dozens of other Python code quality tools with a single binary. It re-implements over 1,000 lint rules from dozens of existing tools and…

In part 3 we saw how the VTX5000's 8K ROM is structured and how the BASIC program drives the terminal.

lundi 27 avril J'ai ajouté la capacité de naviguer en temps réel à mon paquet subed.el. C'était déjà très pratique pour ajouter les chapitres à la transcription de ma conversation avec John Wiegley…

Depending on where I am, I work on different devices. Setting up and syncing local development environments is a problem I solved by not having local development environments.

I’ve been using vim for more than 10 years. Here are a list of things I usually forget from time to time that are extremely useful. You can use gi in normal mode to start inserting in the last…

I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".

Blockchain has emerged as a transformative force in the rapidly evolving technology landscape. It is primarily known for its role in cryptocurrencies, but its potential extends far beyond digital…

You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and…

Quickshell is a modern toolkit built with C++ for creating desktop interface components — bars, widgets, lock screens, launchers, and even complete environments — using QtQuick + QML. It is not a…

Greetings, traveler! Reference counting is one of those topics every iOS developer learns early and then rarely revisits in depth. At the surface, it feels predictable: objects are retained,…

SnapFX is a docking framework for JavaFX, focused on creating flexible interfaces in the style of: IntelliJ / VS Code IDEs in general tools with multiple panels Lightweight and modern, designed for…

Working with large structured datasets in Python often means choosing between speed and simplicity. The new CTable object has born out of the need for a columnar store that compresses data on the…

I recently a bought a Lenovo Chromebook 14, and wanted to run Zed on it. This took me a little while, but I finally figured…

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In the second part of this series, the library for the Soccer Table program has been implemented. This library code does not interact with the outside world yet. Therefore, an interactive program…

When I was a physics undergraduate in the early 1990s, FORTRAN 77 was the standard programming language for

I have been using agentic coding nearly every day in OpenCode. So far the MiniMax M2.5 model seems best for my purposes, as it is currently free and also powerful enough to not be frustrating (most…

Hermes Agent ships with a Kanban-style board and the Hermes Gateway that can saturate your self-hosted LLM if too many tasks are dispatched at once.

A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled “My take on microservices”. I cannot believe it has been almost a decade, nine years to be precise, since I published it. It is still…

I have left Twitter a while ago now because it became a huge sh*tshow and it looks like a lot are currently doing the same.I built myself a little browser script to delete my public data from Twitter…

I'm using QTableView to show some data, which works well. But I would like to be able to sort the data by different columns. How can I do this without sorting the data manually?

The following is a guest post submitted by Matt Larson. The post explains how Matt Larson set up an automated atmospheric wind-sensing station using only locally obtained ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR.…

I’ve spent years writing Python for DevOps tooling and Go for services. Python is a joy to write but painfully slow for anything compute-heavy. Go is fast but verbose — error handling alone…

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Cookies and sessions are both ways to persist data across HTTP requests, but they work differently:

For a long time, Lwan used to use a heavily modified version of the hash table from the kmod project. I was lightly involved with that project during its inception, so this seemed like a natural…

Most ECS-based games run entirely on CPU because writing compute shaders by hand is painful boilerplate that most developers avoid.The Starting PointThe project began from a real codebase — an…

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Readers will be familiar with Mask-Step-Index (MSI) hash tables , a technique for building fast, open-addressed hash tables in a dozen lines of code . If multiple threads or processes access an MSI…

It's time to ship it in packages. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier

It's been a quiet month for the core repos and a loud month for everything around them. Two Goatmire sessions got the green light, the first Nerves Starter Kit boards landed on Gus's desk, and…

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Sudoku, meet Minesweeper. A berry-themed logic puzzle game I built with Claude Code, now live on the App Store.

Over the past few years I’ve been building a collection of open source tools focused on GitHub, DevOps automation, and more recently AI tooling. Some have hundreds of dependents, others are still in…

I recently learned about PageRank, the original Google algorithm for ranking webpages. It works by constructing a Markov chain on links between pages and computing the stationary distribution. The…

Visual explanations of Lempel-Ziv compression algorithms

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Walking through spek, a small LLM-powered coding agent that turns a markdown spec into a working, tested Python package — and the six design questions I had to answer to build it.

The term “Skyframe” comes up often as you dig deeper into Bazel internals. However, I found the available explanations confusing and found myself re-reading the Skyframe documentation…

I believe software development, and the resulting products, would greatly improve if we thought of “tech debt” and “refactors” as V1/V2/etc. Feature releases should…