I just reworked how the caching of prime paths works in zcov. Computing the prime paths can be quite expensive in both time and memory, so GCC limits to 250 000 paths by default. This limit was…

An eleven-year-old borrow checker soundness bug heads the week, alongside an RL-trained agentic model, a CoScreen revival built in Rust, and fresh tooling for tunnels, parametric CAD, and server-side…

Build an interactive drawing editor with Java and TeaVM, using HTML Canvas, browser pointer events and JavaScript interop.

A step-by-step guide to get Claude Code to drive VoiceOver on a Mac, using Given, When, Then scenarios to describe what a screen reader user should hear.

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A tour de force through Java's recent history, current features, and future developments

GitHub’s monthly trending page works for a language, because a language filter already defines the set. Open source AI asks a different question: the work spans five languages, and the useful…

When designing software, the requirements you don’t have are as important as the requirements you do. Identifying what you can compromise on — what can be slow, or stale, or inflexible — is usually…

gtucker.io https://gtucker.io/posts/2026-10-19-lpc-testing-mc/ -The Kernel Testing & Dependability Micro-Conference was back again at Plumbers this year, in Prague and with a wide variety of…

brew upgrade skips casks that update themselves, like VS Code, Zed or Raycast. Add --greedy to make Homebrew upgrade them too.

Listen to this post A penny sits on the counter between a customer and a cashier. It is almost nothing: a copper-colored disc, a small disagreement about what a total should be. Multiply that…

Building on a previous idea , here is a more generic implementation of range sliders with custom shapes and tooltips. No JavaScript and a lot of cool CSS features ( border-shape , shape() ,…

An agent on your laptop is yours. An agent in the channel is the team's. How Polygon's non-engineers ship code without opening an IDE, and what it took to get there.

I’ve been tinkering away at a DAW in Rust and Tauri. Most recently I’ve added a multi-track timeline and MIDI support. So I figured, after MIDI, what else is essential for a producer? Plugins.

Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the onboard flight software for the Apollo Moon landings, has died aged 90. She gave our profession its name, and many of its founding principles.

Building a site has never been cheaper, but making it fast still costs attention and your user's resources.

I discovered a python package librosa that does audio and signal processing and that you can use to work out pitches of an audio track. I thought I would try it with the Captain Laserbeam Distress...

I added a new feature to my website that automatically shows my current played and historically scrobbled music . I built it from the ground up meaning that I built my own scrobbler (which right now…

Last week, I continued developing Moonwalk Audio’s new website, turning a collection of sketches and objects into an interactive SVG fantasy world. There’s still plenty to do, but the most…

My spouse recently ended up with two left toe socks and no way to wear them, because each one had lost the only sock that matched it. My drawer, and now our kids' drawers, cannot have that problem:…

There’s an old story about Richard Stallman and a Xerox printer at MIT that I’ve been thinking about recently. The printer kept jamming, and nobody knew until they walked over to collect…

If your Python service reads .conf files, you probably use pyhocon. It’s the HOCON library Python has had for a decade: ConfigFactory.parse_file("app.conf"),…

Two layers Git doesn't have are checkpoints below the commit and provenance above it. ghf captures every agent edit as restorable worktree state, and GitStory binds cited rationale to the commit that…

When timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

A rebuilt frame pipeline puts client and widget layout through Clay in C, then hands the result to a new renderer. Rounded clients, animations and inspection come with it.

J. Wied /* Document * ========================================================================== */ /** * 1. Correct the line height in all browsers. * 2. Prevent adjustments of font size after…

AI made coding faster, and the common advice now is to cut process everywhere so all that extra code can flow through. But some of those steps were catching risky changes before they reached users.…

A breaker closing can return full traffic to a dependency that is still fragile. How to ramp admission back gradually by giving the application control of the shared limit and leaving enforcement to…

Build a drag-and-drop task board in Livewire 4 with wire:sort and wire:transition, including how to persist the order and what browsers support.

A weekend building a small Metal compiler, from a 147.6 ms ViT forward to 13.52 ms. And what happened when I tried other models.

“Hackpacking” – a portmanteau of “hacking” and “backpacking” – means working on side projects on the go, perhaps assisted by an AI coding assistant. As a lifelong…

The use of JSON can be powerful in your PowerShell functions and processes. JSON is naturally a machine style language that is easy to use for storing settings and other useful elements throughout a…

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#coding #project #miniproject Restaurant AI VR Simulation Please Don't Spearphish Me (Creating an Obsidian Plugin)

In a previous blog post, I explained how valuable I think documenting the governance of FOSS projects is and wondered if there existed some sensible templates out there to get started. I asked around…

I co-organized a focus group at EuroPLoP earlier this year and also contributed to a paper mining service design patterns in the context of monitoring sensors and controlling actuators. This post…

There are two techniques for specifying the display information contained in any graph within a pdf file. Raster graphics specifies (e.g., jpeg and png formats) the location and color of pixels, and…

Release 0.9.0 of Vulcard - the Difficulty Update

To connect Joule Work Desktop (JWD) to SAP systems, add ARC-1 on SAP BTP as an MCP connector, sign in with your work account and select it in a conversation. JWD can then use ARC-1’s SAP tools…

More Fun Extending the C Preprocessor: Mutable State :root { color-scheme: light dark; } * { box-sizing: border-box; } body { max-width: 68ch; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 40em; font-family:…

TL;DW: VerbSevens is a calibrated reference reverb plugin for reverb matrices. VerbSevens.zip (619k) standalone(AU, VST2) VerbSevens in Airwindows Consolidated under ‘Reverb’ (CLAP, AU,…

Like many others in the free software community, I've been been growing apathetic with the whole thing, lately. One project after the other - and one Linux distro after the other - embrace the…

Despite what many may think given my background, I’ve never been much of a coder. I learned BASIC in 5th grade for all that’s worth. Since then it’s been a meandering path through C…

In this post, I take a look at the basic idea of why the logistic regression’s familiar S-curve exists, its relation to the familiar concept of probability, and how framing probability as the…

Someone asked me, given that LLMs exist and likely keep improving, whether I thought Ruby on Rails still made sense? The implication being of course that writing code is now extremely cheap and you…

I'm not fully vested in and convinced by Spec Driven Development. I've gotten over 70% of my initial "BDUF" concern and am thinking more clearly. I thought that it would be a good time for me to list…

Introduction Slack agents are massively powerful. A well-made Slack agent can be used by a company to automate a lot of toil and tiring work. You might ask why a Slack agent is uniquely powerful…