Claris has extended the FMUpgradeTool in the recent release, providing support for adding/replacing/deleting more object types, and also added the ability to generate completely new fmp12 files. Next…

A unified, rigorous formulation of Neural ODEs and Neural PDEs.

Yes, I am building a dystopian cyberpunk hellscape.

Cognito can tell you who a user is, but it cannot answer what they are allowed to do. An authorizer Lambda gives you one place to evaluate permissions before a request reaches your backend, with…

How fractal-layer attacks the compilation bottleneck and initialization chaos of the monolithic App datatype by treating startup as a composable graph of resource-managed layers.

Last week I built a community management sim that runs inside Discourse. You play as a moderator. Fake users post fake drama, fake flags pile up in the real flag queue, and a fake outage tanks your…

The Claude Code CLI has a status bar built into the bottom of the terminal. By default, it displays very little information. Having come from GitHub Copilot, I needed to customise it slightly.

Hello there, tl;dr I'm leaving Microsoft and retiring.

Strava’s metrics alone couldn’t tell the story of my training, because important context lived in photos of my gym’s whiteboard. Here’s how I combined Strava data with a coding agent’s vision layer…

You can look back at your calendar, see all those meetings, and think to yourself "I didn't do anything." That's the problem. It took me years to understand that those meetings are the work.

Creating a brand new open-source (or even closed-source) project is fun, but maintaining it is not that fun. And as for maintaining an…

Members Only: Today's video is available only to members. If you are already a member, you can access your private podcast feed by visiting https://www.pointfree.co/account. --- Point-Free does…

I was a guest on James 's Wonders of Web Weaving podcast and it was such a lovely conversation. We talked about old teenage blogs, how I found the IndieWeb community, why I think now is the best time…

Gladys 4.81 lets the AI agent and Alexa control your rolling shutters, adds an AI quota display, and brings Zigbee2MQTT credentials and more dongle support.

Exciting news: Find a friend and play the latest build right now. Just promise me you’ll leave feedback, as it’s still early days. There’s a built-in feedback form, but you can also email or message…

Kotlin tricks: Non-exhaustive enums Enums are an exhaustive set of values. But what if you suspect you may want to add new entries in the future?

This is a very quick write up, to share an optimization I did and to ask folks to try it out and see what they find. I run ZFS on my workstations and as such I get to both relish in the good parts of…

The performance cult wants everyone to be exceptional. The data, and basic organisational reality, suggest otherwise.

Use AI to make things clearer, not longer. Let it sharpen your thinking, not replace it. FROM: noslopgrenade.com No Slop Grenade. Source

OneDrive has a huge, blind hole if you're using it in/as your backup strategy. It silently fails if you have too many files.

The more AI is being used to generate text, the more we are subjected to having to read it. Writing this in the middle of 2026, over the past few months, I have become wary of that.

But…Which AI Tool Is the Best? I’ve been getting a lot of questions from clients lately about which AI tools to use to drive AI adoption at their company. But this question isn’t as simple as it may…

A new category of blog posts

TL;DR: my current stack Two machines. An M4 MacBook Pro (24GB) for work, and an always-on Mac mini for background automations. Local model is Gemma4-E2B-IT, run through Ollama on each machine. Cloud…

A children's story

How having lots of hobbies keeps me sane

A tiny HTTP 429 on api.github.com quietly broke Emacs CI across most of my projects. Chasing it down revealed a community-wide trap with nix-based setup-emacs, led to a small throttle-proof GitHub…

Interesting objects that I have found or own and the stories behind them.

I’m a husband and father of two young kids. I’ve spent the past few years co-founding a startup, which means my open-source side projects get whatever scraps of attention I can carve out…

The Cricut pipeline can make rounded corners out of the box

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The risky PR is rarely the big one...it's the one carrying money code, a migration, or a red build, regardless of size. Here's what I look for when one lands, and the product I'm building so senior…

You can now share ideas from idea.log with other people. Tap share, pick “Share with Friend,” and send the link through iMessage, Slack, email, whatever. If the recipient has idea.log…

Hi I'm Value. I'm one of the producers on the Furality A/V Team and I want to yap about A/V production leading up to Furality Ultra. This is not an official Furality writeup and does not represent…

When a platform needs to move events in real time, many producers, many consumers, durable and replayable, Kafka is the backbone. The 2020 edition ran it the only way you could back then: a Kafka…

This post follows the format: Detail the controversy Analyze Mullvad’s response Compare this situation to a similar case (Proton’s CEO) My action as a customer of Mullvad’s…

Hi! A couple of side-project updates: keeping my archival tool alive, ssh-over-web-browser tailored to my needs, and a slightly better dictation CLI. Archivist Updates I continue to use, and get a…

How a bug-infested murder apartment gave me the freedom to recover from burnout.

A list of features I'd personally like to see added to web platform standards or better implemented in browsers. Improvements to HTML, new CSS, other web systems, or wider parts of the web platform…

Cheap cloud servers can't run real VMs. Here's why, and how I got them to anyway.

Gadgetbridge 0.92.0: Many new devices, many bugfixes and a new online feature¶ We're excited to announce the release of Gadgetbridge 0.92.0! This release comes with quite a few new supported…

Would you like to have some real impact on the tech industry? Do you have $100,000 to spend? If you answered “yes” to both questions, ask software engineering researchers (the kinds of people who…

I’m currently making a few last changes to the third book in this series and trying to find an agent who will handle them. If you have middle-graders who would be interested in reading them and…

Hadrien Mens-Pellen discussing guerilla programming - survive in hostile tech environments - from the NewCrafts 2025 conference. ...

They’ve got your driver’s license on record, remember? Can you prove it wasn’t you who made that post? Where were your thumbs on April 14th at 2:04am? CREEPS I believe you can both…

Pointwise vs. Pairwise LLM Agent evals and how I used a custom eval tool to speed up my agent by 4x and cut costs by 95%.

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# Overview You add Redis for caching, Elasticsearch for search, and Sidekiq for jobs, and soon your app depends on many datastores. Each one needs its own deployment, backup, monitoring, and incident…

Inspired by Jedda here’s an occasionally updated list of blogs and/or posts I’ve enjoyed reading. A hat tip and thanks to people who took the time to write and publish what they did. I…