Rust Glancer, a functional LSP server for Rust which uses two orders of magnitude less RAM, is incredibly cool. Go check it out! This post started as a comment on lobste.rs, but I figured it out that…

As people grow older, they grow wiser, or at least they think they do. Then it becomes their duty to impart their accumulated wisdom to the younger generation. Leslie Lamport made his name in…

Ollama queued every request in a single slot because lfm2 is blocklisted from parallelism. llama-server fixed it.

I have an Elm app at work that needs exactly one thing from the JavaScript ecosystem: an npm package to piggyback on some A$ure auth thing. And for that one(!) package, I was running Vite with an Elm…

tl;dr: It worked! From one prompt it created a repo, wrote the application and tests, got CI green, provisioned Postgres and deployed the finished app behind HTTPS without another message from me.If…

Chris kicked off a little 'blog and response' with Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer . The idea was that if every component's custom properties live in a weak layer, unlayered CSS can override them…

To be fair, it’s more accurate to say that I wrote a data compiler. Let me explain myself after that unsettlingly clickbaity title… I’m currently contracted on a project that…

Every cache should have one property, and plenty do not: turning it on changes how fast your code runs and nothing else. If attaching a cache can change the answers, it has stopped being an…

How I built PadelIQ, an iOS app that turns phone-against-the-glass padel footage into positioning heatmaps and coaching verdicts — with the whole computer vision pipeline running on-device via Core…

Saving game data is easy. Making your save code survive every kind of hardware failure is not. A lot of these issues will never show up during testing, but if your game reaches a wide audience with…

Cashflow 101 is the board game that sold a generation of people on the idea that the janitor retires before the doctor. Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad lesson, turned into cardboard: buy assets,…

There is a neat paper https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9405205 Seven Trees in One, where it is shown that there is a nice isomorphism between 7 trees and one tree.

Intro In my homelab, most of the infrastructure is already redundant enough to tolerate maintenance, but the update process itself was still too manual. Proxmox was the first part I automated in that…

Wenn ich mit anderen Entwicklern darüber spreche, wie ich KI in meiner täglichen Arbeit einsetze, merke ich schnell, dass ich vermutlich zu den eher konservativeren Nutzern gehöre. Nicht, weil ich…

Ahhh... There she blows! Eggnob is running on the Nintendo Switch! And the port was incredibly simple, once I worked out how to get access to the SDL3 Switch Sku. (Derp) Massive thanks to Ryan and co…

The first is architecture , decided partly up front: network topology, the protocol between processors, how function is partitioned across boards, real-time constraints, the data model, how firmware…

Niram turns a shadcn/ui preset into native Figma variables, styles, components, and app blocks without the usual manual setup.

I shipped a Ruby gem with parallel agents and a 37-agent review. The speed was the least interesting part. The verification fan-out caught six silent security holes.

Technical Beauty Scope, the measured second look at tools this site has admired before. SQLite publishes a table of every CVE ever filed against it with its own assessment beside each one, and in…

A field guide to building a software factory that still has an owner.

What started with the same subscription fix as the rest of my apps rapidly grew into two new Shortcuts actions and a handful of sharing fixes.

Use Gmail’s Message-ID to point Codex or Claude at one exact email and retrieve the complete conversation rather than a plausible result.

The global git config I carry to every machine

When we build agents, we often want to give them the ability to browse the web: open webpages, navigate from one page to the other, and read the content of a webpage. By combining Pydantic AI with…

I was working on fixing a bug in Lilmem 2.0 where switching from the diary’s Calendar mode to Memories mode caused a bug where the diary’s content “stuck” in a specific day.…

20 August 2026 by Phillip JohnstonI have been thinking about this quote from Patterns in the Machine: Software is complex, challenging, and time consuming and requires skilled professionals—no matter…

MongoDB engineers juggling many implementations of many specs. At MongoDB, we develop a dozen client libraries (“drivers”) in a dozen programming languages. A few wrap shared cores…

I used an AI agent to make a big update to my GiftyWeddings.com website, taking it from a gift registry to a full website builder in 275 commits.

AI’s have appeared to learn a new trick to help them with context. It looks like this was done to help an agent returning to a code base for improvements. What they do is to add a lot of verbose…

When you hear that some app was “vibe coded”, how much quality do you expect? As recently as last year, vibe coding seemed like nothing more than a toy to me. Sure, it was cool that you could tell a…

The architect/engineer split from the last post became an actual CLI, and the engineer role moved off my laptop onto a machine of its own.

TermSurf 0.2.0: Graphical Apps Inside the Terminal

Before my thinkboi days I used to be a developer. Writing code instead of words, all day every day. Like most developers, I eventually joined a team, and various startups, and so on and so forth. I…

Do you remember when software was expensive to make? When you couldn’t just snap your fingers and make some code appear with a full test suite? Crafting code this way was hard, but it was…

There are semantic landslides happening right now. In the last few months I have observed that the term “Creative Coding” […] The post Thinking Piece: Is Creative Coding with AI…

Some time ago I decide to make a photo exhibition in my city and, before doing it, I make some research of what I need to do. So I made the photo exhibition with some errors here and there but I love…

Extension pg_statviz for time series analysis & visualization of Postgres internal statistics has released version 1.2 with PostgreSQL 19 support, a new blocking locks analysis module, and an…

Today I participated in the Emacs Chat series hosted by Sacha Chua and Protesilaos as a co-host. We explored my Emacs configuration . It was a very nice opportunity to share workflows and learn new…

RSS is a web-standard for subscribing to blogs. You, a reader, can enter this web-site’s URL into a RSS feed reader program and it’ll fetch updates. That’s how you subscribe to a…

This article explains how to delete recurring tasks from Solid Queue.

I have been putting a load of my time into polishing the Fyne based desktop – and it is becoming a very productive system that I use day to day. I have presented the topic at a few events…

Now that the new esp idf and associated rust binding (esp-idf, esp-svc,..) are out, time to update esp32-swindle with S3, C3 and C6 support You'll need to use the Espressif BLE provisioning tool to…

Updating images in Wix Studio can be frustrating when re-uploading identical filenames creates duplicate clutter instead of replacing the asset. Learn how to use the Wix Studio CMS to build a…

Last week, Deepseek released DSH, an agent harness with very interesting approach.The same pitch used by VS Code and Eclipse RPC (2024): “everything is a plugin” but this time it’s a bit different.…

You see it all the time…in Rails codebases – developers frequently using the method name call to invoke an action.

When do you choose Agent2Agent over MCP or subagents? It all has to do with administrative boundaries.

**Actualizado: agosto de 2026** Sublime Text sigue siendo uno de los editores de código más rápidos y ligeros disponibles, pero durante años las herramientas de IA han tenido mucha más presencia en…

**Updated: August 2026** Sublime Text remains one of the fastest and most lightweight code editors available, but for years AI tooling has been much stronger in editors such as VS Code, Cursor, and…

I re-built and re-launched InvoiceMore, my own time-tracking and invoicing software. Since I am doing a lot of consulting lately, I am back to billing for services, time, and sending invoices to be…