My fair(s) experience.

I read two blog posts this morning almost back to back that got the exact opposite reaction from me. The more I thought about it, the more I needed to reconcile that. So, here's me trying to do that…

My baby boy isn’t really a baby any more, at the ripe old age of 13 months.

A big batch landed since the last update. Here are the highlights. Secrets at Rest Tenant secrets (SSO config, webhook signing keys, Slack URLs) are now encrypted with per-tenant envelope encryption:…

My latest library haul Quiet places for soothing your soul. Unassuming spaces where you can wander for hours, lose yourself browsing the shelves, discovering hidden gems or just enjoying the peace. A…

TLDR I am not working full time right now, which means I have free time which is dangerous. You start by reading one V8 blog post and somehow end up trying to make Google’s Chrome open…

Two more free, open-source illustration skills, added to the same repo as Guild Enamel. Premium 3D Claymorphism generates on-brand 3D product icons — type a subject plus a hex code and the color,…

Mofy is a personal, offline-first movie app with no cloud API calls. Making search understand human-like queries meant ruling out generative models after four failed attempts, and fine-tuning a…

Qwen 3.8 27B This week was interesting for local models with the open-weights release of Qwen 3.8 27B. It was highly anticipated, because Qwen 3.6 held the crown for a long time in open models of a…

Caching can make an AWS application faster and cheaper, but the wrong cache can serve stale or private data. Learn where each AWS caching option fits and what it costs you in complexity.

A lot of people have the wrong idea about fundraising. They make fundraising a really complex thing, making it seem that you have to change your entire personality, or lie, or somehow try to fool…

A practical taxonomy of how malware and phishing arrive as files, why classic controls miss them, and how detection should think.

A production system ran reliably for years until bot traffic exposed hidden technical debt, exhausted its SNAT ports, and brought API calls down. Let's dive into what happened and explore how it…

I have three shell aliases (j, s, z) for just, stree ., and zed . I dug through 7 months of shell history to find out how many characters they've saved.

Previously, we discussed that two things need to go right: architecture, and the learning loop. The learning loop is how innovation happens. Recently, I was reminded of a quote by a mechanical…

Introduction In previous articles, we showed how to test whether two qualitative variables are related thanks to the Chi-square test of independence in R (and how to compute it by hand). Both…

Learn how CSS field-sizing: content lets inputs and textareas size themselves to their content without JavaScript.

We’re on holiday camping in the Lake District. I’d set my mind on riding the Fred Whitton Challenge (FWC) route while we’re here. I’ve not been feeling great this month…

You can bypass/automatically solve Hcaptcha on any website

A personal reflection on David Farley's Modern Software Engineering — why its principles of feedback, learning, and modular design are the essential foundation for the age of agentic coding, vibe…

The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything. It is building an orchestration of models and letting a local orchestrator choose the right one for…

Let's render a simple page with Ktor server and kotlinx.html : get ( "/users.html" ) { call . respondHtml { myLayout ( title = "Users" ) { userList ( users = db . users . value , ) } } } A reusable…

A church ought to make sure the next generation does not have to re-tread the same ground. The church has had answers to their questions for a very long time.

If I go through the halls of X, I would probably come back with a very confused opinion on the state of open source today. On the one hand there are examples like opencode with tons and tons of open…

Introduction Imagine an AI that approves a second refund on the same order. Its reasoning is clear, and the tool call is correct. Yet, the refund remains wrong, and system knowledge isn’t…

Four ways to approach printing your own models.

why do i keep going down color-based rabbit-holes? my latest foray into colors leads me today to the dye system in soul's remnant. for those of you who don't have a finger on the pulse of MMOs on…

I had a need to deploy a small VPS recently and I wanted it to be reliable and secure so I gave FreeBSD a try. This was also a great excuse to play around with something I've been curious about for a…

On July 21, OpenAI acknowledged that it had compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure during an internal cyber evaluation it operated. OpenAI gave its models an offensive objective,…

cli.dev is a shared home for the tools, products, and experiments I build and maintain.

Web Wandering 2 Spidah. It’s been rather sticky of late. The plants are suffering and my sun screen budget has spiralled out of control. Luckily it seems we’re through the worst of it for this year…

There has been constant fighting with the latest crop of AI models.

I've been seeing a tremendous amount of discussion going on recently around the use of X. I have an annoyingly-long history with this topic . What you do in private is your own business. What you do…

Quality software reigns again

A new PHP test-double library built for developer experience.

How canaries, PostHog, Merge Boy, and teammates across roles turned a risky WordPress rewrite into more than 1,000 pull requests in five months.

There has been a bunch of discourse in the AI space about how to get agents the correct context. Following along with those discussions, I’ve built a system that seems to work quite well for me…

I got Arts Council England funding earlier this year to help complete a book I am working on, and in order to finish it, I have some research to do in Santiago, Calbuco and Chiloé all the way over…

Earlier this week Michael made a request on their blog to post about some kind of obscure game, and of course I wanted to participate. I considered talking about Mirrors , a fascinating PC-88…

Which mostly meant having less of it.

The iOS Simulator is a wonderfully fast place to build an app — right up to the moment the app needs something that belongs to the physical world. Bluetooth discovery returns nothing. There is no…

Coverage and commentary of the US water utility cyber incidents continue to dominate OT security content, often with suggestions to address the problem (including mine). Most of the suggestions are…

• Happy first anniversary to my weeknotes! I started these exactly 52 weeks ago, and managed to write on 49 weeks since then. I’ll call that a success! After all...

Portuguese Some blogs are ugly. Fact. But there's nothing wrong with that! Our blogs are forms of expression, from the text to the appearance. Sometimes, some aren't so… aesthetically pleasing? I say…

My family love me as much as I love them. We tell each other all the time. But when I’m at my lowest is really when they show it. MumShe...

Index In celebration of 20 of these damn things, I'm doing a throwback to the halcyon days of 2021 and Slushpost 8.5 , where I shared a bunch of links from my Firefox bookmarks. Except this time it's…

Some people seem to be tempted to say, "I dislike LLMs, so my license should forbid LLM training." Four essential freedoms define free software. The first of those freedoms, Freedom 0, is for any…

It's inconceivable that we have lost Dolly Parton. How beautiful that we lived in the time that she lived. There will never be another. There just couldn't be. I can't help but feel especially low…

Inglês Alguns blogs são feinhos. Fato. Mas não tem nada de errado com isso! Nossos blogs são formas de expressão, dos textos à aparência. Às vezes, alguns não são tão… esteticamente agradáveis? Digo…