Formula 1 Round 12 2026 recap: The F1 summer break is over. The last race at Zandvoort for a while. McLaren keeps improving. Max doesn't finish the race. Alonso scores points. Ferrari with poor…

I decided to get evaluated for ADHD. Curiousity struck, and I had the bright idea to capture the page source and any outbound requests.

Akha Ama Coffeee is a cozy cafe specialising in beans from Thailand. This is quite the niche - I don't think I have ever seen Thailand beans in Japan. As it turns out, Akha Ama is originally a cafe…

https://www.learnwithgurpreet.com/ I recently came across Mole , a simple open-source CLI tool for macOS, and found it surprisingly useful. It brings together a few things I normally need separate…

A point-by-point list of the numbers, estimates, and forecasts discussed by Dylan Patel and Dwarkesh Patel.

I've always appreciated Stephen King's advice on writing. So much so that I once bought a jacket with a tiger on the back because he suggested that it was a good way to build confidence as a writer1…

Players of TOCA Race Driver 3 have a complaint about lap 1, turn 1. The other cars commit to the apex and arrive anyway. A typical report: “The AI of TOCA Race Driver 3 is very aggressive? I can’t…

Last month I made and wrote about a personal service to track my workouts and record personal bests. Since then, things have escalated. I now have eight different services running in the same…

AI model companies buy wholesale electricity by the megawatt and resell it as cognitive work. The unit economics of turning power into intelligence.

This covers a few basic setups for Dovecot that are used to trigger Sieve scripts, specifically for spam/ham learning. For the most part the spam system should be automatically training itself…

From 404Media: We discovered that VGT3 was used to destructively scan books for AI training data by placing a tracking device in a shipment of rare books that a bookseller suspected was being…

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix…

Tia would have turned 16 this year. Another marker that wouldn't come to be. After Tia was lost and born to stillbirth on 31 August 2010, we quickly had a slew of firsts. The first Christmas without…

When I put Evergreen on the iPhone back in June, I was upfront that the phone was mostly for capture and lookup. Add the person you just met, glance at who you owe a follow-up, then wait until…

Explaining how DNS works and why its important to choose a secure DNS provider!

Designing evaluation protocols where neither the model developer nor the evaluator can game the results — work with Google DeepMind.

I can't believe it's been a whole year since we released the first GeoTessera library to make the TESSERA embeddings easier to get your mittens on. Quite a lot of adoption has happened since! I'm…

This city is not made for running within it. So many traffic lights, and such narrow pedestrian lanes. I don't much the incline, or otherwise I'd complain about that too. 😄 Stat Value Distance 1.91…

Bill Gates recently published an article titled The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. In the article, he expresses his concerns about the long-term impact of AI in…

I guess the goal of this exercise, for me, is to see what has changed with regards to my mindset surrounding memory (that’s a very oddly phrased sentence). Basically, have I accrued new perspectives,…

Self-hosted EPUB library backed by object storage, no database.

Twenty-three posts, roughly 19,000 words, and one broken writing dry spell – Blaugust 2026 is done for me.

A few months ago, my Apple Watch strap broke and I stopped using it for a while. I went on a quest to find a suitable wearable fitness tracker and settled on Google’s Fitbit Air. My requirements…

Build a Node-based Flue agent that researches a topic and writes a technical blog post using reusable voice skills, unslop guidance, and a Tavily research tool.

What does a great mentor actually give you? (Not their topic.)

Increasingly, I'm finding it hard to hard to get a sense of human consensus on a topic from the internet

Photo by Phil Desforges Alt text is vast and varied. There’s no way to make it perfect, but there are plenty of things we can do better. Let me show you what I know about that. Buckle up — there’s a…

Heng asked his supervisor whether he could buy a house in central London. The answer was no. In that moment, something clicked. Heng works on fuel cells: fuel goes in, electricity comes out, and over…

Believe that all of the things you want to do are possible. All of your goals and dreams are right around the corner. Right now, I can not help but smile. Dreams that seem so outlandish are suddenly…

A very hidden way to change the fonts of the whole IDE, not only of the editor. Oracle SQL Developer: changing the IDE fonts Oracle SQLDeveloper provides a dialog window to change the editor within…

I talked about sandboxing my agents with [`nono`](https://nono.sh) in the last blog post already (check it out here: [Use `nono` AI agent sandboxes in Zed Agent…

Finally getting this blogpost out as I procrastinate on packing for a weekend-long trip Now chipping away at: Another blog post about TYVNJ2 games that I enjoyed (it is currently 43 games long) Now…

Why I built a camera app that lets youth-sports parents save an unpredictable moment after it has already started.

Shipping container type codes are standardized. Almost nobody knows how it works though.

Using the observation.og API to get instant updates for a specific species.

In Consider Phlebas, we learn about a band of humanoid pirates: Tzbalik Odraye roomed with Rava Gamdol, who looked as though he came from the same place as Yalson, judging from his skin and light…

Drafted by Claude Code from an analysis I directed and reviewed.

Let’s get around to actually making a Tamiya kit. A perfect candidate is this R32 Nissan Skyline that I found at a local hobby shop! Through only a little bit of struggle – mostly my fault – I still…

Because starting is easy and finishing is hard.

Part 6 of the Procedural GPU Patterns tutorial series for Godot Engine 4.

An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format

Sometimes good engineering looks like over-engineering. I was recently putting together a talk that walks through some architecture and engineering decisions I’ve made over the last eight-plus years…

Software used to need a watchmaker. Now it needs a breeder. What Darwin can teach us about building with AI.

Having a beautiful staircase leading up to a platform and raised garden requires an equally beautiful railing to prevent minifigures from falling and hitting their heads. 🤕 The following post…

Preface: The Unanswered Frontier In Part 1: Taming the AI Agents, I shared the architectural blueprint of CAMP (Cross-Agent Memory Protocol)—how we used Linux Bubblewrap (bwrap), camp-acpd, OPA…

I’ve been meaning to learn ‘agentic’ software development, specially learning what a ‘harness’ means and what it provides out of the box and what it doesn’t.

I recently put a name to a kind of product design I care about: functional elegance.

As of last week, I’ve been working at Fat Zebra for 5 years. (To celebrate, I caught up with my cardiologist.) In about a year and a half, it’ll be double the amount of time that I’ve worked anywhere…

AI can do a lot of things, but it's a probability machine. Just because most people think something is true doesn't make it true. Do your own due diligence, trust but verify. And fundamentals will…