Me rambling on to understand my own reasons to write.

The Priest Mountain Shelter, VA (37.817850, -79.070375) Seven years ago I hiked half the Appalachian Trail, from its midpoint in Harper’s Ferry, WV, to its northern terminus at Katahdin, ME.…

Recently I started testing multi-agent collaboration tools in my daily workflow, spending quite a bit of time with both Cumora and Raft . Between the two, I prefer how Raft handles agent definitions,…

UFO is a great game from 1994. Possibly the first, great turn-based tactics game.

I’m assuming you all gave a sigh of relief when you saw digital text rather than scans of my handwriting. This post is largely a set of updates and corrections to my previous post; given the…

I always knew it was inevitable that I’d build my own RSS reader. I’ve been reading blogs since the 2000s. I’ve been blogging since 2005 (teenage angst blogs that are long dead),…

Now that we have a working Forth environment running on the SG-1000, it makes some sense to start building up the video display capabilities. Can I get sprites working on the TMS9918 for the first…

LLM-based expense extraction is good, but not perfect. Here's how we built a feedback loop that captures corrections, distills them into rules, validates them with shadow runs, and promotes them to…

We wanted OpenEngine's implementation agents to run on a local model, so we benchmarked the two machines we had: a Mac mini with an M5 Pro and 64 GB of memory, and a Linux box with an RTX 3090, a GPU…

How I added WebMCP tools to my social media planner so AI agents can find drafts, create posts and update schedules through an open browser tab.

The tools removed the resistance that used to tie us to what we build. Nobody is going to give it back, so the craft now has to be chosen, and part of that choice is not ours to make.

The relay economy is a large, commoditized grey market: hundreds of storefronts on a handful of open-source gateways. Some of what it sells is legitimate resale, but much rests on two fragile…

Along my trip across Japan I collected a bunch of postcards from places I visited. I got them in museums, in tourist shops or in second-hand bookstores. I sent some to friends and family, but most of…

Creating a file with ed and a here document When it comes to creating a new file with ed and a here document, there is a difference between "GNU ed" and "ed" on BSD. This is about…

One of the tensions at the heart of the current AI debate is one I’ve been interested in for a long time – the conflict between where we place value: in the artefact, or in the process that produced…

Why I built a shared query language for Zirium and Zincite, with word and CSV examples and a guide to embedding it in Rust.

Starter kits are right on the day you install them and drift from then on. Kit now checks its own promises in CI, so the docs, spec, errors and dependencies stay true.

I've been trying to build a proper homelab for a long, long time. syswraith @syswraith - Raspberry Pi 4B (8GB) - Seagate HDD (1TB)(salvaged from old lappy) - TL-WN 722N (YES, packet injection and…

Noise with CSS backgrounds

What a file system does, how it got here, and what it promises when a write returns.

We’ve just released ArkOS 0.13.1, along with a large set of associated tooling. For the observant among you, we skipped 0.13.0. It was signed, but a last-minute API change made us pull it.…

An introduction to Lisa, the open-source AI agent harness: enforceable limits, receipt-based verification, and lossless context.

A controlled comparison of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Claude Opus 5.5 on one LlamaStash feature, across Claude Code and Pi, at medium and xhigh effort

t2linux (CC-BY-SA-4.0) It’s nearly impossible to buy reasonably priced compute hardware in the current market. Consumer memory has regressed to 2009 prices and high-end video card compute has…

A type scale built on media queries jumps. The heading is 28px at 767 pixels of viewport width and 40px at 768, and nothing in between looks deliberate. Fluid typography replaces the jump with a…

A design-gate hook blocked nothing in eight agent runs. Nobody cheated. The agents wrote files through Bash, and the hook only watched Edit and Write.

What we capture when we scan a family photograph, what we keep, and how we expect it to still be readable in fifty years without any of the software that made it.

Why I make time to configure my research tools, what my current setup looks like, and how I keep the work understandable as models and agents change.

This is not just a rant, this is a serious call and warning to every company or project developing software.

How we removed 28k lines of code from Sentry, one Knip at a time. A talk about the cost of unused code, how Knip finds it, and the lessons we learned along the way.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” - John Muir

“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.” - Henri Poincaré

Bob Cringely died on Oct 3, 2026

Posted on October 20, 2026 by Evgeny Poberezkin Tags: ai, internet They can – but not on the networks most people use. Internet: a market that nobody owned When the internet began, only research and…

Medical information should follow a patient. That does not mean it should be open to every hospital, clinician, or application. Medical records are confidential. A doctor, nurse, pharmacist, and…

Part 10 of the Procedural GPU Patterns tutorial series for Godot Engine 4.

Notes on building a small coding agent.

96 days of applying, 106 distinct roles, 112 hiring tracks, one Principal offer, and 104 tracks that never produced a conclusive answer. What my reconstructed 2026 job search says about hiring after…

Converting existing open-source FPGA projects to Bazel and rules_openxc7 makes hardware builds reproducible, eliminates machine-specific paths, and enables one-command bitstream generation without…

What it would take for a Linux desktop like Omarchy to reach the technically disinclined — and how an AI design director might let open source scale taste.

I'm finding that I sometimes don't have time to take notes when I need to, but I often times can record audio. Maybe it's just a random thought I need to capture, or a full conversation crafting a…

My youngest daughter has neurodiverse challenges that we’re still figuring out at the moment. One thing she finds especially hard is media that makes her feel stressed or anxious. She’s…

A follow-up to my post on Gradle's rich console on Nix: a small patchelf script in my nix configuration that repairs the native library cache whenever the Gradle wrapper breaks rich console.

A rose for Hubble’s 21st anniversary For Hubble’s 21st anniversary in 2011, astronomers released a portrait of these two interacting galaxies, Arp 273, commonly called the Rose Galaxies.…

Every MVP has an event horizon: the point where people start depending on it. You won't feel yourself cross it - you'll find out when you try to back out.

incidental learning in the age of LLMs.