Rebuilding this portfolio from scratch in the age of AI

jorislacance.fr · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

Migrating jorislacance.fr from Jekyll/Bootstrap 4 (2019) to Astro 6/TypeScript (2026) entirely via conversational AI.

Choosing the size of the calibration set in conformal prediction with ahead::conformalize()

thierrymoudiki.github.io · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

This post explores the impact of the split_prob parameter in the ahead::conformalize() function on the resulting prediction intervals.

Box2D 3.2

box2d.org · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

Version 3.1 was released about 16 months ago. I’ve been busy with Box3D and work, but I’ve managed to add a lot of cool stuff to Box2D. Also it has been heavily optimized and tested. Here…

Complex Squares with Raku

raku-musings.com · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

[420] My response to the

Verbs

ollie.md · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

Verbs is a mod for Claude Code that plays a looping pixel-art picture of each of the 188 verbs its spinner shows while Claude works.

Harmonicon's bending trainer

tcanabrava.github.io · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

A short tour of Harmonicon's bending trainer: one hole, one bend, and a live picture of your pitch.

Background Job Retries: Prevent Duplicate Business Operations

mitchelsellers.com · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

Background services are amazing, and the systems that provide built-in resiliency are even better! However, it is incredibly important that your solutions are architected in a manner that actually…

Digital recipe management for fastidious cooks

localghost.dev · Oct 18 · 🧑‍🍳 Food & Drink ·

Much like your favourite recipe websites, I'm not going to get straight to the point, I'm going to start with a backstory and you're not getting a skip link. Having grown up with a dad who read…

Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space

hamatti.org · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

This blog post is a weekly update of my journey in Djangonaut Space, an 8-week mentoring program for future open source developers in the Django ecosystem. Series: 3… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut…

Engineering Still Matters

franciscotrindade.me · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

AI made building software easier, but not preparing for what comes next. Engineers still hold the quality bar, and keeping it is what makes software cheap to build, run, and evolve.

Engenharia ainda importa

franciscotrindade.me · Oct 18 · 🧩 Programming ·

A IA facilitou construir software, mas não se preparar para o que vem depois. Engenheiros continuam sendo os guardiões da barra de qualidade, e mantê-la é o que torna o software barato de construir,…

Estia 1.5.1

thedent.net · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

I’m going to continue the new trend of this site turning into the Estia blog with yet another (brief) Estia release post I’m afraid. Estia 1.5.1 is, as you can...

Introducing Ithibati: passkey authentication for Elixir

someonewho.codes · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Ithibati is a small Elixir library for passkey authentication: accounts, WebAuthn credentials, recovery codes and revocable sessions. It started as the login of another project of mine and grew into…

Would Fine-Tuning Have Beaten Jev?

bandarra.me · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

The third post in my series on describing a classifier with Jev versus training one. This time I fine-tuned BERT on the same Jigsaw toxicity comments. With enough labels it ranks toxic comments…

Estimate your BAC, now 100% in the browser

sumsar.net · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Thanks to the awesomeness of webR and Shinylive, the tool I made in back in 2014 to estimate your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) now runs 100% in the browser, no server needed! Try the browser…

Q4 2026: Zig, Windows, and setbacks

partout.io · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

The Zig rewrite

Programming History Matters

hanez.org · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

When we understand where our tools come from, we make better choices about when and how to use them. Programming languages are full of trade‑offs shaped by their origins. Here are some short,…

Writing Android apps in Ruby in 2026: JRuby 10 and Ruboto

idogawa.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

How to build Android apps in Ruby today with my Ruboto fork and JRuby 10.1. One Ruby file, gradle, adb install. Runs on Android 6 to 16, including a cheap Frameo photo frame and Wear OS watches.

New Features in Mastodon.py 2.3

halcy.de · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Mastodon.py 2.3.3 is finally tagged, and here’s a few new things that it supports that I think are neat! In an earlier draft of this post, it was version 2.3.2, but I noticed during writing that I…

lab

mmmeon.com · Oct 17 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

lab web experiments. details table a b c blah blah 1 2 three blah blah 1 2 three 4 5 6 seven blah blah 1 2 5 6 seven details tabs "hi" "bye" "hi" "hi!" "hi" "what's up?" details lazy embed click to…

Contributing to DaxLib

evaluationcontext.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

How to contribute a Library to DaxLib

A parallel ZIP archiver in Zig — full AI in 17 minutes of code

vincentdelft.be · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

I'm checking what AI can provide. For such investigation, I've installed Claude code on my VoidLinux setup. Since several months I'm interested by the Zig program language and their objectives. So,…

Exxon

kwbaker.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

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Generating PDFs from Word Templates with officeParser

raymondcamden.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

I've been singing the praises of the officeParser library for a while. It's an open source JavaScript library that can parse, extract, and convert between PDFs and Office documents, as well as…

Teaching Kids Programming – The Halting Problem: Paradoxes, Self-Reference, and Why Some Problems Are Impossible to Solve

helloacm.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

The Halting Problem proves that no algorithm can determine whether every arbitrary program will terminate. Explore the Barber Paradox, Russell's Paradox, self-reference, diagonalisation, and Alan…

Introducing our new podcast: Make Great Software with Chris & Gina

notetoself.studio · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Gina Trapani Once upon a time, the web was mostly a text-based medium. If you were an introverted writer who wanted to share your ideas with the world, it was the perfect place to thrive. That time…

False Sharing, Visualized

dteather.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Two threads writing to different variables can still slow each other down. Learn how cache lines cause it and how padding fixes it.

October 17th, 2026

eighttrigrams.net · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

This is how I program the computer now: ## Open a link in a tab in an orb - accross machines - Given I am on my Mac Mini - And when I am on the SN context with Zoo - And in that SN context in the…

Behold Rome Scoring App

talkingshelfspace.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

As I’m about to get ready to head to Essen, I thought it might be nice to bring Behold Rome along for the train ride. But I never liked the pre-existing scoring app, so I thought I’d vibe…

Weekly Post #143

arkoinad.com · Oct 17 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Software engineering?

AI Coding Tip 041 - Turn Every Review Finding Into a Rule

maximilianocontieri.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

A human should never address the same issue twice.

How to Add a Random Posts Widget

writewhim.blogspot.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

If you have many published posts on your blog, older articles can easily get buried beneath newer ones, making them harder for visitors to discover. With this Blogger Random Posts Widget , your posts…

One store, two frontends

fzakaria.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

One of the big ideas I think the Nix community should pursue is relocatable binaries. I put my money where my mouth is and collaborated with the VFS Linux maintainer Christian Brauner to get $ORIGIN…

WIP: KDE builder dashboard

cukic.co · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Just a teaser of a small thing I’m working on. Our amazing meta-meta-builder tool kde-builder (just like its predecessor kdesrc-build) is indispensable if you’re building many KDE things from source.…

Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode

helenchong.dev · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

As I switched to Emacs (with Doom Emacs ) as my main code editor, I had also begun to explore Org Mode , and later migrate most of my notes from Obsidian to Org mode, by using Pandoc and the Obs2Org…

TypeSafe Jev .NET SDK 0.7.0: Experimental Images and Bounding Boxes

laurentkempe.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

In my first post about TypeSafe and Jev in .NET, I used the SDK to make structured judgments about text and JSON: Noul for a yes-or-no probability, Choice for an unordered selection, and Score for an…

0014 – City Run

johnoestmannmusic.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Designed by myself – code built with AI – the code itself generates the music and visuals – entirely open-source ShrineGen v20261017 seed 1003 biome Near Future weather Wind…

Week in Review: October 17, 2026

nolongerset.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Highlights include a free Access image gallery with carousel, the value of custom vs. off-the-shelf software, and how to pre-select a file in File Explorer from VBA.

How to build a custom R graphics device

blog.djnavarro.net · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Did I need to write a graphics device to output plots to an HTML canvas? No I did not. Did anyone ask for this? Oh hells no. Ah, but did I have fun? Hahahahahahahaha. No

Codec2 3200 meets FARGAN

m17project.org · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Codec2 3200 carries M17 voice, and its classic decoder is the weak spot. It’s limited to 8 kHz and has that recognizable buzzy, synthetic sound. Instead of designing a new codec, I wanted to know how…

denounce.

ari.blumenthal.dev · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Just saw a few days ago that Deno joined Cloudflare with plans to stop supporting it in ~1 year. And Bun joined Anthropic last December. So I've moved the blog back to node. I'd made the jump to deno…

Obnam community

obnam.org · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Obnam is going to be an encrypting, de-duplicating, secure, and fast backup software implementation that's easy and convenient to use. I've been developing a new generation of Obnam for a couple of…

Obnam community

blog.liw.fi · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Obnam is going to be an encrypting, de-duplicating, secure, and fast backup software implementation that's easy and convenient to use. I've been developing a new generation of Obnam for a couple of…

Object-Oriented Design: Binary or Enum?

slott56.github.io · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

BLUF Some aspects of a problem are superficially binary, perhaps modeled as a boolean value. Don't be misled. Some aspects of a problem are clearly not binary, and a boolean is wrong. Other aspects…

Finding Unbalanced Parens in Emacs

randyridenour.net · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

I live in Emacs, and usually only restart it when absolutely necessary. When I do restart, I occasionally get the dreaded message that there’s something wrong with my init file. I’m then…

SARIMA : Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average

blog.sparsh.dev · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

(p, d, q) (P, D, Q, S)Time series forecasting modelpredict future valuesextension of non-seasonal ARIMA modelcaptures both short term and long term dependencies with dataS - repeating patterns in…

Your articles need a “Copy for AI” button

markodenic.tech · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Your readers already paste your articles into AI chats. Give them a clean Markdown copy instead, with one button and about 30 lines of JavaScript.

This Week in Package Management: 17 October 2026

nesbitt.io · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world

ARMA: Auto Regressive Moving Average

blog.sparsh.dev · Oct 17 · ⚛️ Science ·

ARMA(1,1) time series modelXt = 0.5 Xt-1 + Zt + 0.7 Zt-1ARMA(1,1) Time Series EquationAR order: p = 1MA order: q=1Stationarity: |0.5|<1Invertibility: |0.7|<1Assuming Zt is white noise, the model

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aicode.danvoronov.com · Oct 17 · 🧩 Programming ·

OpenCode has moved to the 2.0 branch — the largest rework in its history. OpenCode 2.0https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/A good refactoring. Now a single background service starts automatically, and…