Ben Nadel replaces the nginx proxy and URL rewriting with CommandBox in his local ColdFusion development environment....

Earlier today I was working with a Yarn codebase for the first time on one of my machines, and I hit an awkward error I'd not seen before: % yarn install yarn install v1.22.22 error Error: Failed to…

Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:…

The technical skills every TPM needs in 2026 from cloud basics to AI agents and governance. A practical guide to staying close to the tech.

Table of Contents McCLIM 1.0.0 "Koliada" Input editing rewrite Gadget improvements Stream improvements Backend improvements Manual improvements Closing remarks McCLIM 1.0.0…

If you are using Cloudflare products like Workers, R2, or D1, you have probably checked the dashboard more times than you would like. It works, but it is manual, repetitive, and not very scalable.…

Hello Browser is a webview window for desktop web apps (written in vala, GTK4, for linux). The goal is to bundle a locally-served web app into something that behaves like a native desktop app. What's…

Although discouraged for both free and upgraded accounts, if you want to remove the footer containing Powered by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ at the bottom of your screen, just add this to your CSS settings under the…

Setting up the environment + Hello World Inspecting and tampering HTTP requests and responses Inspecting and tampering WebSocket messages Creating […] The post Extending Burp Suite for fun and…

Build caching is becoming an everyone problem. Here is how we think about productizing it at Tuist for indie developers and small teams, not just enterprises.

Pocket shut down in July 2025. I needed somewhere to dump the articles I keep telling myself I'll read later. So I built a Chrome extension that does exactly that and nothing else. Local-only, no…

Codex sucked until March ‘26, but now it can run my newly re-imagined Zoo 2 workflow.

Added Bookshelf Archive . Amend the fuzzy matching algorithm on the “Stepping on Air” page. Are the doodles visible on the side margins? ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ )

I really enjoy re-implementing things that already exist. Sometimes it's just out of interest, sometimes it's to make it faster, or work in a different way, or improve the code quality, but I love…

I figured it was time to start releasing some of the small apps I make to assist me. I’ll start with Dequoter, one of the smaller ones. Until today, it was not in a fit enough state to release:…

Promies Feedback Board gives you a single, vote-protected hub to see exactly which features your users actually want.

A patch I contributed to Apache Cassandra 6 cuts p99 read latency by 5x during compaction.Compaction pollutes the page cache with data the application knows is throwaway, but the kernel does not.…

Writing changelogs is boring, easy to forget, and always happens at the worst possible time. In a team that ships frequently — like ours

At a couple recent conferences, I got to describe the process Postgres uses to select new committers/maintainers. Usually to users and developers using Postgres, but in some cases it was unclear even…

2021 Called, It Wants Its Icon Strategy Back For years, the React Native community shipped icons as fonts. FontAwesome, MaterialCommunityIcons, your custom set, all delivered as one .ttf and rendered…

Learn how an Arduino-based line follower robot works and how to build one.

This post covers the most common errors when trying to run the eBPF selftests using vmtest.sh, including compilation errors on kfuncs declarations, missing or mismatched libraries, and other…

In the fourth part of my event sourcing series, we’ll take a look at why long event streams – streams with lots of events – are a problem and what options there are to deal with…

As you may have seen on a previous article, the Gephi team has been hard at work over the past few months and is currently preparing to release version 0.11 of your favorite network analysis…

Continuing my journey into learning the Cloudflare Developer Platform, I decided to figure out how to use Queues today. While Workers are the central compute component of the platform, you need…

pyghidra-mcp v0.2.0 ships a GUI-backed mode that lets a local LLM drive a live Ghidra CodeBrowser at full project scope. Renames, plate comments, and cross-binary pivots land in real time, with every…

Crowded Yet? Your browser does not support the video tag. Overview Crowded Yet tracks how busy spaces on University campuses are using real-time sensor data.

Smarter way to pair program - Internal tool for Shopify.

I almost always reach for project-vc-dir when I want a VC status overview, and most of the time this is exactly what I want, the whole project laid out in one buffer, every modified, added and…

Configure a SwiftUI app to schedule and handle a background fetch task using the Background Tasks framework and the backgroundTask(_:action:) SwiftUI modifier.

Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer introduces Loon GPU, a bindless abstraction layer implemented on Vulkan 1.3 and Metal 4 exposes GPU allocations as device pointers, removes explicit vertex…

Guidelines for programming when code is cheap.

You would think that loading images in the browser is a solved problem. After all, websites are basically composed of text and images. Turns out that loading images from JavaScript to use in…

A practical breakdown of the agentic stack — MCP, Skills, Hooks, AGENTS.md, and Context Engineering — what each one does and where to start.

Table of Contents Introduction The vulnerability Analyzing the shellcode Setting up the lab Setting up rootless Podman Running the exploit inside a container Tracing the exploit mechanism Why…

Chatbots are not input validation

The first search of the day is now instant. `discogs-mcp` pre-fetches your collection in the background every hour and keeps it in a snapshot, so…

Master Playwright end-to-end testing: setup, authentication (basic, 2FA, passkeys), mocking, fixtures, and debugging with UI mode and Trace Viewer.

Previously [I wrote](/blog/2026/04/24/define-static-array/): > [Template parameter objects of array type] are permitted to overlap or be > coalesced, just like `initializer_list`s and string…

A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

Intro There's something slightly absurd about turning a tiny retro handheld into both an app development platform and a weak-signal radio decoder. The R36S - cheap, hackable, and rough around the…

A web-based desktop operating system built entirely in the browser, with all 30 Vibe30 projects as installable apps.

We put up a design-to-dev guide alongside the 1.9.3 release post — but that post was lengthy and the guide probably got lost in the shuffle. So a quick standalone pointer: Read the guide on the CSS…

Type inference challenges for real-world JSON

Subagents solve context pollution, but how the main agent manages them matters more than whether they run in sync or async. Four orchestration patterns, from a simple tool call to an autonomous agent…

A PM on my team opened a PR last week. No heads up, no prior meeting, no PRD. POC code, isolated environment, feature flag closed, synthetic dataset. PR description: "I ran hypothesis X with 30…

Yesterday Ruby Native launched. Today the first customer app went live. And the developer never opened Xcode.

Many moons ago, when I used to write software, I realized I was misinterpreting stakeholders, and they me. We were using the same words, but thinking of different things.