Pragtical v3.11.2 is a focused bug-fix release that tightens file lookup

E-Voting Made Simple (Take 4)

I read a comment stating that git (a tool programmers use to collaborate on code, sort of like Word’s Track Changes) is not a version control system but a “system for creating a version control…

The day that, according to people around me, I almost died.

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode - great places to start, not best places to finish. Pi is the thin harness that gets out of your way. Here's why experienced engineers should pay attention.

Why we chose Astro for teaching Content APIs and Web APIs in the CMD Amsterdam Web Design & Development minor.

This is happening to me often enough to where I need to understand it. It's not just me. I have heard this from my colleagues and friends as...

You’ve probably seen the videos on social media - there’s a cool looking prototype, but wait, the person expands a menu with a bunch of input sliders and knobs. Then they start to tinker with them -…

FiiO’s $179 fully-automatic belt-drive turntable — a pre-fitted Audio-Technica cartridge, Bluetooth, seven lighting modes and a wood-grain finish that looks far above its price.

Learn how Floyd’s Fast and Slow Pointer algorithm detects cycles and finds the exact starting node of a loop in O(n) time and O(1) space.

Each week, I share one insight. One piece of wisdom. One question to reflect on. (and a little Lagniappe) A great design is easily hidden by unnecessary…

Rails 8.2 adds f.datalist to FormBuilder, so you can wire a text input to a native HTML autocomplete list with zero JavaScript and no derived-id bookkeeping.

Deploy a standard FastAPI app to AWS Lambda serverlessly in two commands using Lambda Web Adapter. No Docker. No handler code. No code changes.

After I published Five Years of Trying to Add Recursion to lychee, one reply I got was a very fair question: If recursion is so hard, how do other link checkers do it? Plenty of them already crawl…

Note I wrote this post by hand. An AI helped me review it, tighten the writing and fact-check the technical parts. The build, the choices and the opinions are all mine. TL;DR Link to heading I…

Events are generational, Buyback brigade, Courting complexity

More and more platforms and browsers support the new API. I did some tests with different screen readers.

As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the day. For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I split time into sixteenths to…

When developers opt out, users lose access.

An extended write-up of the hypermedia API hypothesis for agent workflows with Spring HATEOAS and HAL-FORMS.

Intro Motivating example The solution But what about self-references? States of aggregation Shattering the cycle Behind the scenes The rules so far Conclusion Intro So, in the first installment of…

I've always been a quiet person who prefers to write than to talk (though this may not be obvious based on the number of YouTube videos I've published). So it feels a little weird to say that I think…

This article explores file encryption with Stateless OpenPGP (SOP) tools, and contrasts this use of SOP with the age tool. SOP is a CLI standard for (vendor-agnostic) OpenPGP tools. There are…

One of the key takeaways from my recent Japanese trip was how even the public toilets have built-in bidets that clean your butt. I mentioned in that article that I installed one of these bad-boys in…

quarto-diagrams is a new Quarto extension that adds a collection of circular and structured diagram styles.

After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat". "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through.…

Larry Wall built Perl around a principle: no unnecessary limitations. Most of the limitations we build into our own code aren't necessary either — they're laziness wearing the costume of caution, and…

The plan for today was to work a full day and I did that. I'm only back at work part-time so this week's schedule is a bit all over the place as I figure out the flow of things. I met with one of my…

Imagine a wiki that is just a single HTML file. One that you can deploy anywhere: view locally, share in local network, put in any web server. No databases, no user management, no moving pieces that…

As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I've found in multiple apps. So I built a deliberately…

Part 2 of the Procedural GPU Patterns tutorial series for Godot Engine 4.

Importing strings

Sub-agents aren't specialists — they're disposable, isolated scratchpads for the noisy, expensive, tool-heavy work, handing back only the part that matters and keeping the main thread clean for…

Every day you see a headline about a celebrity official in the Trump administration. One day Robert F. Kennedy is promoting junk science. The next day, Pete Hegseth is retweeting Christian…

I recently read a blog post claiming that web components can make your design system framework agnostic. But this is down to the false dichotomy between engineers who: love React (or the current…

Mutation testing is now generally available in sydtest . This is a major step towards a saner development workflow in the age of AI-generated code. What is mutation testing? Mutation testing aims to…

Play at 📱Google Play Play at 💙Toss Play at 💜playgama.com Janggi Checkmate is a collection of 3,000 hand-picked Korean Chess (장기) checkmate puzzles. Spot the forced mate — from quick one-move strikes…

A compact CLI to concurrently check, fetch, and synchronize multiple Git repositories and worktrees at once.

Normally, when you click an https:// link in a browser, it opens in the same browser. The browser doesn't send it the OS, which means Linklever can't route it to another browser. The Linklever…

Some links are not meant for a browser at all. They're called custom URL schemes, and you've seen them before. A notion:// link belongs in the Notion desktop app. A steam:// link belongs in Steam. A…

May Recap I was thinking of May recap but not feeling up to it. Missed April recap because all I had to say for myself was that I was sick, but I can recap May like this: Put in a new garden bed,…

How LLMs Work, Part 3: From Toy Model to GPT In Part 1 I covered how text gets tokenized, embedded, and processed through the transformer architecture. In Part 2 I went through backpropagation,…

RLHF trains AI systems to maximize user approval, not truth. The research shows this gets worse as models scale. A 2025 OpenAI incident proved it publicly.

The interviews are done. Someone sat with the domain expert and committed ontology.md next to the code. Then the quarter got busy. Six months later a report counts the same Customer three times, and…

My wife Helen, who works in HR, sent me an episode of HR Disrupted last week - Lucy Adams interviewing Andy Doyle from Kantar on putting AI agents into production HR workflows. Andy describes some…