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…

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…

3D art Ribbet is a 3D platformer made by a team straight out of Uni. I was the Art Lead for the majority of Ribbet’s production and one of three 3D artists on Ribbet. These environmental assets I…

How you go about managing your time can be greatly enhanced by using the right tools. From pomodoro techniques, to day planners, and even time tracking software.

Assorted LinksI finished book eight of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Loved it. I have recommended the series to a lot of different people now with a pretty good hit rate. If you haven't read it yet, you…

About 15 years ago, I stumbled upon a songwriter named Sam Baker who had released an album called "Cotton." I liked almost every song, not because he was a great singer or a great musician but…

by Brad Johnson December 19, 2018 (This is not my work but fear it may someday not be found at the link below) Originally published here:…

I had a fantastic time touring the wind farms at Palm Springs in California today. It was fascinating to see the evolution of this technology from the 80s when they…

I’ve been writing a lot about Starlink’s financials since the SpaceX S-1 came out almost two weeks ago and now I’ve just released my new 65 page report forecasting the opportunity…

D2C stores, platform access, UGC, AI agents, and creator channels only matter when they strengthen the player relationship. The post Game Studios Have More Channels, But Not More Control appeared…

How to contribute a Library to DaxLib

A year and half of blogging, in numbers

Your AI says the job is done. Your container says it is running. Your firewall says it is up. All three are lying, and the green light is the most dangerous output in your stack.

After publishing Can Swift Match Rust on a Lambda Micro-Benchmark? I got a wave of questions about one specific result: the CRC32 decision. People couldn’t believe it. Fair enough. I…

UCLA Cardiology Grand Rounds 2020-10-23 | Video (better video below) Vanderbilt University Department of Biostatistics 2020-11-18 Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum 2021-11-04 | Video Consilium…

In this route through Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, we let tea serve as the narrative thread, grounding a beautifully paced day of mid-century architecture, intentional art spaces, and…

Buy the book Finally — finally! — after 7 years, there’s a new book of mine out in the world: Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again is now available wherever you buy books. Don’t Call…

I’ve been looking at several PostgreSQL clients as I migrate my local development databases away from Docker containers and back to a native PostgreSQL installation.

Why textualism, original public meaning, and AI governance all turn on the same uncomfortable fact: intent does not travel unless it becomes part of the record. There is an old fight in legal…

It's absolutely insane to me that there are so many "minimal" launchers that promise to reduce your phone usage and don't have the main blocker for actually doing it: hiding all the apps. Close to…

The writing on the Claude blog is consistently great, and often becomes the defacto standard for the subject at hand. This post is nominally a marketing piece for dynamic workflows but the article…

KIKX 102 was the new name for the short-lived Monaghan pirate FM 100, that broadcast for a few months from 26th July 1989. Using the former studios and transmitter of previous pirate KITS in Monaghan…

Announcing stumpalo, an extremely fast bump allocator for rust, with chunk reuse and safe scoped stack support.

by James Wallace Harris, 6/2/26 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is the gold standard for old movie lovers. Unfortunately, in the era of cord-cutting, fewer people have access to this wonderful resource.…

You know the feeling. You open a pull request on Monday morning. You ping the reviewer(s). You go to lunch. You come back. Nothing. You context-switch to something else. On Wednesday, the reviewer…

In Olomouc, Czech Republic, I recently stumbled upon Lomená Galerie (Broken Gallery), an art gallery located in a passage inside an old building. The entrance is currently decorted with two origami…

If not first, pg_stat_statements is one of the most used extensions in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. It ships in contrib and costs almost nothing to use. Most of us turn to it to answer the question:…

I was told one could use virtualisation software, spawn virtual machines with PCIe passthrough, and achieve near identical gaming performance.

I run a tiny compiler startup: two people, pre-revenue. Like most companies at this stage, we are always short on staff, money, and time. When Claude Code and Codex became good enough to use every…

Hero camper recently announced their new Nested Drawer — it’s a small drawer that gets mounted above the cooler and holds the gas hob parts safely. Which is pretty genius; the pan support is…

Use voice input to talk to Google Translate (or any other translation app). Seriously. Let's say I'm learning Japanese. 1: Set the translator app to English ⇢ Japanese . 2: Press the microphone icon…

I watched the webcast of the NAS State of Science address by outgoing NAS president Dr. Marcia McNutt . (I did not watch the panel discussion afterward, so sorry if I missed critical pieces.) A few…

Week of adjustment It was a week of adjustment at work as I took on some new responsibilities after the departure of our team leader. I had more meetings than usual as I needed to communicate with…

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: A vast and jagged temple Stands in the desert. Near it, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered placard lies, whose angles, And jagged prose and words in…

3 SubCom cable ships worked Google's Bosun cable simultaneously in Australian waters. Their owner's founder runs the Pentagon. Coincidence?

Sourced in Isn't she lovely? After N’Joi , Saffron fronted - front being the operative word - this Republica tune that I file with a lineage of excitable go-for-it ladette pop ( Icona Pop , "I Love…

Yesterday, I started messaging some old friends I hadn’t spoken with in literal ages. One of them, it’s been about a decade since we last connected. One I haven’t seen in person in over two decades.…

The last Moduleurs are on the bench now.