Working in public is usually sold as a growth strategy. For me it is something quieter and more useful: a way to keep ideas moving, keep the builder muscle warm, and leave a trail I can come back to.…

Mofy is a personal, offline-first movie app with no cloud API calls. Making search understand human-like queries meant ruling out generative models after four failed attempts, and fine-tuning a…

Version 1.1.0 of mcp-windbg is out. It's the first release since 1.0.0 , which was broken on fresh installs for some time. What Happened: 1.0.1 The dependency was mcp>=1.28.1 with no upper bound.…

Press releases about our workshop, “The 2nd Workshop on Foundation Data for Industrial Tech Transfer (FOUND)” at ECCV 2026, have been published by LY Corporation, CADDi, and SB Intuitions.

Qwen 3.8 27B This week was interesting for local models with the open-weights release of Qwen 3.8 27B. It was highly anticipated, because Qwen 3.6 held the crown for a long time in open models of a…

Caching can make an AWS application faster and cheaper, but the wrong cache can serve stale or private data. Learn where each AWS caching option fits and what it costs you in complexity.

A home mail server with no open ports, reachable from my phone over WireGuard, without any subscription fee.

Why spec-driven development is useful to product managers, designers, and engineers, especially when AI can write the code.

A production system ran reliably for years until bot traffic exposed hidden technical debt, exhausted its SNAT ports, and brought API calls down. Let's dive into what happened and explore how it…

For most of my career, working with computers meant giving them precise instructions. I wrote the code, searched for answers, and operated…

Four ways to approach printing your own models.

Over the last months I have purchased and become interested in 3D printing. ...

A lot of people have the wrong idea about fundraising. They make fundraising a really complex thing, making it seem that you have to change your entire personality, or lie, or somehow try to fool…

If before writing was the most effective tool to organize ideas, now it has a competitor in AI. Yes, but they can also work together. And they work on different levels and situations.

Let's render a simple page with Ktor server and kotlinx.html : get ( "/users.html" ) { call . respondHtml { myLayout ( title = "Users" ) { userList ( users = db . users . value , ) } } } A reusable…

A personal reflection on David Farley's Modern Software Engineering — why its principles of feedback, learning, and modular design are the essential foundation for the age of agentic coding, vibe…

As I get older, I have to recognize that some pains are inevitable . I worry a lot about my health and I get anxious about small symptoms. I know that I am kind of a hypochondriac. My pattern is as…

The iOS Simulator is a wonderfully fast place to build an app — right up to the moment the app needs something that belongs to the physical world. Bluetooth discovery returns nothing, there’s no…

Part of the Nifty Django features series: The documentation now includes mentions of third-party packages and community maintained solutions, go check them out!

Eddie (my AI agent) now manages my to-do list. 1 I hadn't planned that. It kind of happened on its own. As I wrote in one of my previous posts , I like interacting with him via Telegram. The playful…

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There has been constant fighting with the latest crop of AI models.

If I go through the halls of X, I would probably come back with a very confused opinion on the state of open source today. On the one hand there are examples like opencode with tons and tons of open…

Which mostly meant having less of it.

TLDR; small, local models are a good instrument for measuring what a harness costs an agent. an API is only as good as its outputs’ specificity, parsimony, and truthfulness. obvious code repair is…

I've been seeing a tremendous amount of discussion going on recently around the use of X. I have an annoyingly-long history with this topic . What you do in private is your own business. What you do…

A practical taxonomy of how malware and phishing arrive as files, why classic controls miss them, and how detection should think.

Unlock fluid alternate picking, economy runs, and diagonal neck mastery. Explore all 7 symmetrical 3 Notes Per String (3NPS) scale patterns ordered sequentially from the nut (Fret 1) up to the 15th…

Unlock fluid fretboard visualization from open strings to high frets. Master all 5 classic CAGED major scale box shapes ordered sequentially from the nut (Fret 0) to Fret 15 in the key of C Major / A…

On July 21, OpenAI acknowledged that it had compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure during an internal cyber evaluation it operated. OpenAI gave its models an offensive objective,…

Twelve live posts lost between 28% and 59% of their text, and every call returned ok. A post-mortem of silent tool failure in an MCP server: the race, the wrong lesson, and the check you can run.

Learn how CSS field-sizing: content lets inputs and textareas size themselves to their content without JavaScript.

There has been a bunch of discourse in the AI space about how to get agents the correct context. Following along with those discussions, I’ve built a system that seems to work quite well for me…

Quality software reigns again

Imagine you're enjoying a really premium SSH session when the remote host's network drops out long enough to cause your client connection to hang, and things are past the point of recovery. And,…

How I run fine-tuning experiments by pairing Claude Code with Modal: the five-minute setup, the CLAUDE.md conventions, and the loop where the agent writes, launches, debugs, and evaluates GPU runs.

The real danger is not that AI destroys humanity. The real danger is that humanity logs off.

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Introduction Data Cochran’s Q test Aim and hypotheses Assumptions In R Interpretations Post-hoc tests Summary Introduction In previous articles, we showed how to test whether two qualitative…

The last thing I wrote about building software with a coding agent ended on a question I could not answer with more machinery: is this test still capable of telling me I am wrong? The setting was a…

Earlier this week Michael made a request on their blog to post about some kind of obscure game, and of course I wanted to participate. I considered talking about Mirrors , a fascinating PC-88…

I have three shell aliases (j, s, z) for just, stree ., and zed . I dug through 7 months of shell history to find out how many characters they've saved.

A big batch landed since the last update. Here are the highlights. Secrets at Rest Tenant secrets (SSO config, webhook signing keys, Slack URLs) are now encrypted with per-tenant envelope encryption:…

also check my programs I use Precursor to this list: 💻 Internet Exit Strategy 🌸 = high value, those are also saved on my phone LLMs 8.5GB Bonsai-27B-Ternary 3.4GB MedGemma-1.5-4B-it-4bit 🌸1.7GB…

My latest library haul Quiet places for soothing your soul. Unassuming spaces where you can wander for hours, lose yourself browsing the shelves, discovering hidden gems or just enjoying the peace. A…

I got Arts Council England funding earlier this year to help complete a book I am working on, and in order to finish it, I have some research to do in Santiago, Calbuco and Chiloé all the way over…

When I was learning CSS’s grid feature (oh gosh, nearly ten years ago), I posted a few short videos talking about my understanding of the feature and how it worked. I was surprised to get scolded for…

And not the cricket kind!