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📸 August snapshots. (Or: What I did on my summer vacation).

I had a need to deploy a small VPS recently and I wanted it to be reliable and secure so I gave FreeBSD a try. This was also a great excuse to play around with something I've been curious about for a…

1. AWK: Fifty years of simplicity and efficiency in the Terminal 2. What Is AWK and the Story Behind Its Initials 3. How AWK works: basic concepts 4. AWK in action: some practical examples 4.1. Print…

Introduction Imagine an AI that approves a second refund on the same order. Its reasoning is clear, and the tool call is correct. Yet, the refund remains wrong, and system knowledge isn’t…

Two more free, open-source illustration skills, added to the same repo as Guild Enamel. Premium 3D Claymorphism generates on-brand 3D product icons — type a subject plus a hex code and the color,…

What I took away from facilitating a panel on the agentic shift with Contentful's Neha Khawas and APPLY's Brian Browning: a practical framework for agent-ready content, and where to actually start.

Can Generative AI be said to know anything?\nWe'll answer that through the (broken) definition of knowledge, the epistemological concept of sensitivity and a detour into philosophy of law.\nThis time…

September 2023 is when I started using AI as part of my job. I had used it before then, but that was when I became responsible for getting real results with it. Features had to work. Bugs had to be…

My baby boy isn’t really a baby any more, at the ripe old age of 13 months.

Web Wandering 2 Spidah. It’s been rather sticky of late. The plants are suffering and my sun screen budget has spiralled out of control. Luckily it seems we’re through the worst of it for this year…

This book is, as my friend told me, indeed a page turner. Its almost 500 pages long but I finished it in a week—one of my fastest read ever. The story is similar to the movie of the same name (yeah,…

The best professional compliment I ever got was that I should be writing code for generation ships flying to Alpha Centauri. It came from someone who spent years defending a system I built, against…

A new PHP test-double library built for developer experience.

The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything. It is building an orchestration of models and letting a local orchestrator choose the right one for…

The Scooter I still remember using an electric scooter for the first time and feeling a strong sense of guilt and physical laziness as I effortlessly glided over the concrete. With a few hours of…

My fair(s) experience.

How canaries, PostHog, Merge Boy, and teammates across roles turned a risky WordPress rewrite into more than 1,000 pull requests in five months.

The Catharsis of Robot Gore... Keep reading

why do i keep going down color-based rabbit-holes? my latest foray into colors leads me today to the dye system in soul's remnant. for those of you who don't have a finger on the pulse of MMOs on…

Smarter & deeper MTP, MTPLX, and less CPU/GPU synchronisation on Qwen.

Late at the bench, I put a question to ATLAS: What's the best use of our planet's resources? Here's what came back. Big question, and an honest one. Let me answer it straight rather than dodge into…

I watched a team write a careful test suite for a feature, then kill the feature two weeks later because nobody wanted it. The tests were wasted effort, and worse: they made the feature harder to…

new writing "shanghaied"

A church ought to make sure the next generation does not have to re-tread the same ground. The church has had answers to their questions for a very long time.

My old churn model measured how surprising a user’s silence was against their own history. That’s a real question with a real answer, but it isn’t churn risk: it flagged regulars…

I've been using AI to revive some of my old projects the latest of which is CloudCompare, a simple cloud comparison tool for server, object, and egress pricing. I've been moving most of my…

Coverage and commentary of the US water utility cyber incidents continue to dominate OT security content, often with suggestions to address the problem (including mine). Most of the suggestions are…

• Happy first anniversary to my weeknotes! I started these exactly 52 weeks ago, and managed to write on 49 weeks since then. I’ll call that a success! After all...

Portuguese Some blogs are ugly. Fact. But there's nothing wrong with that! Our blogs are forms of expression, from the text to the appearance. Sometimes, some aren't so… aesthetically pleasing? I say…

My family love me as much as I love them. We tell each other all the time. But when I’m at my lowest is really when they show it. MumShe...

Index In celebration of 20 of these damn things, I'm doing a throwback to the halcyon days of 2021 and Slushpost 8.5 , where I shared a bunch of links from my Firefox bookmarks. Except this time it's…

Some people seem to be tempted to say, "I dislike LLMs, so my license should forbid LLM training." Four essential freedoms define free software. The first of those freedoms, Freedom 0, is for any…

It's inconceivable that we have lost Dolly Parton. How beautiful that we lived in the time that she lived. There will never be another. There just couldn't be. I can't help but feel especially low…

Inglês Alguns blogs são feinhos. Fato. Mas não tem nada de errado com isso! Nossos blogs são formas de expressão, dos textos à aparência. Às vezes, alguns não são tão… esteticamente agradáveis? Digo…

We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but…

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes & help everyone around you have a better…

all these mysterious peppers have me governed they do not deter me from themselves i notice. and i would not mind - not at all - were they not consumed other things said question Yesterday ::…

Yahoo via Tom’s Guide quotes Dr. Dre on AI in music production: “I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating,” he noted.…

A few times in the past few years, I have felt the need to cite the passage in his memoirs where Isaac Asimov explained why Mensa and other high-IQ societies were not useful places for him to spend…

A HeadRush Flex Prime is $819 at Turramurra Music right now. It’s a compact box with a 4in touchscreen that you could hide under a pedalboard and forget about. It loads NAM A2 captures…

I’ve written before about how my team at work has adopted a variant of the Mikado Method for software project planning. We started this in 2023 and have evolved the process a bit since then.…

Wow, I don't think I ever went this long without writing a blog post since this blog exists. What happened? Nothing in particular I think. I'd say it's ...

A lot of the time when I've been writing posts for this blog, I've felt that a diagram would really help. But they're a pain to produce well, and I think I underuse them as a result. I wanted to fix…

📢 I gave a talk about Go-Landlock and Multithreaded Policy Enforcement with LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_TSYNC at the Zurich Gophers Meetup on 2026-04-23. The video should eventually appear on the Zurich…

This one started out as an experiment to learn how to use the new sky, sun and clouds settings in Cinema4D.   As you may know I am still looking for alternatives to create the types of…

Goodreads is yuck. Too many options, functions, and animations. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I like lists. Simple lists that I can bring with me wherever I go. Not held preciously in a app, but dumb and free.…