In 2009, my father was diagnosed with kidney disease. He had to stop working. For the next ten years, we lived off his savings and some smart financial manoeuvring. I don’t think I fully understood…

jun 02, 2026 🔗 CSS-native parallax effect Parallax effects have a long history, and while there are countless ways and libraries to achieve them, a new CSS-native way was recently made possible with…

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Last month, I processed 4.88 billion tokens through an LLM. My bill: $120. If I had run the same workload on a famous frontier model, the minimum estimate would have been $4,900. On other frontier…

A draft map of why AI may be starting a new biotechnology cycle: protein design, AI drug discovery, automated labs, longevity, and the bottlenecks that still matter.

Damn, it's been a long time since I wrote a blog post...a whole year. And I'm back with exactly the same topic as last year, a Dokomi recap! Things outside Dokomi ...or in short, the "where did I go…

Running a microblog on Cloudflare and asking about competitors.

Complexity is a choice. Simplicity is also a choice. Look for the root cause.

Is duckdb all you need for storing and querying OTel? In a previous post about OpenTelemetry, parquet, and data lakehouses, I mentioned difficulties when you want to push lots of metrics, logs, or…

S-expressions are attracted towards Lisp S-expressions give us that natural syntax for expressing nested hierarchical trees, and once our program is written as trees, it becomes tempting to let those…

Seven Gemini-generated tracks walk the software delivery lifecycle—from human sign-off to legacy maintenance—and now live on this blog with video, MP3s, and a persistent player.

This blog has moved to a new section. Please be sure to update your feed reader to point to the new RSS feed as well. Old posts will remain in this path for the foreseeable future, though most have…

Dear beta testers, I’ve just shipped the latest version of Terminal Click: TC v0.8.8. Recall that we are re-examining the basics to get us out of the beta and become a “fully grown”…

How a Pink Floyd prism, an album cover's refusal to explain itself, and Top Gun helped an indie dev design an app icon where light becomes music.

Ever since I started highlighting text on my Kindle, then my PocketBook, and also the old-fashioned way with pen and paper, I have been trying to store those highlights in my digital garden — which…

I’ve spent the last 8 months building a SwiftUI like engine that renders in the terminal. Today, I think it’s time for a reveal. Let me introduce you to SwiftTUI. Startup Like every project, it comes…

Animated chevrons icon that morphs between up and down directions.

This is my entry for the June 2026 Emacs Carnival Underappreciated Emacs Builtins. There is a lot of functionality in default vanilla Emacs that is certainly less talked about. I'm going to constrain…

What are hiveminds made of? Interconnected minds, obviously. Or is it more complicated than that? Are selves more than illusion — a mere cope for apes pretending to be human? Perhaps truly picking…

I have been constantly thinking about what it means for individuals and companies to be able to independently use AI models. Especially specific ones, ones where they are extremely personalized,…

Here's the list from last month (history books published here in the UK in hardback): only nine but a wide range of topics. A couple I am curious about are: This Little World: A New History of…

With additional thoughts on human-AI collaboration

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I always thought a purely functional audio engine would be cool and utterly stupid. Æon is that little toy. The whole engine is one pure function of time, built from small functions you chain…

If you write in multiple languages on Windows, you’ve probably run into this frustrating scenario: you want the OS to autocorrect and spell-check a second language (like French). So, you go ahead and…

Back in 2014, I was on a cruise with family (boomer parents, I don’t actually like cruises) - and I did not have my phone or internet access for 17 days. This was in the time when internet access out…

SEO (search engine optimization) is a shitshow of wrong incentives: not good work / content / reputation counts but who can allocate most resources (money and time) to play the SEO game well (place…

Questo post è l’evoluzione del precedente post Feed RSS dei podcast Rai con la modifica che gli URLs vengono risolti fino alla CDN Rai, evitando il problema di alcuni client podcast (come…

Fun with stylized maps. Inspired by Basic Apple Guy’s Topographic Amoeba wallpapers, I thought I’d try to find a way to create my own that contour places I’ve lived. I didn’t get anywhere close, but…

Why get a pair of shoes wet when I can do flops and flats? People said the road riding was good around here but I thought, nah, it can’t be as good as the MTB trails. But woah. It is absolutely…

Reflections on where AI fits into creative work — and where it doesn't.

I operate a few different static websites, relatively low-traffic ones. So far these sites were hosted on managed hosting providers, including Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Bunny CDN. Last weekend I…

Being able to search your shell history is important, this will help you control where and how your commands get saved.

We were spending the day at my in-laws, when we discovered the CD collection of a long lost era. These were our picks: The Original Soundtrack of the Fifth Element, "If you're Feeling Sinister" by…

Back in April, I decided to write daily for my newsletter. Up to that point, my newsletter was mostly a delivery mechanism for my blog. But I wanted to change that. I wanted to write more.

Notes from replacing runners, instructions, and implementations while keeping tests and behavior stable.

Every platform worth publishing DeFi content on in 2026 — ranked by actual utility. Parasite SEO tiers, Web3-native publishers, established crypto media, and the cross-posting stack that drives both…

WeasyPrint v69 has been released! Among the new features and bug fixes, the changelog contains important API changes and security information. ⚠️ If you use presentational hints and restrict CSS…

What cognitive debt is, whether it is scary, and how to manage it.

Following up on my earlier announcement that I was forking Vim, I’m happy to announce the first release of my fork today: Vim Classic 8.3.0.I have written a release announcement for vim-classic.org,…

A small helper to more easily edit files mid-stream

I keep emailing this list to friends visiting Bergen, so here it is properly: the city the way I’d hand it to someone I know. I’ve wished I had it written down more than once. Bergen is small, wet,…

Why temperature thresholds weren't enough, and how topology-aware automation improved thermal management in my cluster.

What. It is a “Demo Meeting” for demonstration then discussion. Milan Lajtos will present his experience on using a code agent to develop Blueprint, a revisit of the Cuis-Smalltalk system desktop.

How Oxide’s Rust collections library defends against adversarial trait implementations. Mirrored from the canonical version on the Oxide blog . I’m the main author of iddqd , a Rust library for maps…

Leaving my general dislike for Webflow aside for now, let’s at least agree on one specific thing: it is terrible at code. We have markdown.enso.no for the actual writing – you draft in…

Use Grafana's Infinity data source to query Cloudflare D1 over HTTP, parse the JSON response, and build dashboards without writing a custom connector.

Plenty of signal and plenty of rain.

The Functional Analysis of DeepSeek-V4: Bounding Operators at 1.6 Trillion Parameters When DeepSeek-V4 dropped, the immediate industry focus was on the replacement of Multi-head Latent Attention…