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…

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.

cli.dev is a shared home for the tools, products, and experiments I build and maintain.

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…

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!

You can bypass/automatically solve Hcaptcha on any website

📸 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…

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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…

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.