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…

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.

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…

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…

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’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 ...

📢 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.…

Teaching folks how to use AI includes conveying the scope of what aspects of problem solving can benefit from use of AI. The following list is not exhaustive, but is sufficient to help newbies…

How to design agents as a graph, run them through a harness that keeps them reliable, sandbox them because you can’t just trust what they do. (This is a follow-up to AI Writes Code, You Own the…

And the ocean taketh away The 2026 commercial salmon season in Alaska is not yet over, but it can already be called a full-on disaster in Prince William Sound, the heartland of […]

Oberbozen is situated above Bozen, and you get a nice view of the Dolomites. Bozen, however, didn’t convince us as much - we should’ve returned earlier to Lago di Caldaro to swim some more.

Hello! I am super uber busy with school at this moment, hope everyone is having fun in their first week of school, even though I started early.

In May 1942, the high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, was attacked in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance agents in an assassination operation…

One of the things I’ve spent a significant amount of time on is some Agent Foundations-adjacent philosophy work.While I’ve put together reading lists and simulation environments, I have mostly…

I wrote a whole other post that was super long just talking about how shitty I feel but frankly rereading it made me sick lol. Coping is the mechanism in which we as sentient creatures use to process…

I've been saying "life is so beautiful" more often because my best friend started saying it. Whenever I eat a yummy dish or something nice happens to me or i have an exceptional bowel movement, ive…

weather: ☀️ melting critters: fuck going outside today, honestly the proust questionnaire was floating around bearblog some months ago--let's do the rosanna greenstreet one from the guardian what is…

In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

I thought it prudent after the last entry to refrain from further comment on Bartz until after all appeals were timely filed. Two were: Edelson, PC v. Anthropic PBC, No. 26–5391 (9th Cir., filed 18…

Spotify lets you request all the data it has on your account. It provides a ton of data, including detailed data about every track you’ve ever played on the service … Continue reading…

On the second day of a road trip I took last year, my trunk was already full and my mother was sharing the back seat with four bottles of wine, two hats, a few liters of apple juice and a box of…

I'm still cooking.

In the last version (1.5.2) I added the Contrast group blend modes: Soft, hard, vivid, linear and pin light as well as hard mix. But that picker menu was getting awfully long and it could sometimes…