Note, I am not a sysadmin professional, so please if you notice wrong terminology or things I am doing wrong, get in touch so I can learn and fix it up. Brandon does a much better write-up of this,…

I recently reviewed some code at work that made me pause. The change affected a part of the codebase that we affectionately call “The Monolith”, which is some of the oldest code in our 16…

Finding the perfect GTD-compatible productivity app isn't easy. From empty buckets to rigid interfaces, I hit a wall with the current tools. Read how I turned frustration into innovation with…

TL;DR: I built a self-hosted open-source email server known as AIMX. It's how I imagine Postfix would look like if it is built for AI agents. Learn more at aimx.email, or view the quick 40sec-demo.…

A few years ago, picking up a self-hosted project a year later was a special kind of pain. With LLMs, I don't need to remember how it works, I need to know what working looks like.

I see developers trying to build “AI Chatbots” that know about their specific company data. They want the AI to read their PDFs, their internal wikis, or their past customer support tickets, and…

If you are building a SaaS in 2026, the default advice is always the same: “Just plug in Stripe and launch.”

A 3 a.m. SQL query found one row of HTTP poison in the search index. Pulling on that thread unraveled 13 ways Apple's CDN lies to crawlers, plus a release bug where the binary cheerfully downgraded…

Flat/Non-higher-order construction of ANF via mutable holes This post will describe an algorithm for constructing an ANF/similar IR from a functional-like base language with no closure usage, and…

It has been a while since my last update. Recently, I lost my job and stepped into the undefined space of looking for the next one. I didn't expect the friction of this state change to be so mentally…

Welcome to the Datasette blog We have a bunch of neat Datasette announcements in the pipeline so we decided it was time the project grew an official blog. I built this using OpenAI Codex desktop,…

To help on the receive end, we've just added Spectral Subtraction Noise Reduction (SSNR) to the Elecraft toolkit.

In this post, we will first summarize what we discussed in part 1 and part 2, then add a few extra thoughts. Summary of the two postsPart 1: we picked a function f:ℝ→ℝ and…

Learn T-SQL With Erik: Partitioning != Performance Fair warning, the audio got pretty garbled on this one. If you don’t like space alien voices, hit mute and/or skip ahead to the transcript.…

Codex CLI’s Extension-First Architecture: Guardian as a Plugin, Namespaced Extensions, and Modular Governance

In my first interview for a developer position, I shared a link to my personal project with the interviewer. It was a website for learning how to program. I created it from the ground up. I built the…

One of the main features I wanted for the ffffound archive serving site was automated tagging, because it was missing entirely on that site (as it is on Pinterest and others that followed it).…

The little black dot in the head of the frog that is in the head of the other frog, its a human. My untested greatest rpg project of all time is to replace the whole magic system of my D&D clone with…

Consider building a real parser instead.

[May 13, 2026] – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is excited to announce that Hudson River Trading (HRT), a global leader in quantitative trading, has made a commitment to support Python and the…

Local commits are safe, but they’re only safe on your machine. A hard drive failure, a corrupted JMeter installation, a laptop that goes missing at a conference any of these wipes your local…

Butch Mayhew's LinkedIn Learning Course Playwright Essential Training: Abstractions, Fixtures, and Complex Scenarios has been a wonderful resource learning more about Playwright. With this blog post,…

Here is what we got as new Jetpack artifacts this week!

Previous || Now that we've gone over the basic architecture of my Godot map generator project, it's time to get into the really fun stuff: the data manipulation and terrain generation itself. The…

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autotest is a continous testing facility meant to be used during development. As soon as you save a file, autotest will run the corresponding dependent tests. minitest-autotest is the latest…

The 3 inputs I organize before I start prompting

Another evening, and another period of Gemini CLI getting stuck thinking . So this time I thought I'd try something: cancel it while it was thinking and change the model. I was working on something…

The above, unless I've completely forgotten my Shakespeare, was a soliloquy from Juliet Consulet regarding Romeo Montagnu

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Yesterday the Pydantic team started httpx2, another fork of httpx

In our work, we are using renovate to update the dependency packages for Python projects. Previously when we are using good old pip and requirements.txt for package management, renovate works fine…

After starting to make use of the GitLab/Codeberg sync approach for various repositories, I found that my muscle memory in Magit was getting the better of me and, on occasion, I'd push a new branch…

Eran Feit Tomato Leaf Disease Detection: Faster R-CNN PyTorch Tutorial Last Updated on 13/05/2026 by Eran Feit In this guide, we dive deep into the intersection of computer vision and modern…

Forgotten tools are rediscovered. And every so often, something arrives that feels almost wonderfully unlikely. That is where NodeAmiga 0.25 comes in. Released in May 2026, NodeAmiga is a…

To cover a small itch I had I created a nproc (1) for macos. To use it, just drop it from codeberg into your macos path,...

TrustClaw is open-sourced 🤖 Plus, all the week's best indie startup news

Documentation for the project shown at Hackaday Europe 2026 in Lecco. Link to paper pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18848 More info to come soon!

I'm in the middle of redoing the Logic for Programmers diagrams and this has surfaced a really annoying problem. The book is formatted in LaTeX using a pseudo-grid of 10.8pt × 7.2pt. The diagrams are…

In a typical multi-agent setup, the smartest model is in charge. It plans, decomposes the task, and sends smaller pieces to cheaper...Read More... Source

I use LLMs a lot lately. I even got an unlimited access to a popular commercial model recently, which increased my usage even more. It’s all still so new to me. I keep poking at the limits and…

This is the story of one CUDA kernel pair in cublade, my personal kernel library. The kernels do per-tensor symmetric FP8 (E4M3) quantization and dequantization. They started at 429 GB/s on a v1…

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A few weeks ago, Bozhidar Batsov had a splendid post on cl-flet, cl-letf, and cl-labels. I didn’t get a chance to write about it then but his post is very useful for understanding these macros…

Keep connectors attached when nodes move or resize.

[Software] Pacify that pining for precision

I can't express how happy I am to have found and adopted jj. For a long time I was a mercurial guy, but it always felt slow and didn't invite experimentation. Then git, much arcana, have you tried…