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Not long ago I was fooled into thinking Digital Ocean had done right by CSS-Tricks. Turns out it was all Geoff and the authors working for free? Digital Ocean would rather fund outright fascism than their own publication.
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š„ Say what you will about macOS Tahoe, but itā¦(opens in new tab)
Say what you will about macOS Tahoe, but it accomplished the longest uptime I've ever experienced on a Mac (131 days, 40 mins) after 4+ months overseas. I tapped the dusty keyboard, and it immediately woke up my janky 6K ...
Kubernetes observability in 2026 with OpenObserve 1.0 as the backend(opens in new tab)
A 31 ms full-text search over 4.2 million Kubernetes log rows, and a whole cluster on 43m CPU under 600 MiB: a hands-on run of OpenObserve 1.0 as the backend.
Tell agents the why, not just the how(opens in new tab)
Anthropic's Misuse Report, Condensed to 117 Findings(opens in new tab)
The cover of the UL summary of Anthropic's September 2026 misuse report, with the eight section titles down the left side and 117 findings in the corner/images/ul-anthropic-misuse-report-2026.webphttps://share.danielmiessler.com/G2BrZSoRq3/raw?dl=1 click the cover to download the pdf Anthropic pu...
Late Night Linux ā Episode 403(opens in new tab)
Managers Are Catalysts(opens in new tab)
As an industry, we like to shout a lot about experiments when we kick them off, all confident swagger that this time our superior intellects have landed from first principles on the correct reimagining of this or that piece of ...
Developing for the iPhone Duo ā” React 19.3 Is Here ā” Pi announces Radius ā Syntax Weekly ā(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes Changed Block Tracking API - Beta Differences(opens in new tab)
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta. If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage ...
Kubernetes v1.37: Memory QoS Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It ...
šø iOS 27's nifty Captive WiFi feature(opens in new tab)
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but I was tickled to discover that iOS 27 ships with a keyboard completion that will fill wi-fi details into captive portals you've previously filled out before.
I wish you the best in the Offline(opens in new tab)
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, ...
š„ A friend wrote to say that my "Full-breadthā¦(opens in new tab)
A friend wrote to say that my "Full-breadth Developers" essay is aging frustratingly well, in his estimation. Is it? I'm not nearly employed enough to have a good read on things. https://justin.searls.co/posts/full-breadth-developers/
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Aha! Yes! Iām called out at the start of Slop Talk Show #732 for last weekās note :) This is a proud achievement! How does one go about framing an audio clip to display in my office? Have the transcript ...
Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Changeling"; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google's scumbag lobbyists; NJ's e-voting coverup; Spying sex toys; Scott Walker dark money ...
The Grammar of Data: From Definition to Execution(opens in new tab)
In Part 1, we discovered the grammar for data: a way to define a data project with its complex requirements and how we define it declaratively as a grammar in one sentence with nouns (sources), transformations (verbs), templates, and modifiers, ...
Solar Eclipse Toggle Web Component (two state dark/light mode toggle)(opens in new tab)
Interpreting Pangram(opens in new tab)
Yesterday David Sacks wrote a tweet and within a few minutes people did, what they usually do, and they asked Pangram if it was AI. And Pangram said itās entirely AI generated. To which David replied that these AI detectors ...
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces(opens in new tab)
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Phil Rosen(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Phil Rosen, co-founder of the Opening Bell Daily newsletter and host of the show, Full Signal, at Felix Roasting Co. just off Park Avenue and 49th. Felix Roasting is probably the ...
You Ain't Ready For This Jelly(opens in new tab)
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Three reasons why āAIā companies like Anthropic are fearmongering: Itās free advertising. Big news outlets like BBC News are running press releases unquestioned. āCEO Said A Thing!ā Journalism (see image below) They want to get ahead of and control regulation. ...
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I finished the two remaining Yukito Ayatsuji books: The Labyrinth House Murders The Clock House Murders Neither were as good as the Mill House. Labyrinth House was entertaining enough, Ayatsuji has fun messing with the reader. Clock House is long ...
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker, you've developed a craving for blackcurrant juice. There's none in the cupboard, so you venture out to get some, floating across the rooftops as a trail of mist as ...
AI is breaking our proxies for expertise(opens in new tab)
RSS Club #009: Domains(opens in new tab)
This is an RSS-only post, thank you for subscribing :) I keep buying domains! When will I ever learn? Domain prices are increasing (again) because why wouldnāt they? Sub-domains are free! Host your side project on a sub-domain! Then if ...
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales v Britannica's EiC; Hollywood astroturfs ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Iām a big fan of these September weekends where I wake up and my bedroom has neither the humidity nor the ambient temperature of an Eden Project rainforest-o-dome. Autumn was previously my third favourite season at best, but I think ...
Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era(opens in new tab)
Thereās so much talk about new ways of working with agent engineering supported workflows. New models are independently creating new metrics and transformations, finding gaps in the business data, reviewing the SQL they write, and verifying everything works with your ...
š„ Cool to see RubyGems in Reuters and the WSJ! Weā¦(opens in new tab)
Cool to see RubyGems in Reuters and the WSJ! We did it, everybody! https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cyberattack-by-rogue-ai-swarm-stokes-fears-of-out-of-control-agents-473a0352
P(doom)(opens in new tab)
This week some flavor of āAI is going to kill us allā went viral. In particular one where an employee put his personal probability of that happening above 10%. Which made me go to the Wikipedia page of P(doom) and ...
Don't build tools for AI agents(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Native Histograms Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
I'm excited to announce that native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics is graduating to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37! Native histograms (previously introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.36 under KEP-5808) bring high-resolution, low-cardinality observability to Kubernetes ...
Looking back: A Quarter Century After 9/11(opens in new tab)
On August 31st, 2001, I landed in Sarajevo. The Army was a much different place before 9/11. We were still on that post cold war high, where the US was on top of the world. Our tactics were still based ...
Evolution, LitRPG, and AI Harnesses(opens in new tab)
A person adds a purple upgrade to a branching skill tree rooted in nature, with a bow, shield, book, and tools on its branches/images/evolution-litrpg-header-v2.webp/images/evolution-litrpg-header-v2.webp Ok, this will be a crazy and long one, but if you're into evolutionary biology, AI ...
Linux After Dark ā Episode 130(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually: Now, "resiliency" on the other handā¦ Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Canada's DMCA; Socialism x Pledge of Allegiance; Hate the player and the game; Making Light's 9/11; 9/11 survivor registry; ...
Copper Heatsink on the Makera Z1 CNC(opens in new tab)
Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driver(opens in new tab)
Because no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs, the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which Iāve just found employment. Its "Play like you used to" tagline and Halo 3-aping ...
I made the personal assistant of my dreams(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026) (opens in new tab)
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What isnāt earned isnāt valued(opens in new tab)
Iāve spent the last week in Arizona. When I was packing I almost forgot to bring along my Arizona driverās license, which was unceremoniously cast to the bottom of a drawer. I canāt help but feel something like disgust when ...
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Iām closing down Attic but my Croissant project is staying online! Itās moving to a sub-domain: croissant.dbushell.com What does that mean? If youāre using the Tauri macOS app then nothing changes. If youāre using the PWA youāll see a notice. ...
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My AT Protocol side project Attic is closing down! Attic will go offline 31st December 2026. If you have bookmarks the best way to export them is to save the RSS feed from your bookmarks page. Otherwise, use a service ...
If You Always Enjoy It, You're Not Pushing It Hard EnoughāBenn Stancil (Show Your Workflow #1)(opens in new tab)
I had the pleasure to discuss and analyze the workflow of none other than Benn Stancil, legendary writer and storyteller in the data space and beyond, who started writing back in 2013 (with a seven-or-eight-year startup break in between). This ...
Trying out a Two-state Dark Mode Toggle(opens in new tab)
š„ My ARSEĀ® process for building apps with codingā¦(opens in new tab)
My ARSEĀ® process for building apps with coding agents: [A]mbitiously create by handing an agent a HUGE task to do over hours/days [R]age at your computer as you uncover all its stupid decisions [S]culpt the app by fixing things in ...
Kubernetes v1.37: Scheduler Preemption for In-Place Pod Resize (Alpha)(opens in new tab)
In Kubernetes, resource allocation has historically been a static decision made during a Pod's initial scheduling and placement. With the graduation of the core in-Place Pod resize feature to General Availability in v1.35, application developers and cluster operators gained the ...
Stylised XCOM-like tactics game Ex Sanguis straps Othercide's obsession with timelines to a leaner roguelike campaign(opens in new tab)
The nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands "strategy" to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of Drag-Select knows that strategy is always, primarily, the mastery of time. I ...
