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Biggest knock on Astra so far is that when I raise an issue during a long-running task, it will acknowledge my concern and then stop all work. Then I put the Tim Cook anecdote with "then why are you still ...
I'm near-sighted and worn glasses ~daily for the past decade or so. It took me awhile to find a simple and effective approach to cleaning my glasses so here I wanted to share what I've found useful. H...
Today's links Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Memory-hacking ads; "Dzur"; NZ Ministry of DRM; Canadians v looking at the internet; Advice for self-publishers; Advice for writers; ...
First Astra impressions: it's like Fable, but faster. If you value your time, I can't see why you'd drive a coding agent with anything less than a Fable/Astra model. They produce so much less rework.
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, ...
A charcoal sketch of a student at a desk with a finished handwritten page in front of him while a purple AI figure across the desk hands his pencil back to him, its other palm open and empty/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp I've been ...
A sienna sketch of a man squatting under a giant open book he is lifting overhead, while a purple robot arm on a desk hands a striped summary sheet to a faint gray figure/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp There's something really interesting about the ...
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. With this feature enabled, all of the node components (kubelet, CRI and OCI runtimes, CNI plugins, and kube-proxy) can run as a non-root user on the host, using a Linux user ...
I keep hearing this damned word pop up and itās starting to annoy me. Itās fast-tracking its way to becoming the free space on buzzword bingo for magic 8 ball enjoyers. That word is ātasteā. Iāll try to define ātasteā ...
Itās not every day I read an email subject that makes my heart sink, only to find myself laughing out loud. Today I was told someone plagiarised my website! The snitch lol informant wishes to remain anonymous (theyāve obviously read ...
Is "responsible use of generative AI" in the room with us right now?
Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFMEdgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA ...
Today's links Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Electrolite is back; Mafia rules; Aaronsw on Wikipedia; Proctorio's memory hole. Upcoming appearances: DÄ browa GĆ³rnicza, ...
How many cores does your machine have, 10, 18? Your async Python code uses just one of them. That isn't a bug in asyncio. That's the design, and optimizing event loops to be faster by 20% doesn't change it. So ...
A lone writer in warm sienna works at a desk on top of a purple machine that crushes his pages into tiny slips for a crowd below staring at their phones, while one person in sienna stands apart reading a ...
Discovering and supporting all of the wild semantics for local variables in Ruby was so interesting that the ZJIT team decided to write a paper about it: Support Local Variables (PDF). Itās also the first bit of academic literature that ...
This week I'm joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don't know it yet? That's the theory Peer brings to the table this week. We dig ...
Kubernetes 1.37 is here and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) keeps pushing past where it started! This release brings DRA Extended Resource support to GA, a milestone the team has been building toward for three straight releases. Several more features graduate ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in August 2026.
Today's links Preparing for a post-Trump internet: You'd better hope it's also a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Barnum and Bailey v journalism; Wired's Wikipedia article is a wiki; Singapore's national wifi; Twitter arguments. ...
Kubernetes v1.37 includes API support for horizontal autoscaling of workloads down to zero replicas. This feature is now Beta and enabled by default. A HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) that uses a suitable object metric or external metric can now scale a workload ...
Chrome 153 starts exposing dedicated-worker congestion to RUM, while browser releases tighten privacy, module recovery, and image preloading.
Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device specs; Stalwart workers; "I, Rowboat"; SMS uprising; Facebook v switching costs; Capitalism of fools. ...
While Rust and Go are both modern programming languages that have learned from the mistakes of the previous generation, they manage concurrency in a completely different way, which, as we
Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from https://curl.se. If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation Numbers the 276th release6 changes70 days ...
DuckDB's development team in Amsterdam has started getting DuckDB v2.0 ready for release in October. If you like shiny new things, try out the alpha releases now and report anything that might not be working as expected!
A terminal monitor for debugging HLS, DASH and internet live streams.
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. ...
Topics covered in this episode: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and observability linkedin2md: turn your LinkedIn export into 40+ Markdown files ...
A runbook for serving a model too big for one GPU: download to serving in seven steps, with every vLLM flag, startup log line and real error explained, plus tensor, pipeline and expert parallelism benchmarked head to head on a ...
Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can overtake sidewalks, houses, ...
I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API (storagemigration.k8s.io/v1) and control plane controller are now fully stable and ...
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Letās Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get ...
Well, thatās a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of Whatās important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks ...
A hands-on comparison of Istio sidecar and ambient mode for zero-trust service mesh. Same app, same policy, two architectures proven step by step on a local cluster.
The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, ...
A large purple hand holds a pendulum swinging one man between standing arms-wide on a ship's prow in warm sienna and collapsed head-in-hands in a purple office chair/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp One thing I keep forgetting and relearni...
Finally figured out a bulletproof system for landing on the best model for the job.
Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their hand at a tricky Core Text layout issue for Japanese vertical writing: GPT 5.6 Sol xHigh: 1,581,445 tokens and 2189 lines changed Fable 5 medium: 37,000 tokens and 1 line changed ...
