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We Need to Talk About the Future of ScottoKeebs(opens in new tab)
Outburst(opens in new tab)
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is ...
This Company Accounts For Over 15% Of All Equities Trading in the US — and They Use C++(opens in new tab)
Your tip might be causing your soldering problems. #soldering #mechanicalkeyboards #electronics(opens in new tab)
View From the Office: Joseph Moore(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with historian and author Joseph Moore for lunch at The Porch in Bryant Park. I had the sliders. He had the chicken wrap. Joseph has a new book out called: How to ...
Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The Onion; Duran Duran x Second Life; Spammers x blog pings; Privacywashing v Doordash; Good ...
Figma for Agents: How Airflow's Creator Coordinates AI ft. Maxime Beauchemin(opens in new tab)
It’s hard to keep up with the AI evolution; new AI tools drop every week, but how are experienced practitioners actually using them? Most of us are overwhelmed and unsure about the many possibilities, yet we need to keep going ...
Bjarne Stroustrup: Where is C++ Being Used?(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Google is a scammer's paradise: The internet's absentee landlord. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS; EZ realistic corpse; $300m login button; Short Uber; Who goes AI? Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, ...
How Firecracker microVMs work under the hood to sandbox untrusted code and AI agents(opens in new tab)
Between user code and rogue AI agents, there recently has been huge regain in interest for sanboxing solutions. We've seen last time how to use landlock to drop the privileges
📸 Chill some Netflix and Chill(opens in new tab)
Finally, Netflix you can chill.
🔥 In 2025, I bought four WD Black 8TB NVMe SSDs,…(opens in new tab)
In 2025, I bought four WD Black 8TB NVMe SSDs, slammed them in a Thunderbolt enclosure, and set them up as a 32TB Raid 0 volume for my Mac Studio. Price in April 2025: $2,199.96 Price today: $5,836.00 Felt stupidly ...
Web-Perf Wednesday 003 – Native SPA Metrics Have Arrived(opens in new tab)
Chrome 151 and web-vitals v6 bring native SPA measurement into production, while new browser controls reshape device and third-party governance.
Why Aren’t Things Worse?(opens in new tab)
Dense branching mass compressed through a mechanical iris bottleneck/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp One of the things I’ve been thinking about for years, but more acutely now because of the conversations around controlling open source models, is...
Thank You for 40 000 Stars on GitHub(opens in new tab)
DuckDB just reached 40 000 stars on GitHub! Here's what happened since the last 10 000-star milestone.
How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer)(opens in new tab)
AI agents have been getting a lot of hype for how good they are at coding. But there are still plenty of naysayers saying AI can't replace human programmers. I've worked professionally as a software e...
kew(opens in new tab)
A fast, privacy friendly terminal music player to listen to music.
Tim Schafer's Unconventional Job Application To LucasArts(opens in new tab)
Why Is Everyone Buying This $150 Linux Laptop?(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Post-American compute for a post-American Internet: Building cooperative human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada and Mexico. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Urine Luck; Germany v pornoscanners; Moorcock's 3-day novels; Women's ...
🔥 I realize this is Very Rude, but I've noticed a…(opens in new tab)
I realize this is Very Rude, but I've noticed a lot of the people who think AI sucks at writing code never seemed very good at writing code themselves. At this point, if you can't get it working, it's probably ...
Waiting to be found by only you(opens in new tab)
Who knows how reality will continue to develop? There’s no way to prepare. When you can’t be prepared, be prepared to find poetry in the chaos. Secret messages, serendipitous grace,...
🔥 I joked last year that by leveraging coding…(opens in new tab)
I joked last year that by leveraging coding agents I now "played the orchestra", by directing multiple programmers at once. I have changed jobs again. Now I tell Fable to conduct an orchestra of Opus 5 agents for me. It's ...
Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt(opens in new tab)
PDCA and ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause 4: Defining the Problem Before You Solve It(opens in new tab)
The last two posts covered why certification is worth pursuing and why independence is what makes it real. Now we get into the standards themselves, and we're going to start with the shape of the thing before we start reading ...
Anders Hejlsberg: Choosing Go for Typescript Toolset(opens in new tab)
Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In ...
The AI-Native Company(opens in new tab)
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-company.webp Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isn’t the attacker vs. defender question as models get s...
Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds 47,000 photos; Net Mexico-US illegal migration is zero; Build a wall (around ...
What the bliss taught us(opens in new tab)
At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel ...
Terminal Trove July 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2026.
Learn to handwire a mechanical keyboard! #mechanicalkeyboards #3dprinting #raspberrypi(opens in new tab)
Security of everything at PyCon 2026(opens in new tab)
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long ...
Working Holiday in Japan: My Experience and Practical Tips(opens in new tab)
My experience living in Osaka and Tokyo on a Working Holiday visa, with practical advice on preparation, housing, work, useful apps, and places to eat.
Giving and taking credit in big tech companies(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; ...
USB-C is overrated! #mechanicalkeyboards #raspberrypi #3dprinting #keyboard(opens in new tab)
AIL Badges(opens in new tab)
AIL badge scale showing levels zero through five/images/ail-scale-chart.webp/images/ail-scale-chart.webp AI Influence Level/blog/ai-influence-level-ail has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did. Text ...
Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek(opens in new tab)
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for ...
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Email from Apple: We’re reaching out to let you know that the iPhone Upgrade Program is coming to an end. Thank you for being a loyal member. Awwww. Sad trombone. I’ve been on this program for as long as I ...
End of the contact form saga(opens in new tab)
I can’t take it anymore! If you want to speak to me, send an email. My contact form is out of service indefinitely. This is actually in lieu of moving my professional services to a yet to be announced limited ...
Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Poul Anderson; P2P at PC Forum; Waitress handed her own stolen ...
Self-Host Weekly (31 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Yes, but can it run Jellyfin?
Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work(opens in new tab)
Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.
AI models need moral support to make discoveries(opens in new tab)
What the Singularity Actually Means(opens in new tab)
What the Singularity Actually Means/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp The singularity might be my favorite idea in all of AI, and it has a real, specific meaning that I find way more interesting than the way the word usually gets used. ...
AI as a Tool for the Mental Load(opens in new tab)
CodePen 2.0(opens in new tab)
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and ...
I'm Running a Live Handwired Keyboard Workshop!(opens in new tab)
