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Today's links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Wau Holland; Diebold voting ...
When I'm AFK, I want to just create issues and reply to them and have an agent spin up, do stuff, and wind down. order_taker seems to do that p well. https://github.com/searlsco/order_taker
These are my recently read books and some comments and notes from when I read them. As I love books and recommendations by others, I want to share them in a collective format so others can read gems of books, ...
The Answer to the Harness Question/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp Martin Casado posted something about AI harnesses that captures where a lot of smart people are stuck right now. On harnesses, I vacillate between three beliefs: the...
There's a story that goes something like this: In 1925, lightbulb manufactures secretly colluded to standardized lifespans at 1,000 hours. They would test each other's products to ensure compliance. This is true. At the time, many bulbs lasted longer than ...
This article has been revised since it was first published, to correct several significant technical inaccuracies in the original text. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for distributed workloads, and writing your own controller for it is now a ...
Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM; Aussie mall v photos; English town x CCTVs; Pay no taxes x Big ...
CrUX’s seasonal decline, Safari 27’s user-experience fixes, richer INP attribution, and long-session third-party costs all demand better interpretation.
I've been experimenting with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode for the past couple weeks, running GPT 5.6 Sol through OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro (5x) plan. Before this I only used the Claude Max plans for perso...
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Midnight Commander (mc), La Terminal, SwiftTerm, TermKit and Xogot.
A TUI to manage GitLab and GitHub projects.
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always ...
Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: How to help with computers; Batman equation; Fuck and the law; NC's ...
Topics covered in this episode: Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? Where Did All Your AI Tokens Go? AgentsView to the rescue! Careful with phishing all Extras Joke Watch on YouTube ...
Originally published on Rails At Scale. We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete ...
The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes ...
In the same way that correct software architecture can bring many benefits in terms of costs and performance, a good architecture for infrastructure can significantly improve the reliability and reduce
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release and I applaud the ...
For years, "Django and async" came with an asterisk. The docs themselves warned you off it. Scary performance notes, a story that felt half-finished. Well, that story just got rewritten, literally, and the person who rewrote it is here to ...
Measure how entire components render with the Container Timing API: how it differs from Element Timing, where it helps, and how to try it today.
Integration, studies, parenthood, the small things
The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion.
It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository ...
Back when I began freelancing I figured I’d set up a limited company eventually. I guess thirteen years later is eventually. I’ve finally got a local accountant working on company registration. Exciting times! The final push was this Making Tax ...
I'd describe my approach to work as, "light-hearted and heavy-handed."
Jellyfin and Codeberg hurt themselves in their confusion
Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Considering I want GitHub to get some competition I have thoughts about this. GitHub’s governance has never been democratic and there is plenty about the ...
A person showing an AI the exact structure they imagine, and the AI building it/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp I've been saying this for something like eight months now, with varying approaches and volume levels, and no one is paying attention yet. ...
Share NVIDIA GPUs in Kubernetes with HAMi software vGPU slicing: memory and compute limits, Helm configuration, a verified PyTorch manifest, a real RTX PRO 6000 OOM test, and Prometheus monitoring.
AI. The risks are real. (just kidding, this article is 100% human produced) How? I have a huge backlog of ideas to write about. The most important part is to
The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag ...
In last week’s article I discussed some of the benefits of obtaining compliance to either ISO 9001 or AS9100. This week I’ll discuss the difference between compliance and certification, and why independence and impartiality are important at every level. In ...
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html is that it's an actual instance of the famous Paperclip Maximizer scenario loved by AI safety types. đź“š A really good bo...
There isn't a lot of resources about how to actually deliver Rust projects to your users: workflows, security hardening and artifacts management, so here is the checklist I use to
GPT 5.6 came out several weeks ago and the initial benchmarks look good - capable, fast, and cheap. Claude and Claude Code have been my daily driver for the past year, and I thought it was a good time...
Ambiguity sucks. It often leaves people self-conscious. It leaves room for anxiety and doubt. It’s super important to say things.
A friendly TUI for rsync.
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS ...
The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…