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Using and Styling the Dialog Element(opens in new tab)
There's a lot of nuance to the element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it. Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really ...
Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026) (opens in new tab)
I'm pickin' up good (vibe)rations
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs(opens in new tab)
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto. Chris messaged me the other week asking if I wanted to implement zero-knowledge proofs. I initially was not interested, but then he said: What if I told you there’s a ...
We Need to Talk About the Future of ScottoKeebs(opens in new tab)
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)
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)
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
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...
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)
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,...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
Self-Host Weekly (31 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Yes, but can it run Jellyfin?
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)
Book Recommendations and Notes(opens in new tab)
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(opens in new tab)
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...
You have been mislead about lightbulbs(opens in new tab)
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 ...
How the controller-runtime Cache Actually Works, and Why Your Controller Does Not Crash the API Server(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Web-Perf Wednesday 002 – The Metrics Don’t Tell the Whole Story(opens in new tab)
CrUX’s seasonal decline, Safari 27’s user-experience fixes, richer INP attribution, and long-session third-party costs all demand better interpretation.
How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription?(opens in new tab)
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...
Knowledge and netiquette in today's AI era(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Midnight Commander (mc), La Terminal, SwiftTerm, TermKit and Xogot.
glab-tui(opens in new tab)
A TUI to manage GitLab and GitHub projects.
Before I go: Double your business with companies you like(opens in new tab)
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 ...
I Told You to NEVER Install This Distro... So I Installed it(opens in new tab)
#490: It’s a vibe coding party(opens in new tab)
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 ...
The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT(opens in new tab)
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 ...
A Short History of Duke: Java's Mascot(opens in new tab)
I'm sorry, Dave(opens in new tab)
HTTP Message Signatures with curl(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Diskless infrastructure(opens in new tab)
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
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0(opens in new tab)
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 ...
