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We are in the golden age of Open Source. Surf the wave until it crashes.(opens in new tab)
While a few people complain that AI is "stealing Open Source", training on Open Source code and giving nothing in return, I'm currently living the complete opposite: we are in
Day 3: The DGX Spark Unpacked. GB10, Unified Memory, sm_121, and the One Reason This Hardware Exists(opens in new tab)
A practical teardown of NVIDIA DGX Spark's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, unified memory, sm_121, NVFP4 tensor cores, memory reporting, and decode limits.
Kubernetes Autoscaling(opens in new tab)
Workload and node autoscaling in 2026
Book Overflow and two architectural patterns in CAP(opens in new tab)
How I made a 45-video course without wanting to die(opens in new tab)
Tips and tricks from me to you.
A pond of interesting problems(opens in new tab)
Async Rust: deep dive into cooperative scheduling and Tokio's architecture(opens in new tab)
Threads were designed to parallelize compute-intensive tasks. However, these days, a lot of applications (such as a network scanner) are I/O (Input / Output) intensive. Thus, threads have two significant
A survey of inlining heuristics(opens in new tab)
Compilers, especially method just-in-time compilers, operate on one function at a time. It is a natural code unit size, especially for a dynamic language JIT: at a given point in time, what more information can you gather about other parts ...
Wandler: Local OpenAI-Compatible Inference With Transformers.js and WebGPU(opens in new tab)
A practical Wandler deep dive with a local M1 Max WebGPU demo, real latency numbers, architecture diagrams, and getting-started commands.
The Case for Talking to Your Computer(opens in new tab)
I've always been a quiet person who prefers to write than to talk (though this may not be obvious based on the number of YouTube videos I've published). So it feels a little weird to say that I think ...
herdr(opens in new tab)
A tmux-like and agent-aware terminal multiplexer.
A Tale of Two Quality Cultures: The Importance of Quality Integration(opens in new tab)
Let's paint a picture of two very different environments, whose root differences can be largely traced back to differences embedded deep in their quality culture. Let's begin with what sadly is more likely to be the default state. "Quality isn't ...
5 CLI Tools That Actually Changed How I Work in 2026(opens in new tab)
Adorable tiny skulls // Week 22 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Sunday came, Sunday went, but the notes can be week notes any day they want to be. Current situation: Monday 25 May: Memorial Day, also hospital day. Having to work...
From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition(opens in new tab)
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped ...
Terminal Trove May 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in May 2026.
Front-End’s Missing Metric: The TBT Window(opens in new tab)
The TBT Window is the FCP-to-TTI interval used to calculate Total Blocking Time. If FCP or TTI moves, TBT can change even when long tasks do not.
Let the agents democratize open source(opens in new tab)
#482: Mr. Beast's episode(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/482
Checking assembly with Z3(opens in new tab)
Short post today. New ZJIT contributor dak2 submitted a PR to fix an overflow bug in fixnum division in ZJIT. We did the division fine, but lied about the type of the result in the case of dividing FIXNUM_MIN by ...
AI Contributions and Maintainer Load in Open Source(opens in new tab)
You wake up, brew the coffee, open GitHub, and there it is. Another pull request on your open source project. Thirteen thousand lines added. No issue filed first. No discussion. Just "here, please review this for me." Over the past ...
Butter bells, fresh from the kiln(opens in new tab)
Revisiting the closed canon(opens in new tab)
A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to even write along with building and maintaining websites. Unfortunately, this ...
Self-Host Weekly (29 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
mlxcel: A Rust-Native Inference Engine for Apple Silicon, Tested on My M1 Max(opens in new tab)
Day-one deep dive into mlxcel v0.1.0, a Rust-native MLX inference engine. Real M1 Max benchmarks vs mlx-lm and Ollama on Llama 3.2 3B and Qwen 2.5 7B, with architecture diagrams and an honest take on TurboQuant.
Reading Observability Tools? That’s a Robot’s Job(opens in new tab)
Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters and the people in the room are the ones who would know. I used that slot ...
Fleet: A Control Tower for Claude Code(opens in new tab)
A tmux dashboard for running many Claude Code agents at once — it shows which one needs you, sorted by urgency, so you stop polling and start responding.
We should be more tired than the model(opens in new tab)
Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but none of the ...
Keep calm and embrace (Rust) monorepos(opens in new tab)
Use monorepos My very unscientific analysis of the Rust ecosytem has come to the conclusion that Rust developers are wasting way too much time managing packages and dependencies. Whoever has
Day 2: Anatomy of an LLM Inference Request. From Prompt to Answer, Step by Step(opens in new tab)
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of tokenization, prefill, KV cache, decode, batching, TTFT, and why memory bandwidth shapes local LLM performance on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
How I use Claude Code as my personal assistant from my phone(opens in new tab)
For the past few weeks I've been using Claude Code from my phone and while it's not a 100% replacement for something like OpenClaw I've found it covers 80% of what I want without too many glaring secu...
quien(opens in new tab)
A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit.
Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the ...
Counterfeit Prevention in Aerospace: Lessons from Spark Plug Scandal(opens in new tab)
Take a look at a scandal where an online hero spent $500 buying spark plugs online, and discovered 1/3 were fake.
A week in the life of a seven year old(opens in new tab)
Documenting the typical schedule of my daughter in 2026.
answering your hardest questions about Linux, Omarchy, and more(opens in new tab)
Basecamp Five(opens in new tab)
Great Docs(opens in new tab)
Your documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit are back on Talk Python with a brand new Python documentation ...
How kube-proxy Actually Works: iptables, IPVS, and nftables Inside Out(opens in new tab)
How kube-proxy turns Kubernetes Services into kernel rules. iptables, IPVS, nftables packet paths and which to pick in 2026. Verified against k/k 1.36 source.
#481: Ways to die(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
Day 1: The Local LLM Revolution. Why Your Desk Just Became the New Datacenter(opens in new tab)
Why local LLMs are becoming practical in 2026, what changed across open weights, hardware, and inference software, and why DGX Spark makes the desk feel like a small AI lab.
Oh to be a snail feasting on a sycamore // Week 21 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Are these weeknotes again? Yes they are! Is this a fluke or is it a trend? Who knows! Who cares! Let’s do iiiiiittttttt. Current situation: Monday 18 May: Went for...
A simple clustering algorithm for lists(opens in new tab)
I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!
Personalized Book Recommendations with AI + GoodReads(opens in new tab)
I've been using AI to try and automate / optimize parts of my life from software engineering to exercise and diet. My latest experiment has been to use AI to improve my book recommendations by turning...
Self-Host Weekly (22 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
750 reasons not to get back with your (Pl)ex
The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic”(opens in new tab)
update 2026-07-06: Anthropic added Playwright Chromium and an Artifact tool to their hosted environment. Feels more magical.
Everyone Dies... is on Kindle Unlimited(opens in new tab)
I wrote a new fiction book and it is now published. The first in a new series!
