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Because no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs, the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which I’ve just found employment. Its "Play like you used to" tagline and Halo 3-aping ...
Graham Dumpleton's new monkey patching package wrapture is shaping up to be an indispensable tool for Python developers. I'm not sure why I've seen so little buzz about it! Graham has been posting new tutorials for it almost daily since ...
I’m a good 50/50 split on music and podcasts while I’m driving. So lots of podcasts! I love them! I use Overcast, and it’s got a decent CarPlay app. So I see this screen a lot: It shows 3 podcasts ...
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I’ve spent the last week in Arizona. When I was packing I almost forgot to bring along my Arizona driver’s license, which was unceremoniously cast to the bottom of a drawer. I can’t help but feel something like disgust when ...
I’m closing down Attic but my Croissant project is staying online! It’s moving to a sub-domain: croissant.dbushell.com What does that mean? If you’re using the Tauri macOS app then nothing changes. If you’re using the PWA you’ll see a notice. ...
My AT Protocol side project Attic is closing down! Attic will go offline 31st December 2026. If you have bookmarks the best way to export them is to save the RSS feed from your bookmarks page. Otherwise, use a service ...
I had the pleasure to discuss and analyze the workflow of none other than Benn Stancil, legendary writer and storyteller in the data space and beyond, who started writing back in 2013 (with a seven-or-eight-year startup break in between). This ...
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases Today we're releasing two new security patch versions of Datasette: 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 - one for the current alpha series and one for the stable 0.65.x family. These are security fixes which you should ...
Release: datasette-publish-fly 1.4 Sets force_https=true in fly.toml. #31 Fix for Volume could not be found bug. #32 Compatible with app-scoped deploy tokens. #34 Tags: datasette, fly
My ARSE® process for building apps with coding agents: [A]mbitiously create by handing an agent a HUGE task to do over hours/days [R]age at your computer as you uncover all its stupid decisions [S]culpt the app by fixing things in ...
Release: github-to-sqlite 2.9.1 Fix for compatibility with sqlite-utils 4.x. #85 Tags: github, sqlite
Release: datasette 0.65.4 See Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases on the Datasette blog. Tags: security, datasette
Release: datasette 1.0a39 See Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases on the Datasette blog. Tags: security, datasette
Any Nix package, live in your browser Farid Zakaria calls this his "magnum opus of Nix work", and I can see why. trynix.dev provides a qemu-wasm powered x86_64 Linux virtual machine running entirely in your browser through WebAssembly. That VM ...
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Shopify are moving from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for their native apps, for the exact reason you would expect: We decided to switch from native to ...
A URL is a technical thing: a hostname, a path, a port, an origin, some query parameters, etc. But a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection. All from a simple idea: ...
In Kubernetes, resource allocation has historically been a static decision made during a Pod's initial scheduling and placement. With the graduation of the core in-Place Pod resize feature to General Availability in v1.35, application developers and cluster operators gained the ...
The nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands "strategy" to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of Drag-Select knows that strategy is always, primarily, the mastery of time. I ...
I didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved Creation, that I’d now be sitting here ...
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The metadata lives ...
You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute tonic. It's a witty procession of Orphic descents, ...
"You're not the last Belmont anymore", Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters. Rose knows it well, as do indie developers Evil Empire. Following their success with roguelike Dead ...
Mullenweg with more free time is not good for WordPress. He doesn’t need Automattic and they can’t stop his destruction, WordPress is owned by the Foundation (a board of Matt + two puppets). Or to put it in words prequel ...
A charcoal sketch of a faceless purple robot working the levers of a dense industrial machine, beside an empty office chair with a worker's cap left hanging on it/images/slow-path-to-ai-takeover.webp/images/slow-path-to-ai-takeover.webp There's a lot of conversation about how AI could go bad ...
I can’t believe I just unsubscribed from Smashing Magazine’s RSS feed. When I was starting my career Smashing Magazine was the hottest place for web development news. I published there myself. Smashing Magazine is unrecognisable to me now. The editorial ...
I think the iPhone Duo might serve me well in the Post-Programming Era. Now that 90% of my work is remotely coordinating Codex and Claude from my phone, I need a desktop-class browser more than I need a full-size laptop. ...
It's hard to believe it, but it's been a year since I started this crazy journey! I nearly missed it, as things have really begun picking up steam. A strong network One of the biggest sources of uncertainty coming into ...
Today, we're releasing a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. [...] The victim does not need to answer the call, or interact with their phone at all. Even if they ...
Normally, the best way to watch an Apple event is the TV app on an Apple TV, but damn if their use of maxed-out HDR for visualizations combined with sudden cuts back to SDR footage didn't make it feel like ...
Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs, I've always thought it would be fun to make some ...
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find ...
Kubernetes has many ways to describe what is happening on a Node. Readiness, taints, Pod state, labels, annotations, and provider-specific APIs each expose part of the picture. What has been missing is a shared, Kubernetes-owned way to say that a ...