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Linux After Dark – Episode 132(opens in new tab)
🔥 I explained to Becky that my $400 AI…(opens in new tab)
I explained to Becky that my $400 AI subscriptions don't actually pay for tokens. They pay for a 10-20x multiple of some base level of an unspecified amount of "usage", and that said base amount of usage changes arbitrarily without ...
Self-Host Weekly (9 October 2026) (opens in new tab)
The Princess and the (Photo)Pea
Jailbreaking a $50 photo frame(opens in new tab)
Friday, October 9, 2026(opens in new tab)
Timeloop metroidvania Echo Weaver is the brave game that locks almost nothing off and challenges you to break it(opens in new tab)
Writing about new 2D timeloop metroidvania Echo Weaver is tricky because most - possibly all - of what you need to complete it is available to you the very second you first wake up, deep in the charnelpools of an ...
Men’s Group - Week 37(opens in new tab)
!!! quote "Matthew 6:33"
finally a good small model(opens in new tab)
Harness Gardens(opens in new tab)
A gardener tends flowers inside a hand-built wooden frame while a great purple tree grows up through it and far beyond/images/harness-gardens.webp/images/harness-gardens.webp I feel like everyone's treating their harnesses/blog/the-answer-to-the-harness-question kind of like a garden. They're so ...
Agent Mode in the DuckDB CLI(opens in new tab)
The DuckDB v2.0 CLI has an agent mode that gets AI coding agents to a correct result faster and with fewer tokens. When the CLI detects an agent, it prints compact Markdown tables instead of padded boxes, says clearly when ...
“Getting off the Modernization Treadmill”(opens in new tab)
My notes from this talk by Alexander Petros at Big Sky DevCon 2026. Alex starts by noting how “modernize” used to mean something along the lines of “update this thing that was made before I was born”. But now “modernize” ...
Volatiles takes the piece-by-piece map building of boardgames like Betrayal at House on the Hill and slaps a gory survival shooter on top of them(opens in new tab)
I do love a boardgame where you reveal the tiles as you play. Sure, I also enjoy turning over all the pieces at the beginning of a game of Settlers of Catan and taking in all the tiles and trying ...
Prospice: Anomalous Logistics is SnowRunner except instead of lengths of copper pipe, you're transporting the body parts of eldritch gods(opens in new tab)
Viewed from the front, my truck, with its winch and thick off-road tires, could be straight from SnowRunner central casting. Sure, it would an off-off-Broadway production of SnowRunner, with the polycount and texture resolution of a PS1-era take on the ...
2.5 Admins 320: Dining on Goose(opens in new tab)
I enjoy how Hellraiser: Revival's 'real-life' bondage club makes the rest of Hellraiser: Revival feel kind of embarrassing(opens in new tab)
Not being much of a kinkster, I'm the wrong writer to assess how Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival portrays BDSM. I can't say with any authority, for example, whether developers Saber Interactive have succeeded in distinguishing consensually practised fetish from otherworldly ...
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Kilian Valkhof would like to have a universal pseudo selector in CSS and so would I. It’s not something I knew was necessary until now but I like the idea. That said, I don’t like pseudo-elements. They’re a dead end ...
ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause 7, Part Two, Competence: A Customer Promise(opens in new tab)
Part one covered Clause 7.1: the resources it takes to run the system, ending on organizational knowledge and the retirement cliff bearing down on it. This post continues the organizational knowledge thread with its counterpart, ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause ...
Add Set Repository Secret From CLI as a GitHub Actions TIL (opens in new tab)
Saying It Out Loud(opens in new tab)
Does the $200 Codex plan suck now?(opens in new tab)
Ultrafast's ACTUAL Cost for Work(opens in new tab)
🔥 2016: Developers are too expensive to waste time…(opens in new tab)
2016: Developers are too expensive to waste time verifying software manually, so make computers run automated tests. 2026: Agents are too expensive to waste tokens running automated tests, so make developers verify software manually.
A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over(opens in new tab)
For better or worse the web industry is going through a bit of a phase. The reasons are largely irrational. People still need the web, nothing has changed there. Regardless, the financials of this business are a struggle. Longterm career ...
Lynchian noir mystery Silver Pines takes the best bits from horror, the middling bits from Metroidvanias, and the worst bits from adventure games(opens in new tab)
I want, and not even especially deep down, to like Silver Pines more than I do. Wych Elm’s debut game – a Twin Peaks-inspired, neo-noir detective mystery that quickly repaints itself in survival horror red – is endearingly unusual, an ...
Glasses(opens in new tab)
How it started: How it’s going: This is my prescription: I think it means nearsightedness. I’m mostly fine with close-up objects (like my phone/computer), but things 10+ feet away are blurry. The glasses help! Nice for driving and being inside ...
Pluralistic: Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Disloyalty: Air Canada's frequent flier fuckery. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Indie booksellers v internet; Coke pays dieticians to astroturf soda taxes; Voting in a voter-suppression state; Facebook v your use of Facebook. Upcoming ...
"It changes the notion of safety for the enemies, but also for you": Rainbow Six Tactics' destruction undoes the classic dynamics of flanking(opens in new tab)
During the hands-off presentation of Rainbow Six Tactics at Gamescom, destruction obviously featured. Walls were breached, cover was blown up, and masonry was peppered with rounds. It looked excellent, but it was also familiar from other turn-based tactical games. Considering ...
2026 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions (opens in new tab)
Annual survey covering various self-hosting topics
Who maxes out 5 AI subscriptions?(opens in new tab)
Web-Perf Wednesday 012 – Return to the Unresolved Trace(opens in new tab)
A quiet week leaves room to revisit unfinished performance investigations and turn partial evidence into a clear next step.
While I’m Gone(opens in new tab)
Redundancy is the engine of progress(opens in new tab)
Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities(opens in new tab)
On October 14 2026 we will ship curl 8.23.0. The next iteration in the never-ending series of version bumps from the curl project. We always think of the next release as the best version we ever did – and this ...
Lies, damned lies, and Rust in the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks(opens in new tab)
When you take a look at the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks it's hard to not notice how fast is Rust compared to the other languages. 1,327,378 requests / s for
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The “Declarative Partial Updates” that Dave Rupert writes about in “Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it” have me intrigued. They’ve talked about them before on Shop Talk. Seems like a powerful addition to HTML. Seems like something I’d use ...
A DuckDB Database with No Data in It(opens in new tab)
A DuckDB database file does not have to hold any data. It can store nothing but view definitions that point at Parquet files on object storage, so a few hundred kilobytes behave like a shared catalog over a whole data ...
Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era(opens in new tab)
If you're still coding like it's 2022 (or even 2025) then you're likely bottlenecking your SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Agents read and write faster than us Agents can validate faster than...
Markdown previews in lf with leaf(opens in new tab)
siltide(opens in new tab)
A terminal fleet monitor for GPUs, NPUs, and 13 other accelerator kinds.
How to read code(opens in new tab)
🔥 Hey Claude, I would like to take two strokes off…(opens in new tab)
Hey Claude, I would like to take two strokes off my golf game.
#499: So many questions??(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: PEP 824 brings ?? and ??= to Python for None handling Python 3.15 gets a surprise RC3, and Python 3.10 reaches end of life asyncio.shield Pyxel: the retro game engine for Python Extras Joke Watch ...
Fix link to another TIL in latest TIL (opens in new tab)
Add Merge A Sequence Of Lines Of Output as a Unix TIL (opens in new tab)
The Faulted Disk: harbor Replacement Writeup(opens in new tab)
The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost.
Opportunity is Embedded in Problems(opens in new tab)
So often, opportunity is embedded inside a problem: Origin stories: Sam Calagione walked past a Manhattan bodega selling moldy, fruit-fly-covered cherries at a steep discount. He wondered what would happen if he crushed them into a pale ale kit. He ...
Apple’s App Icon HOA(opens in new tab)
Louie Mantia has a great post about how app icons are converging towards the squircle on iOS and macOS. His post reads like a history. If you’re wondering, “How did we get to a place where all app icons are ...
The Shift to cgroup v2 in Kubernetes: What You Need to Know(opens in new tab)
In Linux, cgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature used for managing system resources. Kubernetes uses cgroups to allocate resources like CPU and memory to containers, ensuring that applications run smoothly without interfering with each other. With the release of ...
A Past Tense Word(opens in new tab)
Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme. Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties ...
