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Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to ourselves and other people based on these stages): the design phase, the coding phase, ...
When James and I published our impressions of anime racer Screamer the other week, I mentioned I was keen to give its online races a go once it’d pulled out of the garage. Would the sights and sounds of sliding ...
If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
“This is somewhat of a thought experiment, thinking is still free, so let’s indulge.”The Cognitive Dark Forest is fun — by “fun” I mean existential dystopian nightmare. It only works if AI progress hasn’t already stalled. I have a blog ...
Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our ...
What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It? — Harry Roberts explains all with clear examples and gotchas. I’ve used contain sparingly but with this guide I’ll be more confident. Side note: I considered the effect of contain: ...
Since roughly // broadly 2020, I’ve been running a solo-powered minor empire. I have no employees, and my only office is my home office, filled as it is with cat hair and various comic books. My business is: me, a ...
My sweater is weird but it is special and important to me.
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this ...
Sundays are for deciding to re-watch The Sopranos. Specifically that episode in which Tony gets a bad tummy and then talks to a fish. You wonder what you might fever dream of, if you too were to go and eat ...
Sometimes you can win big by playing the game differently. My father shared a story about one of the most famous football games in history. We were asking him about great sports moments he had witnessed such as Joe DiMaggio ...
The Most Important Ideas in AI Right Now April 2026/images/blog/the-most-important-ideas-in-ai/header.webp/images/blog/the-most-important-ideas-in-ai/header.webp After thinking about this for about a week, and attending the RSA conference during that time, I think there are a few main AI ideas tha...
What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap/images/ai-stops-being-artificially-cheap.webp I've been thinking about what happens when AI inference costs stop being subsidized. Every major lab is losing money on inference right now, and that's going to change. I don't know exactly ...
There is a significant danger that this article will have aged terribly. You see, I asked everyone what they were playing this weekend on Thursday, rather than the usual post-lunch scramble on a Friday. You see, I took Friday off ...
We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI/images/two-types-of-agi.webp/images/two-types-of-agi.webp I think the biggest problem with the AGI debate is that we're confusing two types of AGI. I propose thinking and discussing them as two different things: 1. Soft AGI: An AI system ...
Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the ...
I’m just back from the United States 50th state, a staggering 2,500 miles from the mainland. For the next week or two, I’ll pronounce it Ha-Vie-ee, like how it’s pronounced in the native Hawaiian language. A language, by the way, ...
AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp I think AI is revealing that a vast percentage of knowledge work is scaffolding overhead. Maybe 75-99%. 1. In my own field of cybersecurity, ...
Controversial donation banners, Booklore successors, and a public service announcement for GitHub users
“Accessibility had never really played a significant role since I started working as a front-end developer in 2019. It didn’t have a significant role in my boot camp, or in YouTube tutorials I watched, and certainly not in my job. ...
Originally published on Rails At Scale. Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. img { max-width: 100%; } img:hover { transform: scale(2); transition: transform 0.1s ease-in; } img:not(:hover) { ...
I love my single-purpose devices, and I got another one for distraction-free writing called the BYOK!
I just finished my 12-week programming retreat at Recurse Center. As is tradition, we write "return statements" to reflect on the time - what we did, built, and learned. What is Recurse Cen...
Weekend articles should be lighter and fun. Not everything has to be an argument, a deep dive, or a small your average frustration disguised as an essay. Sometimes I just want to build a tiny piece of nonsense, the sort ...
I have two dreams as mayor of an island town in Nova Roma, the new early access city-building game from Lion Shield and Hooded Horse. One is to erect a fantastic water network for my people - a sturdy yet ...
I’ve noticed lately that more people are writing forum postings and Reddit questions as if they were writing a prompt for an LLM. Here’s an example from a Buddhist forum I lurk on:
Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other ...
A Python project got hacked where malicious releases were directly uploaded to PyPI. I said on Mastodon that had the project used trusted publishing with digital attestations, then people using a pylock.toml file would have noticed something odd was going ...
If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other projects. But when MKDocs 2.0 took a direction ...
House House were kind enough to keep a video of my hands-on session with Big Walk, filmed by one of the participating PRs. Generally, a full video of a preview event including player audio is a lifesaver for a journalist, ...
Phwoar, look at that striking steeple on the horizon, I thought after arriving in Crimson Desert’s first town. I was playing a man I was fairly sure I couldn’t give a toss about, embroiled in a conflict I also couldn’t ...
I hope I don’t have to spell it out but I will do it anyway: in these cases I don’t know anything about their products and I cannot help them. Quite often I first need to search around only to ...
Growing up with James Bond, Alex Rider and Inspector gadget, I've naturally always been fascinated by gadgets that enable the hero to spy and fight the badies. Fast forward a
How I switched from Less to Sass to CSS Modules to PostCSS nested and nesting to finally, at last, using pure CSS.
In this post we'll continue our series of building web APIs with Rust. In the last post we built a single-file web API with Rust and Axum using in-memory storage. Now we're going to add a database as ...
A terminal music player inspired by winamp.
Steve Krouse wrote a piece that has me nodding along: Programming, like writing, is an activity, where one iteratively sharpens what they're doing as they do it. (You wouldn't believe how many drafts I've written of this essay.) There’s an ...
The question I asked myself (and the private Slack channel): is ensuring that I have a phone based approach to agentic coding while I’m on vacation healthy because I’m ensuring that I’m not on the computer, a phone is less ...