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1,500 curl authors(opens in new tab)

It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository ...

Businessing 101(opens in new tab)

Back when I began freelancing I figured I’d set up a limited company eventually. I guess thirteen years later is eventually. I’ve finally got a local accountant working on company registration. Exciting times! The final push was this Making Tax ...

Codeberg Divides(opens in new tab)

Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Since I want GitHub to face competition I have thoughts. Codeberg is entirely within its rights to do this. It is an association with members ...

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Apple has quietly discontinued Safari Technical Preview for macOS 15 (Sequoia). Version 245 was the last release. macOS 26 (Tahoe, aka Trainwreck) was required from version 256 onwards. For now it remains possible to install Safari 26 and apparently Safari ...

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Codeberg is “Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs”. TL;DR: keep your slop on GitHub. Nice to see a project push back against the dead internet.

writing-mode(opens in new tab)

The writing-mode CSS property sets whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically, and the direction in which blocks and lines progress. .element { writing-mode: vertical-rl; } This is most useful in languages such as Chinese, Japanese or ...

#489: Or JSON?(opens in new tab)

Topics covered in this episode: django-orjson Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size Linus Torvalds puts the foot down against Anti-AI Kernel Maintainers Django Steering Council backs the Triptych Project Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...

AI Is Just Thinking and Doing(opens in new tab)

Charcoal sketch of business figures feeding a blank scroll into a massive thinking machine/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp One useful way to cut through noise and hype in AI conversations is to replace the word "AI" with the words "Thinking" and "Doing". ...