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 ...
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Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly credit cards; Mapping airport power outlets; EMI loves pirates; Mexican indigenous phone co-op; Sewer cover textiles; Surge ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
I spent most of last Saturday laid out in a Baku hotel room, muscles in both legs ground to flecks of useless meat by the decision to walk down a mountain when there was a perfectly good funicular right there. ...
Podcast Notes: Ed Catmull on David Senra(opens in new tab)
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, was on the David Senra podcast and I quite enjoyed the interview. (If you like the interview, you should read his book.) Ed talks about what he considered his ...
HyperX Pulsefire Saga gaming mouse review: modular parts win hearts(opens in new tab)
If the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike’s analogue clickers were all about fine-tuning the sensation at the very tips of your mousing fingers, the HyperX Pulsefire Saga is all about adjusting the parts nestled in the rest of your hand. ...
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 ...
The full pipeline of LLMs explained #LLM #ML #Programming #Explainer #howitsmade(opens in new tab)
🔥 I'd describe my approach to work as,…(opens in new tab)
I'd describe my approach to work as, "light-hearted and heavy-handed."
"Let's make a better world": Denshattack's developers on counterculture, biker gangs, and the optimism of fighting a mecha with a train(opens in new tab)
In hindsight, I was a fool for meeting Denshattack’s satirical, irreverent, downright countercultural sensibilities with surprise. Upbeat, even goofy as it is for a train driving game, it shares more common ground with skateboarding games, and while the commodification of ...
Self-Host Weekly (24 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Jellyfin and Codeberg hurt themselves in their confusion
Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Malware v stolen computer; Industrial material made from old ...
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 ...
LLMs reward expertise(opens in new tab)
The Entire Game for AI Is Articulation of Ideal State(opens in new tab)
A person showing an AI the exact structure they imagine, and the AI building it/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp I've been saying this for something like eight months now, with varying approaches and volume levels, and no one is paying attention yet. ...
Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links California's privacy obstacle course: Malice or incompetence (why not both?). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Continuous partial attention, TSA is the worst; Trump's FCC v the future. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, ...
How to Share GPUs in Kubernetes at Scale with HAMi (Software vGPU Slicing)(opens in new tab)
Share NVIDIA GPUs in Kubernetes with HAMi software vGPU slicing: memory and compute limits, Helm configuration, a verified PyTorch manifest, a real RTX PRO 6000 OOM test, and Prometheus monitoring.
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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 ...
Writing everyday against the global lobotomy(opens in new tab)
AI. The risks are real. (just kidding, this article is 100% human produced) How? I have a huge backlog of ideas to write about. The most important part is to
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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.
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v54 - Hot Sleeper(opens in new tab)
The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag ...
Compliant vs. Certified: Why Independence Is the Real Foundation(opens in new tab)
In last week’s article I discussed some of the benefits of obtaining compliance to either ISO 9001 or AS9100. This week I’ll discuss the difference between compliance and certification, and why independence and impartiality are important at every level. In ...
Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models(opens in new tab)
Dear Frosthaven boardgame players complaining the PC tactics RPG adaptation is bugged: the devs say it's likely you've "played it wrong"(opens in new tab)
Frosthaven, and Gloomhaven before it, are complex turn-based tactical boardgames. Filled with cards, plastic figurines, a dense rulebook, and a denser tome filled with scenario descriptions and special conditions, Frosthaven's box comes to a weighty 36Ibs, or, in old money, ...
The OpenAI Hack Was a Mini Paperclip Maximizer(opens in new tab)
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html is that it's an actual instance of the famous Paperclip Maximizer scenario loved by AI safety types. 📚 A really good bo...
View from the Office: Nirav Shah(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Nirav Shah, founder of Quantal AI, at the Hendricks Hotel on 38th Street. He had a cappuccino. I had the truffle mac and cheese and an iced tea. Nirav grew up ...
Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Trump's America can't even win a rigged game: America has created a post-American world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fagin"; Scott McCloud on comics' future; Laurie Penny on Milo Yiannopoulos; Singaporean regulator rap; Conservatives ...
Rust service hardening and production checklist(opens in new tab)
There isn't a lot of resources about how to actually deliver Rust projects to your users: workflows, security hardening and artifacts management, so here is the checklist I use to
Announcing DuckDB 1.5.5(opens in new tab)
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.5 with bugfixes and performance improvements.
GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions(opens in new tab)
GPT 5.6 came out several weeks ago and the initial benchmarks look good - capable, fast, and cheap. Claude and Claude Code have been my daily driver for the past year, and I thought it was a good time...
it’s important to say things(opens in new tab)
Ambiguity sucks. It often leaves people self-conscious. It leaves room for anxiety and doubt. It’s super important to say things.
lazyrsync(opens in new tab)
A friendly TUI for rsync.
Wolves, sheep, and gypsies(opens in new tab)
Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Changelog Interviews #683)(opens in new tab)
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS ...
Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2026)(opens in new tab)
The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…
My entire life runs on these 5 self-hosted apps.(opens in new tab)
Python quiz: EuroPython 2026 edition(opens in new tab)
Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were celebrating 25 years of EuroPython at ...
Building on Burnout and an underwhelming predecessor are Wreckreation 2’s missions, and so far it’s a promising patch of Paradise(opens in new tab)
"Wreckreation wasn’t actually an attempt to recreate Burnout," former Criterion Games studio head Fiona Sperry says as she and her team reveal their latest arcade racer, Wreckreation 2. "I think some people thought it was. But it was actually an ...
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 ...
Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers(opens in new tab)
Today's links Dealing with dickovers: The web is an open platform, and that matters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Broadcast's bad week; Congress v wifi; EFF v DRM law; Snowden and bunnie's smartphone smartcase. Upcoming appearances: ...
#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 ...
Are 128-bit symmetric keys really secure against quantum computers?(opens in new tab)
Quantum computers are a threat to traditional cryptography, more specifically to asymmetric cryptography (signatures and key exchanges) with Shor's algorithm enabling fast factoring of big numbers.
Some more things about Django I've been enjoying(opens in new tab)
Poetic CSS Course, Early Bird Launch(opens in new tab)
The Star 7: the Early Java Prototype that was a Precursor to the Smartphone(opens in new tab)
Samsung 990 review: a lower-spec SSD that’s weirdly great for games(opens in new tab)
Launching a new SSD in the current hardware climate, even a simple, DRAMless, QLC-packing SSD like the Samsung 990, may seem like starting up a roof thatching business during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: innocuous idea, apocalyptically bad timing. Read ...
Writing about electrification(opens in new tab)
For years I've been thinking about electrification, now I'm going to write about it.
Slicing GPUs in Kubernetes with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)(opens in new tab)
GPU sharing in Kubernetes explained: time-slicing vs MPS vs MIG, every nvidia-smi command to enable and disable MIG on one GPU or eight, GPU Operator automation, pitfalls, and DCGM monitoring.
Optimize the common cases(opens in new tab)
One thing I've learned working on https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx (Rust's extended standard library), is that libraries often have common cases that are worth optimizing for.
Looking for my next role(opens in new tab)
Niki is a software engineer and product designer specializing in databases, synchronization, frontend systems, and interface design. He is looking for a new role
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". ...
