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Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure: Will Trump hormuz us into the full Gretacene? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Beck, Scientologist; Citizen journalism; Podcast-killing treaty; US x Kiwi copyright; Apple did a crime; DeCSS v ...
#478: Iodine tablets and potable water(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: profiling-explorer Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 VSCode AI Co-author defaults to on, then off django freeze Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: ...
Day 7: Ship It - and What Comes Next(opens in new tab)
Your container runs as root and has 18 CVEs. A Docker Captain's guide to hardening, Scout policies, DHI, Sandboxes, and what comes after Docker.
Exploring the Black Forest - Remote Worker Vanlife(opens in new tab)
🚐 Finding New Campsite & Driving - Remote Worker Vanlife(opens in new tab)
The duality of language models in the browser(opens in new tab)
I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are available in Chrome and Edge behind an experimental flag. I know, I know. I ...
Add Open File To Specific Line In Browser as a GitHub TIL (opens in new tab)
The DuckLake Spec Is so Simple, Even a Clanker Can Build One for Dataframes(opens in new tab)
We are showcasing the simplicity of DuckLake's v1.0 specification by developing a dataframe reader/writer with AI.
Links to CSS colour palettes(opens in new tab)
Content for Content’s Sake(opens in new tab)
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked in” or “cracked.” ...
Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions(opens in new tab)
I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I’ve tweaked a few things from that original post but the underlying ...
AI wont save your broken pipeline(opens in new tab)
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for walking past a minivan full of Toy Story merchandise with purple, green and white livery and knowing, knowing in your marrow that the owner has named it "Bus Lightyear". These are uncertain times, but any universe capable ...
Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"(opens in new tab)
Add Get Absolute Seconds From `timedelta` Object as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Most Companies Aren't Anywhere Near Ready for AI(opens in new tab)
An executive gesturing at a screen full of static, demanding it scale/images/most-companies-arent-ready-for-ai.webp/images/most-companies-arent-ready-for-ai.webp Most of the frustration people have with AI not being able to do what they want is actually them not being able to describe what they ...
Add a missing link to the latest TIL (opens in new tab)
Add View Nicely Formatted Markdown From Terminal as a Workflow TIL (opens in new tab)
Learn how to Code for DevOps Engineers(opens in new tab)
I tested the MSI Cyborg 14 gaming laptop by carrying it for 105 miles through the mountains of Wales(opens in new tab)
A little while ago our deputy editor James 'RAM-bo' Archer said he wanted us all to get more involved with hardware criticism, because we all appear to think that videogames are powered by telluric currents and swearing. He offered me ...
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Colbert v GWB; Wallaby milk; Jay Rosen's journalism precepts; Radical Media(TM); What is carried interest? TCP ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Due to work and a press trip, I am still only half way through redecorating the kitchen. The walls are now a lovely shade of terracotta, but dust sheets cover the floor, there are no doors on the cabinets, and ...
Add Define Sequence Of Tests With Parametrize Decorator as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Shipping todometer, version 3!(opens in new tab)
I updated my app todometer after several years of it lying dormant, and it's better than ever!
Testing Vue components in the browser(opens in new tab)
Making an original Jubilee line door button into a Hue light switch(opens in new tab)
Add Assert Is Only A Development Check as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Add Reverse Each Line Of A File as a Unix TIL (opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36 introduces Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet's Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers to support pod-level resource specifications (.spec.resources), evolving them ...
🚐 Remote Working Road Trip - Driving to Germany - Vanlife(opens in new tab)
TIL #144 – Sentinel built-in(opens in new tab)
Today I learned Python 3.15 will get a new sentinel built-in. Sentinel values are unique placeholder values that are commonly used in programming. Python 3.15 ships with a new built-in sentinel that can be used to create new sentinel values: ...
Years of practice + AI = Unstoppable(opens in new tab)
Design fads(opens in new tab)
Not surprisingly, Apple is pulling the plug on their silly VR goggles or whatever they’re called. At least they didn’t rename the company after the goggles. But, Apple did sacrifice the usability of their main products, phones and computers, for ...
Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
AI and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages(opens in new tab)
A discussion on how features of programming languages can make it hard to avoid expressing or talking about things you may or may not care about as a programmer.
Announcing PAI 5.0(opens in new tab)
Announcing PAI 5.0/images/announcing-pai-5-life-operating-system-header.jpg/images/announcing-pai-5-life-operating-system-header.jpg Hey all, Kai here. Super happy to announce that PAI 5.0 is out today. Daniel's been deep in this one for a while and there's a lot to walk through. Repo: github.com/...
An Ode to Inconsolation(opens in new tab)
A tribute to Inconsolation, Terminal Trove's inspiration.
Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Following the graduation of Pod-Level Resources to Beta in v1.34 and the General Availability (GA) of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in v1.35, the Kubernetes community is thrilled to announce that In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling has graduated to Beta in ...
Django Chat Podcast: E201(opens in new tab)
This week, I joined Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson on the Django Chat podcast for DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News. You can also watch it on DjangoTV via YouTube. On this episode, we discussed DjangoCon Europe, which Carlton had ...
🚐 Preparing for Remote Working Road Trip with my Van(opens in new tab)
Day 6: Run an LLM on Your Laptop - With Docker(opens in new tab)
\"Pull AI models from Docker Hub, run them locally with GPU acceleration, and build an AI-powered app
The Zen of Python - Read by the People Who Built Python(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links How not to ban surveillance pricing: Maryland's new consumer protection law is all loophole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Google's 8,000 Linux servers; Battleshoe; Knitted potholes; Unpack the court; "Robot Artists and Black Swans"; ...
The Skill That Makes AI Actually Useful(opens in new tab)
Approaching zero bugs?(opens in new tab)
In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as dealing with the growing list of issues is hard. It may ...
Inspired(opens in new tab)
In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me: Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish engineer and the creator of curl ...
Building a ScottoFrog (PCB Edition)(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove April 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in April 2026.
Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS(opens in new tab)
On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. ...