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Make It Work vs. Make It Good(opens in new tab)
There are two wolves inside of me, lol. Some days I want to be a “designer”. Other days I want to be a “developer”. On the days I find myself wanting to feed the developer, it’s often because making something ...
The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need(opens in new tab)
Esoteric Ebb is the D&Disco Elysium I never knew I needed, but more importantly it's proof I'll never be cut out for political canvassing(opens in new tab)
Which way are you voting in the election? There’s an election coming, could I trouble you to ask which way you’re voting? ELECTION. YOU. VOTING? WHICH WAY? The time to place the great slip of paper into the holy box ...
Kimi K3 Might Have Just Started a Crash of the US Economy(opens in new tab)
Kimi K3 and the US economy/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp Not enough people realize that China's push for open source AIhttps://www.google.com/search?q=popular+Chinese+AI+models is an explicit CCP strategy to crash the US stock market and economy. Peop...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
What are we all playing this weekend? This weekend is the eye of the wedding storm, a brief reprieve before heading up to Sheffield next week for further nuptials. Though, that doesn't mean I can relax. My body is in ...
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors(opens in new tab)
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI(opens in new tab)
A super tiny ergonomic mechanical keyboard! #mechanicalkeyboard #3dprinting #raspberrypi(opens in new tab)
The Java Story | The Official Documentary(opens in new tab)
"I'm saying this on camera and millions of people will believe it": How Suzerain Stories: The Neutral Lens lets you shape the news(opens in new tab)
The original Suzerain, a political strategy game presented as a visual novel, cast you in the role of Anton Rayne, the newly elected President of fictional country Sordland. You had to tackle political turmoil as the leader of a country ...
Self-Host Weekly (17 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Pop it, fork it, polka dot it 🎶
New Member Perk: Insider Offers (opens in new tab)
The latest goodies for paid selfh.st subscribers
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I found Lumis via the Master’s blog (new name, huh?) Lumis looks to be the new hotness in syntax highlighting. Does that mean Shiki is now old and busted? I use Shiki for better syntax highlighting but I have to ...
Go releases are exciting (especially 1.27)(opens in new tab)
Go 1.27rc2 was released 10 days ago and Go 1.27 is due for August. Let's be honest, this release is freaking awesome! Generic methods? Yeah! UUID in the standard library?
Day 5: Local LLM Inference Engines, Wrappers, and What to Pick(opens in new tab)
A beginner-friendly guide to local LLM inference, with the same Qwen model tested through Ollama, llama.cpp, Docker Model Runner, vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
Launching: rez0’s rascals(opens in new tab)
I built a K-5 learning app for homeschool, co-op, and hybrid-school families.
Learning a few things about running SQLite(opens in new tab)
Regressive JPEGs:(opens in new tab)
One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off. In the file, ...
Workshop Basel day three(opens in new tab)
See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started ...
Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Deranged billionaires and their syndromes: The Mad Kings do love a syllogism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PoGo v binding arbitration; Trump beat some absolute losers; Public interest internet; "Close to the Machine"; Gadget-friendly ...
Choose your own dark mode(opens in new tab)
When I redesigned my website earlier this year I removed dark mode. I never liked the colours, and the light switch toggle was so 2010’s. Personally I prefer reading with a dark theme for long-form content. Dark is not my ...
The Act and the Outcome of Creation(opens in new tab)
Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act of ...
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“What’s !important” is a semi-regular series on CSS-Tricks by Daniel Schwarz that covers everything hot in CSS and front-end. It’s a great round up, not just because I’m in this week’s edition! It’s nice to see CSS-Tricks ramping up quality ...
From microservice to subprocess(opens in new tab)
You were going to pack your bag and go back home when your manager stops you and tell you about this new feature. To surf the meme wave, you will
Bonsai 27B on RTX PRO 6000 vs DGX Spark: what actually works(opens in new tab)
Real Bonsai 27B benchmarks on an RTX PRO 6000 and a DGX Spark, including the supported llama.cpp setup, ternary vs 1-bit results, and speculative decoding.
NGC 7497, etc.(opens in new tab)
North is up (aprox). 0.53 "/pixel. [24' x 23' field] FWHM = 3.75" A relatively unremarkable spiral galaxy... but hey, what's that in the background? var current = false; function change() { current = !current; document.getElementById("notes").src = current?"/astro/ngc7497/notes.jpg":"/astro/ngc7497/small.jpg"; } Click ...
Workshop Basel day two(opens in new tab)
If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over ...
How a Junior Developer Created One of Java's Most Widely Used Server Technologies(opens in new tab)
Understanding the Rust hype for the busy developer(opens in new tab)
First, let's be clear, this post is not intended to fuel any programming language holy war. I wrote this post because I've sometime been late to understand the benefits of
Web-Perf Wednesday 001 – SPAs Are Finally Becoming Measurable(opens in new tab)
Chrome 151 brings native soft-navigation measurement closer, alongside better redirect timing, revealing CrUX data, and more trustworthy browser tooling.
How Much I Spend on AI Agents as a Software Engineer (And Is It Worth It?)(opens in new tab)
I've been leaning into agentic engineering for the past six months, and I've finally hit my stride at work after coming back from parental leave. AI token spend has been a hot topic and we have intern...
usbtree(opens in new tab)
A live USB device tree TUI with Linux activity metrics.
Dell is on a roll with the XPS(opens in new tab)
Workshop Basel day one(opens in new tab)
On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty ...
The Three Components of Becoming AI Antifragile(opens in new tab)
The three components of becoming AI antifragile/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp I have a new idea that everything you should try to do to get ready for AI basically breaks down into three pieces. Deeply understanding how things work The firs...
ISO 9001 and AS9100: What They Actually Buy You(opens in new tab)
If you've spent any time around a machine shop or a manufacturing floor, you've probably heard someone grumble that a quality certification is just a binder full of paperwork nobody reads until an auditor shows up. That reputation isn't entirely ...
I made a Plex server(opens in new tab)
There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — media you purchase because you love it, and share ...
Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how ...
France Deleted Windows, Now They Use THIS Unpopular OS(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics sharing; Planned LED obsolescence; PoGo v Black neighborhoods; Gnarlier trolley ...
#488: tau - it's 2pi and it writes code(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: The trusted-publishing debate: how to do it right vs. why you shouldn't trust it JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! Tau – new small, readable terminal coding agent Django Tasks and Django 6.1 Extras ...
The discourse about software craftsmanship conveniently ignores distribution(opens in new tab)
I've always considered myself a software craftsman. I love clean APIs, efficient code and great user experience. If our entire world is about to be rewritten in Rust governed by
I have no idea who celebrities are anymore (opens in new tab)
Julia Roberts? She was in that one movie with that guy, and the other one with the other guy, and like 100 more. Whatever. But she’s old news. Like all...
Logo: Squawkbox(opens in new tab)
What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?(opens in new tab)
Operating AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes: A Headlamp Plugin for Kubeflow(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly land on a Kubernetes cluster. Kubeflow ...
Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: A Step-by-Step Guide(opens in new tab)
1. Before you start: know what is changingKubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more ...
