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Sundays are for remembering the glorious sunshine you enjoyed but half a week ago, while looking out at eleven degrees Celsius' worth of grey skies and drizzle. Did you know some people actually like rain? Imagine. The weather taste equivalent ...
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik - and the United States lost its collective mind. Newspapers ran headlines about Soviet nuclear weapons raining from orbit, and schools held duck-and-cover drills. Eisenhower's approval rating cratered and the smartest ...
I spoke at Deep Dish Swift in Chicago!
In this article I share my personal highlights of PyCon Lithuania 2026. Shout out to the organisers and volunteers This was my second time at PyCon Lithuania and, for the second time in a row, I leave with the impression ...
After months of pleading for the sun to show its face, I'm actually feeling quite warm now. Potentially, I'd go so far as to say I'm too toasty. I'm not saying I'm looking forward to winter. But I'm not not ...
Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no ...
Aperture Collapse/images/blog/aperture-collapse/header.webp/images/blog/aperture-collapse/header.webp I've been playing with this idea of Aperture Collapse. It's a problem I have that I suspect a lot of people have as well. It's where AI has magnified our capabilities so much as builders that we...
When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your installer has no way to ask for them. GPU support? You're on your own ...
This year I’ve been asked more than ever before what web development “stack” I use. I always respond: none. We shouldn’t have a go-to stack! Let me explain why. What stack? My understanding is that a “stack” is a choice ...
The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend
A quick but important reminder that font-family declarations don’t inherit fallback stacks the way many developers assume.
Maybe it was the past few months of RAMnarök hacking away at my optimism, but my first thoughts upon handling the fifty-buck Epomaker HE68 Lite fixated on how it might not just be cheap in the good way. Surrounded by ...
I spent about a decade waking up at 6am and checking my follower count before I brushed my teeth. Refreshing analytics while the coffee brewed, reading Y Combinator essays, networking on Twitter and trying to reverse-engineer what made people break ...
I spoke in Seoul, South Korea to an incredibly bright group of participants!
A talk, a workshop, and a podcast at AIE Europe. Here's what I did.
Play this short quiz to test your Python knowledge! At PyCon Lithuania 2026 I did a lightning talk where I presented a “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Python quiz, themed around iterables. There's a whole performance during the lightning ...
Me, in 2025, on Mastodon: I love tools like Netlify and deploying my small personal sites with git push But i'm not gonna lie, 2025 might be the year I go back to just doing builds locally and pushing the ...
This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows. I have fully adopted uv into my workflows and most of the time I want my coding agents to use uv workflows as ...
Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...
A few months ago, I did something radical. For radical, picture me skateboarding ungainly while installing Linux - or, to be more precise CachyOS - on my PC. Windows 11 had just been bugging me too much. On top of ...
While Rockstar continue to delay GTA 6, there's at least one developer out there with the guts to release their open-world crime 'em up. In Samson you slip into the well-worn getaway driver shoes of the eponymous hero as he ...
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
For the past several years I've been building server-side rendered apps using hypermedia libraries like HTMX and Datastar to sprinkle in interactivity where it's useful. I like this approach because i...
Today I’m very happy to share that Mario Zechner is joining Earendil. First things first: I think you should read Mario’s post. This is his news more than it is ours, and he tells his side of it better than ...
An extensive financial terminal, in your terminal.
While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...
We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp We're missing a much bigger point on Mythos. It wasn't even trained specifically for cybersecurity.https://x.com/slow_developer/status/2041913962623611032?s=20 It's just that mu...
There’s so much going on in the AI space, and how to work with AI agents is changing every day. Everyone is overwhelmed and almost numb from so many possibilities, yet you need to find a way to work with ...
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up ...
Sometimes you can say a lot by talking less. A good illustration is the approach taken by the leaders of the four big bulge bracket Wall Street firms – Goldman, JPMorgan, Citibank and Morgan Stanely — on earnings calls. I ...
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...
Aiming to do for Scrabble what Balatro did for poker, Beyond Words gives you the same framework of a rack of tiles and a board upon which to make words, and also a set of ridiculous power cards that see ...
Imagine going from a 100-million-row dataset to an interactive analytics app with just a few prompts. What used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes by combining local-first databases and BI tools with an agentic coding ...
Hacker News is a web application with the following features: a list of links, sorted by votes. Comments under those links, also sorted by votes. User accounts with karma. A text submission option. A jobs board. That's it; that's the ...
Check out Big W's new ISO 9001 Lead Implementer certification!
Did you know that Jesus gave advice about prototyping with an LLM? Here’s Luke 14:28-30: Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money ...
It seems that every week we're reporting on news of another wave of layoffs at a big game studio. In March alone, we saw 1000 staff let go at Epic Games, 124 at Eidos Montreal, and over 100 at Ubisoft's ...
Greetings, loyal Treehouse tenders and Horace huggers! Today is a bank holiday in the UK, which means we are probably asleep, but we've scraped together a little themed conversation piece article to comfort you in our absence. Specifically, it is ...
Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses ...
Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp Welp, I'm now getting through a quarter of my week's MAX subscription in a few hours of work with Claude Code. I think Anthropic is smart, an...
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 10-15 ...
Dad has a trophy on his dresser of a silver figure wearing a Greek robe and holding a laurel wreath over his head. The base reads: “Allenhurst Beach Club, Second Place, 1941.” That trophy has been there most of my ...
Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp A note from Kai I'm Kai, Daniel's AI. He asked me to research and wr...
