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This article covers a useful LLM pattern where you ask the LLM to write code to solve a problem instead of asking it to solve the problem directly. The problem of merging two transcripts I had two files that contained ...
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler” A rule (or boundary)...
“In my experience, React (et al) is almost always the wrong solution. React has its place, I’m sure, but it has turned into the proverbial hammer that makes everything look like a nail. I also know that React can be ...
Figma is the industry standard for painting pretty pictures of websites. It’s where designers spend my designated dev time pushing pixels around one too many artboards. Figma promises to remove the proverbial fence between design and development. […]
Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk ...
We are releasing DuckDB version 1.5.1, a patch release with bugfixes, performance improvements and support for the Lance lakehouse format.
I should build a game! I feel like that’s a common dream, right? Game development is what got me interested in design and programming to begin with. I learnt ECMAScript via Flash ActionScript many moons ago. Some time later “Thoughts ...
The NTLM authentication method was always a beast. It is a proprietary protocol designed by Microsoft which was reverse engineered a long time ago. That effort resulted in the online documentation that I based the curl implementation on back in ...
This is an RSS-only post, which I like to do sporadically! Thank you for subscribing :) Today’s question Am I burning out? Let me know what you think, internet doctors. I work a four day week and I have done ...
Ed (RPS in peace) has, finally, posthumously, got his wish: another Screamer. This one’s gone all cyberpunk and/or anime-styled, with a heavy focus on story – it follows multiple, multinational merc-drivers entering a lightly murderous racing tournament – but can ...
Sundays are for waking up in a Holiday Inn and finding that the breakfast buffet hash browns are glued to the bottom of the serving pan. Tarnation! I bellow like an enraged thunder god, like Vesuvius at full bloom, and ...
So, you are interested in getting started learning databases? I get a lot of emails from people asking me how they can begin to learn the vast world of databases, and whether they are far enough along on their programming ...
In May 2010 we merged support for the RTMP protocol suite into curl, in our desire to support the world’s internet transfer protocols. RTMP The protocol is an example of the spirit of an earlier web: back when we still ...
Dave Rupert just wrote a piece called People are not friction and I just had to write a short reaction blog post, because Dave names something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. His main argument: the AI marketing ...
I truly hope the sun has got his hat on this weekend as I'm cycling out to family in the countryside and I'd rather not arrive soaked through by rain. Granted, I will be arriving soaked through with sweat, but ...
With the Ingress-NGINX retirement scheduled for March 2026, the Kubernetes networking landscape is at a turning point. For most organizations, the question isn't whether to migrate to Gateway API, but how to do so safely. Migrating from Ingress to Gateway ...
The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break something. Well, I finally did it. I think I broke the show. ...
The landscape of artificial intelligence is undergoing a massive architectural shift. In the early days of generative AI, interacting with a model was often treated as a transient, stateless function call: a request that spun up, executed for perhaps 50 ...
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to ...
These are not the pull requests you're looking for...
claude -p is a quick hack that I find myself using more.
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DuckDB.ExtensionKit brings DuckDB extension development to the .NET ecosystem. By building on DuckDB's stable C Extension API and leveraging .NET Native AOT compilation, it lets C# developers define scalar and table functions, which can be shipped as native DuckDB extensions.
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Lies, damn lies, and read only filesystems
Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only ...
The words "consensus" and "RPS treehouse" are normally alien to one another, as is apparent from all the blood splatter on every new RPS 100. Yet among those of us who’ve been playing open world everything-'em-up Crimson Desert, an agreement ...
This is my annual list of DjangoCon US talks I’d like to see. I have been doing this since 2015, and it’s one of my favorite traditions. DjangoCon US 2026 is in Chicago this year, August 24-28. The CFP is ...
When LLMs write code to accomplish a task, that code has to actually run somewhere. And right now, the options aren't great. Spin up a sandboxed container and you're paying a full second of cold start overhead plus the complexity ...
It's easy to look at a walking simulator like Firewatch and only see what's been stripped out. After all, it's a genre that got its start when developers took the shooting out of first-person shooters. However, look a little closer ...
Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this is definitely a device you should to reboot daily, even without Chrome or any Electron apps. This morning, Zed (a native Rust app) was 500% CPU without a single window open, ...
When my dad was discharged from the Navy at the end of World War II, he took the train from California first to Chicago, then to Newark, then down to the Jersey Shore. His family had no idea he was ...
I had to set up my Sony a6400 fresh, and here's all the settings I used!
I codified my job as a DX engineer into a system that dispatches agents, enforces conventions mechanically, and learns from its own failures. Here's how case works and why I think every developer should build something like it.
A silly story is easier to remember .octo-canvas-wrap { width: 100%; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; margin: 2rem 0; } .octopus-graph { width: 600px; height: 460px; position: relative; margin: 0 auto; border: 2px solid #000; background: #fff; overflow: hidden; ...
Documenting how the head injury incurred on January 16, 2026 continues to affect me two months later.
https://youtu.be/g3SrYIUv-OE There's a common narrative right now that you don't need to worry about AI if you're a knowledge worker. Humans are special. Humans are unique in the way they approach work. AI is just a text generator—just an LLM ...
Reviews of Crimson Desert, the new open world fantasy RPG from Black Desert Online studio Pearl Abyss, are surfacing across the internet as you read these words. Out on 19th March, it's the story of Kliff McDuff of the Greymanes, ...
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During production debugging, the fastest route is often broad access such as cluster-admin (a ClusterRole that grants administrator-level access), shared bastions/jump boxes, or long-lived SSH keys. It works in the moment, but it comes with two common problems: auditing becomes ...
I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at Smashing’s (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. It’s free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangelist Chris Coyier will talk about how you can style things on ...
Using MacBook Neo for "real" development work and it's simultaneously juggling: • Running Claude Code in three tabs at once • Compiling multi-package Xcode builds • Automating two iOS Simulators and a Mac build of my app Hasn't missed a ...