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Latest posts from blogs I follow
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In ...
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-company.webp Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isn’t the attacker vs. defender question as models get s...
Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds 47,000 photos; Net Mexico-US illegal migration is zero; Build a wall (around ...
At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2026.
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long ...
My experience living in Osaka and Tokyo on a Working Holiday visa, with practical advice on preparation, housing, work, useful apps, and places to eat.
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; ...
AIL badge scale showing levels zero through five/images/ail-scale-chart.webp/images/ail-scale-chart.webp AI Influence Level/blog/ai-influence-level-ail has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did. Text ...
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for ...
Email from Apple: We’re reaching out to let you know that the iPhone Upgrade Program is coming to an end. Thank you for being a loyal member. Awwww. Sad trombone. I’ve been on this program for as long as I ...
I can’t take it anymore! If you want to speak to me, send an email. My contact form is out of service indefinitely. This is actually in lieu of moving my professional services to a yet to be announced limited ...
Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Poul Anderson; P2P at PC Forum; Waitress handed her own stolen ...
Yes, but can it run Jellyfin?
Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.
What the Singularity Actually Means/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp/images/what-the-singularity-actually-means.webp The singularity might be my favorite idea in all of AI, and it has a real, specific meaning that I find way more interesting than the way the word usually gets used. ...
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and ...
Today's links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Wau Holland; Diebold voting ...
When I'm AFK, I want to just create issues and reply to them and have an agent spin up, do stuff, and wind down. order_taker seems to do that p well. https://github.com/searlsco/order_taker
These are my recently read books and some comments and notes from when I read them. As I love books and recommendations by others, I want to share them in a collective format so others can read gems of books, ...
The Answer to the Harness Question/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp/images/the-answer-to-the-harness-question.webp Martin Casado posted something about AI harnesses that captures where a lot of smart people are stuck right now. On harnesses, I vacillate between three beliefs: the...
There's a story that goes something like this: In 1925, lightbulb manufactures secretly colluded to standardized lifespans at 1,000 hours. They would test each other's products to ensure compliance. This is true. At the time, many bulbs lasted longer than ...
This article has been revised since it was first published, to correct several significant technical inaccuracies in the original text. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for distributed workloads, and writing your own controller for it is now a ...
Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM; Aussie mall v photos; English town x CCTVs; Pay no taxes x Big ...
CrUX’s seasonal decline, Safari 27’s user-experience fixes, richer INP attribution, and long-session third-party costs all demand better interpretation.
I've been experimenting with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode for the past couple weeks, running GPT 5.6 Sol through OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro (5x) plan. Before this I only used the Claude Max plans for perso...
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Midnight Commander (mc), La Terminal, SwiftTerm, TermKit and Xogot.
A TUI to manage GitLab and GitHub projects.
The View from the Office. I met up with Jack Forehand, co-host of the Excess Returns podcast, at the Bryant Park cafe. I had the quinoa salad. Jack had a grilled chicken and Swiss sandwich. We were introduced by Sunpointe ...
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always ...
Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: How to help with computers; Batman equation; Fuck and the law; NC's ...
Topics covered in this episode: Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? Where Did All Your AI Tokens Go? AgentsView to the rescue! Careful with phishing all Extras Joke Watch on YouTube ...
Originally published on Rails At Scale. We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete ...
Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chilling Effects; Billy Bragg v Myspace; Glenn Beck calls murdered Norwegian ...
The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes ...
In the same way that correct software architecture can bring many benefits in terms of costs and performance, a good architecture for infrastructure can significantly improve the reliability and reduce
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release and I applaud the ...
For years, "Django and async" came with an asterisk. The docs themselves warned you off it. Scary performance notes, a story that felt half-finished. Well, that story just got rewritten, literally, and the person who rewrote it is here to ...
