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UPDATE: I’m just gonna put the answer at the top of this blog post to help anyone finding this. Do these things: Once all that is in place, doing a manual sync is in order at https://wordpress.com/settings/manage-connection/{YOUR_DOMAIN} And now the ...
Assuming I haven't gotten torn apart by wild boars, Sundays are for navigating the wooded valleys around Cadair Idris. I'm on a hiking holiday in Eryri till Tuesday 14th April, tramping up slopes and wading through lakes of heather without ...
I stumbled across this report from NASA, “Elements of Engineering Excellence”, published in 2012, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC Engineering in 2006 who asked that we investigate the question: “How do you ...
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be ...
I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something. Since ...
Garth DeAngelis remembers being in the room when Firaxis chose to ditch XCOM: Enemy Unknown's procedurally generated maps. Despite being a feature of the original 1994 game, when Firaxis tried to build the tech for their reboot of the turn-based ...
Welcome back to compiler land. Today we’re going to talk about value numbering, which is like SSA, but more. Static single assignment (SSA) gives names to values: every expression has a name, and each name corresponds to exactly one expression. ...
TL;DR - In 2026.Q1 I participated in a 12-week programming retreat, published my 1,000th blog post, started building with Rust, solidified my agentic engineering workflows, shipped my first game, star...
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a separate service, a ...
On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the ...
New and improved mobile Kubernetes cluster
Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995
Learn how objects are automatically iterable if you implement integer indexing. Introduction An iterable in Python is any object you can traverse through with a for loop. Iterables are typically containers and iterating over the iterable object allows you to ...
Why posting on Facebook that you do not give them rights over what you posted on their platform is useless. In fact, as soon as you post that statement on Facebook, Facebook can do with it whatever they want.
I’m all aboard the CSS subgrid train. Now I’m seeing subgrid everywhere. Seriously, what was I doing before subgrid? I feel like I was bashing rocks together. Consider the follower HTML: The content could be simple headings and paragraphs. […]
CSS containment lets you isolate layout and paint work to self-contained ‘islands’. Here’s what each contain value does and how to use it safely.
DuckLake’s data inlining stores small updates directly in the catalog, eliminating the “small files problem” and making continuous streaming into data lakes practical. Our benchmark shows 926× faster queries and 105× faster ingestion when compared to Iceberg.
A closer analysis on the airspace around Mumbai's BOM/VABB (CSMIA) Airport. Questioning the intuitions from memories and answering and reasoning through the data.
When you type a question into ChatGPT, the model only has what you typed to work with. But tools like Claude Code can plan, iterate, test, and recover from mistakes. They work more like we do. The difference is the ...
… is what I’m reading far too often! Some of you are losing faith! A growing sentiment amongst my peers — those who haven’t already resigned to an NPC career path† — is that blogging is over. Coding is cooked. ...
The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home ...
Over the decades, Humans have proved to be pretty bad at producing bug-free software. Trying to apply our approximative, fuzzy thoughts to perfectly logical computers seems doomed. While the practice
DuckDB now speaks Dutch! Load the EendDB community extension and start writing your queries in het Nederlands.
In this post we'll be building a fullstack web app with server-side rendered (SSR) HTML using Rust and Maud. This post continues our series on building webapps with Rust: Build a Simple Single-File R...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in March 2026.
A terminal first monitor configurator and daemon for Hyprland.
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our ...
My sweater is weird but it is special and important to me.
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this ...
The Most Important Ideas in AI Right Now April 2026/images/blog/the-most-important-ideas-in-ai/header.webp/images/blog/the-most-important-ideas-in-ai/header.webp After thinking about this for about a week, and attending the RSA conference during that time, I think there are a few main AI ideas tha...
What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap/images/ai-stops-being-artificially-cheap.webp I've been thinking about what happens when AI inference costs stop being subsidized. Every major lab is losing money on inference right now, and that's going to change. I don't know exactly ...
We Are Confusing Two Types of AGI/images/two-types-of-agi.webp/images/two-types-of-agi.webp I think the biggest problem with the AGI debate is that we're confusing two types of AGI. I propose thinking and discussing them as two different things: 1. Soft AGI: An AI system ...
Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the ...
I’m just back from the United States 50th state, a staggering 2,500 miles from the mainland. For the next week or two, I’ll pronounce it Ha-Vie-ee, like how it’s pronounced in the native Hawaiian language. A language, by the way, ...
AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp/images/blog/ai-unmasked-our-work-as-scaffolding/header.webp I think AI is revealing that a vast percentage of knowledge work is scaffolding overhead. Maybe 75-99%. 1. In my own field of cybersecurity, ...
Controversial donation banners, Booklore successors, and a public service announcement for GitHub users
Originally published on Rails At Scale. Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. img { max-width: 100%; } img:hover { transform: scale(2); transition: transform 0.1s ease-in; } img:not(:hover) { ...
I love my single-purpose devices, and I got another one for distraction-free writing called the BYOK!
I just finished my 12-week programming retreat at Recurse Center. As is tradition, we write "return statements" to reflect on the time - what we did, built, and learned. What is Recurse Cen...
Weekend articles should be lighter and fun. Not everything has to be an argument, a deep dive, or a small your average frustration disguised as an essay. Sometimes I just want to build a tiny piece of nonsense, the sort ...
I’ve noticed lately that more people are writing forum postings and Reddit questions as if they were writing a prompt for an LLM. Here’s an example from a Buddhist forum I lurk on:
Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other ...
A Python project got hacked where malicious releases were directly uploaded to PyPI. I said on Mastodon that had the project used trusted publishing with digital attestations, then people using a pylock.toml file would have noticed something odd was going ...
