Measuring Component Performance with the Container Timing API(opens in new tab)
Measure how entire components render with the Container Timing API: how it differs from Element Timing, where it helps, and how to try it today.
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Now—July 2026(opens in new tab)
Integration, studies, parenthood, the small things
The company you keep(opens in new tab)
The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion.
1,500 curl authors(opens in new tab)
It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository ...
Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly credit cards; Mapping airport power outlets; EMI loves pirates; Mexican indigenous phone co-op; Sewer cover textiles; Surge ...
Businessing 101(opens in new tab)
Back when I began freelancing I figured I’d set up a limited company eventually. I guess thirteen years later is eventually. I’ve finally got a local accountant working on company registration. Exciting times! The final push was this Making Tax ...
🔥 I'd describe my approach to work as,…(opens in new tab)
I'd describe my approach to work as, "light-hearted and heavy-handed."
Self-Host Weekly (24 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Jellyfin and Codeberg hurt themselves in their confusion
Codeberg Divides(opens in new tab)
Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Considering I want GitHub to get some competition I have thoughts about this. GitHub’s governance has never been democratic and there is plenty about the ...
Timeless principles, agnostic design and the power of CAP's abstractions(opens in new tab)
LLMs reward expertise(opens in new tab)
The Entire Game for AI Is Articulation of Ideal State(opens in new tab)
A person showing an AI the exact structure they imagine, and the AI building it/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp I've been saying this for something like eight months now, with varying approaches and volume levels, and no one is paying attention yet. ...
How to Share GPUs in Kubernetes at Scale with HAMi (Software vGPU Slicing)(opens in new tab)
Share NVIDIA GPUs in Kubernetes with HAMi software vGPU slicing: memory and compute limits, Helm configuration, a verified PyTorch manifest, a real RTX PRO 6000 OOM test, and Prometheus monitoring.
Writing everyday against the global lobotomy(opens in new tab)
AI. The risks are real. (just kidding, this article is 100% human produced) How? I have a huge backlog of ideas to write about. The most important part is to
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v54 - Hot Sleeper(opens in new tab)
The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag ...
Compliant vs. Certified: Why Independence Is the Real Foundation(opens in new tab)
In last week’s article I discussed some of the benefits of obtaining compliance to either ISO 9001 or AS9100. This week I’ll discuss the difference between compliance and certification, and why independence and impartiality are important at every level. In ...
Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models(opens in new tab)
The OpenAI Hack Was a Mini Paperclip Maximizer(opens in new tab)
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html is that it's an actual instance of the famous Paperclip Maximizer scenario loved by AI safety types. 📚 A really good bo...
Rust service hardening and production checklist(opens in new tab)
There isn't a lot of resources about how to actually deliver Rust projects to your users: workflows, security hardening and artifacts management, so here is the checklist I use to
GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions(opens in new tab)
GPT 5.6 came out several weeks ago and the initial benchmarks look good - capable, fast, and cheap. Claude and Claude Code have been my daily driver for the past year, and I thought it was a good time...
it’s important to say things(opens in new tab)
Ambiguity sucks. It often leaves people self-conscious. It leaves room for anxiety and doubt. It’s super important to say things.
lazyrsync(opens in new tab)
A friendly TUI for rsync.
Wolves, sheep, and gypsies(opens in new tab)
Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Changelog Interviews #683)(opens in new tab)
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS ...
Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2026)(opens in new tab)
The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…
My entire life runs on these 5 self-hosted apps.(opens in new tab)
Python quiz: EuroPython 2026 edition(opens in new tab)
Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were celebrating 25 years of EuroPython at ...
#489: Or JSON?(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: django-orjson Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size Linus Torvalds puts the foot down against Anti-AI Kernel Maintainers Django Steering Council backs the Triptych Project Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
Are 128-bit symmetric keys really secure against quantum computers?(opens in new tab)
Quantum computers are a threat to traditional cryptography, more specifically to asymmetric cryptography (signatures and key exchanges) with Shor's algorithm enabling fast factoring of big numbers.
Some more things about Django I've been enjoying(opens in new tab)
Poetic CSS Course, Early Bird Launch(opens in new tab)
The Star 7: the Early Java Prototype that was a Precursor to the Smartphone(opens in new tab)
Writing about electrification(opens in new tab)
For years I've been thinking about electrification, now I'm going to write about it.
Slicing GPUs in Kubernetes with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)(opens in new tab)
GPU sharing in Kubernetes explained: time-slicing vs MPS vs MIG, every nvidia-smi command to enable and disable MIG on one GPU or eight, GPU Operator automation, pitfalls, and DCGM monitoring.
Optimize the common cases(opens in new tab)
One thing I've learned working on https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx (Rust's extended standard library), is that libraries often have common cases that are worth optimizing for.
AI Is Just Thinking and Doing(opens in new tab)
Charcoal sketch of business figures feeding a blank scroll into a massive thinking machine/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp One useful way to cut through noise and hype in AI conversations is to replace the word "AI" with the words "Thinking" and "Doing". ...
Impro is a handbook for running a cult(opens in new tab)
Infinity(opens in new tab)
The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need(opens in new tab)
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...
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)
The Java Story | The Official Documentary(opens in new tab)
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
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.
