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Nobody is destined for greatness.(opens in new tab)
Demosthenes lost his first appearance before the Athenian assembly. His voice came out thin and failed him mid-sentence, and the crowd laughed him off the platform. Plutarch tells us he walked home with his cloak pulled over his face, certain ...
Test-Driving the Lance Lakehouse Format in DuckDB(opens in new tab)
Lance is an open lakehouse format with a design geared toward AI workloads. LanceDB and DuckLabs have partnered to bring you fast vector and hybrid search directly from DuckDB SQL, without leaving your analytical workflow. In this post, we explain ...
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work(opens in new tab)
Ad Infinitum(opens in new tab)
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive ...
The Razor's Edge of Human Government Design(opens in new tab)
A charcoal editorial illustration: a colossal authoritarian monolith on the left and a gilded gothic spire on the right, with a small figure balancing on a thin razor's edge between them/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp I'm fascinated by the fact ...
How to Build a WIRELESS Corne without Soldering(opens in new tab)
TIL #145 – collections.deque is implemented in blocks(opens in new tab)
Today I learned that collections.deque is implemented as a doubly-linked list of blocks. collections.deque I've written about the data structure deque from the module collections extensively. In particular, I wrote a deque tutorial with plenty of practical example use cases ...
Scaling Rust codebases: Lessons learned organizing large projects and managing errors(opens in new tab)
As a Rust project grows in size, it can take a non-trivial amount of efforts to keep it in a clean state that will not impede your and your co-workers'
DuckDB 1.5.3: Not an Ordinary Patch Release(opens in new tab)
We are releasing DuckDB version v1.5.3. While updates in DuckDB itself are limited bugfixes, the upgraded extensions shipped with v1.5.3 bring a ton of new features. These include the Quack client-server protocol, which is now available as a core extension, ...
Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0(opens in new tab)
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components ...
wrkflw(opens in new tab)
A CLI and TUI to validate and run GitHub Actions locally.
Prompts are technical debt too(opens in new tab)
I've used Kubernetes for 5 years, but I never knew these 13 facts(opens in new tab)
Your Slop, My Sludge(opens in new tab)
Throwing shit at the wall. I'm the wall.
How I met John McCarthy, the inventor of Lisp & Godfather of AI(opens in new tab)
#480: Proud Parents(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training ...
Travel notes: RubyKaigi Hakodate(opens in new tab)
I just got back from a three and a half week trip to Japan. It was the longest trip I have ever been on (aside from studying abroad in Germany, which felt different). I made the following wild circuit with ...
La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona(opens in new tab)
I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!
Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs(opens in new tab)
I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile). I’ve done this before in 2023, with GGUF Mistral ...
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon(opens in new tab)
How to be inspired without copying(opens in new tab)
In 1713, Johann Sebastian Bach sat down at his desk in Weimar and began copying out concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. He transcribed them note for note, in his own hand, working through at least nine of the L'estro armonico concertos ...
It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese // Week 20 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Are these weeknotes? Yes they are! Will I do them again next week? Who knows! Sunday 10 May: Got home from hospital shift around 7:30pm. Exhausted, hangry. Walked into a...
AIE Singapore: The Agentic Nation(opens in new tab)
i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026(opens in new tab)
MCP on Code Mode (Changelog Interviews #681)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets ...
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager(opens in new tab)
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for ...
Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
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Building a ScottoFrog (PCB Edition)(opens in new tab)
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS(opens in new tab)
C++: The Documentary TRAILER│Out now!(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs(opens in new tab)
The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and in any situation where that is not the case, it ...
Taking Down Prod with Eve(opens in new tab)
If you're a platform engineer you've had to exit vi at least once. Eve is stuck with it for the rest of her social media life. She's a Sr Platform Engineer and obviously knows a ton about Kubernetes and CI/CD. ...
Internal vs. External Storage? What's the Limit of External Tables(opens in new tab)
When I started my career as a data warehouse engineer and business intelligence engineer in 2003, external tables with materialized views were the standard. We used external tables to integrate CSV files and other data not already in Oracle databases. ...
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Changelog & Friends #130)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling(opens in new tab)
AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API alongside basic gang scheduling support built on a Pod-based ...
The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord(opens in new tab)
"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid
cheznav(opens in new tab)
A TUI for managing chezmoi dotfiles.
AI datacenters in space do not have a cooling problem(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage. Unlike traditional utilization metrics, PSI tells the story of ...
Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js(opens in new tab)
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that helps you adapt your site to real-world network, battery, CPU, and memory conditions.
The Origins of "Hello, World"(opens in new tab)
my honest advice to someone who wants to master devops(opens in new tab)
Position or Perish: The Narrative Blueprint(opens in new tab)
Avis was losing $3.2 million a year; and they'd been unprofitable for thirteen straight. In 1962, they sat at number two in American car rental, well behind Hertz, with no plausible path to catching up. Robert Townsend, the new president, ...
Partial static single information form(opens in new tab)
In compilers, static single information form (SSI) is a common extension to static single assignment form (SSA). It was introduced by C. Scott Ananian in 1999 in his MS thesis (PDF) 1. SSI extends your existing SSA intermediate representation by ...
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol(opens in new tab)
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies ...
Thinking Machines and interaction models(opens in new tab)
The Main Path to Truly Creative AI(opens in new tab)
Two gestural figures: a man on the left with full circulatory anatomy rendered in burnt sienna — heart at center, threads of drive radiating outward — and a mirrored hollow purple silhouette on the right, identical posture but empty inside/images/the-main-path-to-truly-creative-ai.webp/images/the-ma...
