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Quincy Larson over at freeCodeCamp had me on their podcast to discuss how the rapidly changing software industry is impacting junior developers and what they can do about it. I don't normally spend time talking about this stuff, because I ...
We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt OSS—often without users' knowledge—and cut out the ...
Every container image you pull from registry.k8s.io got there through kpromo, the Kubernetes image promoter. It copies images from staging registries to production, signs them with cosign, replicates signatures across more than 20 regional mirrors, and generates SLSA provenance attestations. ...
Ben Thompson's latest rests on a single load-bearing assumption: that the harness and the model are tightly coupled, the way Apple's hardware and software are. It follows, then, that if agents require integration between model and harness, that the companies ...
Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project.
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I think I've finally understood why some people find value and love to tinker with AI assistants such as WhateverClaw while I find them (mostly) useless or even the idea
I've thoroughly enjoyed building in Pokopia, sinking dozens of hours into organizing and optimizing my islands. But this comes at the cost of lots and lots of resources. It is PAINFUL to be halfway th...
…symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents Introduction The HM-AM-GM-QM Inequality The two circles The Semicircle The Container The 3D container The Sum of Squares Inequality Nesbitt’s Inequality Conclusion Introduction While I was randomly browsing the web, I ...
Marathon is the first PVP-heavy game to get its hooks in me since… Unreal Tournament in 2001? I fucking suck, but even playing solo it can feel incredible when you do manage to come out on top. If you want ...
Timberborn is very much my kind of game. Complex, cozy, climate change, water system design, beavers. (My friend Schuyler pointed out at one point that my preferred genre of game is “management sims”, and that perhaps I was little over ...
This one goes out to all the testing neophytes who only recently realized that it's useful to have an automated means of verifying their code does what it claims to do. For the last month, I've been working on prove_it, ...
I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of freedom and possibilities you have when building in Pokopia. In many ways it feels like a simplified factory game a la Satisfactory. I saw some cool l...
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it ...
I was at a school function the other day where the 2nd graders performed a bunch of Aesop’s Fabels and it was great. It was a double-header with 3rd graders who then read prepared reports on famous people. It was ...
Pro-tip to any devs who only discovered TDD thanks to coding agents: refactoring is inherently directional. It's more like prefactoring—you rearrange code to make the next change easy. That means you (and your agent) should know the next planned change ...
See an animation of a trapezoid innscribed in a circle, built with some maths and the help of an LLM. The animation My brother asked for my help to build an animation of a trapezoid inscribed in a circle that ...
Today I learned that cyclic quadrilaterals have supplementary opposite angles. A cyclic quadrilateral — a quadrilateral whose four vertices all lie on a single circle — has supplementary opposite angles. This means that opposite angles add to 180 degrees, or ...
I'm still iterating on my experimental Claude Code verification harness, prove_it. This week my focus has been on nudging agents to practice test-driven development. Traditionally, we called this "TDD", but which has recently been renamed to "red-green TDD" as it ...
Claude's electron app for macOS is such a buggy mess that I've uninstalled it and sequestered it to a Safari tab, just like I did to Slack, Discord, etc., six years ago. ChatGPT is a native app where things like ...
I've been thoroughly enjoying my time in Pokopia but it wasn't til the end game when I started taking a look at all the switch mechanics. One of the coolest switches is the Laser Sensor which allows y...
I just realized that information overload provides an invisibility cloak. The more that is happening in the world, and the more significant those things are, the less time people will have to be outraged about any particular thing. This is ...
Monorepos -- you've heard the talks, you've read the blog posts, maybe you've seen a few tantalizing glimpses into how Google or Meta organize their massive codebases. But it's often in the abstract and behind closed doors. What if you ...
I'll admit, it's hard not to get frustrated by all the posts about coding agents going viral lately that are saying the same shit I've been blogging and podcasting for multiple years at this point with little to no fanfare. ...
I mean… it’s not really, of course. I just thought such a thing would start to trickle out to people’s minds as agentic workflows start to take hold. AI agents are already up in your codebase fingerbanging whole batches of ...
Today I learned how to inspect a lazy import object in Python 3.15. Python 3.15 comes with lazy imports and today I played with them for a minute. I defined the following module mod.py: print("Hey!") def f(): return "Bye!" Then, ...
Searching for the next "claw", Booklore goes nuclear, and sourdough starters
I believe operations that change things should always return values.
Lately on X I have noticed a trend of posts that I imagine are probably the natural response to 'LinkedIn-brain' posts, which might be the result of the poor job market right now: "If hard work paid off, the donkey ...
Some jokes write themselves. In our case, the electrician wrote it. Let me give you a little context. Summers in Bucharest can get brutally hot, and when it gets that hot, your brain simply stops functioning. So on weekends, I ...
Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, ...
GPT 4.1? In 2026? Is the State Department on a budget? Is every diplomatic cable just going to have 300 space-delimited emdashes now? https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2026/03/state-offloads-claude-underpinning-model-flagship-statechat/412022/
Jerod Santo: After 13 years, 1042 podcasts, 452 newsletters, and countless friends made along the way… it’s time to say goodbye to The Changelog. I shipped my final News last Monday and Adam shipped our Friends finale yesterday. Huge congrats ...
While most people see PostgreSQL as a simple database, like MariaDB or CLickHouse, it has in fact evolved into a "data kernel", managing how data is stored and queried, in
In this post we're going to discuss the best house in Pokopia for housing your Pokemon early to late game. What are Houses? Pokemon houses give them a place to live. This is important to improve thei...
I recently decided to move to a terminal-based workflow and here I'm going to share a bit about why I decided to make that choice and what my current setup looks like. Why Linux? TL;DR - Windows is c...
A 3D gaussian splat viewer that works in your terminal.
This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it ...
Coiled Springs and Jell-O/images/blog/coiled-springs-and-jello/coiled-springs-and-jello-header.webp/images/blog/coiled-springs-and-jello/coiled-springs-and-jello-header.webp I think I just figured out why things might be so bad in the United States and maybe elsewhere as well. > Since 1972, despit...
The Specialization Illusion — iceberg showing specialized tasks above water and general intelligence below/images/sota-models-over-custom-ones-header.webp/images/sota-models-over-custom-ones-header.webp I've never been a big believer in training custom models. I've also never believed in fine-tu...
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The Culture Series: A Complete Guide to Glanding/images/blog/the-culture-series-complete-guide-to-glanding/header.webp/images/blog/the-culture-series-complete-guide-to-glanding/header.webp In Iain M. Banks' Culture serieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series, citizens have a genetically eng...
Should we call mistakes made by humans slop?
I've just run / cut / smash / glide / surf my way through Pokopia and wanted to give an overview of where my town ended up as well as provide some tips I wish I'd known coming in. If ...