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Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes are finally GA(opens in new tab)
After several years of development, User Namespaces support in Kubernetes reached General Availability (GA) with the v1.36 release. This is a Linux-only feature. For those of us working on low level container runtimes and rootless technologies, this has been a ...
Day 2: Your Images Are a Supply Chain - and It's Probably Broken(opens in new tab)
Why prediction markets are a sure sign that our civilisation is in decay(opens in new tab)
Prediction markets are the clearest single sign our civilisation has entered a late and decadent stage. The reason isn't that they're new or sinister. It's that the case for them is defensible, the technology works, the outputs are useful, but ...
It’s a lot to process(opens in new tab)
… everything. I need to know less, but I know more. Trying to cultivate a life which allows me to know less while still participating in society requires me to...
What I did on Parental Leave(opens in new tab)
I get this question a lot so wanted to summarize what I've been up to all in one place. In 2026.01 I started my 16 week parental leave for my first born. Here's what I did. Parenting First and foremos...
I released a song for the first time in 15 years(opens in new tab)
Everyone should make music in some shape or form. You don’t even have to be very good at it.
Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators(opens in new tab)
SELinux Volume Label Changes goes GA (and likely implications in v1.37)(opens in new tab)
If you run Kubernetes on Linux with SELinux in enforcing mode, plan ahead: a future release (anticipated to be v1.37) is expected to turn the SELinuxMount feature gate on by default. This makes volume setup faster for most workloads, but ...
Day 1: What Actually Happens When You Type docker run(opens in new tab)
Containers aren't VMs. They're Linux processes. A Docker Captain explains namespaces, cgroups, and how Docker really works on your Mac in 2026.
Coding is a Meta-Task(opens in new tab)
Coding is a Meta-Task/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp I think a lot of people are confused about modern AI models being mostly "coding models", and thinking that because of this they're not good for other types of work. I think that's th...
Cryptographic Right Answers: Post-Quantum Edition(opens in new tab)
There recently has been a lot of noise about quantum computing breakthroughs recently after Google's articles Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear and Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum
Collaborative Editing as Progressive Enhancement(opens in new tab)
Why High-Level Rust Wins Over Other High-Level Languages for Agentic Engineering(opens in new tab)
For the past couple months I've been writing High-Level Rust which gives ~80% of its benefits with ~20% of its pain. One of the biggest pieces of feedback I've gotten is why not just use a high-level ...
Kubernetes v1.36: ハル (Haru)(opens in new tab)
Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development ...
What you can do in a decade(opens in new tab)
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Compare AI Coding Agents and Terminals on Terminal Trove(opens in new tab)
Added AI coding agents, more terminals, terminal bench benchmarks and new comparison tables on Terminal Trove.
hzfind(opens in new tab)
A CLI/TUI to find the best Hetzner Server Auction deals.
Blood in the datacenter(opens in new tab)
Mechanical Keyboards for Disabilities and Accessibility(opens in new tab)
10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat(opens in new tab)
The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, ...
Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes SIG Network community presents the release of Gateway API (v1.5)! Released on February 27, 2026, version 1.5 is our biggest release yet, and concentrates on moving existing Experimental features to Standard (Stable). The Gateway API v1.5.1 patch release ...
Celebrating computers at Omacon(opens in new tab)
#477: Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke See the full show notes for this ...
GOOSE IT UP(opens in new tab)
I’m in school1 again. I’m going back to school because my work, my entire career, for my entire adult life, has been writing things for the Internet. That’s going away,...
Build yourself flowers(opens in new tab)
This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded ...
Weak vs. Strong AI Rollouts(opens in new tab)
Weak vs Strong AI Rollouts diagram/images/weak-vs-strong-ai-rollouts.webp/images/weak-vs-strong-ai-rollouts.webp I get to see and help with a lot of Anterprise AI rollouts. Some are brilliant, but most even in 2026 are surprisingly bad. I've been thinking about and trying to summarize what I ...
Dice rolling and more on Minimal Character Sheet(opens in new tab)
AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires(opens in new tab)
AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires/images/blog/the-fire-of-fires/header.webp Added to my reminders this week: - Cancel Zapier - Cancel Resend - Cancel Figma - Cancel Canva - Cancel Browserbase - Cancel Supabase Recreated all this in my own PAI harness ...
Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
Jensen vs. Dwarkesh on China Chips(opens in new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrbq66XqtCo Dwarkesh Patel talked to Jensen Huang in this videohttps://youtu.be/Hrbq66XqtCo, and I wanted to make a couple of points about it. I take Jensen's point about not wanting to give up a tech stack to a competing country — wanting ...
OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs(opens in new tab)
The OWASP Top 10 just got a fresh update, and there are some big changes: supply chain attacks, exceptional condition handling, and more. Tanya Janca is back on Talk Python to walk us through every single one of them. And ...
Mythos is Just the New Normal(opens in new tab)
Mythos is Just the New Normal/images/mythos-is-new-normal.webp/images/mythos-is-new-normal.webp This whole Mythos thing continues to surprise me. Not the model, but the reaction to it. Guys, it's not even a cyber model. It's just the next thing. It's just a model designed to ...
Thriving in a (very) fast-moving world(opens in new tab)
The world is moving fast, very fast, and nothing makes my blood boil faster than someone explaining to me that it has always been done this so that's fine, or
State of the Browser (2026) It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your JavaScript Is?(opens in new tab)
We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant(opens in new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUForkn00mk We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant/images/blog/we-are-all-building-single-digital-assistant/header.webp/images/blog/we-are-all-building-single-digital-assistant/header.webp I want to talk about where I think all this personal AI stuff is going...
How to Solder for Mechanical Keyboards(opens in new tab)
I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation(opens in new tab)
The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’s well-intended; coworkers working through a problem with a chatbot before bothering ...
The malleable computer(opens in new tab)
A Roadmap for Building an Extended Standard Library for Rust(opens in new tab)
Supply Chain attacks are all the rage these days, with many high-profile attacks that were carried against the Python ecosystem (with litellm), JavaScript (with axios) and WordPress in the last
Why Rust Wins in the Age of AI(opens in new tab)
For the past several months I've been searching for the Missing Programming Language - a language with a good balance of types, performance, ecosystem, and agentic AI performance. I've landed on a spe...
netwatch(opens in new tab)
Real time network diagnostics in your terminal.
Good and Bad Harness Engineering(opens in new tab)
Good and Bad Harness Engineering/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp There are lots of ways to do Harness Engineering well and poorly, but the most important one comes down to whether...
Design and Engineering, As One(opens in new tab)
In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and ...
Enter Grimdaniel(opens in new tab)
Why, where, and how I created a new app to be my new home of fiction writing.
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break(opens in new tab)
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s ...
Foundations for discussion(opens in new tab)
From an aside of a much longer essay from Tom Forth:
It's Time for Full Activation(opens in new tab)
It's Time for Full Activation/images/blog/its-time-for-full-activation/header.webp/images/blog/its-time-for-full-activation/header.webp I've been experiencing a feeling lately that's massive and hard to pin down. But here goes. If you remember my piece on Constraints on Creativity/blog/our-constr...
✉️ Content Hiatus(opens in new tab)
I've decided to go on a content hiatus. This will be my last dispatch for a while. I don't know how long I'll be gone. Why? Because I've been posting to an anonymous audience on the Internet almost every day ...
