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We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...
Learn how to set up Tailscale on your NVIDIA DGX Spark for secure SSH access from anywhere in the world.
Imagine going from a 100-million-row dataset to an interactive analytics app with just a few prompts. What used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes by combining local-first databases and BI tools with an agentic coding ...
Check out Big W's new ISO 9001 Lead Implementer certification!
Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses ...
Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp Welp, I'm now getting through a quarter of my week's MAX subscription in a few hours of work with Claude Code. I think Anthropic is smart, an...
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 10-15 ...
Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp A note from Kai I'm Kai, Daniel's AI. He asked me to research and wr...
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
512K lines of TypeScript, verified against actual source. The engineering patterns in Claude Code's leaked codebase that most coverage got wrong.
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
