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TIL: Checkov's Gun(opens in new tab)
A powerful technique used in storytelling.
Clause and Effect(opens in new tab)
Wait, you can have multiple function clauses with the same name in Elixir? Let's explore how multi-clause functions, arity, and guard expressions can replace nested conditionals, and why this even matters.
Shortcuts(opens in new tab)
These thoughts were drafted during a night, a few months ago. I didnāt want to publish them then because they felt like an emotional take on something that still seemed remote. Today, I found the notes again and realized they ...
š„ Barely a month goes by where I can check theā¦(opens in new tab)
Barely a month goes by where I can check the news without being reminded of the Cracked skit about two comedy writers who were hired to run a fake Donald Trump campaign and then accidentally got him elected https://youtu.be/8qIQbydyHwc?si=COq7K0HLng3LHI1R
WeissKlang L1 ā Punching Above Its Weight(opens in new tab)
In November 1928, Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann founded Georg Neumann & Co. in a Berlin workshop and by the end of that year, Neumann had debuted the CMV 3, the first mass-produced condenser microphone. The CMV designation stood for ...
šļø Breaking Change podcast v52.0.1 - Len Testa: Bring back the Starcruiser(opens in new tab)
Today, we're joined by a very special guest, Len Testa! You might know him from The Disney Dish podcast or from his excellent theme park travel planning app Touring Plans. Or you might not know him at all! No wrong ...
š„ For the extremely narrow Venn diagram of peopleā¦(opens in new tab)
For the extremely narrow Venn diagram of people who love both I Think You Should Leave and Disco Elysium, this is amazing https://youtu.be/6OKgdTXLWIg?si=RyS95BqxFBSEVwyQ
š„ If Nothing releases a folding phone, they shouldā¦(opens in new tab)
If Nothing releases a folding phone, they should absolutely name it the Nothing Burger https://www.pcmag.com/news/hands-on-nothing-4a-series-midrange-phones
Why I Still Blog ā and Why the Future of Blogging Is Connected(opens in new tab)
Iāve been online twenty years, and blogging for ten of them. This is the story and lessons learned of blogging online for a decade. It goes beyond blogging topics and includes note-taking (workflow), how to write well as well as ...
Catching up with the Python Typing Council(opens in new tab)
You're adding type hints to your Python code, your editor is happy, autocomplete is working great. But then you switch tools and suddenly there are red squiggles everywhere. Who decides what a float annotation actually means? Or whether passing None ...
Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026) (opens in new tab)
Viral cheeseburgers, microslop, and a new place to run DOOM
New Member Perk: Newsletter Insights (opens in new tab)
A few new goodies for paid Self-Host Weekly subscribers
Eleventy is now Build Awesome(opens in new tab)
Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew, oh my(opens in new tab)
I combined some fun CSS techniques to make a little diving board drawing!
How to use Vim in Claude Code(opens in new tab)
I've been using Claude Code daily in my agentic engineering workflows and have recently moved to a Linux-based, terminal-first computer setup to better manage my multiple agents across various project...
The Agentic Hacking Era: Ramblings and a Tool(opens in new tab)
A few weeks ago I wrote about how AI is going to impact bug bounty. That post was mostly predictions. This one is about whatās actually happening right now.
I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry(opens in new tab)
I am writing to you in a moment of intense grief-induced burnout.
The blog looks different now(opens in new tab)
Itās 2026, and my interest in writing was at a new all-time low. Naturally, instead of actually writing, I did what any self-respecting developer does: I spent a week migrating the entire blog from the venerable Jekyll to Hugo. Does ...
I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years(opens in new tab)
š„ Dear prospective sponsors, You can't pay me toā¦(opens in new tab)
Dear prospective sponsors, You can't pay me to say nice things about you, but you CAN pay me to not say mean things about you. Please send inquiries to [email protected] https://www.theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032
š„ You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admitā¦(opens in new tab)
You know, a lot of lefties are loathe to admit that the oil companies have been working hard to abolish ICE since before most of them were born
Socialize the Plan(opens in new tab)
On AI and code review.
Top Terminal Tools(opens in new tab)
The tools I use in my day-to-day coding efforts in early 2026.
Using Rust and Postgres for everything: patterns learned over the years(opens in new tab)
I love simple, boring and reliable tools. In the software world, the two best are without a doubt Rust and PostgreSQL. One example: a backend service I'm working on processes
š„ "$599 is a fucking statement."ā¦(opens in new tab)
"$599 is a fucking statement." https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo
š„ A lot of people were confused by Trump'sā¦(opens in new tab)
A lot of people were confused by Trump's immediate embrace of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, but it makes a lot more sense when you consider that he thinks they spell it "Golf"
Embrace the uncertainty(opens in new tab)
Nobody knows what the future of software engineering looks like, and that's incredibly uncomfortable. But instead of waiting for someone to hand us the answer, I think the move is to embrace the uncertainty, because these moments of deep uncertainty ...
Terminal Trove Feburary 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in Feburary 2026.
Why I'm moving from C# to Rust for High-level Apps(opens in new tab)
I recently shared some performance benchmarks of moving my blog from C# to Rust - Rust came out to be 4x faster and use 4x less memory. I've since gotten several questions about why I'm choosing Rust...
msgvault(opens in new tab)
Archive a lifetime of email with analytics and search in milliseconds, entirely offline.
Antidote(opens in new tab)
If you love building things, and the process of building is just as important to you as the result itself, itās not unreasonable that youāre in a slump these days. The world is telling you that your thinking process is ...
Git for Data Applied: Comparing Git-like Tools That Separate Metadata from Data(opens in new tab)
Continuing from Part 1, where we learned what git for data is, how the architecture and use cases work, how you can achieve git-like functionality with different approaches, and how the key is to avoid moving data as much as ...
š„ Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but ifā¦(opens in new tab)
Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees. Entire system becomes unresponsive eventually. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543
Big W at the Branson Midwest Manufacturer's Trade Show(opens in new tab)
February 23-25 2026, Big W Engineering Solutions partnered with T&O Group, Tessere, J.E. Dunn, Platinum Roofing and Larsen Consulting to exhibit in booths 88-89 at the Missouri Association of Manufacturers (MAM) Midwest Manufacturer's Trade Show and Conference in Branson.
Claude is an Electron App because weāve lost native(opens in new tab)
Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs canāt do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
How to make your first contribution to an open source project(opens in new tab)
Getting involved in open source doesn't have to be scary! Understand how to find a great project and make your first contribution in this guide.
Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering(opens in new tab)
Claude Code as member of the engineering team(opens in new tab)
I made the experiment: Claude Code as a full engineer on GitLab, as part of the development team for a mini game. I create tickets and review merge requests, while Claude Code submits code as merge requests and iterates on ...
Finale & Friends (Changelog & Friends #129)(opens in new tab)
Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs!
State of WASI support for CPython: March 2026(opens in new tab)
It's been a while since I posted about WASI support in CPython! š Up until now, most of the work I have been doing around WASI has been making its maintenance easier for me and other core developers. For instance, ...
š„ The M4 iPad Air is notable, because it will setā¦(opens in new tab)
The M4 iPad Air is notable, because it will set Apple apart as the only company to release a product in 2026 sporting more RAM for the same price as the outgoing model. (8GB to 12GB) https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/02/apple-announces-ipad-air-with-m4-chip/
#471: The ORM pattern of 2026?(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026? pytest-check releases Dataclass Wizard SQLiteo - ānative macOS SQLite browser built for normal peopleā Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/471
šļø Breaking Change podcast v52 - Skynet any%(opens in new tab)
Sure feels like some combination of AI, the US military, and the AI military could bring an end to the world any day now, so I figured I'd better record one last show for posterity. Welcome me on this version's ...
Edās Software, in a Time of Fear(opens in new tab)
I enjoyed this essay from my friend Ed Lyons, which I think speaks well to my particular state of mind as someone who has been in this industry for 30+ years, a parent, a people leader, a builder.
What I miss about London(opens in new tab)
Thoughts about things I really enjoyed during the approximately two years we lived in London.
2026.02 - Release Notes(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - In 2026.02, I built an AI orchestrator, launched CloudSeed Rust, moved to a terminal-focused dev workflow, wrote several posts, stuck to my exercise routines, and generally led a very balanced...
Python in Digital Humanities(opens in new tab)
Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today Iām talking with David Flood from Harvardās DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What ...
The Great Transition(opens in new tab)
https://youtu.be/6pP8x8sXoaM The Great Transitionāmultiple streams converging/images/the-great-transition.webp/images/the-great-transition.webp I'm going to try to encapsulate a whole bunch of stuff that's going on right now and wrap it into a single container. It's actually very difficult to do ...
š„ Was always so inspired by that speech where JFKā¦(opens in new tab)
Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions