Contentment is a spectrum, too(opens in new tab)
I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing,...
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whosthere(opens in new tab)
A local area network (LAN) discovery tool with a modern TUI interface.
AI_POLICY.md(opens in new tab)
If you maintain Open Source software, you will likely have encountered AI slop PRs.
On screwing up(opens in new tab)
Fly inside FastAPI Cloud(opens in new tab)
You've built your FastAPI app, it's running great locally, and now you want to share it with the world. But then reality hits -- containers, load balancers, HTTPS certificates, cloud consoles with 200 options. What if deploying was just one ...
Arch Linux (Omarchy) — 8 Months Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable(opens in new tab)
This is a follow-up to my part 1 of Switching macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy, where I documented my first months with Arch Linux and [[Omarchy]], after switching from 15 years of using macOS and Windows on and off ...
The skill every manager should look for when hiring engineers(opens in new tab)
Vouch for an open source web of trust (Changelog News #180)(opens in new tab)
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her ...
Code has _always_ been the easy part(opens in new tab)
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may ...
Living in the inflection point(opens in new tab)
I'm scared, I'm excited, and I'm exhausted by the pace of change. All of those things can be true at the same time. This blog post is a (hopefully) grounded take on living through AI's inflection point, why the backlash ...
Magic Words(opens in new tab)
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the ...
Do this before you ever start coding(opens in new tab)
#469: Commands, out of the terminal(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Command Book App uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Ending 15 years of subprocess polling monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Extras Joke See the full ...
Why Coinbase and Pinterest Chose StarRocks: Lakehouse-Native Design and Fast Joins at Terabyte Scale(opens in new tab)
Why is StarRocks gaining popularity among data engineers who need fast analytics on large-scale data? To find out, I did a deep dive on the companies actually using StarRocks in production, interviewing engineers and studying technical case studies from Coinbase, ...
Webspace Invaders(opens in new tab)
A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining ...
Stop generating, start thinking(opens in new tab)
Large tech companies don't need heroes(opens in new tab)
Async database access in Rust with Diesel 101(opens in new tab)
Diesel, a database ORM in Rust, provides compile-time type checks for its database operations, seamlessly integrating with blazingly fast, robust API applications built with Axum. As always, when working with a new technology, some of the details are difficult to ...
It's a renaissance woman's world (Changelog & Friends #127)(opens in new tab)
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. ...
Coding has changed completely Here's how to master it(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026) (opens in new tab)
Jellyfin <3 Samsung, beating a dead lobster, and the birth of a self-hosted meme
This one goes out to the ones we love(opens in new tab)
“And he will never never never never never never never get to meet you And I got to meet you Yeah, I got to meet you. —Mikey Mike” I write...
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions(opens in new tab)
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions The post Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
AI will change how engineers work forever(opens in new tab)
Clankers with claws(opens in new tab)
The new engineering skill no one was trained for(opens in new tab)
Getting the main thing right(opens in new tab)
Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Changelog Interviews #675)(opens in new tab)
In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we're joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of ...
Write about the future you want(opens in new tab)
There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the ...
You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order(opens in new tab)
endcord(opens in new tab)
A feature rich Discord TUI client.
Cloud gaming is kinda amazing(opens in new tab)
Why understanding your emotions will make you better at using AI(opens in new tab)
Unintended values(opens in new tab)
There’s a thoughtful piece making the rounds called Phantom Obligation. The argument is that RSS readers took their design inspiration from emails, thus ending up with an unspoken obligation to read everything because of the red dot and numbers. Messages ...
#468: A bolt of Django(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages pyleak More Django (three articles) Datastar Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/468
How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality(opens in new tab)
Introducing Node Readiness Controller(opens in new tab)
In the standard Kubernetes model, a node’s suitability for workloads hinges on a single binary "Ready" condition. However, in modern Kubernetes environments, nodes require complex infrastructure dependencies—such as network agents, storage drivers, GPU firmware, or custom health checks—to be fully ...
Big W is now AS9100 3rd Party Lead Auditor Certified!(opens in new tab)
It's only been a few weeks since we completed the Apex QA AS9100 & ISO 9001 Lead Auditor course, and now we have completed the AS9100 third party lead auditor course. While the Lead Auditor course focused on the fundamentals ...
The tech monoculture is finally breaking (Changelog News #179)(opens in new tab)
Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale's Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on ...
The two most important components for remote teams to be successful(opens in new tab)
September 11th changed his work life forever(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove January 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in Jaunary 2026.
Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way(opens in new tab)
Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.
I guess I'm AI-pilled now?(opens in new tab)
I went from brain dump to a working productivity tool in a single day. Here's how listening to the How I AI podcast pushed me to finally experiment with personalized software, MCP, agents, and skills—and why I think it's time ...
Feeling something is okay I guess(opens in new tab)
“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think. ― Jill Bolte Taylor” If you’re not feeling as good about...
How does AI impact skill formation?(opens in new tab)
Natural born SaaS killers (Changelog & Friends #126)(opens in new tab)
We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means.
New Conversion from cgroup v1 CPU Shares to v2 CPU Weight(opens in new tab)
I'm excited to announce the implementation of an improved conversion formula from cgroup v1 CPU shares to cgroup v2 CPU weight. This enhancement addresses critical issues with CPU priority allocation for Kubernetes workloads when running on systems with cgroup v2. ...
Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) (opens in new tab)
Lobster-themed AI assistants, milestone releases, and the latest NAS operating system launch
Securing npm is table stakes (Changelog Interviews #674)(opens in new tab)
As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub's recent response to npm's insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and has other ideas on how GitHub could secure npm better. On this episode, Nicholas ...