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Let's Fucking Encrypt Everything(opens in new tab)
A few years ago, I received a letter in the mail addressed to my then-toddler. It was from a company I had never heard of. Apparently, there had been a
Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше(opens in new tab)
The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Changelog & Friends #123)(opens in new tab)
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the ...
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do(opens in new tab)
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do The post I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
Towards safe and modern cryptography: state of the Rust ecosystem in 2026(opens in new tab)
37.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are memory safety issues, while only 27.2% are cryptographic issues, according to an empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries (Jenny Blessing, Michael A.
snitch(opens in new tab)
A TUI for inspecting network connections, like netstat for humans.
AI Has an Image Problem(opens in new tab)
I spent 2025 going from skeptical to genuinely excited about AI tools. My non-tech friends and family spent 2025 learning to hate them. The AI industry has fumbled this introduction so badly that we've turned a useful set of tools ...
Building a 16x16 Spaced Handwired Mechanical Keyboard(opens in new tab)
A Diary of a Data Engineer(opens in new tab)
You ingest data. You model it. You transform it. You serve it. Someone asks for a change. Everything breaks. You rebuild. This is the loop. It was the loop in 2005 with SSIS and star schemas. It’s the loop in ...
diskcache: Your secret Python perf weapon(opens in new tab)
Your cloud SSD is sitting there, bored, and it would like a job. Today we’re putting it to work with DiskCache, a simple, practical cache built on SQLite that can speed things up without spinning up Redis or extra services. ...
Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (Changelog News #176)(opens in new tab)
Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design ...
#465: Stack Overflow is Cooked(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: port-killer How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster CodSpeed Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/465
ChaCha12-BLAKE3 is now ChaCha20-BLAKE3 and is stable and production-ready(opens in new tab)
chacha12-blake3 is now chacha20-blake3 ChaCha12 vs ChaCha20 I spent a lot of time studying the ChaCha stream cipher (and its parent, Salsa) to be able to say with high confidence
Eleventy, 2025 in Review(opens in new tab)
Big W Engineering Values - Partnership and Mission Success at the Beach(opens in new tab)
Taking a vacation to the beach 3 months after starting a business is probably not something you'll find in any entrepreneurial self-help book. The best entrepreneurs, however, will remind you to never lose focus on your true north star. Partnership ...
Words I Live By(opens in new tab)
Over 10 years ago, I put together a self “liturgy” of sorts (basically just a prayer) that I love reading. It takes a bunch of my favorite verses but changes them to the first-person perspective. There’s something about first person ...
Focus rings with nested contrast-color()?(opens in new tab)
As I was playing around with contrast-color(), I got a wild idea that you could use contrast-color() to invert its return value by nesting it: contrast-color(contrast-color(var(--some-color)). When would this be useful? Uh… Good question. I couldn’t come up with an ...
I tracked everything I wore in 2025. Was it worth it?(opens in new tab)
Habit-tracking can feel useful and insightful. But how does it help us, really?
A career chat with students in the age of AI(opens in new tab)
I spoke with students at Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College about tech careers, AI, and networking.
Good AI, Bad AI - the experiment(opens in new tab)
If you are in tech, or possibly even if you aren’t, your social feeds are likely awash with AI. Most developers seem to be either all-in or passionately opposed to AI (with a leaning towards the all-in camp). Personally I ...
I redesigned my website (again)(opens in new tab)
The Shirt is at the heart of what this website redesign became.
Kubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc(opens in new tab)
Did you know that kubectl can run arbitrary executables, including shell scripts, with the full privileges of the invoking user, and without your knowledge? Whenever you download or auto-generate a kubeconfig, the users[n].exec.command field can specify an executable to fetch ...
2025 in review(opens in new tab)
2025 was my year of doing ALL the things - speaking at 5+ conferences, starting a podcast, shipping side projects, and somehow not completely burning out. I learned that momentum creates more momentum, perfectionism is overrated, and seeing people in ...
Interpolate contrast-color() to manipulate lightness(opens in new tab)
In my first post on contrast-color() I demo’d using color-mix() to change a background-color on hover, but I will be honest… mixing black and white isn’t always what you want. It would be cool and helpful to coerce contrast-color() to ...
Self-Host Weekly (9 January 2026) (opens in new tab)
Peer-to-peer chaos, German translations, and mild takes from ski patrollers
So, you want to serialize a B-Tree (to save it to disk or send it over the network)?(opens in new tab)
Most programming language haves built-in data structures such as Hash Maps and B-tree for in-memory processing, but what about serializing these data structures to save on disk or send over
Using your design system colors with contrast-color()(opens in new tab)
One predictable pain point with contrast-color() is that it only returns black and white named colors. From a design systems perspective, that’s not ideal because you want your colors. You want your harmonious brand and the colors you and your ...
AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate(opens in new tab)
[Last Week in AWS] AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate The post AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
Kubernetes v1.35: Mutable PersistentVolume Node Affinity (alpha)(opens in new tab)
The PersistentVolume node affinity API dates back to Kubernetes v1.10. It is widely used to express that volumes may not be equally accessible by all nodes in the cluster. This field was previously immutable, and it is now mutable in ...
Algorithmic hover states with contrast-color()(opens in new tab)
Firefox 146 added support for contrast-color() joining Safari 26 in the First Implementor’s Club. For those unfamiliar, contrast-color() is a new CSS function that will take a as input and returns either white or black depending on which has the ...
Claude Code Addiction is Addiction to Creation(opens in new tab)
The contrast between passive consumption and active creation/images/claude-code-addiction-creation.webp?v=3 I'm starting to hear people talk about Claude Code addiction. gasp First, even if that were true, it would still be an upgrade over Porn, or Netflix, or TikTok. But I don't ...
A data model for Git (and other docs updates)(opens in new tab)
From GitLab to Kilo Code (Changelog Interviews #672)(opens in new tab)
We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey ...
Kubernetes v1.35: A Better Way to Pass Service Account Tokens to CSI Drivers(opens in new tab)
If you maintain a CSI driver that uses service account tokens, Kubernetes v1.35 brings a refinement you'll want to know about. Since the introduction of the TokenRequests feature, service account tokens requested by CSI drivers have been passed to them ...
Everything I've Said About AI Since 2016: A Retrospective(opens in new tab)
AI Predictions Retrospective/images/ai-predictions-retrospective.webp I've been thinking and writing about AI for exactly a decade now/blog/the-real-internet-of-things, and last week someone claimed I said two things in 2023 that I don't think I said. 1. That we'd have AGI in 6 months, ...
Promoting AI agents(opens in new tab)
The first thing I did last year was run(opens in new tab)
The first thing I did last year was run | Henry From Online A tiny website by Henry (From Online) which I am publishing in February 2026 for your exclusive reading pleasure :) The first thing I did last year ...
SIMD programming in pure Rust(opens in new tab)
I've recently tasted AMD Zen 5 CPUs (AWS' m8a instances) and... Whooaaa. Even before talking about GPUs and NPUs, the next 5 years of CPUs will be very exciting! For
pacsea(opens in new tab)
Fast TUI for searching, inspecting, and queueing pacman/AUR packages.
Energy Doesn’t Disappear(opens in new tab)
When work doesn’t absorb a developer’s energy, it doesn’t vanish — it gets redirected, or burned off as heat.
The move faster manifesto (Changelog News #175)(opens in new tab)
Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge's multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code, Paul Dix sees a great engineering divergence in 2026, and ...
Kubernetes v1.35: Extended Toleration Operators to Support Numeric Comparisons (Alpha)(opens in new tab)
Many production Kubernetes clusters blend on-demand (higher-SLA) and spot/preemptible (lower-SLA) nodes to optimize costs while maintaining reliability for critical workloads. Platform teams need a safe default that keeps most workloads away from risky capacity, while allowing specific workloads to opt-in ...
AI Changes I Expect in 2026(opens in new tab)
The Foundational Algorithm/images/pai-foundational-algorithm.png/images/pai-foundational-algorithm.png Here are the biggest changes I see coming to AI in 2026. AI becomes Verifiable And when I say "verifiable," I don't mean "trustworthy," which a lot of people confuse and has always been a criti...
Introduction to Obsidian(opens in new tab)
An introduction to Obsidian. Why you should use it, how to keep it simple, and how you can use it.
#464: Malicious Package? No Build For You!(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and LSP Python Supply Chain Security Made Easy typing_extensions MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian Extras Joke See the full show ...
Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators(opens in new tab)
Today on Talk Python, the creators behind FastAPI, Flask, Django, Quart, and Litestar get practical about running apps based on their framework in production. Deployment patterns, async gotchas, servers, scaling, and the stuff you only learn at 2 a.m. when ...
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons(opens in new tab)
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
Favorite Books and Papers of 2025(opens in new tab)
My most memorable and recommended reads.
The First Real Pause(opens in new tab)
The first week in about 21 years without a job. Unfamiliar territory but oddly freeing.