I tracked everything I wore in 2025. Was it worth it?(opens in new tab)
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The subtle peer pressure of working in public(opens in new tab)
How to go from starting things to finishing things.
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 ...
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 ...
I redesigned my website (again)(opens in new tab)
The Shirt is at the heart of what this website redesign became.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/533
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.
Things I did in 2025 that have nothing to do with the internet(opens in new tab)
What I did Did not buy any new clothing, save for DIY band merch. (I love fashion, and I did shop! I just only shopped vintage. It made it a really fun adventure, it turned every desire from a whim ...
The First Real Pause(opens in new tab)
The first week in about 21 years without a job. Unfamiliar territory but oddly freeing.
Virt-install a Ubuntu VM from the terminal(opens in new tab)
In recent releases of Ubuntu, the installation experience has changed significantly. Starting with Ubuntu 24.04, the default server ISO uses the new Subiquity-based live installer, and the traditional text-based “mini.iso” workflow is no longer provided in the same way.
To be defeated by ever greater things(opens in new tab)
For the new year, a resolution“How small that is, with which we wrestle, what wrestles with us, how immense; were we to let ourselves, the way things do, be conquered...
From Web to Native: Building Apps with SvelteKit & Capacitor(opens in new tab)
A step-by-step tutorial on integrating CapacitorJS with SvelteKit. Convert your website into an Android/iOS app.
January 2026(opens in new tab)
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #43(opens in new tab)
A Website To Destroy All Websites(opens in new tab)
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online A website to destroy all websites. How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the Web We Want. Captive Pegasus, Odilon Redon (1889) A tiny ...
Terminal Trove December 2025 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in December 2025.
This is not a 2025 wrap up post(opens in new tab)
I won't be talking about anything that happened.
My favorite reads of 2025(opens in new tab)
2025: my year in review(opens in new tab)
Toodles, 2025(opens in new tab)
2025 is over! Let's recap.
dotstate(opens in new tab)
A modern, secure, and user-friendly dotfile manager.
2025: Year Review(opens in new tab)
I had focused on tech on this reviews. I would keep it same this year, I might write a separate non-tech, a human yearly review on my separate blog. Gist I move
2025 Python Year in Review(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/532
Shipping at Inference-Speed(opens in new tab)
Why I stopped reading code and started watching it stream by.
Wrapping up Blogvent 2025(opens in new tab)
Don't be sad that Blogvent is over, be happy that Blogvent happened. Here's all the posts I wrote in December 2025!
sqlit(opens in new tab)
A user friendly TUI for SQL databases.
Happy Holidays from Big W Engineering Solutions(opens in new tab)
As we officially close out 2025, I’m yet again thankful for all the connections I’ve been able to make over the last 3 months, and very optimistic about 2026. Big W is now AS9100 & ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certified ...
Making the "End of Year Developer" nature documentary(opens in new tab)
The creation of an unflinching look at the survival period of "working" during the holidays.
#463: 2025 is @wrapped(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? More on Deprecation Warnings How FOSS Won and Why It Matters Should I be looking for a GitHub alternative? Extras Joke See the full show notes ...
To sigh a deep sigh of releasing(opens in new tab)
Today has felt like a deep, deep exhalation, an enormous, slow, long sigh of relief and releasing. Fitting, perhaps, that it is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year....
CSS for markdown blockquote attribution(opens in new tab)
When you generate an HTML blockquote from markdown, your resulting HTML needs some styling love.
2025 in review(opens in new tab)
Jeune fille lisant une lettre à la bougie, Jean-Baptiste Santerre, 1700 Machine learning engineers spend their lives alternating between two states: staring at tqdm progress bars during model training and staring at error logs during model inference. A third category ...
Representing groups in ATProto(opens in new tab)
I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means ...
I like when apps are "finished"(opens in new tab)
Sometimes the software we see out there doesn't need to be further updated. Sometimes it's just good enough!
Representing groups in ATProto(opens in new tab)
I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means ...