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Last Thursday Honeycomb was kind enough to hand me the closing keynote slot at O11yCon, a conference whose entire premise is that observability matters and the people in the room are the ones who would know. I used that slot ...
STATUS: Refusing to do chores todayTODO: Anything but choresREADING: "Five Decembers" by James KestrelLISTENING: "Fair Warning" - Van HalenI cleaned and sanded the entire deck yesterday and now my back and knees are yelling at me. Today might be a ...
Today's links Hold on for dear life: Not your keys, not your wallet, entirely your problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Who owns "Web 2.0"; EFF saves bloggers' sources; Non-porn porn; Redaction fails; Canadian Tories say ...
One of my core beliefs is that a great amount of humanity's miseries have their roots in people and organizations refusing to adapt to an ever-changing world. The evolution of
A tmux dashboard for running many Claude Code agents at once — it shows which one needs you, sorted by urgency, so you stop polling and start responding.
Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all the outward signs of having written code, but none of the ...
sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It includes: SQLite does not accept pull requests ...
When I play Subnautica 2, I often feel as though I am swimming in two worlds simultaneously. On the one hand, there's the world that goes on without me, the world of wonky indigenous beings living out their lives, careless ...
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is because OpenAI and Anthropic ...
While Mark’s off doing the actual review and/or agonising over watch straps, I’ve spent my time with 007 First Light slowly moving a laser beam up between its legs, demanding it reveal its PC performance secrets. Which it did immediately ...
Mine did. Like this: I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could add ...
Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, ::first-word and ::first-line. Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
Today's links AI and a world without migrants: It's solipsism all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Manuscript rabbits; "What Will Come After"; Pastejacking; Terrorism phrenology; Vaccine waivers were promised 20 years ago. Upcoming ...
Use monorepos My very unscientific analysis of the Rust ecosytem has come to the conclusion that Rust developers are wasting way too much time managing packages and dependencies. Whoever has
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of tokenization, prefill, KV cache, decode, batching, TTFT, and why memory bandwidth shapes local LLM performance on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
For the past few weeks I've been using Claude Code from my phone and while it's not a 100% replacement for something like OpenClaw I've found it covers 80% of what I want without too many glaring secu...
Ok, so you have something with a battery, and you want it to run for a long time. I'll be using the classic CR2023 non-rechargeable lithium "coin cell" as an example, but everything here applies to other types of battery. ...
A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit.
A small elite stands on an elevated platform under cold purple light while a vast crowd in warm sienna looks up from below/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp/images/ai-jobs-tiny-sliver.webp I think people are missing the point on the whole AI Jobs-Pocalypse. Yes, it will also create ...
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the ...
Take a look at a scandal where an online hero spent $500 buying spark plugs online, and discovered 1/3 were fake.
Documenting the typical schedule of my daughter in 2026.
This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading. Technical Writing in the AI Age originally handwritten and published with ...
Today's links The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble: No one had to force-feed the web to workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Website graveyard; Anti-librarian witch-hunt; Denmark v Marmite; The unnecessariat. Upcoming appearances: London, ...
“If your job doesn’t require you to burn tokens, then probably ignore MWG and, by extensions, LLM for code. In case the environmental damage, intellectual property theft, wealth redistribution to the rich, encoded biases, and built-in support of fascism weren’t ...
I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on ...
I have read the “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” by Charlie Munger and thought about what it would take to write one for Dagster. A complete guide with all the insights, tips, and some predictions for the data platform engineer, just like ...
This series interviews (see #1 with Mark Freeman) real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time ...
In my last post I used the word “clanker1” as an alternative to “agent” quite consistently and probably excessively. That choice ended up attracting a lot more attention than I expected in the Hacker News comment section of that post ...
Your documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit are back on Talk Python with a brand new Python documentation ...
Every view-transition-name on a page must be unique. The problem is that every pseudo-element selector in your CSS targets a specific name, so your animation styles explode into an unmanageable wall of selectors. Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of ...
How kube-proxy turns Kubernetes Services into kernel rules. iptables, IPVS, nftables packet paths and which to pick in 2026. Verified against k/k 1.36 source.
Today's links No honor among (ad-tech) thieves: Including "and" and "the." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Budweiser nunchuks; GOP vote-suppressor voted illegally; Airbnb enshittifies; Oculus enshittifies; Nintendo copyfrauds its fans; Meritocracy to eugenics pipeline; Ultima Online ...
Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support ...
