The problem with Rust for backend services(opens in new tab)
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Day 1: The Local LLM Revolution. Why Your Desk Just Became the New Datacenter(opens in new tab)
Why local LLMs are becoming practical in 2026, what changed across open weights, hardware, and inference software, and why DGX Spark makes the desk feel like a small AI lab.
Oh to be a snail feasting on a sycamore // Week 21 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Are these weeknotes again? Yes they are! Is this a fluke or is it a trend? Who knows! Who cares! Let’s do iiiiiittttttt. Current situation: Monday 18 May: Went for...
Add Check Precondition Before Click Arg Parsing as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Cursor just crushed Claude Code(opens in new tab)
Ringing the Bell(opens in new tab)
When I was growing up my parents would ring a bell to call us for dinner. There is a black and white photo of my brother and me circa 1970 standing next to the bell in the backyard of our ...
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for setting up a fan fiction writing group with your fellow RPG dungeon masters. You gather in a nice living room that often reminds visitors of the beloved previous tenants, and you write something. It's of indeterminate quality, ...
A simple clustering algorithm for lists(opens in new tab)
I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!
Personalized Book Recommendations with AI + GoodReads(opens in new tab)
I've been using AI to try and automate / optimize parts of my life from software engineering to exercise and diet. My latest experiment has been to use AI to improve my book recommendations by turning...
Building Pi With Pi(opens in new tab)
Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is still Mario’s project. He has been living with its issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of the new form ...
Could Suddenly-Great Open Source AI Crash the US Economy?(opens in new tab)
A charcoal architectural sketch: a colossal monolithic tower cracked at the base, washed in deep purple, while a horizontal current of small distributed structures in burnt sienna flows beneath the fracture/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-us-economy.webp/images/could-open-source-ai-crash-the-u...
Add Halt ActionMailer Delivery With Callback as a Rails TIL (opens in new tab)
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Ah, it's a Saturday and the start of a heat wave. What to do? What to do? Pull out the plastic storage box and fill it with cold water and ice cubes for a nice chilling foot bath. Get some ...
I had to look it up(opens in new tab)
★ The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts(opens in new tab)
The Supreme Court’s typographic style has been stunningly consistent for — no pun intended — well over a century.
Half-Life: Alyx is convincing me I don't have the knees for VR gaming, or perhaps I should stop cowering behind cars quite so often(opens in new tab)
I know I don't have the best knees. My body informed me of this during a drunken dance-off in a Leeds night club when one of them popped out of place and tore a line through the back of my ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 122(opens in new tab)
I Built a Tool That Makes Supercuts in Seconds(opens in new tab)
Dang, I can't hang with the Wang in Zero Parades, so ZA/UM's thought violation gun won't stop going bang(opens in new tab)
I’ve been a super sorry spy again. THAT’S AGAINST YOUR AGREEMENT, Mr Wang shouts in text form, subsequently yanking away the bonuses afforded to me by my decision to adopt the Wang way. I didn’t think working the Wang into ...
The State of CSS Centering in 2026(opens in new tab)
Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of ...
"You build a little squad of allied characters": Warhammer Survivors' spin on bullet heaven brings a lovely touch of chaos to the battlefield(opens in new tab)
Bullet heaven games can already be fairly chaotic. Starting with Vampire Survivors, it's a genre that joyously fills your screen with thousands of enemies and tasks you with somehow killing them all before they reach your character in the centre. ...
Self-Host Weekly (22 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
750 reasons not to get back with your (Pl)ex
The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic”(opens in new tab)
Claude Code felt like magic when I used it for the first time (14 months ago?). And then it felt like magic again when the models got good at code at the end of the year.
Add Argument Defaults Are Evaluated When Function Is Defined as a Pyt… (opens in new tab)
2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot?(opens in new tab)
Goldman’s CEO Never Tweets(opens in new tab)
Goldman Sachs’ CEO David Solomon signed up for a Twitter account 13 years ago. Since then he doesn’t appear to have posted or used the service – until now. According to Bloomberg, Solomon used his X account to direct message ...
Book Notes: “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”(opens in new tab)
I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying to be overly academic, as if he needs to prove how smart he is. He says ...
Chrome is the new IE6 ⟡ Does AI need it's own language? ⟡ Antigravity CLI ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Shai Hulud is back.(opens in new tab)
After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview(opens in new tab)
Remakes are very much in vogue these days, providing developers the opportunity to return to an old favourite and enhance, expand, and correct the wrongs of the past. Some of the best, such as Mafia: Definitive Edition, redraw the edges ...
Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super ...
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I am offline until June. If you catch me online please insist I disconnect immediately.
This is bad...(opens in new tab)
Everyone Dies... is on Kindle Unlimited(opens in new tab)
I wrote a new fiction book and it is now published. The first in a new series!
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AI Resist List looks interesting. I sent feedback: they host with Vercel and Cloudflare. Two Big Tech villains entrenched in slop. The inititive has notable people behind it. Including Karen Hao who announced it on Twitter. I suppose there is ...
Test-Driving the Lance Lakehouse Format in DuckDB(opens in new tab)
Lance is an open lakehouse format with a design geared toward AI workloads. LanceDB and DuckLabs have partnered to bring you fast vector and hybrid search directly from DuckDB SQL, without leaving your analytical workflow. In this post, we explain ...
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work(opens in new tab)
Ad Infinitum(opens in new tab)
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive ...
Yield Panic | This Week in Bitcoin 105(opens in new tab)
The Razor's Edge of Human Government Design(opens in new tab)
A charcoal editorial illustration: a colossal authoritarian monolith on the left and a gilded gothic spire on the right, with a small figure balancing on a thin razor's edge between them/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp I'm fascinated by the fact ...
Add Read The Lid Angle Sensor For A MacBook as a Mac TIL (opens in new tab)
How to Build a WIRELESS Corne without Soldering(opens in new tab)
Roguelike FPS offshoot Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into early access with its own dangers, its own dwarves, and at last, its own identity(opens in new tab)
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core – Ghost Ship Games’ attempt at plunging the co-op FPS spelunkery of Deep Rock Galactic into an even deeper, darker pit of roguelike tension – is out today in early access. I tried it last ...
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking(opens in new tab)
It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry? Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. ...
View from the Office: Ryan Terpstra(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Ryan Terpstra, the CEO of ITRS, at the company’s flagship event, Elevate NY, arranged for clients on 42nd Street. I had an Old Fashioned and tapas. Ryan joined ITRS about a ...
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“[Generative AI exists] to keep entry-level workers pruned all the way back to the roots, in the interest of keeping wages low, employment tenuous, staff nervous, and the unfathomably rich insulated from the potential financial repercussions of destroying countless lives. ...
Can AI Make Good Design?(opens in new tab)
Birds of Law(opens in new tab)
Google just spat in my face(opens in new tab)
It’s Google I/O week and this year’s theme is performative slop. Budding Googlers battle it out on stage vying for executive eyeballs. The prize? Exemption from the next culling. As you might know AI isn’t my cup of tea and ...
TIL #145 – collections.deque is implemented in blocks(opens in new tab)
Today I learned that collections.deque is implemented as a doubly-linked list of blocks. collections.deque I've written about the data structure deque from the module collections extensively. In particular, I wrote a deque tutorial with plenty of practical example use cases ...
