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Edit: sorry RSS readers! I future-posted this with the wrong date. Now you’re seeing it again because I use the timestamp in the URL and the URL as the GUID… Just skip to my next note. Reading Salma’s post “Goodbye, ...
Pluralistic: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Real elections v reality TV; Copyright troll ...
Ubuntu 26.04, KVM, netplan, and NetworkManager(opens in new tab)
Ubuntu has been getting less usable year by year ever since moving to systemd init. This year, the new papercut is that NetworkManager will violently conflict with–and override–anything you set in /etc/netplan, unless you manually tell it to bugger off. ...
Goodbye, forever, probably.(opens in new tab)
Why I’m leaving developer relations, and why I’m not telling you what’s next.
2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable(opens in new tab)
This Page Left Intentionally Blank(opens in new tab)
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project (Internet Archive): In former times printed manuals had some blank pages, usually with the ...
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It is done! Slay the Spire 2 ascension 10 on all characters. The Regent was last to complete with an insanely strong deck. I collected an innate upgraded Arsenal followed by Crash Landing — also innate from Royal Stamp — ...
Thursday, July 02, 2026(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Chris Freeberg(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Chris Freeberg, the founder of Altis, at 787 Coffee in Murray Hill for iced coffee. Chris spent almost a dozen years at BCG before starting Altis, a research firm covering early-stage ...
Your dirty CSS secrets(opens in new tab)
The modern app(opens in new tab)
Today I’m introducing the next generation of code editor. A modern app to satiate the needs of the discerning coder. We’re talkin’ blazing fast collaboration between man and machine. Try out the demo below (for best experience: desktop Chrome, obvs). ...
"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach(opens in new tab)
Raph Koster's career spans the evolution of the modern MMO. Creative lead on MUDs, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and EverQuest 2, the systems and mechanics his teams developed live on in every active MMO today and many games besides. ...
Toy Story 5 (2026) ★★★★(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work": Sometimes, "I got it working" is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Series of tubes; Paralyzed teen beaten bloody by TSA; "Ultra ...
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove(opens in new tab)
★ A Tale of Two Modems(opens in new tab)
Cellular download speed and reception is nearly a solved problem for my needs. Battery life is not.
Race cars to nuclear grade dish soap: A spectrum of quality strategy(opens in new tab)
It’s been a long and incredibly nonlinear journey to get where I am today. I’ll start by saying that I never intended to get into quality engineering. I sought an engineering degree so I could help design the next Camaro ...
Death of the Debasement Trade | This Week in Bitcoin 111(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls." Upcoming appearances: London, Edinburgh, ...
Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap(opens in new tab)
Say you’ve sprung for a Steam Machine, and are pondering how to put a personal mark on your new black cube. Upgrading the internals? Bit of a faff, it turns out. Playing with the lighting strip? Maybe, but it’s blue ...
Terminal Trove June 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2026.
We need to stop calling it “AI”(opens in new tab)
RAM Racket | Launch 73(opens in new tab)
High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating memory fragmentation(opens in new tab)
I'm currently working on a TLS (Transport Layer Security) implementation for stdx (Rust's extended standard library), and one of the main requirements is to be able to use it on
Which AI coding tools to use(opens in new tab)
Which AI coding tools are best? What should you use? What I recommend for development work.
Operation Floodlight(opens in new tab)
I have been thinking about the downstream impacts of AI systems having strong cybersecurity capabilities.
The Bug Bounty Singularity: Our Hackbot(opens in new tab)
This past December, it became feasible for any skilled hacker to scale up a hacking agent, spending hundreds in token cost to find thousands in bounties. I call this the “Bug Bounty Singularity”. This is the story of JD (xssdoctor) ...
ghgrab(opens in new tab)
A TUI to download files/folders from repositories without cloning repos.
If I want more IRL, I must go AFK(opens in new tab)
Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts(opens in new tab)
I, uh, completely took apart a Steam Machine by accident. What began as merely wanting a closer look at its RAM setup ended up as a more-or-less full teardown, the heavily layered, almost Russian Doll-like structure of Valve’s teeny-tiny PC ...
Canonization and the Overhang(opens in new tab)
David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number of his claims. Worth ...
I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted(opens in new tab)
The following sparkling insights about boss battle design are from Marcin Matuszczyk, principal gameplay designer on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and a former developer of Outriders and Horizon Forbidden West. He was speaking to an audience of budding Bowser-builders ...
What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), <select> field-sizing, and More(opens in new tab)
I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked couple of weeks despite few browser updates. From CSS Quake to CSS Gap Decorations, this isn’t one to miss! What’s !important #14: Gap ...
Pluralistic: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect": A mystical tour-de-force that makes you feel like your mundane life until this point has all been a boring dream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Corruption; How much (little) are ...
LLM Costs and Observability with agentgateway on Kubernetes (Part 2)(opens in new tab)
Part 2: scrape agentgateway with Prometheus, build a Grafana dashboard of token cost and per-tool usage, see blocked tool calls, and alert on spend.
#486: underscore-underscore-ghost-emoji(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future django-admin-site-search Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development A large batch of PEPs are finalized Extras Joke Watch on YouTube Show Intro Sponsored by us! Support ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 392(opens in new tab)
Whitespace in Astro 7.0(opens in new tab)
The way whitespace is rendered is different in the latest version of Astro, and here's how you can fix it.
Launching: AI Safety For Parents(opens in new tab)
My first public launch: a simple 10-day email course that bottles up everything parents need to know about keeping their kids safe in an AI-powered world.
wrtK8s(opens in new tab)
Parts list and build process for Linksys homelab
Google fires Workspace CLI Creator ⟡ GPT 5.6 Is Coming ⟡ Astro 7 Rust Re-write ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Exclamatory birthday edition // W26 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Today I turn 45 which is, if you think about it, half of 90! And also about 30 years older than I feel on the inside! What is age? What...
Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search: We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Microsoft antitrust overturned; Scammer carves C64; RIP Jim Baen; GOP ...
This makes your site feel like sh*t(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: George Anders(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with journalist George Anders at the Charlotte Cafe on the Upper West Side. It was a meeting long in the making. I first texted George Sept. 6, 2019 saying I admired his ...
The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events(opens in new tab)
CSS has always had pseudo-classes that style things based on user interactions. Recent features, however, are blurring the line between what CSS "listens" for and how they are alternatives to what Javascript typically listens for. The Shifting Line Between CSS ...
Controlling MCP Tools with agentgateway on Kubernetes (Part 1)(opens in new tab)
Run AI agents behind agentgateway on Kubernetes: route their LLM and MCP tool calls through one proxy, keep secrets out of the agent, and block tools by policy.
Sunday, June 28, 2026(opens in new tab)
Do excellent vulnerability reports(opens in new tab)
Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by providing a short guide on ...
