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Add Access Variables Outside Loop Scope as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat(opens in new tab)
The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026(opens in new tab)
Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes SIG Network community presents the release of Gateway API (v1.5)! Released on February 27, 2026, version 1.5 is our biggest release yet, and concentrates on moving existing Experimental features to Standard (Stable). The Gateway API v1.5.1 patch release ...
Web tools are cool(opens in new tab)
My website has a new page! The /uses URL pathname is an “official” slash page. I’m only listing web tools I use for now. My default apps change too frequently. The list is an evolution of an old post I ...
Are Pragmata’s hack-filled shootouts thrilling, or fatiguing? How Capcom’s shooter tackles the age-old challenge of blending action with puzzles(opens in new tab)
Pragmata is the new third-person moonbase shooter from Capcom in which you play Hugh, a gruff spacedad, with a small girl android named Diana riding around on your back. The game's core gimmick is that Diana can (and, indeed, must) ...
Celebrating computers at Omacon(opens in new tab)
Drew Truslove(opens in new tab)
Did Anthropic just kill Figma?(opens in new tab)
AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters(opens in new tab)
Ask a BI engineer what they actually spend their time on: it’s not building dashboards. More often: fixing the join that broke in the overnight pipeline, untangling the metric definition that means three different things to three different teams, or ...
Back to Fish Shell(opens in new tab)
How to buy a used graphics card: spotting scams and dodging duds in the memory shortage crisis(opens in new tab)
Oh boy, you’re looking to buy a new graphics card in 2026. As exciting as that is, howeber, there is one big catch: you have to buy a new graphics card in 2026. The impact of ongoing memory shortages is ...
Did Claude really get dumber again?(opens in new tab)
Stories from Alaska Folk Fest 2026(opens in new tab)
[Folk Fest] is not an intellectual experience, it’s an emotional experience. Bob Banghart Visiting Alaska gives me the feeling that people are chasing after when they travel: a little taste of what it’s like to be a part of another ...
Markdown + Astro = ❤️(opens in new tab)
Although Astro has built-in support for Markdown via .md files, I'd argue that your Markdown experience can be enhanced with MDX. Markdown + Astro = ❤️ originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter ...
#477: Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
GOOSE IT UP(opens in new tab)
I’m in school1 again. I’m going back to school because my work, my entire career, for my entire adult life, has been writing things for the Internet. That’s going away,...
How we lost the living Now(opens in new tab)
Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nanosecond, shipped in real ...
Build yourself flowers(opens in new tab)
This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded ...
Weak vs. Strong AI Rollouts(opens in new tab)
Weak vs Strong AI Rollouts diagram/images/weak-vs-strong-ai-rollouts.webp/images/weak-vs-strong-ai-rollouts.webp I get to see and help with a lot of Anterprise AI rollouts. Some are brilliant, but most even in 2026 are surprisingly bad. I've been thinking about and trying to summarize what I ...
Hook It Up to the Machine(opens in new tab)
In the early 2000’s, my parents took us on a road trip to Glacier National Park in Montana. We made the journey in our new (used) family van: a green Dodge Caravan whose reputation was soon to become “a lemon”. ...
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Just have such strong nostalgia for this song. Still slaps. Close second from MC Chris. Curious, this record isn’t streaming anywhere, and he just makes the album available as downloadable MP3’s in a Google Drive.
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for watching Youtube videos about different types of laminate primer and working out if you've taken on too much by redecorating the kitchen. One video will recommend one brand and 120 grain sandpaper, another will talk about MDF ...
Dice rolling and more on Minimal Character Sheet(opens in new tab)
AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires(opens in new tab)
AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires/images/blog/the-fire-of-fires/header.webp Added to my reminders this week: - Cancel Zapier - Cancel Resend - Cancel Figma - Cancel Canva - Cancel Browserbase - Cancel Supabase Recreated all this in my own PAI harness ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
I don’t know about you, readers, but this past week’s gone by in a bit of a blur. Did I volunteer to take WAWAPs for today, or was I forced at Ziff Davis canteen sporkpoint? I can’t even remember, but ...
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens(opens in new tab)
Font data (C header) All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font. ...
Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments(opens in new tab)
Add Define A Set Of Class Methods as a Ruby TIL (opens in new tab)
What’s !important #9: clip-path Jigsaws, View Transitions Toolkit, Name-only Containers, and More(opens in new tab)
This issue of What’s !important brings you clip-path jigsaws, a view transitions toolkit, name-only containers, the usual roundup of new, notable web platform features, and more. What’s !important #9: clip-path Jigsaws, View Transitions Toolkit, Name-only Containers, and More originally handwritten ...
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a strong comeback for a strategy RPG series with few modern competitors, though it could explain itself better(opens in new tab)
It's been over a decade since the last Heroes of Might & Magic game, and more than 25 since we set foot in the fantasy world of Enroth, the setting of the first three titles in the strategy series. So ...
With the right settings, Pragmata can hack it on the Steam Deck - more or less(opens in new tab)
Sci-fi dadblaster Pragmata is Capcom’s second smooth-running RE Engine game in two months, dishing out loads of ray-traced frames on muscular PCs while still running at a decent clip if you don’t quite meet all of its minimum system specs. ...
Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
Rally Point: Genre-crushing choose-your-own strategy Heart of the Machine might be peak Arcen(opens in new tab)
Centuries ago, before 2022, before the Good Darkness of 2020, before the Before Times of 2015, the ancient age before even that of 2013, and perhaps, some fringe scholars suggest, even before the beginning of this sentence, there was Arcen ...
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Atlassian software is where user experience goes to die. Microsoft aspires to reach the soul destroying level of misery that is Atlassian. I was especially fond of the two-factor roulette game in which I had to guess which one of ...
This model is kind of a disaster.(opens in new tab)
Jensen vs. Dwarkesh on China Chips(opens in new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrbq66XqtCo Dwarkesh Patel talked to Jensen Huang in this videohttps://youtu.be/Hrbq66XqtCo, and I wanted to make a couple of points about it. I take Jensen's point about not wanting to give up a tech stack to a competing country — wanting ...
Taking down my site on purpose:(opens in new tab)
Skip the history If you have multiple computers, you'll quickly run into the problem of having data on one but needing it on the other. Because of this, people have been connecting them together since the beginning. However, this created ...
OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs(opens in new tab)
The OWASP Top 10 just got a fresh update, and there are some big changes: supply chain attacks, exceptional condition handling, and more. Tanya Janca is back on Talk Python to walk us through every single one of them. And ...
Even with ray tracing to buff out its bots, Pragmata performs a treat on PC(opens in new tab)
Capcom’s hardware redemption continues with fatherly hack o’ shooter Pragmata, a smooth and low-end-friendly PC performer that’s far more Resident Evil Requiem than Monster Hunter Wilds. It’s maybe not quite on Requiem’s level of framerate abundance, and Pragmata struggles a ...
The Outer Worlds and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag share an unlikely lesson: we make our own pirates(opens in new tab)
“Let’s call this round a draw,” says Coach Stilley, his amiable New York drawl soothing what could have been a tense standoff. “You head back to your end of the field. I’ll regroup my team, and we’ll see where things ...
A Well-Designed JavaScript Module System is Your First Architecture Decision(opens in new tab)
Behind every technology, there should be a guide for its use. While JavaScript modules make it easier to write “big” programs, if there are no principles or systems for using them, things could easily become difficult to maintain. A Well-Designed ...
Mythos is Just the New Normal(opens in new tab)
Mythos is Just the New Normal/images/mythos-is-new-normal.webp/images/mythos-is-new-normal.webp This whole Mythos thing continues to surprise me. Not the model, but the reaction to it. Guys, it's not even a cyber model. It's just the next thing. It's just a model designed to ...
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Sara Joy asked: “How often have you seen elaborate mid-sentence CSS flex and gap or padding styling within React apps, when all that’s missing is what I’m calling a “React space”: {' '} ? Bluesky @sjoy.lol - Sara Joy” The ...
Thriving in a (very) fast-moving world(opens in new tab)
The world is moving fast, very fast, and nothing makes my blood boil faster than someone explaining to me that it has always been done this so that's fine, or
State of the Browser (2026) It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your JavaScript Is?(opens in new tab)
I truly hate mostpeopleslop(opens in new tab)
In 2006, Joe Sugarman published a book called The Adweek Copywriting Handbook - and an axiom stuck..."The sole purpose of the first sentence in an advertisement is to get you to read the second sentence."That line, more or less, explains ...
Add Make Dataclass Sortable By Specific Field as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom(opens in new tab)
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience: An opinion dismantled ...