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“While the attempts to collectively gaslight the entire world into believing this technology is anything more than an elaborate pyramid scheme branded in warm orange and transitional serifs continue unabated, there is a world of opportunities away from the noise ...
I quite enjoyed this talk from Bryan Cantrill where he discusses the difficult engineering problems they overcame while working on their company Oxide. Some of the problems they ran into were bugs. But these weren’t any ordinary bugs, they were ...
Coffee Talk started out as a slice-of-life visual novel casting you as a night-shift barista serving Seattle’s uniquely magical residents, from elves to vampires to succubi, hearing out and advising their whims and woes over steaming cups. Its strength was ...
Sundays are for hopping over stepping stones across a river. There's a stone missing in the middle. Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the leap and risk perishing ...
Here's a technical walkthrough of how I made a fun little demo to mask some text in a clever way with CSS.
I’ve taken notes over my whole life. As a Swiss, I’m very particular about organization and structured in filing my knowledge. I’ve tried and taken notes in many different ways, from forgetting everything, to noting down every detail, to only ...
Hmm. On the one hand, a Turbulent Thursday. On the other, a Big Mum. We’ve all had Thursdays we could describe as turbulent, so the owner of the 2014 Nissan Fairlady Z who drives with the Neo Limited crew scores ...
Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame ...
I would like to say this missive is brought to you from a dark, ventilated room where I lay upon a bed of ice packs. However, if all goes according to masochistic plan, I will already have been cycling for ...
Operating the data orchestration layer can be as critical as the source OLTP databases, when decisions are taken from the data assets produced by downstream data pipelines. When orchestration gets at the heart of triggering and observing most of the ...
I almost burnt out recently, but I made it through!
Data is from 2026-06-20. North is right. 0.53"/pixel (27'x27' field). FWHM=4' A nice, if rather small (~100") edge on spiral galaxy. Arp filed this one under "low surface brightness companions", but the companion doesn't seem to exist. There's a bright ...
This episode is a fun crossover from our Python news and tips podcast, Python Bytes. We have had some big changes over there. Brian Okken has moved on and Calvin Hendryx-Parker has joined the show as the new co-host. To ...
I’m back to thinking about constraints. This time, Terry Godier’s great video The Feeling Music Used to Give You (hat tip to Robert). Having what amounts to an infinite library of background music was fixing the wrong constraint. And that’s ...
AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or ...
Urgh. Have you seen memory prices lately? If you somehow haven’t, make sure to look through your fingers, as they are truly terrifying. DDR5 RAM sticks are ungodly expensive, older DDR4's not much better, high VRAM graphics cards are ridiculous, ...
Please take a minute to understand what ARIA is and is not. ARIA and especially the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) are commonly misunderstood. I read an article the other day that had this facepalm moment: “And with modern LLM ...
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp Here's a more logical and less emotional way to look at what's happening with the chaotic regulation of these AI models... It took decades/centurie...
Learn how Big W plans to deliver Porsche performance on a Volkswagen budget.
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One of my favorite visuals for known vulnerabilities in curl is the mountain. It shows how many currently known vulnerabilities were present in the code through-out curl’s history. In the end of June 2026 it looks like this: Over time ...
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It ...
Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the built-in Kubernetes resources. ...
If you have’t heard, Om Malik passed away. People are sharing stories of their graceful encounters with him. This one is mine. Back at the beginning of 2021, I set a goal to write 72 blog posts. I was puttering ...
The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp I'm getting more worried, and more frustrated, about this new phase of AI disillusionment. Some of it is fair. Hundreds of billions are sloshing around in financing shell ...
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so teams can deploy and iterate without fighting ...
The translateZ() function moves an element closer to or farther from the user. translateZ() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The translateY() function shifts an element vertically by the specified amount. translateY() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The translateX() function shifts an element horizontally by the specified amount. translateX() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The CSS translate() function shifts an element from its default position on a 2-dimensional plane translate() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The atproto reference PDS added account management which is very nice for self-hosters. Previously you’d have to use an app like Bluesky to change your password (or the goat CLI if you’re an admin). I’m not aware of any 3rd-party ...
Today's links Jailbreaking isn't theft: It wasn't progress when they did it, it's not piracy when we do it back to them. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Major AI breakthrough; Disney v Pooh tombstone; Vancouver riot ...
Trailing dots after hostnames in URLs remain my worst enemies. I wrote about several problems with them in the past that involved those nasty things. They are still painful. When we shipped curl 8.21.0 on June 24 2026 we fixed ...
While I decide what to do with PEP 832 after polling folks on their opinion, I thought I would write out why I'm even bothering with any of this.I'm going to talk from the perspective of VS Code and its ...
A few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides ...
I have to publish this now, we’re already halfway through W26. Current situation: Monday 08 June: The U of Ark college visit. Zeke really likes it and they have a...
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this ...