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As a Rust project grows in size, it can take a non-trivial amount of efforts to keep it in a clean state that will not impede your and your co-workers'
We are releasing DuckDB version v1.5.3. While updates in DuckDB itself are limited bugfixes, the upgraded extensions shipped with v1.5.3 bring a ton of new features. These include the Quack client-server protocol, which is now available as a core extension, ...
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components ...
A CLI and TUI to validate and run GitHub Actions locally.
The Bloomberg terminal’s most visible application is TOP . I just learned the backstory of the function used by almost all traders and portfolio managers on Wall Street. For those unfamiliar with Bloomberg, TOP displays the biggest news stories in ...
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 have gotten ample attention for their whizbang Unreal Engine features and potential major cast resurrections, but one of their key 'enhancements' may seem horribly dry: their creation will be much, much better documented than ...
Penpot has a bug that makes it practically unusable. I guess I’m just unlucky, or does nobody else use Penpot? At least one person does because they reported the bug three weeks ago. That’s a long time unless we’re both ...
Today's links There's no such thing as "age verification": The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of "something must be done"/"there, I've done something." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple Stores exist; Responsible spam; Australia loves Hollywood('s copyright); ...
Throwing shit at the wall. I'm the wall.
This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design This isn’t, however, just the story of Apple’s Creator Studio icons. It’s the ...
There are whispers on the wind that a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 will be out this week. There were whispers it would be last week, too. Whenever the next look at Rockstar’s open world crime-’em-up arrives, it's ...
This is Part 1 of a two-part series about cross-document view transitions, going over all the gotchas, from ditching the deprecated way to opt into them to a little-known 4-second timeout. Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions originally handwritten ...
How do you stay sharp as a web developer and/or designer? I’ll share my advice below. I’m also looking for front-end folk to advise me too. What are your whetstones? That is to say: sources of news and knowledge to ...
For many players, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will never be anything other than a seedy clone of ZA/UM's reputation-making Disco Elysium – a soul-sucking forgery of a doomy leftist masterpiece, whose original lead writers and designers have been ousted ...
Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training ...
I just got back from a three and a half week trip to Japan. It was the longest trip I have ever been on (aside from studying abroad in Germany, which felt different). I made the following wild circuit with ...
I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!
I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile). I’ve done this before in 2023, with GGUF Mistral ...
Are these weeknotes? Yes they are! Will I do them again next week? Who knows! Sunday 10 May: Got home from hospital shift around 7:30pm. Exhausted, hangry. Walked into a...
“The domains in which a programming language is popular influences the ecosystem. I’m deeply grateful to Jarred and Anthropic for giving Zig communities a chance to reroll for something other than LLMs. Hoping for better than a nat 1 next ...
“Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS” — a great read from Julia Evans who discovered Tailwind 8 years ago and decided to learn CSS from it. When it comes to Tailwind, there is a lot of ...
There’s something about prying open the door of your majestic Ferrari 250 California or Reliant Supervan as waves gently lap against the shore off to your right and a blazing sun beats down on you from above that you don’t ...
Sundays are for rooting out clothes moths. The wool-devouring bastards have started cropping up all over my flat. I've put traps down but that's only dealing with the ones which have already hatched and taken flight. I need to work ...
Social media battle royale! Bluesky vs Mastodon vs Threads vs Twitter? Well if you’re still using Twitter you have a moral deficit so large there is no salvation. I have literally never visited Threads. Never clicked or even seen a ...
i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.
One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in different ways and have curl iterate over them to simplify repeated transfers. ...
It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.
What are we all playing this weekend? There is currently a white cloud swimming across my right eye. It's not, as I thought first, a smudge on my glasses. It's my old friend, a retinal migraine. I'm hoping by the ...
Today's links Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire: Don't mistake "powerful" for "durable." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Copyrighted law; Viral videos v cops; Crooked banker v tiny bat; "Infested"; ...
(This is a long rambling barely edited note.) I’ve been thinking about vibecusations again, i.e. making accusations of LLM usage without proof. An ignorant trend I’ve seen is pointing at smart quotes and other typographic flair as a slop signal. ...
This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets ...
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This ...
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for ...
The web and tech industry is a veritable sausage party. We don’t need surveys to prove it but we have surveys to prove it. State of surveys have been running for a decade now. Let’s look at the 2025 survey ...
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like your kinda thing, then this issue of What’s !important is definitely for you. What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, ...
Today's links No one wants a permanent gerontocracy: The one policy everyone agrees on. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wolfengitmo; Facebook condemns Google privacy invasion; Michael Moore on bin Laden; TSA v babies; Tendril perversion; "Buy ...