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★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’(opens in new tab)
Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.
Late Night Linux – Episode 393(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Anthony Vinci(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Anthony Vinci, co-founder and CEO of Vico, a startup that produces forecasts of political, geopolitical and economic events, in midtown. We both had tea. The idea behind Vico is to mine ...
Do You Read The Code? ⟡ HTTP Gets a NEW Method ⟡ Codex Gets Sol Ultra ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Behold the perfect algorithm!(opens in new tab)
1984, Minority Report, Black Mirror — bedtime stories compared to the horrors the UK Government publish, am I right? I’m led to believe “Watch this space” is the latest propaganda piece from His Majesty’s Nanny State. I haven’t read past ...
Monday, July 6, 2026(opens in new tab)
Introducing kiac: Real Kubernetes Nodes on Your Mac, Each Its Own Lightweight VM(opens in new tab)
kiac runs local Kubernetes on macOS where every node is its own lightweight VM via apple/container: kubeadm or k3s flavors, Cilium on a custom kernel, built-in LoadBalancer, Grafana, Gateway API, and clusters that survive reboots.
Write a coding agent from first principles: better tools(opens in new tab)
Improve the capabilities of your agent by providing it with better tools. Introduction This tutorial builds on the coding agent you implemented in the tutorial “Write a coding agent from first principles”. In this tutorial, you'll take your agent and ...
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Browser Hacks were a necessary evil in the Internet Explorer days. I thought they were a relic of the past but recently Safari has tempted a resurgence. Eric Meyer’s post on split-cell table headers uses @supports to detect Safari. I ...
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“Generative AI killed that career. Towards the end, I was asked to replace my thoughtful activity with ill-gotten slop. My prior activity was supported by my unique relationship with the tools and practices learned and refined over a long career ...
S3 is a better abstraction than NFS / networked block storage(opens in new tab)
While I agree that S3 is far from perfect and I would love to see a newer S4, the Super Simple Storage Service, from what we've learned in the past
Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper(opens in new tab)
I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!
C2PA only works if everything is signed(opens in new tab)
LAN Before Time(opens in new tab)
Making a Shuffle Button(opens in new tab)
I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of this writing, I have 974 “notes” that I’ve published. For ...
Sunday, July 5, 2026(opens in new tab)
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
You know what, reader? Sundays are for whatever you goddamn feel like. Go swimming. Get lost in the woods. Take a kintsugi pottery class. Fix a broken appliance. Eat more than one hot dog. Learn Welsh. Smash your kintsugi pottery ...
What America has meant to me(opens in new tab)
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Travel notes: PLDI Boulder(opens in new tab)
I had another excellent PLDI this past June. It was my fourth1. I continued to meet new people and learn new things! Overall: I got to meet a lot of new people, which was exciting. I had some good chats ...
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix(opens in new tab)
Now is the winter of your discontent, console blaggards: the RPS team reflect on PlayStation going digital-only(opens in new tab)
This week brought the news that Sony will stop selling physical PlayStation games at the start of 2028. Not just for their own games, but third-party, too. Here in the world of PC gaming, we've largely been without physical game ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
This weekend marks the first wedding of the season (and the first of three in July alone). There will be suiting, there will be booting, and there will be demanding the DJ plays Toxic. Though, I might change up the ...
Better Models: Worse Tools(opens in new tab)
A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not ...
Why Don't We Put Handguns in the Convenience Aisle?(opens in new tab)
We don't put handguns in the convenience aisle/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp A quick thought on this whole "control of AI models" debate. Handguns and Fentanyl are available all over the world, but we still don't put them in the conven...
Linux After Dark – Episode 125(opens in new tab)
Fixing full-bleed CSS(opens in new tab)
I’m a front-end developer not a medical practitioner. If you’re bleeding IRL visit the hospital and stop googling medical issues! The full-bleed layout — as described there by Josh Comeau — can be done with CSS grid (and subgrid). Sometimes ...
what if websites were felt?(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (3 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Me, my.self, and I
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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 ...
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)
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.
RAM Racket | Launch 73(opens in new tab)
High-performance Rust: Understanding and eliminating heap 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