Today
- There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
- At this point in history, AI sociopaths have purchased all the world's RAM in order to run their copyright infringement factories at full blast. Thus the amount of memory in consumer computers and phones seems to be going down. After decades of not having to care about memory...
- Two weeks ago I wrote an article about governance and documentation on an organisational scale. This is the follow-up post that focuses on the project scale. You could just read this post, but it’s probably better that you start with the previous one first The biggest problem...
- Late interaction is having a moment The team at LightOn including superstar developer Antoine Chaffin has demonstrated how a 150M......
- I shipped some updates to my notes site. Nothing huge. Just small stuff. But what is big stuff except a bunch of small stuff combined? So small stuff is important too. What follows is a bunch of tiny details you probably don’t care about, but they were all decisions I had to...
Yesterday
- Since Ladybird team abandoned their Swift adoption for the browser I heard a lot of criticism about the Swift ecosystem and the interaction between Swift and C/C++ projects. My usage of Swift is mainly for command line tools, recreational programming (like Advent of Code 2023...
This week
- I'm working on a new programming language named Solod (So). It's a strict subset of Go that translates to C, without hidden memory allocations and with source-level interop.Highlights:Go in, C out. You write regular Go code and get readable C11 as output.Zero runtime. No garbage...
- Squawk’s language server uses lsp-types, which provides serde-friendly types for the Language Server Protocol (LSP). This avoids us having to implement a lot of boilerplate ourselves. Before: A Manual Approach One of the provided types is SelectionRangeRequest, which is used for...
- Dave Rupert puts words to the feeling in the air: the unspoken promise of AI is that you can automate away all the tasks and people who stand in your way. Sometimes I feel like there’s a palpable tension in the air as if we’re waiting to see whether AI will replace designers or...
- My heuristics are wrong. What now? More words. More meaning? Some people who ask me for advice at get a lot of words in reply. Sometimes, those responses aren’t specific to my particular workplace, and so I share them here. In the past, I’ve written about echo chambers, writing,...
- The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in...
- How do teams choose vector databases search engines People wrack their brains between Elasticsearch OpenSearch Solr Vespa Pinecone Turbopuffer Weaviate......
- This post is the fourth and last in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo As a very crude metric, the conciseness of legible code can roughly...
- Welcome! This is the start of a journey which I hope will provide you with many new tricks to improve how you work with relational databases in your Python applications. Given that this is a hands-on book, this first chapter is dedicated to help you set up your system with a...
- The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …
- One of the most optimized algorithms in any standard library is sorting. It is used everywhere so it must be fast. Thousands upon thousands of developer hours have been sunk into inventing new algorithms and making sort implementations faster. Pystd has a different design...
- David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of code review – Wikipedia will tell you as much. And sure, reviewers do catch bugs. But I think that framing dramatically...
- This post is the third in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo This post looks at another advantage of code over configuration: the degree to...
- 19 Mar, 2026 I was recently asked on a podcast what my biggest game-changer was, whether it be a habit, way of thinking, purchase, or change of context. I didn't need to fish around for an answer, since I already know my biggest game-changer: becoming a day person. By this I...
- Mastra Studio has evolved. It's no longer just a local development tool. You can deploy it to your own infrastructure and share the URL with your team. However,......
- AI agents that write code, open pull requests, and fix bugs aren't replacing developers — they're extending the same patterns of transparency, code review, and collaboration that have made open source successful for decades....
- Music To Build Agents By I don't have this problem, because I don't use a mouse. Press play, then start reading: Want to learn how to think about agent policy? Start with Goethe’s Der Zauberlehrling. So come along, you old broomstick! Dress yourself in rotten rags! You’ve long...
- This post is the second in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo Today let's look at how both projects define the overall structure of the site...
- A user searches for red shoes they click on some products Now you have a set of relevant products Great......
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