Today
- Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me....
- The story has no relation with software engineering today. This is the story of a building company CEO named Matthew. Matthew is a simple person: he likes to build buildings, and he likes it when people appreciate its buildings. Compared to other construction companies, Matthew...
- At the last State of the Browser after party, Manuel Matuzović was hanging around and randomly snapping pictures with friends using an instant thermal printing camera that he nicked from one of his daughters. What a fun it was! The next day I ordered the exact same one off...
- I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to …
Yesterday
- In the before times, code was deterministic and self documenting. Why don't we show AI what we want by... just writing some of the code?...
- Do you remember the little drama with Apple and Google proposing two contradicting ideas about the native CSS way for masonry layout implementation? It is all over, and what we got is a beautiful compromise between the two in a the form of display: grid-lanes. This is super...
- I had a simple question: Why do websites load lots of individual images instead of stitching them into one giant image and cropping out the pieces they need? At first glance, an image atlas sounds g...
- When a sector goes too fast, it loses support Without a doubt, the pace of the AI ecosystem is dizzying. Just processing it all is difficult enough. Scaffolding it, finding themes, and understanding the shape of it is nearly impossible. Recently, Mike Migurski introduced me to...
This week
- Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right task? I looked into it, and there are a few options....
- 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 remark “this page intentionally...
- Since you landed on my blog, the chance is high you’re a tech-savvy web geek. If you publish stuff yourself, the chance is even higher that you came across standard.site, a set of lexicons to sync your writing with the AT Protocol. There’s a tonne of hype on the internet about...
- One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This worked well, where most animations were...
- The European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now1. One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all AI outputs to be “detectable as artificially generated”. In other words, if LLM providers want to do business in the...
- 30 Jun, 2026 Hi friends, Many of you mistakenly got onboarding emails yesterday. I'm sorry about that. I was tweaking the way emails are sent to new users and accidentally sent it out to everyone. Don't worry, you'll get your weekly digest on Friday as usual. (If you got a...
- shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today’s shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to …
- Pretty big month for the web. Tons of great posts came out, Apple WWDC took place and a few shocking acquisitions happened as well. I have been travelling for work and with family this month a lot so no other crazy updates from my personal life this month, but as always great...
- I recently gave a talk on customizable (as in fully-stylable) <select>, and as I was building demos I realised there's a sizing 'pattern' that's almost always the-one-you-want, but it took me a long time to figure out how to do it in CSS. Well, I say I figured it out. I actually...
- June 28th, 2025 My favorite keyboards When I started using computers, we had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at home and a nano-reseau of Thomson MO5s at elementary school. I distinctly remember how unpleasant it was to type with them. These must have been the worst keyboards I ever...
- 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 company-destroying bugs: bugs...
- I am working on a project that combines Swift, Raylib, and Raygui. I like Swift very much, and I have had more fun developing in Swift than in Rust or C++ recently. But, there is a small catch with Swift outside the Apple ecosystem: its adaptability to other platforms sometimes,...
- In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen, founded by Callum Negus-Fancey. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building...
Last week
- We're excited to ship Durable Agents. Durable Agents can survive client disconnects, browser refreshes, or network blips. Run multiple requests in parallel, wat......
- Stating the obvious is surprisingly useful. Most of your knowledge lives below the threshold of conscious awareness, so it’s possible for a piece of writing to remind you of what you already know. It’s common to know you don’t like something without being quite sure why, and...
- I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO specification) to a bunch of conferences. Unfortunately all of them were rejected, so it's blog posting time. A controversial opinion Pretty...
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