Featured post what's this? ✨ Moving from Bitwarden to Proton Pass Now that my photos and emails have been relocated to Europe, it's time to move my credentials too. Bitwarden has been my password manager for many years. ...
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the c...
Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation "I will make sure your bones are shattered [on July 14]"
Various LLM smells Looks like this ended up on the HN front-page: HN Thread Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writin...
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
Postgres-backed Durable Workflow Execution | DBOS Explaining the concept of a Postgres-backed durable execution system like DBOS and comparing it to external workflow orchestration systems like Temporal.
How others build agent memory, and what I took from each | Falconer Notes ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Letta have each built production memory systems for AI agents. Looking at the differences shaped how I built agent signals for Falconer.
Moving from Bitwarden to Proton Pass Now that my photos and emails have been relocated to Europe, it's time to move my credentials too. Bitwarden has been my password manager for many years. ...
GenZ Neoengineers I’ve started to notice a trend in some of the students I have met through university, a handful that have decided to get really good at software engineering. It is almost hard to describe, but these students have a degree of confidence in their work that ...
Things I Think I Think... about Coding Agents and IDEs Mulling out loud (and defending) why I think coding agents are here to stay, just as IDEs came to be as well.
Embeddings: LLM's best kept secret? Combining LLMs with traditional AI to solve new problems in minutes for pennies
Patrick - What's missing in CSS layout An interpretation of the pain points and missing features which developers face with CSS layout, based on the 2025 State of CSS survey and a mini survey I ran on social media.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifier · Adam Wiggins I built a machine learning pipeline for email triage. Includes a hand-labeled golden set, training the model in the browser, and evals. Plus options for local vs cloud embeddings.
How to declare taxes in Germany as an App Developer – Mert Bulan A practical guide to filing your taxes on Elster as an app developer in Germany, covering the three forms you need to submit every year.
Let Equals Equal Equals Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec broke `=` to preserve encapsulation purity. This violates the Priority of Constituencies, harms AT users, and should be fixed immediately. R...
The Art Of Keeping Business Logic Honest — JustSteveKing Use state machines and workflow engines in Laravel to keep business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient across async processes.
Adding reflection to C Reflection in programming is the ability for a program to introspect its own datastructures and procedures, either at compile time or at run time. This is a key building block of metaprogramming. This is frequently used for automatically generating serial...
The Spec Is the New Source Code How coding agents changed the way I think about source code, specs, PRDs, and the developer's role in building software.
The end of free tokens In 2018 I took an UberPool across Manhattan for $1.78, cheaper than the subway. Today the same ride is about $20 and nobody is surprised. Last month ccusage estimated I burned $5,098.85 of Claude tokens on a $200 plan. Three reasons it is finally coming f...
Haven Blog: Retro-Tech Parenting We can embrace the magic of technology without fear by looking for inspiration from a previous generation of technology.
What happens to a gift economy when the gift gets cheap? A hypothesis from The Cathedral and the Bazaar: the thing to watch isn't whether code is abundant, but whether the makers are.
CVE-2026-28910: Breaking macOS App Sandbox Data Containers, TCC, and Hijacking Apps Using Archive Utility Until macOS 26.4, Archive Utility had nearly unrestricted filesystem access. Combined with a drag-and-drop sandbox quirk, this let an attacker bypass App Sandbox data containers, Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) protections, and hijack third-party...
Bricks & Minifigs Stole a Man's $200,000 LEGO Collection | MyBrickLog Bryan Mansell built the largest personal LEGO Star Wars collection in history. Over $200,000 worth of sets. Bricks & Minifigs is trying to steal his collection.
Empirical saved my ass. First-person incident report on recovering lost frontend work by querying Empirical memory, locating an unreachable WIP commit, and restoring the missing public-site redesign. Empirical saved my ass.
Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket In a 1996 Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace confirmed something Silverblatt had spotted about Infinite Jest:
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
