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Everything you say CAN and WILL be used against you - "If you talk to me, I'll punch you in the face, are you ok with talking with me?" - "Nods in agreement." - "Proceeds to punch the man in the face."
Happy Father's Day. An Ode to my father. The man who shaped me into who I am today. I hope I can one day fill half his shoes. For now, I'll remember him for the giant he was.
Why I Moved from Arch to Boring Debian Testing | WhileForLoop The recent AUR incident did not make Arch unusable, but it changed how I think about trust, package sources, and the amount of maintenance I want from my desktop.
Looping Casino Autonomous coding loops excel at search, not judgment. They can optimize toward a goal, but they can’t reliably tell when the goal is wrong. Engineering is still more than iteration speed.
When Rails Engines Are the Wrong Tool Rails engines aren’t free. When adding engine boundaries is over-engineering — the performance, boot-time and memory costs — and how to tell when a boundary actually earns its keep.
Did my old job only exist because of fraud? – It's not about code Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece that came to the US. The code was rebuilt, the rest of the...
A Small Fintech Challenge, and Why I Let Postgres Hold the Money I took a small fintech-style coding challenge — a marketplace where players buy and auction items with in-game gold — and treated it as one question: how do you keep money correct when many people act at once? The answer wasn't a clever lock in my code. I...
The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction." My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to a...
Thinking at the edge Getting locked out of a BitLocker laptop with a frozen keyboard brought back a feeling I hadn't had since LLMs took over my workflow: the satisfaction of thinking at the edge of a hard problem.
Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching - The Blog of Maxime Heckel This article is a deep dive into my experimentations with Volumetric rendering and how to leverage it to render beautiful raymarched cloudscapes in React Three Fiber and WebGL. In it, I walk you through everything from the basics of Volumetric Raymarching...
Nix needs relocatable binaries This is my problem statement and proposal for a TacoSprint 2026 project 🏄.
We built a trading bot in two hours. Now my wife and I trade together. We had two Robinhood accounts and no shared view of anything. Schwab has a free API most people don't know about. We migrated, built a bot in two hours, and it changed how we think about money together.
Snowboard Kids 2 is Recompiled Snowboard Kids 2 has been recompiled for modern platforms, bringing widescreen, 60 FPS support, and modding to Snow Town.
Beyond All Reason ★ RTS Beyond All Reason is the ultimate epic-scale RTS game for Windows and Linux. Command colossal armies in battles with thousands of units in fully simulated environments. Wage war across land, sea, and air with 2 factions and 400 unique units. Enjoy skirmis...
Developers don't understand CORS The recent Zoom vulnerability is just one of many examples which show us that many developers do not understand how CORS works
Your brain was never designed for this much bad news Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around h...
Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior Huang et al. show that prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by enhancing reward sensitivity and cardiac parasympathetic activity. Individuals with greater parasympathetic upregulation exhibit stronger reward-related responses in the vmPFC and pr...
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel
Google hits 50% IPv6 | APNIC Blog IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible, Opening Standards Library to the Global Media Technology Community WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community.
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