Featured post what's this? ✨ Mac processor transitions – Something Something The latest episode of ATP included a discussion about MacOS 27 dropping support for Intel Macs and MacOS 28 (partially?) dropping support for running intel binaries. I have been curious about this, so did some Wikipedia diving and put this post together.
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspap...
GitHub - ghostty-org/ghostling: A minimum viable terminal emulator built on top of the libghostty C API. Ex minimo, infinita nascuntur. 👻🐣 A minimum viable terminal emulator built on top of the libghostty C API. Ex minimo, infinita nascuntur. 👻🐣 - ghostty-org/ghostling
A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas An overview of chopsticks gaffes that are best avoided when eating in Japan.
Stop leading with the affirmative condition A personal blog about software development and other topics.
Pull requests are dead, long live pull requests These days when I’m reviewing a pull request it feels like I’m talking to an AI bot, because I am. When I ask questions like “Why did you decide to do it this way?” I usually get a response (from a…
My Own Personal Claws I replaced OpenClaw with a custom automation system that refines GitHub issues, implements features, fixes CI, investigates production bugs, and turns voice notes into shipped code — all tailored for a single developer.
Can we still make software that sparks joy? A diatribe in when I am greatly disappointed in my industry.
I Am a Software Mechanic That job title doesn't exist yet on any W-2. But it describes exactly what I do. You call me when a machine-generated tool breaks something real. A harvest lost. A contract mispriced. A greenhouse running dry. I show up. I read the spec. I find the gap be...
Why your next mobile app is probably headless We used to click through to websites and open apps. More and more, a single assistant does the work in the background. Here is what that changes, and why it already happened with Google and Stack Overflow.
Time To Dump Windows? - Dennis Forbes The moment has arrived where I use literally zero facilities of Windows in my day to day work or life
What Agents Can't Replace AI agents will hollow out the interaction layer of software, but they can't replace the coordination layer — the shared state, rules, and accountability that let organizations operate without stepping on themselves.
Using Claude Code to help me write Using LLMs to help you write is understandably a touchy subject for many. There is quite a bit of AI slop coming out now, as it is really easy to just have the LLM tools think for you and write sup…
The Age-Gated Internet: Child Safety, Identity Infrastructure, and the Not So Quiet Re-Architecting of the Web - Horkan Governments around the world are introducing age-verification and youth social-media laws, but these policies may be doing far more than protecting children. They are quietly pushing identity into operating systems, app stores, and the core infrastructure...
Unified Modules For Your Nixfiles | Jadarma's Blog How to write dotfile modules for NixOS, nix-darwin, and Home Manager, with an easy mental model and no external dependencies.
Accumulated ignorance at scale What do we do about tech debt and code review in a world where AI both writes the code and reviews it?
Claude Code: Things I Learned After Using It Every Day I've used Claude Code daily since it came out. These are the best practices, tools, and configuration patterns that I learned. Most of this applies to other coding agents (Codex, Gemini CLI) too.
Why I Code Listen, I love building cool and useful things as much as the next person. You can look at my GitHub if you want proof. Building interesting things is why I ...
My AI dev workflow - building the right thing My personal workflow with coding agents, the hard work is not gone, it moved to writing the requirements.
You have access to almost any book I read a fair bit of non-fiction that spans a number of different genres. But the trouble with non-fiction is that it never answers a question without raising further questions. Non-fiction comes replete with footnotes: a ponzi-scheme for the curious mind...
Our commitment to Windows quality Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th