Featured post what's this? ✨ Ruby 4.0.0 Released | Ruby We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.
How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness” Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones? I’ve been a Postman user for my entire developer career. I remember when it was just a simple Chrome extension that made pentesting APIs slightly less painful. Those were simpler times. Today, I find myself joining the growing exodus of developers abandon...
Depth on Demand I gave Codex a task of porting an OpenCV tracking algorithm (CSRT) from C++ to Rust, so that I can directly use it in my project without having to cross-compile
Resolve merge conflicts with Claude Code Streamline your git rebases with a custom Claude Code command
Home Assistant as Personal Device Tracker – nuxx.net Part of our Home Assistant (HA) setup uses the Companion Mobile App for easy remote control and to collect data from our devices. The main tracked item is the phone’s location, so HA can tell if we’re home or not, and currently I only use it to change how...
Don’t Get Hacked: How to self-host Coolify on Hetzner A tutorial explaining step-by-step how to set up Coolify on a Hetzner server with security best practices.”
The Future of Software Engineering: Efficiency, Learning Velocity, Small Teams, and Reasoning Under Change The conversation about AI and the future of software engineering is often framed incorrectly. It usually oscillates between two extremes (total replacement or total irrelevance). Both are intellectually lazy. A better framing is simpler (and more uncomfor...
The device that controls my insulin pump uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL. I just need to vent about this here, and maybe talking about it here will get some change. I am type 1 diabetic and depend on insulin to survive,...
Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs — Micah Johnston VST 3 is an audio plugin interface which is developed by Steinberg and supported by a large number of host applications and plugins. The VST 3 API comprises a set of C++ header files which contain definitions for structs, constants, and abstract base clas...
Line scan camera image processing I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff.
Capture the Why We capture what happened everywhere. But ask 'why did we do that?' six months later and everyone's scrambling. The solution is embarrassingly simple.
Everything is a Number - Francesco Carlucci When complexity reduces to simple numbers, what is truly complex?
Tommaso Gagliardoni's Homepage I've been in this field for so long, and yet I never managed to take a picture with you before, thank you so much!
My role as a founder CTO: Year Eight 2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade. Th...
How uv got so fast uv’s speed comes from engineering decisions, not just Rust. Static metadata, dropping legacy formats, and standards that didn’t exist five years ago.
I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 It turns out I've always done weird things to my laptops.
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.
A BlueSky thread by rob pike on Skyview Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember th...
One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics References: - Rotation Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZufiIwwqFA - Penger Model: https://github.com/Max-Kawula/penger-obj - Source Code: https://github.com/tsoding/formula Chapters: - 00:00 - Intro - 00:41 - HTML Canvas - 03:20 - Screen Coordin...
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors I wrote last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a CGM) on my arm 24/7 to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague, Karen M. Sandler — who previou...
