Featured post what's this? ✨ Court Records Should Be Free Court records belong to the public. Yet anyone seeking access to federal court filings through PACER, a government software system that stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is usually required to pay hefty fees to search for and view docu...
Manifest V2 is leaving Chrome Manifest V3 weakens ad blockers in Chrome. The real technical losses, Google's incentives, and how to retain full filtering.
I have not written a line of code in five months | Gerard Rodes Some honest notes after several months building software with LLM agents: what works, what breaks, and why architecture, tests, context, and taste matter more than ever.
Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X Software optimization manuals for C++ and assembly code. Intel and AMD x86 microprocessors. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X. 16, 32 and 64 bit systems. Detailed descriptions of microarchitectures.
Building and hosting a website in less than 3 minutes I recently wrote about building a website in minutes, and now it's even faster. As in, literally 4 minutes and 22 seconds. Cloudflare released the ability for agents to deploy with temporary accounts. Using my example from the other post, that means you c...
Cyberdecks, Going Analog, Permacomputing, Medieval Guilds, and the Arts and Crafts Movement People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement are all connected to our current moment.
Designing a backyard deck for my house Words: 3,500 Reading Time: 15 minutes This post details my process for designing a backyard deck for my house. Since this post is about showing how to produce the drawings for the deck in order to get a building permit, in this post I'll skip the deta...
Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons For context, this is based on a recent freelance contract in a Django/React TS/React Native codebase size: 20-person team. I have 17 years' experience with w...
A Case Study in the Limits of Takeoff Automation An empirical case study on the accuracy ceiling of vision-language models on real Australian construction takeoff. Given everything but the final numbers, a Claude Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 extractor peaked at 77.5%: because the per-job billing conventions th...
Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs It replaces Groove Music and the classic Windows Media Player.
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows - Waxy.org Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
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