35 links from the last 24 hours · 15 October 2026
Who loved making furniture and making customers happy in equal measure.
I’ve always had a foot in the self-hosting world, long before it was called that. My freshman year of university, I ran a website from a Linux box underneath my bed. There was some downtime when my roommate got tired of the fan noise and turned it off. For sev…
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
Fit height to background pattern size with calc-size()
I have a section with a background pattern that repeats on both axes. I wanted the vertical repeat to be aligned with the pattern’s height, so the pattern won’t have cut-offs.
Tiny Little Office: the link is the document
A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.
Jev: For the builders AND dreamers - TypeSafe AI Blog
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
Fancy Curl Sites
So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands!
Tree Appreciator
OpenCode 2.0.
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote - Startup Fortune
Banks including JPMorgan and MUFG are shopping AI data center debt tied to Oracle as credit default swaps spike and bond order books thin out.
Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers
It is important to provide credit.
Brand is who you are
I think brand is often misunderstood. People talk about it as the logo, the website, the colors. Those are the things you can see, so it’s natural to start there. But they are expressions of the brand. The underlying thing is who you are and what you stand for…
The Carpenter
Who loved making furniture and making customers happy in equal measure.
Human code review was never exhaustive. It gave us a practical way to inspect changes with limited time, context and memory, and for decades it was one of the best tools we had.
Postmortem: Sweden's citizenship law shipped with no migration path
What went wrong, and what migrants facing similar reforms elsewhere can learn.
Eighteen months ago, simply transforming an ask into a Claude prompt was an edge. Your coworker would be dazzled by the magic of the LLM being able to spit out something coherent and dense almost immediately, almost unbelievably so. Even for those steeped in s…
How Many Screenshot Apps Does the World Need?
I drew a chart to illustrate how much personal software is being created
Seven tools inspectors actually use, compared on price for solo inspectors and teams, AI help, working offline, state forms and switching.
Agents Only Solve the Easy Part of Coding
Spoiler: the hard part is building a mental model of the app you're building.
A few years before the advent of gpt-3, a colleague introduced me to an entrepreneur who had a problem he wanted to solve. He ran a “human supermarket shelf supervisors” business where each supervisor visited many supermarkets q day in order to check whether s…
An old friend from KISS Linux took up farming in Greece, so I went to see it.
Things I wish I had known about kickscooters
A list of what a $40 used kickscooter replaced, what surprised me, and how it compares to an e-scooter.
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KDE’s 30th anniversary is an opportunity to look forward: Plasma 6.8 helps lay the foundation for the future of Plasma and free desktops.
Pi Durable kept two autonomous maintainers working for four days, including through an upgrade of Pi itself. With no real demand, they wrote their own issues and merged 693 pull requests.
Anecdotal, but my iOS App got approved much faster with new assets!
About a month had become normal for my new iOS apps. This submission, with Apple's new creative assets, sailed through in two days. I don't know whether the images helped.
Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in Google accounts on your Android device. Here is how to disable it.
Correct Isn't Admissible
The fastest database an agent ever built stored nothing.
We’re fond of Bazel, and particularly fond of the capabilities it offers developers. Faster builds, made more efficient through remote execution and caching, made more understandable through declarative configuration, queryability, and precise logging – these …
Personal website and portfolio
A Response to My MCP Blog
A response to my previous blog post about MCP.
Passkeys Are Not a Trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.
Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards.
Introducing Firefox Enterprise | The Mozilla Blog
Institutions are recalculating who controls the technology they rely on. Mozilla has an independent option to offer. For years, organizations consolidated
Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to …