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GLM-5.2 vs Claude Opus | Tech Stackups Is the GLM-5.2 hype real or benchmaxxed? We ran it head-to-head against Claude Opus, building a 3D platformer in raw WebGL from scratch.
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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...