Featured post what's this? ✨ On Failure (& Layoffs) | Jon Openshaw Sometimes we fail. We fail and we feel lost and depleted and scared. So what do we do with those feelings? Me? I write self-flagellating, unfunny essays in an effort to cradle the splinters of my fragile ego while introspecting to the point of violent ill...
How to optimize (almost) anything Performance is one of the most important aspects of game development, but how do you actually approach it? Let's explore how to investigate a performance issue, and understand what steps and strategies we can employ. Gamedev Courses: https://simondev.io...
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Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back. 30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.
Is .NET Really Underrated in 2026? Well... Learn PostgreSQL for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-learn-postgresql/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about whether .NET and C# are really underrated in 2026 or if it is ...
We installed a single turnstile to feel secure After the acquisition by a much larger company, security became a top priority. Our company occupied three tall buildings, each at least 13 stories high. Key card readers were installed next to every
How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some…
Competence as Tragedy On Cormac McCarthy, John Grady Cole, and what it means to practice a craft while the world moves on without you.
I miss thinking hard. Before you read this post, ask yourself a question: When was the last time you truly thought hard?
The Notepad++ supply chain attack – unnoticed execution chains and new IoCs Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered previously undocumented infection chains used in the Notepad++ supply chain attacks. The article provides new IoCs related to those incidents which employ DLL sideloading and Cobalt Strike Beacon delivery.
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Data centers in space makes no sense - CivAI Blog SpaceX acquired xAI on Monday, forming a $1.25 trillion behemoth with the goal of sending data centers into space. They’re not alone either: Google and a host of startups like Lonestar, Axiom, and Nvidia-backed Starcloud are scrambling into the field. End...
Stay away from my trash! - tldraw: Infinite Canvas SDK for React The tldraw SDK provides tools, services, and APIs to build beautiful whiteboards and infinite canvas applications with real-time collaboration and a powerful React-based canvas.
I ran 40km and knit a hat for my 40th birthday For my 40th birthday I decided to run over a mile every hour for 24 hours. And knit a hat. And do 600 chess puzzles.
From htmx to Django LiveView | Andros Fenollosa If you're using htmx and evaluating Django LiveView, this article is for you. I want to quickly show you the equivalences of what you usually do with
Are we in a software bubble? There is something that has been bugging me for the past few months. Some kind of feeling that what I am hearing and reading is not what is truly happening. Yes, this is yet another blog post about (generative) AI. Hopefully one that contains something no...
Sixty years of learning the same lesson GenAI feels like another turning point for software development. It’s really just the latest moment in a long, repeating pattern of partial revelation and broad avoidance of how creating software needs to be approached.
How to Start a Meetup Group (Lessons from Running One for 10 Years) I’ve been organizing Meetups for a decade, starting with Vim Chicago and Chicago Elixir, and now running Maine JS from Portland, Maine. In honor of our most recent Meetup, here’s my practical guide on how to start a Meetup group, based on what’s worked fo...
Revisiting ChatGPT’s financial advice, 15 months later In Oct/2024 I asked ChatGPT for a portfolio to endure a messy world (original post here). At that time I expected the Israel–Palestine conflict (on top of Russia–Ukraine) to be the main driver of financial uncertainty in the coming months.
Extracting Gold from Antigravity's Brain A workflow for extracting architectural patterns and challenges from AI agent walkthroughs.
The Vanilla Web Is Wonderful I've been working on a new website using only vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's been a fun challenge to build something without any frameworks or libraries.
How I Automated a Daily Intelligence Briefing with OpenClaw | Jose Casanova Set up a personalized daily intelligence report delivered to Telegram every morning using the OpenClaw AI agent and a custom prompt.
Building the Colanode Sync Engine | Hakan Shehu How Colanode uses a local-first model, Yjs, and a revision log to keep nodes consistent across devices.
Grammar models are back, baby! A framework for grammar-constrained generation, inference, and scoring in LLMs. Covers context-free grammars, stochastic grammars, and structured output generation.
Heavy Metal Boy My six-year-old loves heavy metal. I didn’t plan this in any kind of way, but it’s…well frankly, it’s wonderful.
Joyus: I hacked Datastar to support Web Components - Alex Moon Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
The Cost of Leaving a Software Rewrite “On the Table” Rewrite talk lingers. Momentum fades. This post explores why unresolved futures stall teams long before code breaks.
Building a self-hosted cloud coding agent How I built Netclode, a self-hosted remote coding agent with k3s, microVMs, JuiceFS, various coding agent SDKs, all usable from a pretty nice native iOS app!
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Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillance | Will Hackett We have a digital identity problem. Not because verification technology can't inherently be private, it can. But, because governments are asking the wrong question. Governments ask "how do we identify people?" when what they should be asking is "how do we...
Rendering 100k trace events faster with exponential search We’ve recently been looking into optimizing rendering performance of the Perfetto UI on large traces. We discovered that there was some inefficiency in our data fetching logic, especially when you’re very zoomed out. In this case, there can be a lot of sl...
Where the Work Goes When Agents Arrive A friend dropped this in our Slack the other day about Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: I think Gas Town is directionally correct but you have to admit also unhinged in a bunch of ways. I can’t help but be attracted to the absolute gonzo yolo mentality that bi...
Introducing Deno Sandbox | Deno Instant Linux microVMs with defense-in-depth security for running untrusted code.
