Half-Baked Product A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.
GitHub - FractalFir/crustc: Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. . Contribute to FractalFir/crustc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al. Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…
Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data On April 13, 2026, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed into law S.B. 388, which amends the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) to prohibit the sale of geolocation data. Notably, the VCDPA defines “sale” more narrowly than other state c...
Who am I? I'm an awkward fellow, after all New month, new Indie Web Carnival submission to overshare personal stuff on the internet. This month it’s hosted by Joe Crawford and the theme is “Masks, Identity & Cosplay”. I’ve never cosplayed or been fond of costumes. My parents never let me celebra...
Understanding is the new bottleneck Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.
Running a Virtual Machine on a Cloud Box That Can't Run Virtual Machines — frankchiarulli.com Cheap cloud servers can't run real VMs. Here's why, and how I got them to anyway.
Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The ac...
Thinking in Ecosystems: From Climate to Planetary Resilience Tech Climate tech is losing trendiness but not relevance. This post explores what’s replacing it and why mission and values matter more than branding.
Understanding List Virtualization - J Lopes How windowing speeds up huge grids: render only visible rows, tune overscan, and compare how React vs Vue skip re-rendering unchanged rows.
We Don’t Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society Major political reforms and big product bets fail for the same reason: too much decision risk taken in one huge bet. Working in small learnable chunks and defining outcomes instead of outputs can change that.
When your software systems don't talk to each other — Laurie Young. Your apps don't talk to each other and the numbers never quite agree. That usually isn't a tools problem or a discipline problem. It's a missing decision about how it all fits together.
The Control Plane Was the Point: Revisiting autofz in the LLM Era A retrospective on autofz, fuzzer orchestration, and how the idea connects to CRS and agent systems.
Using netcat for a Simple Connectivity Test | no dogma blog I keep forgetting the syntax for netcat, `nc`, to test connectivity between two hosts, here it is for my future self.
Ingo Blechschmidt (@iblech@mathstodon.xyz) So. For the past few days I've been deep in a fun and very rewarding, but also extremely scary debugging saga. To cut a long git-bisecting story short: Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend had been silently failin...
