Featured post what's this? ✨ The Command Line That Never Died Inside Amadeus cryptic mode: the terminal language designed for teletypes that still backs a huge share of agency and GDS-sourced bookings worldwide.
Stop Flock Flock Safety markets its devices as "AI-powered precision policing technology" - far beyond basic license plate readers (ALPRs) (Flock Safety). The system uses AI to create a "Vehicle Fingerprint" - identifying cars not on...
An exhaustive review of design tool hover areas - 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.
How I run pi.dev safely (and actually get work done) Most people are still using ChatGPT or Claude in a browser tab.
Moats Don't Work When Bridges Are Free ## The prompt that changed my perspective I recently used Perplexity Computer to link my investment accounts together and build a portfolio tracker. Not a la...
We are lucky to have LLMs as programmers A (short) note from my blog. Read to gain insights. Or don't, lol.
When You Can't Fix the Database, You Contain It How we introduced an anti-corruption layer over a legacy database without breaking the rest of the system
Your codebase doesn't care how it got written [10 min read] Every design team I’ve worked with has had the same complaint about clients. “They sent over a PowerPoint with mockups.” Eye rolls. Crossed a...
How can I keep from singing? This is a story of a most unexpected journey — one that is just starting. If somebody had told me four years ago that I’d be writing this today, I would have stared at them in astonishment or laughed dismissedly. Yet here I am, writing about a late-found ...
Why My WordPress? – Alex Kirk Most WordPress plugins are built to grow your audience. I’ve been going in the opposite direction for years: building tools not to increase reach, but for personal reasons: to stay connected to people I care about, to keep memories that would otherwise sc...
New Twin Dad — Edward Champion Being a new dad is so hard. Things change drastically from day to day, you're getting such broken sleep, and you have a whole new person to love. Being a twin dad is like x2. So I wanted to offer what little advice and reassurance I can, and hope that thi...
How We Build Product Teams at Owner.com | Dean Bloembergen How Owner.com reached $15M ARR with 5 engineers. A blueprint for building small, elite product teams by Dean Bloembergen, Co-founder & CTO of Owner.com.
Sam Baumann I created an automation that pulls my highlights from kindle and drops them into my obsidian vault.
Completion is a Substrate, not a UI ICR is not a convenience feature. It is a structural change in how the cost of an interaction scales with the size of the underlying data.
SVG based Vector Scope I was gifted a Sencore SC62 oscilloscope from the mid-80s. It had spent a good chunk of its 40+ year life in a barn. This beautiful device along with many similar models are being discarded since modern scopes have become so cheap and capable. To avoid th...
The Vibes Don't Scale Vibe coding works great for the first few PRs. Then you do it two hundred more times and the codebase quietly stops making sense. The fix isn't better prompts — it's building a machine that compounds.
Building a Grow-Only Counter on a Sequentially Consistent KV Store Exploring Fly.io's Grow-Only Counter challenge: CAS-based and CRDT-like solutions on a sequentially consistent KV store, and what sequential consistency actually guarantees.
A backend where you never need migrations or auth code The story behind MonsterWriter and LinkedRecords — a 8-year side project journey from Google Docs envy to building a generic backend for SPAs.
How I made my skills update themselves · Joost.blog Skills install as loose folders with no package manager. Here's a pattern that makes each skill check for updates — and install them — when you invoke it.
Please don't vibe code your personal website I have experimented enough with AI coding agents that I have come to pick up on their design style, and I've been noticing it on the internet more and more. Some of its stylistic choices I can articulate: too much animation, pointless elements, too many c...
Automate work with routines - Claude Code Docs Put Claude Code on autopilot. Define routines that run on a schedule, trigger on API calls, or react to GitHub events from Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure.
Internet será irrespirable los días de fútbol y otros deportes. Telefónica extiende los bloqueos a Champions, tenis y golf.
Terminator: The Story of the 6502 Code You See Onscreen What are the origins of the 6502 assembly code that you see onscreen through the Terminator's vision? Dave traces its origins and explains its purpose. Comments with question marks get answered on our weekly ShopTalk!: https://youtu.be/iT0T52OV9B8
Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.
What is jj and why should I care? jj is the name of the CLI for Jujutsu. Jujutsu is a DVCS, or "distributed version control system." You may be familiar with other DVCSes, such as git, and this tutorial assumes you're coming to jj from git.
Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data TLDR: Despite claiming to backup all your data, Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders - along with potentially many other things.
Back button hijacking is going away When websites are blatantly hostile, users close them to never come back. Have you ever downloaded an app, realized it was deceptive, and deleted it immediately? It's a common occurrence for me. But t