Featured post what's this? ✨ The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about recently is the engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Here are the key requirements it’s designed to meet: Store …
mimo-v2.6 RL Training metrics of the mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash reinforcement-learning runs, live from the trainer's logs.
My terminal-native setup for parallel coding agents How I use Ghostty, Git worktrees, Herdr, hunk, Tailscale, and Heeler to run, review, and remotely manage parallel coding agents.
Django: introducing django-mcpz, for making MCP servers - Adam Johnson I made another package! Say hello to django-mcpz, for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in your Django project.
Blog | Tristan Kernan - Django: Simple Streaming “That some of us should venture to embark on a synthesis of facts and theories, albeit with second-hand and incomplete knowledge of some of them – and at the risk of making fools of ourselves” (Erwin Schrödinger)
Burnout by the Kindness of Agents AI might gain total control and destroy humanity one day, but I worry it’ll burn me out far earlier than that. When I read the online discourse about AI-native work, it sounds like commentary on extreme sports performed by superhumans. I get the impressi...
Design System Scalability Made iPhone Duo Possible Apple arrived years late to foldables. iPhone Duo still looks like a product-design win because the design system was already scaling across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — so most apps were ready before the hardware existed. Top-tier hardware is the price of adm...
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloaded the dataset and am now thoroughly nerd-sniped. Hac...
Hosting your vibecoded slop safely How I deploy my vibecoded apps on my own servers with k3s, GitOps and Cloudflare Zero Trust — private by default, with shareable links and preview URLs.
Why does the universe expand? A story about the main reasons I now think the universe expands because collapsed matter must continue as an expanding cosmology, the expansion is the collapse read from the other side, and the rat…
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres ...or how to make Qwen learn query optimization via agentic reinforcement learning
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about recently is the engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Here are the key requirements it’s designed to meet: Store …
Small Programming Tricks A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.
Inference Is the Last LLM Moat OpenAI and Anthropic’s moat for developers is subsidized inference, meaning reliable, fast, Western-hosted access to running models at an affordable monthly price. If that breaks, I think they will…
Updating EV Mileage on my Website through Home Assistant - home automation 'Updating EV Mileage on my Website through Home Assistant' written by davepermen
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately depicts what was captured by the iPhone's camera sensor....