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32 links from the last 24 hours ยท 15 October 2026

What I Self-Host | Clever Blog Title

I’ve always had a foot in the self-hosting world, long before it was called that. My freshman year of university, I ran a website from a Linux box underneath my bed. There was some downtime when my roommate got tired of the fan noise and turned it off. For sev…

Fit height to background pattern size with calc-size()

I have a section with a background pattern that repeats on both axes. I wanted the vertical repeat to be aligned with the pattern’s height, so the pattern won’t have cut-offs.

Tiny Little Office: the link is the document

A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.

Fancy Curl Sites

So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands!

Brand is who you are

I think brand is often misunderstood. People talk about it as the logo, the website, the colors. Those are the things you can see, so it’s natural to start there. But they are expressions of the brand. The underlying thing is who you are and what you stand for…

The Carpenter

Who loved making furniture and making customers happy in equal measure.

Three +1s and a prayer

Human code review was never exhaustive. It gave us a practical way to inspect changes with limited time, context and memory, and for decades it was one of the best tools we had.

Just Using Claude No Longer Generates Alpha

Eighteen months ago, simply transforming an ask into a Claude prompt was an edge. Your coworker would be dazzled by the magic of the LLM being able to spit out something coherent and dense almost immediately, almost unbelievably so. Even for those steeped in s…

Can LLMs audit a supermarket shelf yet? – aunhumano

A few years before the advent of gpt-3, a colleague introduced me to an entrepreneur who had a problem he wanted to solve. He ran a “human supermarket shelf supervisors” business where each supervisor visited many supermarkets q day in order to check whether s…

Plasma 6.8

KDE’s 30th anniversary is an opportunity to look forward: Plasma 6.8 helps lay the foundation for the future of Plasma and free desktops.

Benchmarking any2bazel - towards more efficient migrations

We’re fond of Bazel, and particularly fond of the capabilities it offers developers. Faster builds, made more efficient through remote execution and caching, made more understandable through declarative configuration, queryability, and precise logging – these …