David Foster Walleye (Sic) - kolyder David Foster Walleye are born in one of two ways. The most popular way is with “This is Water,” a commencement speech in which a sweaty David Foster Wallace doles out capital-T Truth to graduates as they molt into new beings, letting fresh air touch the r...
Write better comments by removing "we" By removing unnecessary usages of "we" and being direct and explicit, you can increase the signal-to-noise ratio of your comments.
Hector Martin (@marcan@treehouse.systems) So there's a bunch of noise going around a sneaky forced Google Pixel 4a update that seems to cripple batteries... and this is quite interesting. Old kernel: ``` Linux version 4.14.302-g6ff6ddc33f7d-ab10092322 (android-build@abfarm-2004-4012) (Android (...
Bugzilla Developer - Justdave IT Consulting LLC JDITC is a small company primarily providing IT support services to small businesses with enough IT to need an IT person, but not enough to need someone full time on staff for it. We also provide web development services for hire, which includes commissio...
The failed tester From repeatedly failing design tests to building a framework that helped me break the cycle.
Pick Your Own Bubble | Leonid Bugaev They say living in a bubble means ignoring reality, but for me, it’s exactly where I find genuine happiness and freedom. From homeschooling while traveling to working remotely and sharing a home with three generations, I’ve learned life is too short not t...
Lessons on Creative Work | Daniel Saewitz These are lessons I learned while building my indie business, consulting, and pursuing creative work-but you may find some universality in your pursuits. They are my lessons, meaning they are not for everyone. They are not true to every situation, nor are...
The UX of login codes I could do a deep dive into the UX of login codes, but I'll do my best to keep it short. If your product texts/emails login codes, the experience better be amazing. Bad The text/email never comes. You find yourself in limbo and eventually have...
Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters As builders, we need to start focusing on AX or “agent experience” — the holistic experience AI Agents will have as the user of a product or platform.
Why not use DeepSeek to reward DeepSeek? – Wilsons Blog The recent release of DeepSeek-R1 made a pretty big splash, breaking into the mainstream news cycle in a way that the steady model releases we’ve had for a couple years now did not do. The main focuses of these stories were that 1. it was cheap and 2. it ...
Reacting to Changes: Computers and Cells Both computers and living cells have to come up with ways to 'poll' for changes.
My Technological Regrets After several years working on Supercede, I’ve had time to reflect on some technical choices we made. Some of them worked well, others I’d approach differently if I were starting again. Here’s what I regret, and why.
Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024 About the tracking dots Most home and office printers add metadata to printed sheets in the form of very tiny yellow dots (sometimes called a machine identification code) that can’t be seen with the naked eye. The layout of the dots are different between ...
There is no mystery over who wrote the Blue Screen of Death, despite what some may want you to believe - The Old New Thing No real contradictions in anybody's story.
Antiqua et nova. Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence (28 January 2025) Antiqua et nova. Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence, 28 January 2025
Using Events To Get Started Breaking Down A Monolith Hi, I'm James! Join me to see one of the simplest ways to start breaking down a monolithic application, using events. Learn how to use event-driven architecture to add new functionalities without impacting existing code. Understand the benefits of using ...
Balancing Responsibilities in Developer Relations Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Kap, Sarah, James, Lawrence, and Tessa connect to talk about balancing responsibilities in DevRel.
Web Testing. C#, and GitHub Turn your videos into live streams with https://restream.io Let's work on SharpSite, an open source CMS that you can contribute to and learn from. https://sharpsite.org
Query Projection: Stop Hauling More Data Than You Need! - Chris Woody Woodruff Imagine you’re moving to a new house. You could pack only the essentials and enjoy a stress-free move, or you could drag everything you own—grandma’s old lamp, that broken treadmill, and a box labeled “random cables.” This analogy of moving to query proje...
On .NET Live - Visualizing Chaos with OpenTelemetry and Immersive APM Are you using OpenTelemetry? In this week's episode, community member Dobri Kolev returns to show us a chaos simulation visualized with OpenTelemetry and Immersive APM. Featuring: Dobri Kolev #apm #opentelemetry
Recreating Delicious Library in 2025? It’s been so long that I don’t even remember exactly how I discovered Delicious Library. But as one of the rare Mac users back then (at least where I lived), I was definitely among the first to know about it—and I couldn’t wait to tell everyone I knew. Ev...
Stepping my feet into uv world - part 1 I just started using uv for a few things and I'm sharing my experience.
Particles, Progress, and Perseverance: A Journey into WebGPU Fluids | Codrops Editor's note: If you’ve been around the world of web graphics, you probably know Hector Arellano, a.k.a Hat—a developer
Mysteries of "Write error during flashing" when updating BIOS on ThinkPads Recently I ran into some issues with one of my ThinkPads, and updating both its BIOS and EC firmware to latest version could help a bit to t...
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
Open-sourcing Sway Sway is a video communication tool to replace meetings with more in-person like communication for remote teams. And by today Sway is now open source, available on Github.
Troubles with multipart form data and fetch in Node.js This is one of those cathartic blog posts. One in which I spent several frustrating hours trying to debug something that really should have just worked. Once...
A few words about indie app business – Charlie Monroe A while ago, someone asked me for advice about starting an indie app business. So I’d given it some thought and wrote back a few points – and I thought it would be a good idea to put it out here for anyone else who’s thinking about doing this. Let’s start...
Building a semantic movie search demo with pgvector and Next.js On why and how I built a semantic search app and my impressions with it
Building The Roottrees are Dead The Roottrees are Dead was released on January 15, 2025 and it did much better than I ever expected. The reception has been amazing. In just over a week, the game hit the magic mark of 500 reviews on Steam, and triggered the “Overwhelmingly Positive” stat...
Building, Breaking, and Rebuilding: My Journey to a Smarter RAG Application Ever tried organising years of accumulated knowledge into a searchable system?
Meta and Silly — Drawn In Perspective Alternate title: You can't just keep going up one level of abstraction as a substitute for learning anything difficult
Open Thought > Closed Thought OpenAI released a new model that “thinks” to itself before it answers. They intentionally designed the interface to hide this inner monologue. There was absolutely no technical reason to do so. Only business reasons
So You Want To Remove The GVL? I want to write a post about Pitchfork, explaining where it comes from, why it is like it is, and how I see its future. But before I can get to that, I think I need to share my mental model on a few things, in this case, Ruby’s GVL.