It’s considered good and upstanding to stay on top of world affairs. You want to be educated about the world, right? But there is so much to keep up on. So much injustice to counter. I’m here to tell you that the world needs you to consume less news. I know yo…
I’ve worked in the software industry for over twenty years. I have been a consultant, a line engineer, a director, a founder, and a CTO. I have worked at firms as small as two engineers and as large as fifty thousand. I frequently get asked how to move faster …
Meet MiniZX ESPeon — a gadget I’ve been crafting over the past few months. From concept to reality, every aspect of this device is custom-made:…
I spent the better part of a year dealing with cubital tunnel syndrome, a painful nerve issue. This blog post details how I solved this problem.
Over the past few months, a lot of people have turned to Anubis by Xe Iaso for trying to protect their sites, primarily Git forges and alternative frontends, against AI scraping.
The history of clipboards and computers
Throughout the countless years of research on this blog a common thread always comes up: Some features and toggles are often hidden under mountains of hubris that nobody understands. It could be because the software is under-or-badly documented, that it's 'too…
13 lessons I've learned about building software for (internal teams of) software engineers.
The fragmentation of a creative form and its institutions
A recent trend that has popped up since o3 and o4-mini has released has been to submit an image of a location and tell the LLM to guess where it is.
On using Cline and Claude Code to release a major update to production software
18 Apr 2025
An approachable guide to reasoning models: their roots, construction, strengths, limitations, and broader impact on the AI ecosystem
April 17, 2025
When it comes to gaming on Linux, many many many people’s understanding stil remains in the Jurassic era. For the past few years, I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system for both work and gaming. From my personal experience, the gaming experience on …
2025-03-08
Every transactional system must execute, order, validate, and persist transactions.
The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule, states that a few things (the vital few) are much more important than most things (the trivial many). I came across this principle many years ago, in Richard Koch’s wonderful book.
Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series (here’s my coverage of 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash) in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note …
GPU programming used to mean wrangling C++ compilers, bloated SDKs, and vendor-specific toolchains. That’s changing. You can now write GPU code in modern languages like Rust and Zig with fewer layers. This post walks through the current state of Zig’s GPU back…
Sergey Filimonov's blog
A series meant to document and promote the joint effort of making ratatui truly portable.
A self-contained game that fits inside a QR code inspired by DOOM 1993 and The Backrooms - Kuberwastaken/backdooms
YEARS OF DATACLASSES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for overriding special methods just so you can have some attributes.
Defold is a free and open game engine used for development of console, desktop, mobile and web games.
You have just 90 seconds to grab your audience's attention at the start of your talk—or they've mentally checked out. In this video, I reveal why most speakers waste this critical window and how you can use the "cold open" technique to instantly captivate your…
Get .NET 10 Previews - https://dot.net/next Mike is here to show us some of the latest features in .NET 10 Preview 3 that just landed for API developers including new validation support and server-sent events for things like MCPs! Full Release Notes: https:/…
There’s a new AI kid on the block (https://claude.ai) and he is very powerful for programming and many other things. At the risk of being obnoxious, here is what he said about me:
🚀 Ever wondered why Windows 10 was given away for free? Join Dave Plummer, a retired Microsoft engineer from the MS-DOS and Windows 95 era, as he dives into the real reasons behind Microsoft’s bold move. From declining PC sales and Windows 8’s backlash to the…
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At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
If you invest a little time understanding how the components of your database system fit together—not even the internals, just the externals—you’ll be able to move faster, debug better, and build cleaner workflows with more confidence. It only needs some upfro…
RJJ Software's Software Development Service This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Software Development Services, whether your company is looking to elevate its UK operations or reshape its US strategy, we can provide tai…
Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.
.NET, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Jaliya Udagedara