PlasticList
Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
Programmers and Their Monospace Blogs
Many developers seem to have a fanatic obsession with monospace fonts and using them to make their blogs look “cool”. I won’t call out anyone’s blog specifically, but you don’t have to look to hard to find some. As an example theme using a monospace font by de…
Daniel's Blog · LLM Agent Lineages with Active Death and Rebirth
It is pretty rare for Science Fiction to handle the death of AI, but there are two prominent mainstream example for this.
DIY Door Fan to Fix My Groggy Mornings
It all started with a comment from my doctor. He told me that, ideally, I should wake up like Mickey Mouse: bright, energetic, and ready to leap out of bed.
What The Heck Just Happened?
Also titled “Lesson learned in CLJS Frontends” …
Namespaced Pundit Policies Without the Repetition Racket | I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!
Cleaning Up Namespaced Pundit Policies
Downtown Doug Brown » Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.
Balaji Arumugam
Portfolio of Balaji Arumugam - Senior Developer, Indie Hacker, and AI enthusiast
Building a metal detector | Maurycy's blog
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Cut Django Database Latency by 50-70ms With Native Connection Pooling
Deploy Django 5.1's native connection pooling in 10 minutes to cut database latency by 50-70ms, reduce connection overhead by 60-80%, and improve response times by 10-30% with zero external dependencies.
Sakana AI
Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling
The Engineering Triangle: A Framework I've Been Thinking About
So I’ve been thinking about tech careers lately, and I think there might be a better way to understand what’s going on. Most advice I see is like “find your passion” or “play to your strengths” but that doesn’t really help when you’re trying to figure out wher…
Agency is Your Secret Edge
Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual’s capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen t…
How I ended up building HYDRACTRL
I talk about what VJ'ing means to me, how I got to my current setup and which part HYDRACTRL plays in it. Along the way I'll talk about Resolume, TouchOSC, RESOCTRL and TouchDesigner.
Building Agentic Workflows for my HomeLab | Little Things
This post explains how I built an agentic automation system for my homelab, using AI to plan, select tools, and manage tasks like stock analysis, system troubleshooting, smart home control and much more.
How To Care About Your Job When It Doesn't Care About You
We all want to do awesome things and make an impact at work. However, what we call “work” is a relationship between employer and employee that's inherently and persistently designed to benefit the former over the latter. How do we meaningfully contribute, earn…
Switch project, part 2 - Line Card
This is part 2 of my ongoing series about LATENTRED, my project to create an open source 1U managed Ethernet switch from scratch.
Stop blackpilling, stop dooming, forget p(doom), and learn to love building GPT wrappers
A model of development plans in Phu Quoc, Vietnam
What Problem Does UBI Solve?
Ask ten different people what problem Universal Basic Income solves, and you’ll get ten different answers. Scott Santens could probably give you a hundred. This is understandable: A world with UBI differs from today’s world in innumerable ways, and it’s actua…
How I made SumatraPDF crash less
Implementing crash reporting in SumatraPDF
PNG is back!
After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
Repeat Yourself | Matthias Endler
One of the most repeated pieces of advice throu…
Your audience won't make it to page 28 — Epi Notes
When the Moderna COVID vaccine trial interim results were announced, showing a ~95% vaccine efficacy, I was pretty excited. They announced it in a press release first but I grabbed the FDA submission as soon as I could. Inside, on page 28 (of 54), was a graph …
Capturing my handwriting in a searchable digital format
The personal website of Colin Ramsay, a software developer from Cornwall who is the Technical Director with Go Tripod
The Internal Inconsistency of Large Language Models
Or: AI’s Self-Contradiction Problem.
Pedram Navid's Web Blog | How I vibe coded hypeflo.ws in a few hours
A brief overview of how I built a complete site using AI tools
Writing Toy Software Is A Joy
Why you should write more toy programs
U.S. Chemical Safety Board Could be Eliminated
The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by October 2026, citing fiscal responsibility and redundancy.
GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke said developers can make immediate adjustments using their programming skills.
The Cosmic Treasure Chest | Rubin Observatory
Dive into Rubin's Cosmic Treasure Chest — there's so much to explore
how i use my terminal
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode