Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results
Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results
X-Rite/Pantone Spectrophotometer Unlock
I recently came across a couple of X-Rite/Pantone RM200 spectrophotometers on eBay for cheap. No power-on test, no cable, and no packaging, but for $20 each I had to buy them. The devices — t…
Mastering Postgres Replication Slots: Preventing WAL Bloat and Other Production Issues
Over the last couple of years, I’ve helped dozens of users and organizations to build Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines for their Postgres databases. A key concern in that process is setting up and managing replication slots, which are Postgres' mechanism f…
The ULTIMATE AI Coding Guide for Developers (Claude Code)
How I use Claude Code to implement new features in an existing complex codebase.
Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
This is why I got frustrated with #IoT after many years of enthusiasm. In an ideal world, all devices should seamlessly talk to each other, with no need for too many bridges, apps and intermediari...
Understand Neural Nets better, post 5 of N -- Code Assistant shootout
In a series of previous blogposts [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] I ran some experiments drawing the boundaries of the polytopes generated by a fully-con...
Stop Converting Your REST APIs to MCP
Your auto-generated MCP is bad, and you should feel bad.
How I Take Notes for Research
The key principle I follow is this: how I take my notes will evolve over time. I do not stick to any system too dogmatically. That said, I’ve settled on a system that’s been fairly robust and stable for the past few years. I have tweaked it here and there to m…
Wasm the Hard Way: Porting the Chicory Compiler to Android
I am resurrecting my old “Wasm the Hard Way” series with a some fresh new content about a recent project I have been working on: porting the Chicory Wasm compiler to Android. If you are interested in Wasm and Java, you might have heard about Chicory, a pure-Ja…
So why don't we pick the optimal query plan?
A follow up to my blog post exploring how often we pick the optimal query plan. Instructions how to reproduce it, why it happens and how to address it.
Billionaire math
I have a friend who exited his startup a few years ago and is now rich. How rich is unclear. One day, we were discussing ways to expedite th...
my digital minimalism journey
The main question of this big picture is one: Is it possible to live without a smartphone in the modern era? The short answer doesn't exist, because the righ...
Do Not Give Imperfect People Perfect Systems
As engineers and optimists, we build perfect systems. These systems make sense when we think about machines that, in general, are good at doing things perfec...
Stages of adoption
One day, you stumble on a new methodology/tool.
Why I outline everything
When I changed my major to English, I had a lot of catching up to do. That meant that one of my semesters was all upper-level English classes and one upper-l...
Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price
A few months ago, I upgraded my M4 Mac mini from 1 to 2 TB of internal storage, using a then-$269 DIY upgrade kit from ExpandMacMini.
Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains
Building a Fire
Apple Vs The Law
Apple & Google at the DMA compliance workshops, June 2025
GitHub - fosrl/pangolin: Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI
Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI - fosrl/pangolin
Grok: searching X for “from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)”
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …
Grok 4
Released last night, Grok 4 is now available via both API and a paid subscription for end-users. Update: If you ask it about controversial topics it will sometimes search X …