ISP Column - July 2025
A column on various things Internet
How I Fixed Ruby's Most Annoying Problem: 60-Second Gem Installs"
Deep dive into solving rdkafka's compilation nightmare: static linking, cross-platform builds, security challenges, and the CI/CD complexity behind precompiled Ruby gems.
Type checking with symbolic execution · Bull no one
U wot m8?My exploration in the uxn rabbithole continues.Being a stack language, stack juggling is part of the deal.It...
Experimenting with SQL:2023 Property-Graph Queries in Postgres 18
Hands-on guide to the upcoming SQL/PGQ graph syntax using a patched Postgres 18 beta.
Lessons from my journey to become the founder I wish I’d met earlier
I celebrate another revolution around the great big ball of fire today. This was a big year for me: I founded my first product startup, all solo. I’m doing something really hard but I realize I’ve never written down my guiding principles about why I do this. T…
Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
How do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads?
Producing Uncompressed PNG Files
Summary: uncompng is a small, single-file C library (or a Go port) for producing uncompressed PNG files. Doing so can be simpler, easier and quicker than producing a regular (well compressed) PNG file.
Lessons without leashes
Let people figure out the outcome of their actions on their own.
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz
Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.
Asynchrony is not Concurrency
Yes I know about that one talk from Rob Pike.
My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
Jul 7, 2025
Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
The current technology is not ready for proper blending
The idea that we must always linearize sRGB gradients or work in a perceptually uniform colorspace is starting to be accepted universally. But is it that simple?
Billions of Tokens Later: Scaling LLM Fuzzing in Practice
Lessons learned from scaling documentation-driven black-box fuzzing pipelines to billions of tokens, practical deduplication strategies, discovered scaling laws, and initial explorations into white-box fuzzing for future expansion.
Everything You Need to Know About Grok 4 | Forge Code
Grok 4 is the most intelligent AI model so far, beating every other model in benchmarks. Is it worth using? Let's find out.
Steve Ruiz
Improve dragging experience by adding a spooky dead zone, or a minimum distance before a shape will begin to drag.
PDF Reporting in .NET With HTML Templates and PuppeteerSharp (and it's free)
Generate PDF reports in .NET using HTML templates and a headless browser. We'll explore Handlebars.NET and PuppeteerSharp, compare alternatives, and analyze performance tradeoffs.
AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair · Victor Wynne
The assertions that Apple’s AirPods need more success are misguided. The fact that the company pushes out free software updates for existing models prove their strategic strength and commitment to user satisfaction over the long-term.
The Renaissance of Full-Stack Developers - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
Full-stack developers are back. AI demands broader skills, reversing the specialization trend we've seen for decades.
I deleted Hinge after a week - on dating apps
Software Engineer at Tesla
Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone
This morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex …
Binary Vector Search at 350GB/s using ARM NEON
Optimizing binary vector search using ARM NEON instructions to achieve 350GB/s throughput.
Zugzwang - Building Tomorrow's Software Today
Software for Businesses and Scientific Research.
Two Simple Rules to Fix Code Reviews
This article describes how following two simple code review rules can make code reviews a great instrument, not a hurdle you have to go through.
I'm rebelling against the algorithm
I grew up on the internet. I'm old enough to remember when my news feeds actually ended. Remember the times before infinite scroll was engineered? I remember...
A Responsibility to the Industry
Firstly, I maintain that it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste. But what’s worse is that he wields that power so clumsily, so carelessly. And because it goes unchallenged, unchecked by someone higher th…
Nate Meyvis
Nate Meyvis's personal site
HENRIQUE GODOY
FUTURE SEEMS SO GOOD
Are we scribes?
O God! O piety! O holy venerable faith! What, my lords, are you doing? Your pledges come to nothing, as long as what is pleasant is more pleasing to you than what is honourable. They basely flood the market with anything suggestive of sexuality, and they print…