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HN Em Dash Leaderboard Top 50 users by number of posts containing em dashes (—) before November 30, 2022, when ChatGPT was released
The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again) I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.
MORE ON AI Where LLMs Have Been Incredibly Useful Budget-Friendly Engineering Hacks One of the biggest challenges in Lemons racing is the $500 car budget cap. Very early analysis offered some guidance on cars…
An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With Note: This blog post is not a reaction to recent events or some kind of apology. Nothing happened; this is just me doing self-reflection.
Weird Bug A long time ago (at least five years back), I was working on a legacy project where a few customers reported a strange issue: some input labels on certain pages of our web application would occasionally appear blank.
Building a Web Aquarium Part Three August 2025 granted me the opportunity to revisit my web aquarium project with a three.js hackathon.
Replacing developers with GPUs We have been working with AI models for development a lot lately (yes, just like everyone else). And I’m seesawing between “damn, that’s im...
No, Mastodon is not decentralized · Victor Wynne Mastodon operates with significant centralization through server admin control and user concentration on mastodon.social, making it less decentralized than supporters claim.
For years I’ve always wanted to be an open-source maintainer I've always wanted to be an open-source maintainer, but now I despise it. It really takes much more time and effort than you think.
What VCs Don’t Understand About Vibe Coding If you're not using AI tools to code in 2025, you're just behind the curve. But vibe-coding on an existing codebase is like handing the keys to your car to a drunk teenager. It may be fine, but it's more likely to end in tears.
When Your Cache Has a Bigger Carbon Footprint Than Your Users Caching in Rails is like duct tape. Sometimes it saves the day. Sometimes it just makes a sticky mess you’ll regret later. Nowhere is this more true than in...
Remote Code Execution with LLM Agents | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan Some AI agents can execute code or connect to services. If you're not careful, you could be the victim of prompt injection and RCE attacks.
The promise that wasn’t kept AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?
On Collaboration, Criticism, and Moving Forward August 2025 In 2018, someone published a blog post titled "Why I'm Not Collaborating with Kenneth Reitz". It's been following me ever since—dominating
Project MiniNAS | Jadarma's Blog A pragmatic guide for simplifying personal storage with TrueNAS and the Beelink ME Mini
What I Crave from Blogs When I click on a blog post these days, I'm not usually looking for the definitive encyclopedia entry or the slickest marketing brochure. Honestly? I'm hoping for something far simpler, yet increasing
Why I love to read your blog - Sylvia's Noodling Nook It's been a while since I was so invested in reading blog posts. It's such a delight and a relief. I mostly follow indieweb blogs, filled with people...
The Deadliest Virus | Virology Blog by Gertrud U. Rey Rabies virus has a characteristic bullet-shaped virion structure. Rabies virus infection in mammals is nearly 100% fatal if left untreated ...
Using JWT to establish a trusted context for RLS Using RLS can be cumbersome, because it's usually expected to rely on the user name. Could we use JWT to establish a 'trusted context'?
The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time Bitnami’s decision to end its free tier by August 2025 has sparked widespread outrage among developers who rely on its services. This change is part of Broadcom CEO Hock Tan’s strategy …