Notes on Managing ADHD
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
Introduction - Jujutsu for everyone
A Jujutsu tutorial that requires no previous experience with Git or other version control systems.
My phone is an ereader now
August 30, 2025
"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why?
Some historical documents from WWII have a notice on them stating This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone. The documents I've found were received by the United
Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed
https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Android_Developer_Verification
5 Vibe Coding Failures That Prove AI Can't Replace Developers Yet
AI tools are generating insecure code that gets companies hacked and data deleted. Here's what's really happening when people vibe code without understanding what they're building.
You Have to Feel It
You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight.
How World of Warcraft Private Servers Work Total Breakdown
To learn for free on Brilliant, go to https://brilliant.org/Tariq10x/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Ever wondered how World of Warcraft private servers actually work behind the scenes? In this video, I dive deep into the C++ source…
Tokenizing search engine queries for diverse results
Here’s a simple and neat approach to using search engines I came up with today: Find a tokenizer to use for your search query. In this case our query is online tokenizer Add spaces between the tokens from the tokenizer output for your new query: online tokeniz…
Nixpacks is godsent
Nixpacks automatically builds Docker images for your projects without any configuration. No more Dockerfile headaches or build debugging. It just works.
The Burden of Responsibility
The one where AI takes all the good bits and leaves all the bad.
Music to Break Models By
Gödelian limits of prompt-safe AI
The Fastest Way to Insert Data to Postgres - Confessions of a Data Guy
I was recently working on a PySpark pipeline in which I was using the JDBC option to write about 22 million records from a Spark DataFrame into a Postgres RDS database. Hey, why not use the built in method provided by Spark, how bad could it be? I mean it’s no…
“AI” as a free will agent is inherently flawed – Nas' Meanderings
Writing this to share my peace.
Nobody Gets Fired For Reporting the Error to Sentry
Error tracking services were a gift to the development world decades ago, but their effectiveness today is similar to uptime trackers that confirm your app's webpage is up. Modern applications are complex API ecosystems where customer jobs fall through cracks …
Computing simplified coverage polygons
A somewhat recurring problem I encounter in things I work on is the need to compute simplified geographic polygons, or more specifically, simplified hulls of...
Tradeoffs of highly-expressive types · Programming should be enjoyable
Or, hypertyping considered sometimes harmful, sometimes beneficial, it's complicated really
Build your own HTMX
🛠️ Crafting a minimalist eighty-percent-of-HTMX-like library from scratch, in under 300 lines of code, focusing on the essential features and a straightforward implementation.
The Silk Road vs. Sapiens: Why Popular History Shouldn't Mean False History
Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492, “certain though he was of finding the Great Khan – and of the role he would play in the liberation of Jerusalem.” Not to spread enlightenment, as Yuval Noah Harari would have us believe in Sapiens, but on a religious miss…
Are We Decentralized Yet?
A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web services