Reverse-Engineering the LCD Display Interface of the Nest 2nd Gen Ther In which I pried open the glass LCD lens at the front of my Nest 2nd Gen thermostat and found the LCD display module, packaged with a flexible ribbon cable and a round pixel array, and took a months-long journey of reverse engineering, detective work, and...
Quick Note on macOS: Still Limited in 2025 – Hookmark When I exchanged emails with Steve Jobs in 2010, I sent him the white paper he requested, recommending—among other things—that Apple introduce system-wide linking in what was then OS X (now macOS). Years later, Apple rolled out Quick Note, a feature intro...
The Complete Guide to Dev Containers in Ruby on Rails - RorVsWild From basic setup to advanced MCP integration: using Dev Containers for portable development environments that eliminate "works on my machine" problems.
Products People Actually Want | Anton Sten – UX Lead & Product Designer A Designer's Guide to Building Better. We're drowning in products nobody wants, built by people who never asked if they should.
How I QA iOS Apps · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
Ruby on Rails Conferences Are Discriminatory, Unintelligent, and Hateful of Ruby in 2025 code master oop ruby jruby java jee jse desktop web gui glimmer swt libui tk gtk rails
The Art of Letting Go: Why Your Platform Needs Less Control Than You Think The Art of Letting Go: Why Your Platform Needs Less Control Than You ThinkAfter nearly two decades building developer platforms, I’ve learned that the moment you truly succeed is when developers fi...
100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon Humans have no damn clue how to measure intelligence.
The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Power Development Company “A flywheel of compounding infrastructure buildout to run these increasingly powerful AI systems… data centers that can build other data centers.” Sam Altman in Gentle SingularityIt’s 2030. You open your laptop and check on your power company. You see th...
The Domino Effect of Industrial Growth Your guide to buying, selling, and investing in real estate. Tips, trends, and insights into the property market.
Don't purchase your iPhone with AppleCare+ My adventures dealing with purchasing AppleCare+ along with the iPhone.
ella - mentally crippled girlie <3 i'm ella, a girlie who's mentally crippled and i'm a huge computer science nerd
Vibe Coding in Practice - Zed Blog From the Zed Blog: Manuel Odendahl demonstrates 'vibe coding' - using AI models in parallel without scrutinizing output code.
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
Physically Based Rendering In OpenGL Using GLTF2 In this video we learn how to modernize our OpenGL rendering pipeline using a physically based rendering technique based on the GLTF2 format. 🔥For more information: 🔹Load models using Assimp: https://youtu.be/sP_kiODC25Q 🔹Paper by Carmelo J. Fdez-Ague...
Gamebooks and graph theory A game book is, contrary to the usual books, a book you don't read pages sequentially. These books are read interactively. You are offered a choice after a paragraph: go to the right turn to section 7, go to the left turn to 138. That's it. Depending on t...
CARU Recommends MrBeast and Feastables Improve Advertising and Privacy Practices The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA — PlanetScale PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.
Block Your Exits Refuse escapes that hollow out attention — social, snacks, binge-watching, frantic productivity. Block your exits to interrupt avoidance, strengthen self-trust, sharpen focus, and recover creativity.
Getting Caught on the Inside When you’re surfing and get caught in the whitewater after a big wave, the feeling can be terrifying – you’re “caught on the inside.” I love this phrase because it conveys a feeling all humans…
GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen3-Omni: Qwen3-omni is a natively end-to-end, omni-modal LLM developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, capable of understanding text, audio, images, and video, as well as generating speech in real time. Qwen3-omni is a natively end-to-end, omni-modal LLM developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, capable of understanding text, audio, images, and video, as well as generating speech in real time. ...
John Kristoff - Journeys in Hosting 1/x In what I hope will be the debut of many in a series to come, I want to share my experience and musings as a frequent traveler in the world of hosting providers. Sometimes it will be just curious anomalies, of little interest to but a few. But perhaps s...
So You Want to Be an Academic? What I Wish I Knew Early in Graduate School Blog for junior PhD students on work, visibility, community, and sanity—long before the faculty job market is on the horizon.
Anti-*: The Things We Do But Not All The Way Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Qbix Streams as a Graph Database - Qbix Platform / Streams plugin - Qbix Community Qbix Streams: A Searchable, Distributed Graph Database Hiding in Plain Sight When most people think of graph databases, they imagine Neo4j with its Cypher queries, or Firebase/Firestore for document search. These tools give you nodes, edges, and the abili...
Demystifying Agentic Memory An in-depth guide to building production-grade agentic memory for LLMs, covering architecture, real-time pipelines, and optimization strategies.
Libghostty Is Coming Over two years ago, in one of my first public talks about Ghostty, I shared my vision for libghostty: an embeddable library for any application to embed their own fully functional, modern, and fast terminal emulator. Libghostty is finally starting to take...
My computer science RELEARNING progress logs This entails my monthwise report of studying computer science subjects
The hidden trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts A progressive rollout refers to the act of rolling out some new functionality gradually rather than all at once. This means that, when you initially deploy it, the change only impacts a fraction of…
To the Best Talent in the World: an Invitation Come join a state-of-the-art team tackling the most important problems in AI – in a society that actually wants you to be here.
Cloudflare proposes the Spotify model for the web • Cory Dransfeldt [Cloudflare posted a 2025 founder's letter](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-letter/) and I haven't seen much discussion of it. But, when you read through it, what they discuss and propose is deeply troubling for the web as have...
I Want a Cross-Platform Tiling Window Manager One of the great things about building your own tools is that you get to have your desired workflow and user experience with very few compromises. I built Notado because I wanted an archiving and highlighting workflow which treated online comments as firs...
Exited Mac Development I’m out # A few months ago I stopped selling my Mac applications (PopDo and FreelanceStation). I have more than enough reasons to not waste my time on continued support for them, which I’m going to discuss below. Lost my love for Mac software development ...
Following processes won't make you a robot Think of an SOP as a cooking recipe, albeit rather a Kenji López-Alt recipe then a grocery store meal box one. It's an extensive overview of what we want to achieve, how we do it (step by step), what is involved (connections and roles) ,and what the end r...
Things To Remember When Screen Printing That Are Relevant For More Things Than Screen Printing Just Do It