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 prob…
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 introduced…
From basic setup to advanced MCP integration: using Dev Containers for portable development environments that eliminate "works on my machine" problems.
A Designer's Guide to Building Better. We're drowning in products nobody wants, built by people who never asked if they should.
An easy to use, distributed and fast version control system.
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Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
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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...
Humans have no damn clue how to measure intelligence.
23 Sep 2025
My journey from Netlify to self hosting on a VPS
“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 that yo…
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Your guide to buying, selling, and investing in real estate. Tips, trends, and insights into the property market.
My adventures dealing with purchasing AppleCare+ along with the iPhone.
i'm ella, a girlie who's mentally crippled and i'm a huge computer science nerd
From the Zed Blog: Manuel Odendahl demonstrates 'vibe coding' - using AI models in parallel without scrutinizing output code.
An animated sign in dialog built on top of the Radix dialog primitive.
Map of San Francisco parking cops and their recent tickets
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
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-Aguera: h…
Bezier Curve as Easing Function
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 the se…
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Sep 22, 2025 Tags: programming, rant
PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.
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.
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…
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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. ...
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 some t…
Blog for junior PhD students on work, visibility, community, and sanity—long before the faculty job market is on the horizon.
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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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 ability to…
An in-depth guide to building production-grade agentic memory for LLMs, covering architecture, real-time pipelines, and optimization strategies.
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 shap…
Why I'm rooting for HTML.
This entails my monthwise report of studying computer science subjects
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…
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Design your agents accordingly
Writing my own alternative to Google Analytics for my websites
[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 and …
Let Us Make Edits
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 first cla…
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 # Man…
The one where I inspect the source
I think I just experienced a little bit of the future.
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 result…
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