My computing prayer
October 2025
Whose Cup Are You Filling?
Today's Sunday Morning Post: Attention, finitude, and a game of life
Building a Stress-Sensing Stress Ball with Raspberry Pi Pico
I was given this Anaconda stress ball at PyCon UK by the amazing Dawn Wages. I think because of having spent so much time working with stress gauges earlier this year as part of my bird feeder project my first thought was “can I add a stress-sensor to this-st…
SATisfying Solutions to Difficult Problems!
Posted on 22 October 2025
I want to see the claw
Technical mastery still matters
🚀 The Rise of a Not-So-Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence isn’t coming — it’s already everywhere. It writes, codes, draws, diagnoses, and even debates. But behind the magi...
Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
In which I explore the biggest barrier in the busy beaver game. What is Antihydra, what is the Collatz conjecture, how are they connected, and what makes them so daunting?
The Index and the Vector
Converting ambiguity into precision can help a broader audience discover and learn from collections
Fixing UUIDv7 (for database use-cases)
My name is Marc Brooker. I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in machining, welding, cooking and skiing.
100 GbE Lab
How I set up my 100 GbE home lab.
How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager
A practical, repeatable framework for running weekly engineering 1:1s using the People, Product, Process structure—with exact scripts, Notion setup, and tips for making them actually useful.
If managers were angels
A fable of adjusting to life in the corporate world.
The Outage You Couldn't Sleep Through • Ninjas and Robots
This week AWS East went down and the internet lost its mind. Twitter was full of redundancy and failover complaints. Redditors argued about how poorly everything’s architected. Even senators jumped in to say Amazon’s gotta get broken up. Fine... | Ninjas and R…
Using Async Functions in Celery with Django Connection Pooling
We have a Django application and wanted to start writing async code. Thanks to recent Django versions, you can, but if you also use Celery, ...
Iso(and Di/Tri)metric Projection in SVGs
I am Dan, full stack software engineer.
Engineering Managers Should (Sometimes) Write Code
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
The Rari SSR Breakthrough: 12x Faster, 10x Higher Throughput Than Next.js - Ryan Skinner
We added proper app router support, SSR capabilities, and correct RSC semantics to Rari. Here's what we shipped and what it means for performance.
Visual Testing in Software | The Problem I Couldn't See | Farzan Tinati
Discover why visual testing matters for complex algorithms and geometric code. Learn how visualizing test outputs catches bugs unit tests miss, improves code understanding, and bridges communication gaps with domain experts.
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
Our Quantum Echoes algorithm is a big step toward real-world applications for quantum computing
Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.
The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites | NEDNEX
Save and Share: Click. Ugh. Another one. You know the drill. You land on a new website, eager to read an article or check a product price, and before the page even finishes loading, it appears: the dreaded cookie banner. A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen ove…
Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service
Greenland Strengthens Internet Links Without U.S. Help
XcodeResources/Colorblind_Accessibility_Guide.md at main · Terryc21/XcodeResources
Helpful examples, tools, and Markdown guides for Swift and Xcode projects. - Terryc21/XcodeResources
Running .NET Applications that Communicate Over a Network Using Docker Compose | no dogma blog
It's fun to run a couple of .NET applications in Docker and have them talk to each other. In this post, I use Docker Compose with a .NET Web API application and a .NET Worker Service application.