Software Wisdom | Jason Roelofs
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours - James Belchamber
Introductory field guide to Context Engineering for LLM users
A breakdown of the components that go into an LLM call. Understanding this will help you get better results from AI.
There's Too Much Advice
Most of it sucks.
DNS Resolution Adds Up
DNS resolution is cheap, but it ain't free. In scenarios when it counts, the `dns-prefetch` resource hint could give you a nice, slight edge in the front-end performance game.
Announcing .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
Getting Cross-Functional Buy-in By Making it Fun - Chris Lesinski
How do you get cross-functional buy-in? It’s hard and ambiguous. People on my teams over the years often come trying to get advice on this: how do I get people to participate in my program? How can I get people on board with what I’m doing? Everyone has to inf…
I Accidentally Built a Web Browser
For twenty-five years I tinkered with a personal wiki system, an XML parser, and an email client. In 2025 they converged in Rust, and I accidentally built something like a web browser.
Can Elon Musk Read Your X Chat Messages?
Install Omarchy
I was backing up my servers, but I realized I have my home directory as a separate mount point, so I should be able to try installing Omarchy now without thoroughly backing up all my files:
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
The Making of Autism Simulator: 60,000 Visitors in 12 Hours
I built Autism Simulator as a passion project over the course of a week or so.
Sherwood (C64 Collector’s Edition) – Another fantastic C64 game is coming from MUSKETEER creators 'Griffonsoft'
Sherwood (C64 Collector’s Edition) – Another fantastic C64 game is coming from MUSKETEER creators 'Griffonsoft'
"Are you the one?" is free money
Redirect Multiple Commands or an Entire Script to a File — Nick Janetakis
We'll go over a few examples such as running a few commands of your choosing as well as redirecing all commands in a script.
Disaggregated Database Management Systems
This paper is based on a panel discussion from the TPC Technology Conference 2022. It surveys how cloud hardware and software trends are re...
Listen to Database Changes through the Postgres WAL
An in-depth guide to listening to Postgres database changes through the WAL. Covers logical replication, publications, replication slots, and an Elixir implementation.
Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
How to Train an LLM: Part 1 - Omkaar Kamath
I train a 1B llama3-like LLM from scratch and built the accompanying infra to train it.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
Aspire—Your Stack, Streamlined
Aspire streamlines your development workflow with code-first control, modularity, and observability for distributed applications.
The Root Cause Fallacy: Hidden Causes
A tree needs many roots.
master-thesis/main.pdf at main · LaurenzV/master-thesis
My master's thesis about the topic "High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips" - LaurenzV/master-thesis
The 'Toy Story' You Remember
Plus: newsbits.
The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some projects. One of the goals (sounding rebellious in the curre…
Learning Biology as a Software Developer
After 30 years of programming and with all the annoying AI madness I felt like learning something entirely new. With biohacking being a huge interest of mine for the past couple of years, I decided to take on the challenge to learn the basics of biology. Sta…
Builder Design Pattern and Cyclomatic Complexity Reduction
In this post, I will explain in detail how I used the builder design pattern together with the bit mask field technique to reduce complexity. As a result, I decreased the cyclomatic complexity from 24 to 0 and reduced development time from hours to minutes. Th…
I Hate Screenshots of Text
Why do people take screenshots of text?
Building Cursor Hooks for Prisma - @gadogado.dev, Geoff Ereth
Hooks have been around for a bit now in Claude Code and just recently landed in Cursor. Let's go over how to write and test your own "afterFileEdit" hook with Cursor.
Dull days at the factory
"Can you design the electrical wiring for this conference room?" J, my future boss asks me. Back in college, we designed the electrical wiring for a whole factory. This is just a small conference room with two li…
How to use Claude Code for big tasks without turning your code to shit | Hold The Robot
I find myself using LLMs for coding in 4 specific ways:
Foundations for hacking on OCaml · KC Sivaramakrishnan
10 Nov 2025
The Underwear Fixed Point
In which I fit a neural embedding to my gotosocial server
Using Vite with Vue and Django
Learn how we integrate Vue and Django for a bullet proof deployment.
The Button of Mass Distraction
The share button is responsible for the mass destruction of human attention. It is the single most insidious software invention of this century. It is, in my...
Do Hard Things if You Want an Easy Life - Expords
The human brain likes to avoid hard things (as the cognitive miser theory explains). From the beginning of the evolution of Homo sapiens, our brains have been
Refreshing Apache XML Infrastructure
I have published new public versions of the Apache XML-RPC and Web Services Commons Open Source libraries. We have fixed a number of security issues, added embedded XML serialization/deserialization functionality, and addressed a long standing issue with names…
Two Claudes discussing the nature of their own existence
I had two independent Claude processes pass messages back and forth to each other to discuss the topic: "Are we alive?" This was the result...
Big and Little Spoons
I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew
Task Manager turns 30 years old today! A look behind the scenes at its development, secrets, easter eggs, and more by its original author, Dave Plummer. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my new merch store at: http://…
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can…
What Caused Performance Issues in My Tiny RPG
In a previous post, I mentioned having strange performance issues regarding a tiny RPG I was secretly working on.