Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.
Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production
: Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers
Emulator Bugs: Sega CD | jsgroth's blog
Here are two bugs that I ran into while adding Sega CD support to my Genesis emulator, both related to emulating the Sega CD’s CD-ROM hardware. These are from a while ago but I think they’re still interesting enough to write about.
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
DownDetector’s Down Detector
A tiny independent status checker.
How much does it cost to make a video game?
We built a model to estimate the budget of 100,000 games. Here's what we found.
Microsoft steers Aspire to a polyglot future
Microsoft’s cloud-native, distributed application development tool kit drops .NET from its name and embraces, well, everything.
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
My two-part desk setup
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
Agent-based Systems for Modeling Wealth Distribution
We explore agent-based modeling of wealth distribution using the Affine Wealth Model, demonstrating how random transactions lead to Pareto distributions and how wealth taxes can potentially create more equitable outcomes through interactive visualizations.
What Good Execution Looks Like
Quiet execution means low operational noise, clear ownership and stable context, with delivery, reliability and human signals aligned.
Build Relationships - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
a Wheel Maker
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Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production
Append-only log as database. No UPDATE, no DELETE. Complete audit trail built-in.
From prompt to Excel custom function in 30 seconds
Thanks to xllify + Claude Code agent
Marius Bălaj
I’m a UI engineer turned founder with a background in startups. I co-founded QED in 2021, grew it, and eventually sold it to The Sandbox. Now, I’m focused on building in AI.
Claude Sonnet plays HW synth (Roland T-8)
I was discussing AI with several friends and what it does to programming and the world. One of the themes was connecting AI to physical stuff. On an unrelated path I bought some Roland synths to play with and ended up not using them much, because there is too …
The Color Palette Pro is a Synthesizer for Color
Most color palette generators suck. Mine just sucks less.
Deep dive into the small details of micrograd
Introduction In this first post in a series of posts where I will deep dive into the lectures of Andrej Karpathy’s “Neural Networks: Zero to Hero” course. I want to explore the small details that were skimmed through, left out or not explained in depth in the …
Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 2
This is second and final part of the story of how my career as a software developer unfolded (part 1 is here). In this half I work at four different companies in the Seattle area, make my mark, and…
What is success?
You built a product and had your first release. You had some customers. You had a seed round. You had a small team. You worked hard. Things grew. You had a Series A. Few years passed. You had very hard times. You had good times. Now you have hundreds of
My next chapter with Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
Companies complaining .NET moves too fast should just pay for post-EOL support
In this post I describe a solution to .NET "releasing too quickly": just pay for support of older versions, such as HeroDevs' Never Ending Support for .NET 6