SQLite JSON Superpower: Virtual Columns + Indexing - DB Pro Blog
One of the coolest patterns in SQLite—store raw JSON documents, create virtual generated columns using json_extract, add indexes, and query JSON at full B-tree index speed.
AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.
Around The World, Part 28: Scaling up
Even though the in-game world is fairly small compared to Earth, I want it to feel big. Part of that is being able to see things that are far away.
Koralm railway
A fast and safe service between Styria and Carinthia: That’s the Koralm Railway. It’s part of the new Southern Line in Austria and one of the most important infrastructure projects in Europe.
Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don’t Know Why
A month after I started my first Bear blog at , my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason: I have since migrated to (you ar...
Why Text in Vampire Survivors Used to Look Weird
In 2022, Vampire Survivors, a game where you destroy hordes of enemies by just moving around, released.
Denial of Service and Source Code Exposure in React Server Components – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
Litestream VFS
Query your SQLite database any time, anywhere
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 LiDAR Roadmap, Universal Hands Free, and Its Next Gen Autonomy Platform
RJ opened the first ever Autonomy and AI Day explaining why Rivian believes it is positioned to lead in this next phase of the industry. The company is leaning hard into compute, custom hardware, large scale AI systems, and a shared data foundation that touche…
Making Rails Global IDs safer
The new LLM world is very exciting, and I try to experiment with the new tools when I can. This includes building agentic applications, one of which is my personal accounting and invoicing tool - that I wrote about previously As part of that effort I started e…
DataPortal: Empowering Everyone to Build and Manage Code-Free Data Pipelines
In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, teams spend far too much time manually building pipelines, managing access, and integrating data…
AcroByte - Acronym word game
This “new” game has a special place in my heart. It’s a re-imagining of a game I played all the time in high school back in the early 2000s. Late nights spent with friends pre-cable internet. Using our AOL connections and firing up Acrophobia. Making inside jo…
Debugging Strange CALayers in ChatGPT
Debugging upside-down text in ChatGPT.app: a race condition where addSubview() connects the view hierarchy before Core Animation's layer tree settles.
Setting up distributed compilations with sccache – David Edmundson's Web Log
I hate waiting for compilations. For day-to-day it may only be a minute or two, but once you start doing another task, the context switching distracts from what you were doing before and breaks everything up. Life is too short to be waiting for computers.
Responding to "The highest quality codebase" - Spencer Schneidenbach
Responding to "The highest quality codebase"
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Perl Advent Calendar 2025 - Teaching Art to Computers the Hard Way
I was told this over and over growing up as a kid. "Your mind doesn't work that way," being the rationale for this. Teachers, if you are reading this, NEVER tell a kid that. Seriously. I believed it for nearly a half-century, then wrote my first novel, and lat…
Nokia N900 Necromancy
Building a fake battery, adding a USB-C port, booting from SD card, and giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone.
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
Redesigning should be done carefully • Milovan Jovičić, Product Designer
September 3, 1967 was the day every Swedish driver had to relearn how to drive. Here is how the streets looked on the day when Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right side of the road:
Maria Solano - My code editor
I can quit it, but I do not want to
Why are my view transitions blinking?
Miguel had been battling an annoying blinking with his view transitions and found the root cause. He’s sharing his learning in this article so you don’t fall into the same trap!
GPT-5.2 Review: Incredibly Impressive, But Too Slow
Hands-on GPT-5.2 review: better instruction following and codegen, Pro is a slow genius, but Thinking is too slow to compete with other models of similar intelligence.
Finding broken migrations with Bisect
The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.
My experience with Lean 4 for general programming
I am currently looking for a job! If you're hiring a new grad in 2026 for for Rust, TypeScript, or React, feel free to shoot me an email at serena (at) quamserena.com.