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GNU Unifont free software utilities
Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?
The exhilarating speed of AI-assisted development must be united with a human mind that bridges inspiration and engineering. Without it, vibe coding becomes a fast track to crushing technical debt.
Rats Play Doom
We built a complete VR setup from scratch to let rats play DOOM. The system includes a motion-tracked treadmill ball, a panoramic headset, an input trigger, and a reward circuit. All hardware and software components are open sourced, including 3D-printable des…
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no…
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
macOS Tahoe 26.2 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
VACUUM Is a Lie (About Your Indexes)
PostgreSQL VACUUM cleans tables but leaves indexes bloated. Learn why B-trees fragment and how to fix them properly.
blog/2025/04/semantic-versioning-is-hard.mld
Let's take the case that hit me this morning. I've been working on ocaml-docs-ci in order to bring the exciting new odoc 3 features to ocaml.org for everyone to enjoy. I have it checked out and building locally, but to deploy it to the infrastructure managed b…
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Parcha Dev Blog
Engineering insights from the Parcha team. AI agents, fast inference, and building compliance automation.
Software engineering: Should it be a product, or a craft?
I always had strong opinions about the value of craftsmanship, and of product as a kind of fake replica of craft. I still think that product is something falsely glorified in the hyper-commercialized world we live in today, while craftsmanship is the actual va…
Vibe-coding a startup MVP - Senko Rašić
Can autonomous AI coding be used to build a SaaS product from scratch? A practical experiment puts it to the test.
magit-insert-worktrees improves status buffers
When using Emacs' Magit and Git worktrees, adding the magit-insert-worktrees section inserter gives an nice overview of them in the status buffer.
PX: from laptop to cloud cluster within seconds
Details on the launch of PX. Making backend development a joy again.
You Are Dating an Ecosystem
RAZOR.BLOG: SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE. Where Philosophy meets the road + questions matter more than answers.
Not quite up to what was expected – Toby Champion’s Blog
He did end up passing, yes. This one is is pretty intensive coding position and he said the solution wasn’t quite up to what was expected.
Growth Is Value Flow, Not Vanity Metrics - Log - nibzard
Why chasing vanity metrics kills startups and how to think about growth as discovering and scaling value creation
Using Calibri on .gov sites • Cory Dransfeldt
[The US government is run by petty morons that are threatened by a font.](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/) But because the web is the web, you can at least force `.gov` sites to render all text …
Holimization: Why Optimization Is Not Enough
Joannes Vermorel introduces Holimization: why classical optimization fails in messy supply chains, and how reframing objectives, data and constraints turns failures into learning.
Mark Bennett on Using Claude Code for Application Development - SKMurphy, Inc.
A conversation with Mark Bennett, an experienced software developer, about his experiences using Claude Code for application development.
Migrating Schema from Oracle to YugabyteDB using HexaRocket | HexaCluster
PostgreSQL is a very popular open-source relational database system used widely across industries. Over time, it has inspired several forks and distributed databases that either extend PostgreSQL or maintain full compatibility with it.
The Keyboard Is Faster Than the Mouse
I was thinking about the acquisition of Bun by Anthropic and wondering what it really signals. On the surface, it’s an intriguing investment of an AI company...