Recovering Anthony Bourdain’s (really) lost Li.st’s
Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of los...
Linux Sandboxes And Fil-C
Memory safety and sandboxing are two different things. It's reasonable to think of them as orthogonal: you could have memory safety but not be sandboxed, or you could be sandboxed but not memory safe.
I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.
Should You Trust Your VPN Location?
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
Ten Principles of Good Design | Tony Gaeta
Dieter Rams' Ten Principles of Good Design.
One Agent Isn't Enough
Agentic coding has a problem - variance. What if single-agent runs are leaving performance on the table by design? Due to the stochastic nature of LLMs, each agent run has slight variations. Even with the same context, one session might land near the peak, ano…
Error-handling and locality
Here's a common problem: One subsystem (a service, a front end, or whatever) calls into another subsystem (another service, the back end, or whatever). Th...
Before You Cite That Study
Last week Anthropic released findings from their new AI Interviewer tool. Among the headlines: people are optimistic about AI in business. I want you to sit with that for a second. Anthropic interv…
1000 days in 32:9
A comprehensive review of the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 and the super ultrawide experience
Perl Advent Calendar 2025 - Thirty Slices, Twenty-Four Days: How Christmas Was Saved By Abandoning Estimation
December 1st. Vasco sat in the emergency management meeting with a sinking feeling in his stomach.
Toppleware
Toppleware is something that a community builds and adopts in order to overthrow an existing tool, product or service, usually one that h...
The 7 habits of highly ineffective agents
Using Claude Code to build a procedural shader starfield with multi-layer parallax in Bevy started as a fun side-quest.
Writing a Type-Safe Linux Perf Interface in Zig
I'm building a benchmarking tool for Zig and needed CPU counters. This is how I wrapped Linux's `perf_event_open` to be type-safe with comptime.
MCP is a fad | Tom Bedor's Blog
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My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030
Instead of writing my tech comms predictions for next year like I did in 2024, I’ve written a fictionalized account of my day as a technical writer in 2030. It’ll be interesting to see whether we get there or not. Take it as a window into a possible future, on…
New 200-pages Rust guide: Create a real-time voice incident narrator
The new free book on how to create an AI assistant that tracks errors in logs and reports them through voice messages.
I think I might be done for a while
burn out. there's no other way to put it honestly. feels like I've been working non stop for years. if not working I'm thinking about work. what next what ne...
Drawing rectangles instantly on a design job interview is a bad sign • Milovan Jovičić, Product Designer
When interviewing for a design position, I expect a candidate to ask many questions before starting to go into solution.