Aspire 13.1 - Our holiday gift to you
Aspire 13.1 adds first-class AI agent support, CLI MCP integration, dashboard improvements, Azure enhancements, and end-to-end HTTPS for local development.
Resource Principal Authentication with OCI Container Instances
OCI Instance Containers are the OCI way of saying “I have a Container… please run it for me…” The idea is that you don’t have to worry about the underlying resources. It’s serverless containers. Getting your container up and running is extremely simp...
Coursera to Combine with Udemy to Empower the Global Workforce with Skills for the AI Era
Highly Complementary Capabilities Will Create a Leading Technology Platform, Redefining Skills Discovery, Development, and Mastery for Learners and Organizations at Scale Unites Udemy’s Dynamic AI-Powered Skills Development Marketplace with World-Class Univers…
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.
RenderATL 2025 Recap
Had such an amazing time at RenderATL! **Newsletter** Newsletter 🗞 - https://www.jamesqquick.com/newsletter **DISCORD** Join the Learn Build Teach Discord Server 💬 - https://discord.gg/vM2bagU Follow me on Twitter 🐦 - https://www.twitter.com/jamesqquick …
📝 Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
In an interview with "The Verge", the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least...
AWS CEO Explains 3 Reasons AI Can’t Replace Junior Devs
AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back on AI replacing junior developers and explains how AI should be used in the workplace.
The 1979 Pitch: Convincing Bjarne Stroustrup of C++'s Future
If you could time-travel to 1979 and met with Bjarne Stroustrup, what would you tell him (Updated)
No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. Waterfox won't include them. The browser's job is to serve you, not think for you.
Building Software From Blog Posts
Did you know you can just point AI at a blog post and have it build a piece of software? That‘s where we are now.
Moving Cloudflare out of the critical path
I'm a big fan of Cloudflare, but the extended outage on November 18th was long enough that I started wondering whether I really needed it to be in the critical request path for my blog.
The “A” in “AI” Stands For Amnesia
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Don’t Build a General Purpose API (4 Years Later) - Max Chernyak
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From broken to testable SwiftUI navigation: The decoupled approach of MVVM with coordinators
SwiftUI provides several tools for managing navigation, and the introduction of NavigationStack and value-destination links improved programmatic navigation. However, in larger applications, vanilla SwiftUI navigation can pose challenges for testability, maint…
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Prompt-coding without suffering
I have been suffering greatly lately while prompt-coding. I find that the cause is consistently breaking one of a handful of what ought to be commandments. I t...
The order is backwards
Most AI writing tools have the order backwards. They generate first, then ask you to fix it. You end up iterating on garbage, hoping something real ...
Key Management System (Kraken Style)
* We don't use AI to create our comics, all of our comics are hand drawn!
Remove black color with shaders
A while back, I coded the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) logo with a quick css-doodle implementation. There are certainly better ways to do it, but I chose to stack several black boxes and circles, because the background color was black, those bla…
Brief note on hand-drawing and Lie groups
A is a continous map from γ : [0, 1] → SO(3) ⋊ G where G = ℝ3 or possibly SO(2). In other words, a drawing is a continuous path in a group like the one above. Call the drawing group (the semidirect product) D. Then the complete drawing is the composition [0, 1…
What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
Maybe not what you think.
Type-Safe User Interfaces & the Manifest Pattern | Andrew Hathaway
The Manifest Pattern offers a structured way to build fully type-safe, scalable user interfaces in TypeScript.
Noel Welsh: Designing Custom UUIDs
Of my recent projects, one of the most fun was creating an algorithm for generating unique identifiers. In this post I'll walk through my process, and show how a combination of mathematics, computer science, and business requirements lead to the solution. I fo…
Efficient Dockerfile templating for complex build scenarios
Why even consider templating Dockerfiles? Dockerfiles revolutionized the industry with their simplicity. Each instruction creates a new layer in the image, which is automatically cached. This process integrates well with SCM, where you “commit” the results of …
When Everything Is Important, Nothing Matters
As we approach the end of the year, many people start thinking about their next steps for 2026. There are so many things we would like to accomplish in a single year—often things that usually take a lifetime. But why is that?
Going fast, yet standing still
Cancelling all subscriptions of AI tools felt good.
I made the XKCD impossible app without any words
I’ve been impressed with AI Studio’s Apps for prototyping. https://aistudio.google.com/apps So I decided to give it the ultimate challenge: I pasted in XKCD 1425, and nothing else. I’ll let you be the…
trust and mistrust
Denmark is often mentioned as a high-trust society, the United States as a low-trust society. Having lived in both places for a number of years, you can feel the difference: in how public and private systems operate; in signage and instruction; in expressed op…
My internet money fixation - Psychoanalysis - Text Incubation
My internet money fixation - Psychoanalysis - Text Incubation
Poisson to predict football results?
It turns out, the Poisson distribution isn't so good for predicting football results
Against scale
Some of you might have heard the phrase “corporations don’t want to make money, they want to make all the money” (I think I heard it first from James Stephanie Sterling talking about video game publishers). This thinking is a bit of a companion thought to the …
Uber Freight Dropped my Mainframe... Let's Fix it!
Dave chronicles the destruction and restoration of a rare PDP-11/44 system. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Affiliate Links!! Save on the Slate 7: https://amzn.to/4pJfZ4Q For the Slate AX 1800: https://amzn.to/49hKPt2 Check o…
AI will make formal verification go mainstream — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
Published by Martin Kleppmann on 08 Dec 2025.
ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.