Almost a year ago, I found that N100 Mini PCs were cheaper than a decked-out Raspberry Pi 5. So comparing systems with: 16GB of RAM 512GB NVMe SSD Including case, cooler, and power adapter Back in March last year, a GMKtec Mini PC was $159, and a similar-spec …
Radar #16: Week of 01/05/2026
The Low Orbit Security Radar is a weekly security newsletter from an offensive practitioner's perspective. One idea, curated news, and links worth your time. News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout When watching the situation in Venezue…
All AI Videos Are Harmful
When OpenAI released the first version of Sora, I was excited. For years, I'd had this short story sitting on my hard drive, something I'd written long ago and always dreamed of bringing to life as a
Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverhold status.
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website
We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.
How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume Down
When I moved to a new apartment with my family, the cable company we were used to wasn't available. We had to settle for Dish Network. I wasn't too happy about making that switch, but something on the
Why does a linear least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple test data?
I used python to generate a correlated data set for testing, and then plotted a basic linear least-squares fit. The result looked a bit strange to me, because the line doesn't really seem to pass &...
Ideas and notes
GitHub - huseyinbabal/taws: Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager
Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager - huseyinbabal/taws
Answering the most popular question in the Hack Club Community
Last modification on 2026-01-04
For the last couple of years, my colleagues and myself have been playing around with AI. I can’t speak for them but from the perspective of a casual user I am very much impressed by the capabilities on display. If you dedicate some time to it you can get a lot…
Raising your kid without ever showing it a cartoon and limiting the screen time to zero is for sure possible, but carries a risk of it being an outcast. If we like it or not, kids will talk about shows, characters and recent trends and I feel that to some exte…
The Hardest Part of My Side Project Isn't the Code
When I kicked off this project at the beginning of the year, I set a goal for myself: send 300 kind words by the end of 2025. I’m happy to report that I hit that milestone on December 2nd. The 100th order was for the words “Dreams come true,” which kinda feels…
A few times now, I have heard people bring up Socrates' suspicion of writing in the context of the impact of AI on learning. As a defense of AI, the point is that people (even wise people like Socrates) have long been concerned about the impact of technologies…
Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption
The productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win.
Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? | Luca Lombardo
Destructors, RAII, and the ownership question.
I don't use the term technical debt
And neither should you
GLSL Web CRT Shader ⌘I Get Info
I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source.
Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
Sven Malvik - Portfolio
Personal portfolio of Sven Malvik. Building Vissper AI meeting companion and Malfi personal finance app.
How Small Time? Clickhouse powers the back-end for Old School Snitch, a plugin for the game Old School Runescape which tracks individual XP gains, item drops, and in-game character locations for roughly 100 users. Old School Snitch is a hobby project of mine,…
Snakes & ladders is a classic board game, originally imported into the United Kingdom from India circa 1890 according to Wikipedia. Its a square grid numbered row wise from 1-100, with some of the cells connected together either by a snake or a ladder. Players…
January 4, 2026
It’s business, not personal.
The real-time event tracker I want | Telesink
Why existing tools fall short for a simple real-time view of key product events, and the vision for a dedicated solution.
I Built a Transcription App Over Christmas PTO
A deep dive into my experience building a transcription app from idea conception to realizing that it had potential.
AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.
Let's Build Rad Shit Together
The real magic happens at the intersection of building to learn and solving problems that matter. Let's talk about what it means to build products people love in an AI world.
The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence
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