VW's New Year's Resolution Is to Bring Back Physical Buttons, Including a Volume Knob
The new ID. Polo's interior is full of buttons on the steering wheel and dash, previewing a return to physical switchgear for future Volkswagens.
The current state of app bloat.
Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds | Saigoneer
If things go our way, YouTube’s notorious unskippable ads might be a thing of the past come this February. ...
65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform
Analysis of 32,000 HN posts and 340K comments reveals negativity bias correlates with higher engagement. Data, methodology, and full paper available.
Why Is SQLite Coded In C
Short post to highlight and early development screen for Elite's Last Battle on the Commodore 64 thanks to Martin Inter. This was found on the back of the cover and has a character block for Alyssa strangely used for the boss section.
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday
: An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter
Short post to highlight and early development screen for Ghosts n Goblins on the Commodore 64 thanks to Martin Inter. This was found on the back of the cover and has very little different - apart from the score panel being missing at this stage.
Learn Phaser 4 by Building a Sonic Themed Infinite Runner Game in JavaScript
Phaser is the most popular JavaScript/TypeScript framework for making 2D games.
enclose.horse
A puzzle game about enclosing horses.
For years, I thought of Google as a trustworthy helper on the Web. Especially where it mattered most, removing pirated copies of my books from Google...
CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.
My personal GitHub page.
For more than a year I have been without syntax highlighting. My editor of choice, acme, simply does not have it and I actually prefer it that way. Some would explain this as an instance of the Stockholm syndrome, or some strange form of hipsterism. However, I…
There Is No New Aesthetics
On the exhaustion of man.
A controlled experiment reveals why developers report vastly different experiences with AI coding tools - and what it takes to achieve reliable, high-quality results.
I have been using neovim for the past 3 months not because I wanted to switch to a new IDE but because my org has a very bureaucratic process to open VS Code or Cursor over SSH, so instead what I usually do is spin up an SSH terminal over http and access it fr…
Choosing the Right Node.js Job Queue
So you've got a Node.js app, and you know what needs to be passed off to a job queue. But do you know what job queuing system to use? Learn how to choose the right one for your needs..
One of the first questions people ask me after hearing that I have quit my corporate job, is almost always the same: “How do you handle the stress?” “How do you sleep at night knowing there’s no guaranteed paycheck at the end of the month?” It’s a fair questio…
On Getting Hacked
On Getting Hacked
Personal blog.
Why I came back from Cursor to VS Code
Rosetta delivers automated block-level yield routing for Hyperliquid accounts.
A technical blog dedicated to AI Security, RAG architectures, and Container Security. Deep dives into securing Agentic AI and Large Language Models.
Observability's Past, Present, and Future
In my last post, , I wrote about my career, my passion for dev tools, and my decision to start a new company focused on observability. I also wrote about ...
Eval Testing LLMs in PHPUnit
Prompts break silently. Here’s how to catch regressions with PHPUnit evals before your users do.
I created an MCP which allows Claude Code to see my NeoVim context and reflect changes.
Many programmers complain AI is good for quickly throwing up some CRUD apps but not much else. When someone points out this isn’t true, everyone (rightly) asks for examples. There aren’t many posts with detailed examples online, so I thought I’ll offer some fr…
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...
Your README.md is obsolete | Prashant Barahi
README.md is that one file in every project that gets the princess treatment from GitHub, GitLab, and other source code hosting platforms.
Where did we leave off last time? In talking about macOS, we discovered many different little things signifying a wider rot. Through that exploration, a few consistent themes emerged.
App Store Slop is Coming :: Pablart
AI slop has hit inboxes, search results, and social feeds. Mobile apps are next.
Statistics made simple
Announcing a simple statistics library for Clojure web servers
AGI is here (and I feel fine)
I propose to begin this year with an acknowledgment that is strategic but/and also sincere.