11 January 2026

22 links · Sunday

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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a de…

Trails

Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude.

Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak

A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime. Today, I'm happy to say the fix has been found and merged. This post is an overview of what caused the leak, a…

Techrastination

When hacking meets procrastination

Another Round, Another Agent | Stephen Bochinski

Another Round follows teachers who experiment with drinking to see if it makes them better at their jobs, chasing a kind of Balmer Peak effect. It works for ...

Common misunderstandings about large software companies – Vallified

I sometimes read commentary about large software companies and notice a recurring pattern. People correctly identify real characteristics of large organizations, criticize them, but show little appreciation for why those characteristics exist in the first plac…

Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t.

The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.

Rationality, Reward, and Sleep Training

Let us assume that babies are rational economic creatures who act in their own interests. It therefore follows that…

I Tried to Find REAL Uses for Dell's GB10 — And It Passed

An Edge Supercomputer... So I did what I always do: I tried to make one actually earn its keep. On the bench today is Dell’s GB10 — a compact Grace-Blackwell system that claims petaflop-class AI performance without a datacenter, a cloud bill, or a breaker pan…

Pointer latency

This tests the delay of pointermove events in this web browser as well as demonstrates the usefulness (or perhaps the uselessness) of pointer prediction.

High Agency Engineering

High Agency Engineering As artists adapt to generative AI, software engineering has to evolve too. This is the path I am adopting. Plenty of engineers are struggling with their identity in this new age. Anxiety shows up even among the best of us, and anger isn…

Code is Clay

import { Hypercube, PotteryWheel, BreakingVase, ConveyorBelt, OneAmongMany } from './hypercube'; import Image from 'next/image'; import hypercubeClay from './hy

I am Tired of Praise of Byproduct

I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large language models). I feel we are overly impressed with the byproduct or even the bycatch. L…

My best tricks from 13 years of losing weight

Over the years, I tried many techniques and tricks that helped me lose weight. In this article, I want to share the best of them! Maybe some of them can be useful for you, as well.