18 January 2026

31 links · Sunday

Building a Quake PC

After I finished restoring the IBM 2168 486 DX2-66MHz (my childhood dream DOOM PC), there was another box that I wanted to check.

HomeGrown Devlog - Preparing for Gamescom!

Devlog video about "HomeGrown", the casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. I'll be taking HomeGrown to Gamescom in Cologne this year, 20th-24th August! Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegrown, the city-bu…

The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable - Nobel Peace Prize

The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize itself – the honour and recognition – remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as the …

The A in AGI stands for Ads

Had to crunch the ad revenue projection numbers for OpenAI real quick, had enough of the fearmongering and nonsense takes. AGI... now funded by 5x60 second unskippable ads!

TTY and Buffering

Every developer has at least once in their career stumbled upon the scenariowhere a program would not print something as they initially thought. A fewyears a...

Don't waste your back pressure ·

Back pressure for agents You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on quality and correctness, have been…

Hardware for local coding models is still affordable. For how long?

The recent RAM price hikes have pushed GPU prices up as well. The only systems that have not yet been affected to the same extent are Macs and high-end GPUs (RTX 6000 Pro and above). However, I would already classify GPUs as out of reach: running coding models…

Artisanal Code - Sunny Amrat-Nath

> Our single-origin, small-batch code is traceable through its commit history to artisanal programmers and traditional foundries. Incorporating a confluence of different cultures and languages, our code is hand-crafted, wrought through pull requests, processed…

The year everything changed

Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not from GitHub repos, but from the science fiction novels I’ve b…

Architecture for Disposable Systems

As coding agents make software cheaper and lower quality, we're moving toward disposable software, and that changes everything about how we architect systems.

Why I Stopped Reading Fiction and How I Found It Again

For some reason that I don't understand I've always been searching for something. This need to search has always been present within me but I can't quite put into words what it is that I'm searching for, whether I will ever find it, or if the search will ever …

Why Is Password Hygiene Important? – hnst1

Introduction: In an era where our bank accounts, family photos, and work identities live behind a login screen, the phrase “it won’t happen to me” is no longer a security strategy. With billions of data points leaked every year, your digital safety isn’t deter…

I'll build this later

Your roadmap is a cat-and-mouse game between new ideas/features/bugs that are added to it versus what you and your team can tackle. Ideally, it should go down, but it’s often the contrary that happens. And then, you get a customer asking you for some...