Can AI grow corn?
@fredwilson challenged @seth: AI can write code, but it can't affect the physical world. This is our response.
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.
Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c
Connect to ANY Computer from ANYwhere! The Comet Pro Remote KVM
Dave reviews and explains the GL.iNet Comet Pro Remote KVM which allows you to remotely connect to any PC or device that has HDMI and USB. Comet Pro: https://link.gl-inet.com/rm10-davesgarage-260123 This episode is sponsored in part by GL.iNet, but as alway…
Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider
I built a light that can see radio waves
Spectrum Slit, rootkid (2026) About: https://rootkid.me/works/spectrum-slit Music: Uranium - Radioactive Man
ghostty/AI_POLICY.md at main · ghostty-org/ghostty
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty-org/ghostty
How to Preserve Your Writing for a Hundred Years
There was a question on Hacker News where a user asked how he could ensure his writing would endure for a hundred years. At first, I treated it as a technology problem. Storage, formats, domains, back
ANARI - Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API
ANARI significantly simplifies the development of applications in domains such as scientific visualization by providing high-level functionality to build an in-memory scene representation to be rendered without need for …
Bugs Apple Loves
Bugs Apple won't fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.
400 commits. 14 days. Zero (human) code.
Rundown is my attempt to build a complete product in the Year of Our Claude, 2026
The Real Reason Claude Code Users Prefer the Terminal
Anthropic their favourite way to use : Terminal, VS Code, Desktop App, Mobile, or Web. . Yes, the command line – a plain text application 99% of M...
Sometimes Dropbox is just FTP: building a link shortener
My blog, where I attempt to collect my thoughts and share the occasional interesting topic with others
MCP, Skills, and Agents
If you're not caught up on the current hypewave, coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor have latched onto skills recently. Like with all of these waves, everyone has immediately proclaimed they solve all problems, and all previous iterations of technology a…
Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing
Introduction
Why Offline Learning Still Matters in 2026
Short answer: There are two extremes in our world—hyper-connected world of rich countries, and a disconnected world of underserved communities like rural Africa. I've seen both, and I conclude that being in a low-resource and low-connectivity environment was n…
Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why
Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or b…
Hidden Rules – Demi Yilmaz
Why does the smart girl in school end up with average results and the “weird kid” becomes a top achiever?
Agentic development basics
Blog post: Agentic development basics by Steve Klabnik
Trufa.dev
Browsing Hacker News the other day, I read the most upvoted comment and moved on, only to come back later to find comments that it was LLM generated text.
Links That Survive the Printer
How I built automatic QR code footnotes so printed pages keep their links.
Why I Still Write Code as an Engineering Manager
I still code as an engineering manager. Not to stay busy, but to show my team what good looks like.
Self Hosted Music Discovery Playlists with ListenBrainz and Navidrome
Introduction
When the Tech Industry Becomes Disgusting – Mert Bulan
A reflection on how the tech industry has shifted from curiosity-driven innovation to a culture of excess and influence.
Speculative Decoding Is Not a Heuristic – Reed Meyerson
Speculative decoding is a technique which uses a fast draft model to accelerate the inference of a slow target model. With the right verification procedure, speculative decoding can be lossless (i.e. it reproduces the quality of the target model). For token-by…
7 Fixes That Made My Website Faster and More Accessible
I thought I knew web performance. I’ve been building websites for well over two decades. But when I ran Lighthouse on Kintoun, my little side project, the score was 58. Ouch.
Am I too stupid to vibe code?
Read to the end for Dr. House In 2025
Best Practices for Ownership in GLib
For all the rightful criticisms that C gets, GLib does manage to alleviate at least some of it. If we can’t use a better language, we should at least make use of all the tools we have in C with GLib. This post looks at the topic of ownership, and also how it a…
AT Protocol Primer
What is the AT Protocol and why does it matter in the grand scheme of the web
RFC 7258 Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
In the long lineage of RFCs that shape how the internet ought to work, RFC 7258 takes a different tone. It’s not describing a wire protocol or network algorithm, instead, it’s a declaration of thre…
The Five Levels of PHP 8.5 Pipes
Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas – January 22, 2026
Why I Rewrote Octosuite After 4 Years
Ritchie Mwewa
Performance Is Not a Technical Problem
After 400 performance PRs, I learned the problem isn't code or tools—it's entropy. And you can't fix entropy with a patch.
Neutrality is not a shield
Tackling another assumption of (Irish) neutrality. << Nukes into ploughsharesTBC >> Hello again. This week I’d like to look at Irish neutrality again. I’m aware that this is…
My comments run on email
My website comments setup using email as the backend.
Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? · eieio.games
I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library