29 January 2026

43 links · Thursday

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Ode to the AA Battery

Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye: I'm fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven't used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life. Unfortunately, there are no replacements available for sale at t…

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images

The first images from the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder satellite have been shared at the European Space Conference in Brussels, showing how the mission will provide data on temperature and humidity, for more accurate weather forecasting over Europe and no…

The Boolean Trick No C# Developer Knows About

Learn PostgreSQL for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-learn-postgresql/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will introduce you to the most cursed feature you can do with booleans in C#. It's …

It just takes a minute • Ninjas and Robots

Have you given up on your New Year’s resolutions yet? It’s January. The gym is packed. It’s impossible to even get to a locker through a sea of people in the locker room. Someone was lamenting on Facebook that our gym was too crowded. They were... | Ninjas and…

or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chaos

There’s a phenomenon that occurs when you stare too long at a screen full of code you don’t understand1. The brain starts doing something similar to what it does when you look at clouds: it searches for patterns,…

the browser you trust

google got fined for recording private conversations and now wants ai to control your browser

Claude Code and core dumps

It’s after dinner on the holidays and you’re on call when a production system alarm starts to go off. After doing some initial investigation, you find that the issue is not a common one you or your team has encountered before, and there are few other collabora…

Why I stopped building products for myself

As a developer and entrepreneur, I have made a lot of mistakes. In most cases, my product ideas come from what I want. That is okay. "Build for yourself...

Reinventing the Punch Tape

An Agent has only one deterministic session. It is perpetual—never ending, never forking, only moving forward.

What Machines Want

Duncan Reyburn challenges the "cyborg theocracy" by applying René Girard’s mimetic theory to AI. Discover why machines don't have desires—and why we must stop imitating them to reclaim our humanity.

Claude Code tips for large projects

How we use Claude Code with Skills, VMs, and automated testing to develop Ziva - a GUI plugin for Godot - across multiple parallel development environments.

The worst bug I've seen so far in Claude Code

I’ve been an advocate of pushing the boundaries of what people usually regard as ‘safe’ when it comes to coding agents. I’ve been running Claude and a few others locally and on some low-importance production servers with --dangerously-skip-permissions or equiv…

Claude Code and executive function

I have a suspicion - and let me be clear, that’s all this is, a suspicion, I am taking my own claims even more lightly than usual here - that Claude Code makes most people’s lives better, but it makes the lives of those who struggle with executive function muc…

Speeding up Pillow's open and save

I tried out Tachyon, the new “high-frequency statistical sampling profiler” coming in Python 3.15, to see if we can speed up the Pillow imaging library. I started with a simple script to open an image: