How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume Down
When I moved to a new apartment with my family, the cable company we were used to wasn't available. We had to settle for Dish Network. I wasn't too happy about making that switch, but something on the
WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding
Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code
From the Archive: Thoughts on Swift, while learning Rust
rakmo's world
150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the r…
How to improve your productivity by 200% in just 9 months
Becoming a parent doesn’t ruin your productivity. It pushes you to take it seriously. In this piece, I share how having kids helped me improve how I prioritize, say no, and manage my time. It’s not about shortcuts or hacks, but about embracing the constraints …
Hacking without pain
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How I Beat Lyme Disease with The Ketogenic Diet — Science, How-To Protocols, and 10+ Years of Zero Symptoms - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
I’ve had Lyme disease twice, and I’m now 100% asymptomatic. The second case in 2014 was incredibly severe, but it was resolved in 4–6 weeks with an unorthodox but defensible approach: strict ketosis.
The term "thread-per-core" is confusing. It implies that there is one thread for each CPU core.
Rob Panico - Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are
The word comes from southern Africa. But the truth it carries is older and wider than any single language. It appears in the Rumi's poetry and the Sikh Gurus' lives. In the Kabbalists' repair work and the Taoists' effortless action. In Buddhist restraint and T…
Open Source Companies in the Post-Agent World - Benjamin Shafii's Blog
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
I delivered this talk at the Everything Open 2026 conference in Canberra
The Levels of Knowing a Thing
A tech blog of random technical posts
OpenClaw and the authorization gap
I’m recording a Loom walkthrough of a new feature when I notice something broken—unrelated to what I’m demoing. A year ago, I would have logged a …
You're wandering through a forest, and spot a binary operator ⋆\star.
Software architect
So, you wanna work at a startup?
[Hopefully Helpful] notes for software engineers looking to join startups