2 February 2026

25 links · Monday

Todd C. Miller

Note: this page tends be neglected and is only updated occasionally. The links to the left are where the useful bits are hiding.

The Shoe on The Other Foot

Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk for hours to clear my head, often through parts of the city we typically hurry past. One Tuesday,

Xikipedia

Wikipedia you can doomscroll

You Should Make Web Games

I recently realized that if it weren’t for the fact that making games for the web was possible, I would have probably never tried game development and stuck with it.

My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math

TL;DR: My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical values an order of magnitude wrong. I suspec…

The Zero-Human Company

Every company is adding AI. I skipped that step and built one from scratch with agents all the way down.

URLs are part of the product experience

A URL is like a look behind the curtain. You can hide messy code behind a beautiful interface, but it's hard to hide a messy architecture from the URL.

Malleable Software – Cem Ünalan

I have been thinking about software that gives me the power to customize it, not just with settings and plugins, but by giving me (or an LLM) the space to write code to extend it. I saw this line on Armin Ronacher's latest post about Pi: When you look at what …

A shell --dry-run trick

Review all shell commands before executing them. Avoid a catastrophe. Profit.

We (as a society) peaked in the 90s - Chris Collins

This is one of those thoughts that just sits there and won’t leave me alone. I honestly think we peaked in the late 90s. Maybe I’m doing that whole nostalgia...

Converting floats to strings quickly

When serializing data to JSON, CSV or when logging, we convert numbers to strings. Floating-point numbers are stored in binary, but we need them as decimal strings. The first formally published algorithm is Steele and White's Dragon schemes (specifically Dragi…

Adventure Game Studio

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