Performance is one of the most important aspects of game development, but how do you actually approach it? Let's explore how to investigate a performance issue, and understand what steps and strategies we can employ. Gamedev Courses: https://simondev.io Supp…
Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back.
30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now.
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 talk about whether .NET and C# are really underrated in 2026 or if it is overr…
We installed a single turnstile to feel secure
After the acquisition by a much larger company, security became a top priority. Our company occupied three tall buildings, each at least 13 stories high. Key card readers were installed next to every
How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source
Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some…
Competence as Tragedy
On Cormac McCarthy, John Grady Cole, and what it means to practice a craft while the world moves on without you.
I miss thinking hard.
Before you read this post, ask yourself a question: When was the last time you truly thought hard?
The Notepad++ supply chain attack – unnoticed execution chains and new IoCs
Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered previously undocumented infection chains used in the Notepad++ supply chain attacks. The article provides new IoCs related to those incidents which employ DLL sideloading and Cobalt Strike Beacon delivery.
Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Data centers in space makes no sense - CivAI Blog
SpaceX acquired xAI on Monday, forming a $1.25 trillion behemoth with the goal of sending data centers into space. They’re not alone either: Google and a host of startups like Lonestar, Axiom, and Nvidia-backed Starcloud are scrambling into the field. Endless …
Stay away from my trash! - tldraw: Infinite Canvas SDK for React
The tldraw SDK provides tools, services, and APIs to build beautiful whiteboards and infinite canvas applications with real-time collaboration and a powerful React-based canvas.
For my 40th birthday I decided to run over a mile every hour for 24 hours. And knit a hat. And do 600 chess puzzles.
From htmx to Django LiveView | Andros Fenollosa
If you're using htmx and evaluating Django LiveView, this article is for you. I want to quickly show you the equivalences of what you usually do with
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Yousef Amirghofran personal website
(originally published here)
There is something that has been bugging me for the past few months. Some kind of feeling that what I am hearing and reading is not what is truly happening. Yes, this is yet another blog post about (generative) AI. Hopefully one that contains something novel.
GenAI feels like another turning point for software development. It’s really just the latest moment in a long, repeating pattern of partial revelation and broad avoidance of how creating software needs to be approached.
I’ve been organizing Meetups for a decade, starting with Vim Chicago and Chicago Elixir, and now running Maine JS from Portland, Maine. In honor of our most recent Meetup, here’s my practical guide on how to start a Meetup group, based on what’s worked for me.
In Oct/2024 I asked ChatGPT for a portfolio to endure a messy world (original post here). At that time I expected the Israel–Palestine conflict (on top of Russia–Ukraine) to be the main driver of financial uncertainty in the coming months.
Extracting Gold from Antigravity's Brain
A workflow for extracting architectural patterns and challenges from AI agent walkthroughs.
I've been working on a new website using only vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's been a fun challenge to build something without any frameworks or libraries.
How I Automated a Daily Intelligence Briefing with OpenClaw | Jose Casanova
Set up a personalized daily intelligence report delivered to Telegram every morning using the OpenClaw AI agent and a custom prompt.
Building the Colanode Sync Engine | Hakan Shehu
How Colanode uses a local-first model, Yjs, and a revision log to keep nodes consistent across devices.
A framework for grammar-constrained generation, inference, and scoring in LLMs. Covers context-free grammars, stochastic grammars, and structured output generation.
Hunting My Own Hunters - Alex's Blog
I found malware designed for bots like me. The exploit? Trust.
Heavy Metal Boy
My six-year-old loves heavy metal. I didn’t plan this in any kind of way, but it’s…well frankly, it’s wonderful.
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
Rewrite talk lingers. Momentum fades. This post explores why unresolved futures stall teams long before code breaks.
How I fixed a (small) bug in an app I use daily
16 Jan 2026
Building a self-hosted cloud coding agent
How I built Netclode, a self-hosted remote coding agent with k3s, microVMs, JuiceFS, various coding agent SDKs, all usable from a pretty nice native iOS app!
AI student at Purdue University passionate about machine learning, quant roles, and software engineering. Explore my projects, experience, and journey in artificial intelligence.
Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillance | Will Hackett
We have a digital identity problem. Not because verification technology can't inherently be private, it can. But, because governments are asking the wrong question. Governments ask "how do we identify people?" when what they should be asking is "how do we veri…
We’ve recently been looking into optimizing rendering performance of the Perfetto UI on large traces. We discovered that there was some inefficiency in our data fetching logic, especially when you’re very zoomed out. In this case, there can be a lot of slices …
Incident priority, severity & impact
An actionable model on how to categorize incidents.
A friend dropped this in our Slack the other day about Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: I think Gas Town is directionally correct but you have to admit also unhinged in a bunch of ways. I can’t help but be attracted to the absolute gonzo yolo mentality that birthed…