Iran War Cost Tracker — Live Estimate of U.S. Taxpayer Spending
Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury — updated every second.
Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5
Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with M5, bringing exceptional performance and expanded AI capabilities to the world’s most popular laptop.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.
I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age
Identity verification and age verification is an increasinly common policy conversation at the moment, in numerous countries.
Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max
Apple announced the latest 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max.
XKCD Dependency
A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.
Open source package repositories face sustainability crisis
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
Electric Vehicles
Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering
AI skeptics often argue that current AI systems shouldn’t be so human-like. The idea - most recently expressed in this opinion piece by Nathan Beacom - is that language models should explicitly be tools, like calculators or search engines. Although they can pr…
Welcome (back) to Macintosh
For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully. The only solution has been to start over, to not inherit backup sta…
Is Code Still Relevant?
I've been writing code for a living for 16 years. The changes I've seen in the industry over the last year feel like something else entirely.
Postgres Column Naming
Where “?column?” comes from
Incentives Drive Everything
Incentives shape behavior. When value is invisible, proxies become targets, driving bloat, volatility, and rational dysfunction in modern orgs.
Abstraction Beats Realism
How Abstract Visualizations of Audience Physiology Enhance VR Concert Experiences
Why Everyone Needs a Dead Man's Switch · Technical Blog · Alcazar Security
Why Everyone Needs a Dead Man's Switch
Dev Tools and Moats
Over the last week, I’ve had two different conversations with two different friends. One asked me where dev tools are headed. Another asked, almost casually, what happens to moats in an AI-first world.
Strix - First impressions
We’ve all heard it: penetration testers are over. Their job will soon be done by agentic AI frameworks that can find the same (or even more elusive) vulnerabilities for a fraction of their bloody money - and since they don’t need to sleep, eat, or have a work-…
How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch | Nick Tikhonov
Nick Tikhonov's blog
Common Mobile UX Mistakes I See in Almost Every Project | Dinko Marinac
Subtle but frequent mobile UX issues that only become obvious when apps are built and shipped, covering dropdowns, modals, dashboards, and forms.
How to identify assumptions by distorting time – Abi Jones
Thinking tools: How to identify assumptions by distorting time
Zola is dead to me. Long live Kusachi!
I’d not long since switched from Carbon to Zola and added the external/ page to dork.dev (which at the time of writing this, still needs to be replaced on Kusachi). Here are some of my problems with Zola!
Do Not Write with an LLM
I have been seeing an increasingly prevalent trend of people showing up in online spaces flaunting that they are writing with the assistance of AI. They seem to be proud of this. They shouldn't be.
I Charge for a Single-File Web App I Can’t Protect From Piracy
By Joel Dare ⟡ Written March 1, 2026
So... can Home Assistant run DOOM?
It started with a DOOM t-shirt at a meetup. The real question? Can Home Assistant run DOOM? Two hours later, I had a fully working DOOM integration for Home Assistant and was fighting demons on my smart home dashboard.
No Code by Hand | Ashwini's blog
CI dropped from 37 minutes to 9, at 35% lower cost. Here is what we learned about the hidden queue, mixing Claude and Codex, and where the real multiplier came from.
Using Claude Code Agent Teams for Incident Investigation — magarcia
How I used Claude Code's agent teams to run a parallel, multi-agent production incident investigation — with one prompt and surprisingly good results.
Which programming languages pay the most? I made my own salary charts
Is Rust the best paying programming language? Or Julia? In this investigative article we will get to know the best paying languages, and much more.
Marketing Is Eating Engineering
AI is making every engineer dramatically more productive. As the bottleneck shifts from code to distribution, marketing and GTM roles are becoming the new moat.
I let Claude improve my keyboard's firmware
A short story about how Claude improved my keyboard's firmware
The inner workings of TCP zero-copy
An identity crisis in engineering
Building software by hand was hard but pleasurable. When things didn’t work, we dug into the code and looked it up on the internet. We implemented the solution after we understood; we looked down our nose at the brute-force blind-pastes from StackOverflow. We …
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.
Repurposing Claude Code for Better Spotify Recommendations
I built a Claude Code skill that creates Spotify playlists from natural language. You describe what you want — “70s Ethiopian jazz fusion,” “ambient music that sounds like i…
Change your default date format to the least ambiguous
On 13th November 2025 a TikTok-er had beef with Air Canada.1
How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks
I upgraded kentcdodds.com from Remix v2 to React Router v7 in a day with over 17k lines of code changed. Here's how I did it.
Astro and Svelte: Why I Believe They're the Future of Web Development
Why Astro and Svelte represent a return to web development simplicity — backed by data from State of JS 2025, performance benchmarks, and real-world experience building this very website.