Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices
Motorcycles burn half the fuel, take up a third of the space, and will absolutely kill you if you're not careful. I ride one anyway.
In which I argue that Nix is the only sane way to work with Linux-based machines, especially today.
Dashboards Are Already Dead | Josh Symonds
Personal site of Josh Symonds - software engineer, consultant, and creator
yolo linux is a corporate nightmare
the "distro" that removes everything that makes linux, linux
Intuiting Pratt parsing
You already know that a + b * c + d is calculated as a + (b * c) + d. But how do you encode that knowledge precisely enough for a machine to act on it?
Three LLM Agents for My Knowledge Garden
I built three AI agents that tend my knowledge garden in different ways: one walks in front, one walks behind, and one walks beside me.
Transparent filtered vector search in DuckDB, or: why post-filtering is broken and what to do about it.
Finding the flattest baby names
What temperature are you coding at? | Chris Loy
When it comes to using AI to write code, I have been thinking a lot about porridge. Allow me to explain.
AI Stole My Mediocrity
This is my guide to surviving overnight flights in economy.Do you fly business? Great, you already have a better chance of sleeping. There may still be ...
Why Claude Code Won (for now) | Alexis Gallagher
2025 was the year of vibecoding and AI agents. But the most improbable part of the year was the discovery that Claude Code, an old-school, text-based, command-line app was the ideal form factor for futuristic agentic workflows. Why did it happen this way? Here…
Release Nvim 0.12.0 · neovim/neovim
NVIM v0.12.0 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...
A month of OpEx quick wins
I spent the past few weeks chasing quick OpEx wins for sport, having felt a nagging sensation that the orchards of our org were a little too-laden with low-h...
GitHub - austin-weeks/miasma: Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit.
Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit. Contribute to austin-weeks/miasma development by creating an account on GitHub.
A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.
Say No to Palantir in Europe
A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining access to our data, our hospitals, and our police systems.It’s …
Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study.
CSS is DOOMed!
Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div — DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Using 3D transforms, CSS math functions, @property, clip-path, anchor positioning, and SVG filters to build a fully playable 3D first-person shooter in the browser without Canvas or W…
(with certain files under certain conditions)
Editorial pretext demo: animated orbs, live multi-column text flow, and zero DOM measurements.
I recently learned a harsh lesson about building startups. You can build a product that beats your competitors in both quality and addictiveness, and still fail miserably if you don't know how to distribute it.
When All You Can Do Is All or Nothing, Do Nothing – CSS Wizardry
If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
A calendar sync went sideways, people across my past and future started getting meeting invites from me again, and I spent the afternoon replacing the whole setup with a safer read-only tool.
Justin Miller's Blog
A practical build log of creating a public-facing RAG app over large municipal budget PDFs, with source citations, embedded document viewing, quality tuning, and production deployment.
How the (Em)ighty Have Fallen—
A journey of the em dash, my obsession with it growing up, my deep appreciation, and the modern constraints upon its usage.
The purpose fades. Your data doesn't.
Is exe.dev the compute primitive you've been waiting for?
Blind A/B tests on Go code generation showed positive framing in agent instructions consistently outperforms prohibition language. I built a linter to enforce it.
Is Data Science in decline?
The Porsche Diffusion
The Porsche Diffusion