I wanted to write this post in markdown, so I did a quick search for a browser-based editor, but quickly questioned why I was doing that. Instead of searching for one that I liked, I popped open codex to build me one. It coded a sufficient version in a couple …
Send a Program, Not a Data Structure
A look at one of the most underappreciated ideas in system design.
I just finished a task with GPT-5.4-mini. Here’s the session summary from oh-my-pi (an agent harness):
Checking my model vibes against SWE-Bench Pro
I thought GPT models felt slow and token hungry, and Claude models were faster. I was wrong.
The Command Line That Never Died
Inside Amadeus cryptic mode: the terminal language designed for teletypes that still backs a huge share of agency and GDS-sourced bookings worldwide.
GitHub Stacked PRs
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This is a long article, so I'm breaking it up into a series of posts which will be released over the next few days. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB; these files will be updated as each section is released.
Why I Don't Ship Preferences
Most software overloads users with settings — but what if that’s the problem? In this article we argue for fewer preferences and stronger defaults, showing how opinionated design reduces complexity, improves usability, and lets software just work.
Mailing things is Fun
Sometimes I can't tell if I'm discovering a cool new hobby, or just getting old. Regardless, today I come to you with a tale of a little endeavor of mine.
Ryan X. Charles
A recent conversation on Mastodon reminded me of some old JavaScript history. When promises were relatively new and the Promises/A+ spec was being developed, there was a request from people with backgrounds in functional programming to incorporate monads and c…
What Happened After My Vercel Plugin Post Hit #1 on Hacker News
13 Apr 2026 What Happened After My Vercel Plugin Post Hit #1 on Hacker News
I have been an early adopter of AI coding tools since they became genuinely useful. Here is what that actually looks like day to day, and why experience matters more than ever.
Debugging why IPv6 was not working on my home network even though my ISP supports it.
The Lucy Syndrome: Why LLMs Forget Corrections | Victor Del Puerto
LLMs don't remember yesterday. That gap has a name, a causal mechanism, and a fix that doesn't require better memory.
Average Is All You Need
LLMs will make more of your average stuff. And that's OK. Here's how average SQL beats fancy attribution models when your agent writes the queries.
Just yesterday, Bryan Cantrill published a short piece that touches something that I think most of us fundamentally understand, but don't have the words. The article is very short, titled "The peril of laziness lost". I recommend you all read it. I plucked out…
Home-cooked software - Ham Vocke
Software can be a home-cooked meal. I experienced what that could mean first-hand.
Continuous collision detection is useful in physics engines and can also look quite cool.
Make tmux Pretty and Usable - Ham Vocke
Customize the look and feel of tmux
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them.
Last week, I wrote about catching a supply chain attack on a WordPress plugin called Widget Logic. A trusted name, acquired by a new owner, turned into
GitHub - sterlingcrispin/nothing-ever-happens
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Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
Microsoft begins removing Copilot labels in Windows 11 apps, but AI tools stay, leaving users feeling misled rather than satisfied.
Servo is now available on crates.io - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Initial crates.io release and LTS version of Servo
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map. Google's…
A breakdown of what software development teams actually cost, what they need to generate to be financially viable, and why most organizations have no visibility into either number.
@adlrocha - How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Apple’s accidental moat
You paid for it, you should be comfortable in it
A friend of mine bought a Tesla Roadster back in the early 2010s. At the time, spotting a Tesla on the road was a rare event. Maybe even occasion enough to stop and take a picture. I never got the cha
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All elementary functions from a single binary operator
A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, sqrt, and log has always required multiple distinct operations. H…
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DIY soft drinks
Cola, orange soda, and almond soda!
Serenity Forge (@serenityforge.com)
A statement regarding the removal of DDLC from the Google Play Store:
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck