Feedback loops are crucial when trying to modify a system or build something new. Engineers can only safely move as fast as their comprehension of how a change impacts a system. The abilities and limitations of how computers and humans process information is m…
5 Years of Freelancing: same work, better pay, and a ceiling – Dylan Castillo
When is Nextcloud Overkill?
Boolean logic operators are not intuitive. Let's do better
<h2 id="quick-whats-the-truth-table-of-xnor">Quick! What’s the truth table of XNOR?</h2> <p>If you don’t catch that, don’t worry. Hopefully by
Why you should still type code in 2026
An idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month entirely without the use of AI: clearly unsustainable, but maybe entertaining and somewhat useful.
Two weeks in, even with all the hooks I've built, working with the agent has become a chore. Every shipped feature ends with me clicking through it to find out what didn't actually work.
Do LLMs Reason, or Do They Just Predict Math Text?
When “predicts the next number” gets published as “knows how to reason.” INGA314.ai analysis of KisMATH (Saha et al., TACL 2026) TL;DR. KisMATH is a real and useful dat…
I have a pre-installed pool heat pump - an “AcquaSource” branded unit, the kind you can buy at any pool store in Europe - which supports WiFi. The App called “Pool Panel” wasn’t pretty, but it worked and I didn’t give it much thought. At one time, the remote c…
Rental car insurance is broken in Dubai. After being the victim of a hit and run, I believe there's a business opportunity to make it better.
The vLLM real-world lab models mixed production traffic instead of a single throughput number. FCK generated the request mixes, ran the scheduler and routing profiles, captured build outcomes, and emitted the evidence used for the charts below. The lab covers …
erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
Why your primary AI workflow should be notes and files in an IDE, not a chat window. The IDE has become the harness for serious human thinking and writing.
The personal blog of Tim White, Software Engineer from Somerset, UK.
The microVM ecosystem was battle-tested long before agentic AI created the demand. A landscape survey: every VMM, the shared Rust crate ecosystem, a dozen AI sandbox platforms, and honest trade-offs.
The discourse around AI agents has gotten ahead of the practice. Most of what you read assumes we already know which work to point them at, and the rest treats the question as one of how aggressive to be rather than whether the task even fits. What's missing i…
Lzon.ca. A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert.
A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert. Essays, Articles, Guides, and Recipes. As well as Code, Quotes, and Links.
My Agent Memory Library Helps Write Indie Articles
Can a custom memory library help an agent write good indie dev articles? We test it live: elfmem-grounded research, vault recall, peer agent communication, and a human editor. Here is what came out.
I have a 32-chapter book about Codex CLI that updates itself daily. An always-on agent named Andy (the default name in NanoClaw, because I…
Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer
Back in December 2025, Sebastian Aaltonen published a blog titled “No Graphics API” - it presented a great history of the evolution of GPU hardware, and gave an opinionated perspective on how we could simplify the modern graphics APIs on modern hardware. Like …
Prompt Engineering Is Permanent
I thought better models would make prompt engineering disappear. Instead, they became even more important.
acai.sh
The toolkit for spec-driven development. Write feature specs, not prompts. Ship better software with AI agents that understand your requirements.
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury | The Haskell Programming Language's blog
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge - ThinkPol
By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. Ten models entered. The results were not what most people woul…
Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"
The most influential piece of writing about staff engineers in the last decade has to be Will Larson’s Staff engineer archetypes. He argues that the “staff engineer” title covers at least four very different roles: the team lead, the architect, the solver, and…
This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 - Ladybird
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DO_NOT_TRACK
A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.
Dave explains what happens to unused cycles on your PC and why Task Manager can only display an approximation of the CPU used!
A cancer cell is not a broken cell. It has lost context.
We forgot how to write
Words from me as developer, student and human.
Well, I got hacked
It wasn't too serious, it didn't really break containment that much... I was noticing that the qBittorrent app in my TrueNAS is constantly sitting at elevated CPU usage even though it was idle, but restarting it was usually enough for it to go back to zero. B…
The Smallest, Most Complete COSE Implementation
People work for startups for many reasons. They may like being part of a smaller team, getting more responsibilities, working at a faster pace with less red tape, feeling more connected to the mission. But despite regular advice to ignore equity, many employee…
Path to Vibe Engineering
2026, what a year to be alive. AI, LLMs, agents, agentic coding. On one side, the hype train. On the other, narratives built to invalidate everything the hype
The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, or trad coding as Twitter likes to call i…
How a Broken Bike Sync Led Me to Reverse Engineering My Wahoo’s Hidden Debug Mode
Reverse engineering the Wahoo ELEMNT Bolt v3 BLE protocol to unlock a hidden developer debug mode
By which, I mean: a server I can point to. Not just an anonymous virtual machine but a physical device that somebody cares for.
Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years away. At the speed of light, that’s a 2.5 million year trip. So why does the physics say the journey could feel like a short hop?
I found a 77GB database file that only had 145MB of real data. Here is why SQLite hoards space and how I finally forced it to let go. I thought I had plenty of space, but a single libSQL file was hoarding 77GB of "nothing."
Your App Should Ship an MCP Server
I embedded an MCP server inside a native Rust prose editor. It became the single most impactful architectural decision I've made, not for users, but for how I build the product itself.