We Can Do Hard Things
On getting uncomfortable.
Oomphalism
Naming the corporate mode of perception
What five years of solo development taught me — Tyler Boyd
What I learned from five years as the only developer at a small, growing company — and what's already transferring now that I'm not solo anymore.
Equal Ping for All
How does that “equal ping” thing work? It is not that complicated, but for now, I rather keep the secret buried in the source code (too lazy to explain it right now…).
What I Got Wrong Implementing Graph-Based Vector Search
A dev log about implementing a Vamana-style ANN index from the DiskANN paper, why my first version was slower than brute force, and what it taught me about reading algorithms with implementation in mind.
Growth engineering one pager | Jordan Lord
['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];
AI didn't delete your database, you did
Last week, a tweet went viral showing a guy claiming that a Cursor/Claude agent deleted his company's production database. We watched from the sidelines as he tried to get a confession from the agent:
Thoughts on the #slopdemic
Move over #vulnpocalypse — there's a new term we need to talk about: the #slopdemic. AI didn't invent low-quality vuln reports, but it just turbocharged them, and F/OSS is drowning.
Infinite Image Grids are Flat Toruses
Seth Thompson is a designer and software engineer in New York. His work engages with spatial representation and computational image-making.
Verifying Poseidon in Clean: Why the Last 'sorry' Is About Primality
We walk through a Lean 4 proof of correctness for a Clean model of circomlib's optimized Poseidon hash circuit at arity 1. The theorem says the modeled constraints are sound and complete with respect to the optimized Poseidon spec. After weeks of work, the onl…
Don't fly if you can help it
Flying or frying? Air trips release huge quantities of greenhouse gases, and they do so up in the sky where they're more damaging. If you can, try to find an alternative to flying, such as:
14 Years of Mistakes to “Make Something People Want”
I just got accepted into Y Combinator. It feels like a dream, because their motto is something I’ve been turning over in my head since I was a kid reading Paul Graham’s essays on a CRT monitor. “Make something people want” sounds like simple four words, but it…
That time at Microsoft when I made part of Windows 100X faster...
When I was a Windows developer in 1994, I discovered a routine that was called continually but written very inefficiently; this is the story of how I fixed it!
Screw you Realtek
The Scooter and the Bike
A comparison of kickscooters and bicycles across learning curve, energy efficiency, cost, portability, and theft risk — and what the differences mean for urban transportation advocates and anyone trying to get out of their car.
Parachuting In | Kevin London
I don't hand-write code anymore. The hard parts didn't go away.
Nondeterminism's not the problem
Nondeterminism isn't why LLMs struggle
The transmission
Yet another programming blog
On versioning
I didn’t investigate the history of versioning per se, but I’m pretty sure first version numbers were just simple integers: 1, 2… Apollo…
Not Shay
Portfolio of Not Shay. Building innovative solutions and creating impact.
I Bought a Denon for My Wedding. Twelve Years Later, I Vibe-Coded Its Radio Back to Life.
Twelve years ago today, I bought my first audio amplifier.
How I Actually Automate Everything
Without OpenClaw or Claude
Ten Years of Frinkiac
It’s been just over ten years (February 2, 2016) since we launched Frinkiac to the public. In those first few months after release we added GIF support, some new sites (hello Morbotron), and then we mostly stopped working on it. Everything worked well enough f…
Become a Product-First Software Engineer
I think many engineers would be better contributors if they started to think more about the customer impact of their work.
I am worried about Bun
Bun is excellent software. Anthropic owns it now, Bun sits under Claude Code, and Claude Code getting worse makes me worried Bun could follow the same enshittification path.
Days Without GitHub Incident
Last Incident:
Incident with Issues and Webhooks
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Issues and Webhooks.
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, smartphone batteries will once again be replaceable in the EU. Learn all about the new regulation and what this means for users.
Thienan Tran
A couple months ago, I was the Wizard of Loneliness. I had graduated from college almost two years prior and, while I had luckily found a job, I was unsuccessful in finding friends.
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
The mythical, it's text, so it's accessible There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a te...
Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
2026-05-01
Southwest Headquarters Tour
Table of Contents: Intro, Morning- Flight Attendant Training, Pilot Training., Lunch- Southwest Store, Social Media Serendipity., Afternoon- Network Operations Center, TechOps Hangar, Herb and Coll...
Media Queries Range Syntax
Metal Gear Solid 2's HD Port Just Had Its Entire Source Code Leaked
The HD version, specifically its Vita port, has been busted wide open all these years later.
Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye
Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.
Spirit 2.0 — The Airline Owned by the People, for the People
Spirit Airlines collapsed. Before private equity locks it up, the people can own it. Join the Spirit 2.0 founding coalition. One member, one vote. Profits shared by all.
GitHub - aattaran/deepclaude: Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper.
Use Claude Code's autonomous agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or any Anthropic-compatible backend. Same UX, 17x cheaper. - aattaran/deepclaude
A desktop made for one
Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything
nullagent (@nullagent@partyon.xyz)
Announcing the BYOMesh! We've been hard at work designing what I believe is now the worlds SMALLEST & most CAPABLE LoRa companion dev kit ever! It combines the tried and true SX1276 allowing access to the full sub-1GHz ISM band all mesh enthusiast know and l…
Why TUIs are back by Alcides Fonseca
Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback. DHH’s Omarchy is made of three types of user interfaces: TUIs, for immediate feedback and bonus geek points, webapps because 37signals (his company) sells SAAS web applications and the unavoidable gnome-st…