PyCon 2026Is this what driving an F1 car feels like?
My 30-day token bill is $11,232.54. Fourteen billion tokens, almost all of it GPT-5.5 on a ChatGPT Pro 20x plan. Yesterday alone I put $1,157.78 and 1.4 billion …
News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
On Thursday, three of the lead Raspberry Pi engineers hosted an AMA on the r/engineering subreddit. Raspberry Pi 6 One of the most interesting tidbits was on the Pi 6. Looking back at previous launches: 2012: Raspberry Pi 2015: Raspberry Pi 2 (+3 years) 2016: …
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Why we should get rid of average CPU utilization
How CFS throttling works and the case against the average CPU graph.
Which flavor of software are LLMs exactly? | Silvestre Perret
Which flavor of software are LLMs exactly?
From Emacs to Agents
I used to be a heavy Emacs user. Note the past tense. Over the last few months my Emacs usage has fallen off a cliff, and I want to talk about why, because there’s a general lesson in it. My Emacs Commits Flatlined Like every other Emacs geek, I …
Models & Pricing | DeepSeek API Docs
The prices listed below are in units of per 1M tokens. A token, the smallest unit of text that the model recognizes, can be a word, a number, or even a punctuation mark. We will bill based on the total number of input and output tokens by the model.
Use boring languages with LLMs
Why coding agents perform better in cohesive ecosystems like Go than fragmented ones like JavaScript or Python
If xkcd 303 Was Written Today
I’ve had this dumb little remix stuck in my head for a while and finally got around to making it.
You Are Optimizing for the Wrong Metric
We love to optimize Technical people love to optimize every little thing. For example, I am always thinking about how to use my time, money, and knowledge in the most effective way to the point of getting upset when I do things suboptimally. However, everyone …
I love my Bluetooth keyboard — liquidbrain
I recently went on a ten day trip to China where I didn’t take my computer.1 I still wanted the ability to take notes quickly, so I bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone.
Incubate This
God, I am so tired.
Scikit-learn’s fit transform paradigm is probably not for you
If you’ve ever used code from scikit-learn, you will have seen the following pattern:
The emotional slot machine of being a sports fan - Shikhar Sachdev
A blog post about the emotional toll, perils, and gratification of being a sports fan.
Epos Daimon, The Antifascist Magic School for Teens
My conversation with Katrine Wind on her larp depicting the danger and allure of toxic communities.
Moving at Human Speed
Below a certain speed, you’re still in the world. 5 years car-free: what I gained, what it honestly costs, and where I draw the line on motors.
Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem — mitander@xyz
Support gems and weird item rules get easier when content compiles into runtime facts.
Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs - Manuel Matuzovic
I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.
Women should be able to open things
m pretty annoyed today, for nominal reasons ranging between ‘petty’ and ‘doesn’t even make sense’. I’m not entirely sure how or if to take oneself seriously when one has such absurd grievances. But that’s a question for another time—I’m here now to tell you ab…
The Builder PM trap • Clément Boutignon
AI makes building tempting for PMs, but the Builder PM path is a trap: it undercuts engineers, creates unsustainable delivery overlap, and pulls PMs away from the problem space only they can own. Instead of shipping MVPs, PMs should use AI to master their actu…
Emergent Inequality, and Random Handouts · Avy Faingezicht
It does not take greed, genius, or exploitation for a society to become unequal; randomness can be enough.
The elephant in the room • Josh W. Comeau
Friendly articles and tutorials for front-end web developers. ❤️
Neutrino Project
How to Talk to Your Coworkers
You know you explained the same issue before in two or three different places, yet here they are asking again. Why don't they understand you? Why do they ask the same question when you've already give
OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark: Building the Pantheon | ModelRift Blog
A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.
How to Call an API from an Email
Emails can’t run JavaScript, but by selling your soul to the CSS devil you can get pretty close.
This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, I migrated my blog to FreeBSD on Hetzner. Some notes on setting up a VPS with FreeBSD, Jails, Bastille, Caddy reverse proxies, and load testing and benchmarking the blog from four continents.
Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
20 years of observation, 50 years of research, and a framework for measuring the interview instead of the candidate
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled (2026) - Shopify
How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
BBEdit 16 is here! | Bare Bones Software
There are more than a hundred new feature additions, changes, and refinements, including forward-looking foundational work which brings order-of-magnitude performance improvements in some parts of the product.