Replay :: Box2D Replay is a new system I developed for Box2D. The main goal is to allow users to send me files I can use to reproduce bugs. Because Box2D is open source, I can rarely run a user’s game or see their code in full context. This makes it hard to track down pr...
Stripe Needs Client-Specific ACH IDs We ran into a strange issue recently that feels like something Stripe should help solve. A payment was rejected, and after a lot of back and forth, we finally figured out why. One vendor had tried to debit our account for an amount that should have been o...
big loads offgrid with a small battery (sidelined) No matter that the hype cycle wants you to think, the renewable energy transition is the biggest thing happening in tech and it's happening faster and faster. Despite being neck deep in it personally with offgrid solar projects, most recently solar hot wa...
I Built a Watchman for My Servers (It Even Opens Its Own Fix PRs) Running a few products solo means a lot of things can quietly break while you're not looking. So I built something that watches for me, only speaks when it matters, investigates the problem itself, and hands me the fix.
They Don't Know How It Works This is the dirty secret of AI: It's not engineering. It's alchemy. We traded understanding for power.
Karl Koch | On the semantic web Semantic HTML is interface infrastructure: native elements carry behaviour, accessibility, form semantics, keyboard support, and platform adaptation before styling begins.
Building Gin: Simple Over Easy — Manu Martínez-Almeida A stalled startup in 2014 became Gin: a Go web framework shaped by simple-over-easy design, a radix-tree router, and an API that still works ten years later.
Trying to manufacture permission I wanna expand on something I wrote a few months ago: One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone sh...
Why I like snake_case This is odd for a JavaScript developer, but I like snake_case. Traditionally, JavaScript developers are most familiar with camelCase. That’s the conventio...
LCARS Raylib app - offline voice recognition & UI editing LCARS voice recognition & UI editing This is the continuation in the series of LCARS app development: LCARS Elbow LCARS Frame LCARS Text Editor In the last post I built a text editor from scratch for the Captain’s-log use-case. This time I added three thi...
Stop quoting Steve Ballmer Not "Developers Developers Developers", that one is great. The cancer one.
What if social media optimized for less time online? What if social media optimized for less time online? The strange thing about social media is that it borrows the language of friendship while measuring…
Organise news around the story, not the post — hiddestokvis. A follow-up sketch: organise news around the evolving story instead of the post, ranked on provenance, track record and cross-perspective agreement, not engagement.
Trust is not Governance Google DeepMind's reported Pentagon contract shows why trust and safety culture can't substitute for real governance: independent oversight, transparency, accountability; and protected employee voice.
SOLID and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don’t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read are: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: really good book. ...
Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it' At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.
NEW STUDY: Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Completely Eradicates 100% of Tumors After a Single Dose in Mice A single intravenous dose of Ewingella americana achieved complete tumor elimination in 100% of treated animals, with no detectable toxicity—outperforming chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Why I Stopped Arguing With People I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I colle...
I ported Kubernetes to the browser | ngrok blog Almost 100,000 lines of LLM-generated code in 2 months, and none of it is slop.
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Odd gestures in public Apple’s watch fulfilled the prophecy made by Brazilian pop duo Claudinho e Buchecha back in 1998 — and suddenly, I could control my calendar — and many other things — without using my hands.
Bringing Claude Code Into Neovim I live in two places: a terminal running Claude Code and Neovim. For months I bounced between them. Edit in Neovim, alt-tab to the terminal, paste a file path, ask Claude something, alt-tab back, apply the change by hand. The friction was small but consta...
A Deadline Is a Constraint, Not a Threat A deadline becomes a threat when date, scope, and quality are all fixed at once but a useful constraint when it forces a team to decide what must be true first. This post is about why even autonomous teams get stuck, what separates the "smallest coherent ...
Your Prime Is Not Youth, Money, or Status. It Is Something More Human Your Prime Is Not Youth, Money, or Status. It Is Something More Human
I like Claude Desktop, so I created my own Building my own Claude Desktop with Tauri, GLM-5.2, the Claude Agent SDK, and Apple container machines
Clean Architecture protects the happy zone | Christian Rackerseder Clean Architecture is not only about drawing onions or creating folders. It is about protecting pure application logic from the messy outside world.
Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business The urge to rewrite working code usually serves the engineer, not the business. A test for when a rewrite is worth it, and what AI does and doesn't change.
Grief, Growth, and my Future as a Programmer As AI transforms software development, this is my honest account of moving from fear and resistance to adaptation and the mindset shifts I’m making to stay relevant and fulfilled.
stop asking writers about "AI" Every time I tell someone new that I’m a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: “So, what do you think about AI?” This question has been sapping my motivation to write for years.
There is no 'middle' between working and owning Do you see yourself as a worker? In this article, a tech worker pierces through the myth of the ‘middle class’.
localhost is disappearing Why localhost is becoming the wrong default for agentic software development.
