How I learned to stop worrying and love ARINC 424
A post about some progress on making a rust-based ARINC 424 reader library
Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source | Microsoft Open Source Blog
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
The IDE is Now Just a Large Attack Surface - Work & Life Notes
For years, a lot of thought and investment went into Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Agentic development seemed to be their triumph, with tools
My homepage has a pulse
There's a small red heart on my homepage now, beating at my actual heart rate with an exactly 24 hour delay. How I get the data out of my Garmin, and where the white lie is.
My Throw Decides My Aim
A D-A-D song, heard as a blues sung by a large language model. On generating your intention after the fact, the voice with no throat behind it, and what interpretability keeps finding.
Nobody needs to impress the salesman
The salesperson was never there for the persuasion. They were just there to help with limited working memory.
Abstracting effects with continuations
Failures, asynchrony and all kinds of effects can be represented by continuations
Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps
While icons on iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) have always been rounded squares, and rounded-square icons have existed on Apple platforms for over 20 years now, Mac app icons have historically exhibited a variety of unique silhouettes, which helped identification alon…
README, not
Jul 16, 2026 Tags: ai, oss
Capture Clauses as Effects — Yosh Wuyts — Blog
In my post on Hoisting Expressions I discussed the move($expr) feature and how it works much like an inverse of the defer feature many languages have. Instead of creating expressions which run after the scope ends, move($expr) runs code before the scope is ent…
Code Review is Dead | jlchnc
Joe LaChance's personal website
"Useful" is not sufficient
So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can d…
ZIP codes are a bad spatial abstraction | SkaldMaps
ZIP codes are delivery routes, not polygons. See how SkaldMaps combines ACS and other sources using ZCTAs, HUD-USPS crosswalks, spatial joins, and DuckDB.
Do This Before You Contact Your SQL Server Consultant |
Say you need outside help. You’ve exhausted all the things that you could do and, still, nothing works. So, you decide that calling in for help is the next sensible thing to do. Let’s say this is the first time you’re asking for somebody’s help. You decide whi…
Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
Caching Is Not Free | Panayiotis Kritiotis
Cache is one of the most misunderstood components in software architecture. We all know this story. You have a critical web application and you notice that the latencies of a few …
Building a Financial Exchange from first principles | Harsh Iyer
Making from scratch the matching engine, order books, and the core that power modern financial markets.
Reverse-engineering Samsung Notes handwriting
I'd been moving off Samsung Notes and wanted to take my handwritten notes with me, except there's no real way to get them out. You can export a page as an image or a PDF, but that's a flat picture, the actual strokes stay locked in the app. The file Samsung No…
15 Years of Free Software Projects: A Review
Fifteen years ago, I wrote an article summing up my first year as a free software developer. I then wrote regular reviews over the nine years that followed. I covered all sorts of topics: the first steps, contributing, failures, and so on...
Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them
In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by…
Kimi AI with K3 | Built for Agentic Coding & Knowledge Work
Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.
Deleting Systems You Don't Understand
When I was a kid, my father bought a family home computer and placed it in the living room for all to see. When guests came to our house, they would stop by the computer and admire its marvel without
The Developer Rebuilding the Internet
An interview with Cyrus Freshman
Effort Is the Whole Game
What happens when we delegate effort?
6 Months of OpenClaw
OpenClaw went viral earlier this year on tech internet, but the hype has died down quite a bit, especially if Google Trends is anything to go by. But I'm still using it daily, and have been...
We cannot have a rational debate about technology.
As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.
GitHub - xai-org/grok-build: SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.
SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. - xai-org/grok-build
The end of creativity – Hugo Daniel
A story on AI median regression
You should be using a meta harness for agents
Generalist software developer writing about scalable infrastructure, fullstack development and DevOps practices.
SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
Date: 2026-07-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00017-sqlite-editions.md
You can't bug fix your way out of the vulnpocalypse · Alex Gaynor
Wed, Jul 15, 2026
The Loss Function Is the Product · Ryan Merlin
Generation is becoming cheap. The durable advantage is the system that detects error, attributes it, and learns from it.
I redesigned English | Tugulab Blog.
English doesn't follow its own rules. I catalogued everything it forces learners to memorize and designed a regular version — World English — that removes it.
Time Change
The $110/month self-improving pipeline | Andy Widjaja
Self-improving software is no longer a funded-startup problem. It's a solo-builder problem.
When Bugs Feel Like Sabotage | Joel Dare
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.