Any Nix package, live in your browser
tl;dr Try it at https://trynix.dev. Click hello, or python 3.6.2 from 2017, or two eras of hello at once, or a package that exists in no public cache. A Linux machine boots in the tab and you get a shell with those Nix packages on PATH.
The Cost of Safetyism
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
06th September 2026
From microservices to microcells
A concise architecture proposal for the durable-execution era. What changes, what stays, and how to migrate.
YouTube Had a Bug - I Used ChatGPT to Investigate
The story of an annoying bug and how AI allowed me to get some answers.
I'm a builder, I can build anything
Gordon: I wish people would just tell me exactly what they want and then I would go and build it. Joe: Like a tailor making a custom suit. Gordon: Exactly. I can build anything. Halt and catch fire, s02e04 We truly found ourselves in an unexpected era fo…
AI has made software significantly faster to build but human judgment remains critical. Here are some principles that helped me go from vague problem statements to precise solutions, often with limited resources and plenty of ambiguity (aka startups).
How I Actually Check the Weather
Weather apps are convenient, but a single icon can only tell you so much. Here is the pragmatic system I actually use: official forecasts, high-resolution rain radar, lightning data, weather warnings, model maps and my own weather station — from the next 30 mi…
M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3) - Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
Sleeping through the night
Figuring out baby's sleep and how to manage your own life around it has been one of the hardest challenges of being a new parent to this point. Newborn babies can't really tell the difference between day and night and need to be fed very often, so as
If you’ve been into side projects, you’ve probably seen countless times the story of someone building something really big and complex, launching it, and having 0 users. With the AI era we’re living in, this will become even more common since software is cheap…
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly main…
Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
Ritalin Invitees (@intransitivelie@beige.party)
I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to i…
History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight - Isar Aerospace
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, b…
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone | Cloud in a Bottle
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, The Verge, and Gizmodo, among others. The blog post was about a Google Chrome bug tha…
The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Ok it’s not exactly $60 but you can get the board itself for that amount of money on eBay if you’re lucky, but on average the price is around $70-$100 (as of November 2025) which is still very cheap considering you can play Cyberpunk 2077 on this.