This article expands on my OpenSouthCode 2026 talk. I have a slightly awkward question for anyone who collects code coverage in CI: Are you testing the same binary that you ship? For many projects, the honest answer is no. Traditional coverage starts at compil…
Understanding ML inference by breaking it apart
Disappointed Optimists
Every time I give a talk on design, someone finds me afterward. They wait out the handshakes and the business cards, and then they ask a version of the same question. How do I make THEM do things the RIGHT WAY?Not as funny as the original, but you get my point…
The whole payments backend module, which I specifically told him to work together with me (I do frontend), was vibe-coded by him in one single day. How ni...
One awesome product evolution is that agents (Claude Code, Instinct, Poke, etc) are moving off our local computers so that we can use them on our phones. Ultimately this is great for the customer because that means the agent companies provide us with VMs for t…
A programming and hobby blog.
Rebuilding a Dead iPod Game
I loved a 2009 game called Artificial Life. It simulated real-time evolution of protozoa. I took a crack at rebuilding a modern, in-browser version based on that experience. The new version feature…
A thought experiment to list out those important people in your life.
How I Built First-Party Analytics for a Personal Blog
A code-backed guide to first-party blog analytics with Cloudflare Workers and D1: edge events, privacy, migrations, and public stats.
How to build a f**king printer · Nishant Joshi
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.
Two problems I kept hitting once I started running Claude Code in loops: a looping skill re-reads the same files every tick, and CLAUDE.md is advisory so the model ignores it whenever the harness says otherwise. I wrote a small Rust binary for each.
Simple is not the absence of complexity. It is the expensive work of bringing complexity under control.
I don’t want less food. I want healthier food that doesn’t spike my blood sugar or leave me feeling awful afterward. I want food that tastes good and makes me feel good.
Software is going the way of every industrialized domain: the factory is becoming the product, and I'm the bottleneck in it.
A Universe of My Own — building a local-first AI agent harness and the infrastructure that grew around it.
Switching Password Managers in 2026
Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if …
– an owl mid flight I saw last summer. try drawing it. “You should have failed this class. I’m going to make accommodations so that no student can pass next semester the same way you did.” This is what my Ancient History II professor told me when my group and…
Porting a laptop agent into a cloud sandbox drops context and fails as one unit. The fix is to decouple the session store, agent loop, and execution layer.
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.
Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
UPSes are typically the most boring part of your homelab, but they're important. One of their main jobs is to give servers time to shut down safely if the power goes out. Another job is to condition your power so your servers can run smoothly. To do both of th…
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come with generative AI features due to the…
Send a text from your phone and kick off an AI workflow without opening your laptop. In this video, I connect sent.dm to Cloudflare’s Agentic Inbox so an incoming message triggers a webhook, parses a tag, runs an AI content workflow, and saves the result to N…
Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare - CipherCue
Across 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN, 89.6% use Cloudflare. We publish the per-country counts and what the 2025-26 outages showed.
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
Jellyfin 12.0 | Jellyfin
{/ cspell:ignore crobibero Brainz EOTF desync /}
I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…
… from the 90s.
Every building standing in Los Angeles County today, one box per structure, appearing in the year it was built. The surviving county, 1880 to now.
I found an old interview I did with a friend in 2017. It's been 10 years, and I still keep the same beliefs. I was born to be a software engineer, and a writer.
Automatically detecting AI text in my browser
Automated AI text detection is currently an underserved niche. The only game in town is Pangram, which does an excellent job but desperately needs more…
Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.