– My homebrew website editor + Raycast I have had virtualy the same window manager setup since 2017, when I installed Linux for the first time in my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 laptop. During these years I’ve been swapping multiple Linux distros and also using ma…
Capture time from an ATSC broadcast as a step towards having another independent local network clock…
The reason why we procrastinate, explained by goal orientation theory.
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There is a conversation that happens in every PostgreSQL shop eventually. A query that has been fine for a year gets slow overnight. Nothing was deployed. The …
There’s an ongoing debate among people who pay attention to the evolving nature of software development whether reading and understanding the code produced by an AI agent is crucial or a thing of the past.
New Berkeley data shows the right harness cuts the cost of the same result by 71% with no loss of accuracy. Two startups selling that result at the same price can earn 38% or 75% gross margins. The harness decides which.
The rare moment when I need to open a powerpoint document is here. As usual, I have my institutional account logged into their “services”, because my university pays microslop something in the ballpark of hundreds of thousands of euros in contracts with this l…
Don't Make Job Referrals Public
A small observation from the job market about public referral programs, incentives, and what a referral is supposed to mean.
The AI brain worms have been spreading and I don't have a solution, I just want to get off this ride.
GitHub - asciimoo/hister: Your own search engine
Your own search engine. Contribute to asciimoo/hister development by creating an account on GitHub.
Rise & Grind goes live to the software supply chain.
Your 256GB Mac mini is too small. You need Elbowroom.
tl;dr - Elbowroom is a mac app that shows what is taking up space on your Mac, explains what it belongs to, and helps you reclaim files your tools can regene...
My Office Has an On-Air Light (And Yes, It's a Robot)
The lamp on my office shelf glows solid red the instant my camera goes live, and turns off the second the meeting ends. Nobody has to knock and wonder. My wife, a kid, the dog-walker — anyone who …
Norway from cabin to cabin.
Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.
Why every software engineer should play Factorio · Ahmed Hossam
Playing Factorio made a few software problems easier for me to see.
I have done SEO for more than twenty years, since Google was the new search engine, and I ran Google Ads campaigns back then too. So I have watched a search company build an ad business once before.
Pulling my workout data from Boostcamp with an AI agent
I don't like websites these days · Ahmed Hossam
I open a website because I want to read something. Why is that becoming difficult?
Google is an answer engine now. The search box is still there, but the product is built to hand you an answer, and searching the web has turned into a side feature. Two years ago I wrote that Google…
One objective reason to use Effect, one big subjective one, and the functional-programming discipline that connects them.
Training metrics of the mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash reinforcement-learning runs, live from the trainer's logs.