How to Hack Time, With C2PA
By David Buchanan (aka retr0id), 2nd October 2026
Shut Up About Rsi
I'm already exhausted of hearing about Recursive Self Improvement
The Renaissance of Gaming
Over the past few days I’ve been collecting tweets about people using AI to reverse-engineer games, build ports, and get them running on different …
A note on content restrictions
One of my readers mentioned that eblong.com is now showing a "restricted website" warning for some UK users when browsing with iOS. Thanks to Stuart Langridge for the screenshot. If you try to modify the "Allowed List" preferences, you find ...
Flatpak from the CLI sucks - kowalski7cc
Flatpak is today's preferred distribution platform for graphical desktop apps, yet it isn't popular for terminal apps, and for good reason! Launching CLI apps is difficult and not very user-friendly. However, Flatpak can take inspiration from other systems to …
I know you run LLMs. Will it boot?
Fourteen open models, from one RTX 4090 to eight H200s: Apron predicted their memory before renting the GPU, then booted each one on vLLM and measured.
September sponsors-only newsletter
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable …
21 reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
Agents Don't Need Memory. They Need Documentation.
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
Humanoid robots won’t surprise us when they arrive – Philip O'Toole
Today at Lowe's I passed a Simbe robot doing inventory. A tall pole on a wheeled base, moving the aisles, looking at shelves. I was startled, but only because it appeared behind me. And then I felt nothing. No one else even looked up. The novelty collapsed imm…
Stop rebuilding your CI runner on every push — Peter Wiggers
Stateless CI runners made builds clean, and then made us write caching logic into every workflow. Warm microVM snapshots give you a disposable runner that already remembers everything.
everything is a ralph loop
I’ve been thinking about how I build software is so very very different how I used to do it three years ago. No, I’m not talking about acceleration through usage of AI but instead at a more fundamental level of approach, techniques and best practices. Standa…
Humans Out of the Loop — Matthew Boston
Agents open trivial PRs faster than anyone can read them, so the approvals turn into rubber stamps. Build the guardrails that earn trust, write down what counts as trivial, and let those changes ship without a person in the way.
Offloading System Updates to my NAS
How I setup downloading pending updates on my workstation on my NAS.
Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.
Museum: Rex's Dino Store
Grand Army Plaza subway station, Brooklyn, NY
Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works
Kolibri is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German and English LLM: 78B parameters, 3.5B per token. How it works, what it's good and bad at, and when to use it.
Shipping is the foundation
There are lots of skills involved in being a successful engineer at a big tech company. Running effective meetings, writing good design docs, fleshing out…
Reducing the cognitive load of AI changes
Andrew · 1 October 2026 · 2 min read
I got targeted
Someone targeted me in an attempt to gain access or credentials because of my Open Source and/or consulting roles
0.17.0 Release Notes ⚡ The Zig Programming Language
The forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) - Blog
This blog post goes into quite some detail about how I first booted Linux on my M4 Mac mini. I encourage you to look up terms and concepts you don’t know, since I cannot explain all the background in this post ;)
Just let me in, please — Max van IJsselmuiden
Authenticating online, has it become better or worse?
Superpersuasion will look like bribery
The idea of “superpersuasion” has been floating around the AI safety community for decades. Now that powerful and difficult-to-control LLMs have appeared…
Non-Devs Just Don't Understand
Developer and Author from Austin, TX.
Skill Acquisition
I think that the Dreyfus Model stands to be a well-suited framework through which we can analyze certain aspects of the always-evolving profession of software engineering.
The end of many big things
Unfinished — still a work in progress
One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash | Wagtail CMS
Reporting on 2B tokens of AI usage and what shapes model selection and cost
No emails please
You’ve probably seen this setup, or at least most of it. I’ve seen versions of it in enough places that I no longer think of it as anyone’s mistake. The SIEM sends high-severity alerts to a shared security mailbox, and within a month the analysts have written …
I Went Viral and Became an Undercover Pro
One clip from a Minnesota Cycling Federation fundraiser took on a life of its own. Hey look mom I’m famous.
What I Learned Publishing an iOS SDK for 10 Years
Ten commandments from a decade of maintaining an SDK that shipped in a thousand apps and ran on hundreds of millions of devices.
Accelerator Energies
Feature flags with one Postgres table
In April I had to record a screen video for Meta’s app review (a huge pain, to be honest). The feature I was showing needed a permission Meta hadn’t granted yet, so I couldn’t turn it on for everyone. Recording it locally wasn’t realistic either, because most …
A container is just a process
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I’ve been hacking on container technology for a while now. A common misconception you see in the wild is that people conflate containers and virtual machines, thinking they are equivalent. This blog post illus…
How Coding Agents Draw Their Input Box
I maintain a small coding agent written in Rust. Its input area is home-grown: a bottom region fenced off with a terminal scroll margin, a half-cooked termios mode, and a line editor I wrote myself. It works, but it does not look or feel as good as the agents …
Anything connected to the internet is going to get hacked to pieces
Software is too vulnerable and LLMs are too powerful.
Your app’s frontend UI is now optional
Your app's frontend is now optional. Build components that users can apply to their surface of choice.