Brand is who you are
I think brand is often misunderstood. People talk about it as the logo, the website, the colors. Those are the things you can see, so it’s natural to start there. But they are expressions of the brand. The underlying thing is who you are and what you stand for…
The Carpenter
Who loved making furniture and making customers happy in equal measure.
Human code review was never exhaustive. It gave us a practical way to inspect changes with limited time, context and memory, and for decades it was one of the best tools we had.
Postmortem: Sweden's citizenship law shipped with no migration path
What went wrong, and what migrants facing similar reforms elsewhere can learn.
Eighteen months ago, simply transforming an ask into a Claude prompt was an edge. Your coworker would be dazzled by the magic of the LLM being able to spit out something coherent and dense almost immediately, almost unbelievably so. Even for those steeped in s…
How Many Screenshot Apps Does the World Need?
I drew a chart to illustrate how much personal software is being created
Seven tools inspectors actually use, compared on price for solo inspectors and teams, AI help, working offline, state forms and switching.
Agents Only Solve the Easy Part of Coding
Spoiler: the hard part is building a mental model of the app you're building.
A few years before the advent of gpt-3, a colleague introduced me to an entrepreneur who had a problem he wanted to solve. He ran a “human supermarket shelf supervisors” business where each supervisor visited many supermarkets q day in order to check whether s…
An old friend from KISS Linux took up farming in Greece, so I went to see it.
Things I wish I had known about kickscooters
A list of what a $40 used kickscooter replaced, what surprised me, and how it compares to an e-scooter.
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KDE’s 30th anniversary is an opportunity to look forward: Plasma 6.8 helps lay the foundation for the future of Plasma and free desktops.
Pi Durable kept two autonomous maintainers working for four days, including through an upgrade of Pi itself. With no real demand, they wrote their own issues and merged 693 pull requests.
Anecdotal, but my iOS App got approved much faster with new assets!
About a month had become normal for my new iOS apps. This submission, with Apple's new creative assets, sailed through in two days. I don't know whether the images helped.
Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in Google accounts on your Android device. Here is how to disable it.
Correct Isn't Admissible
The fastest database an agent ever built stored nothing.
We’re fond of Bazel, and particularly fond of the capabilities it offers developers. Faster builds, made more efficient through remote execution and caching, made more understandable through declarative configuration, queryability, and precise logging – these …
Personal website and portfolio
A Response to My MCP Blog
A response to my previous blog post about MCP.
Passkeys Are Not a Trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.
Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards.
Introducing Firefox Enterprise | The Mozilla Blog
Institutions are recalculating who controls the technology they rely on. Mozilla has an independent option to offer. For years, organizations consolidated
Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to …
Formlabs sent me a [Form Studio 1](https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/form-studio-1/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=refe rral&utm_campaign=jeffgeerling-fs1-2026-07-26-global) resin 3D printer to test after years of back-and-forth about their Form 4 printer. Like …
Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family, designed for writing code, using in terminals, and preparing technical documents.
How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
You don’t have to shop on Amazon to pay Amazon's high prices.
Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the …
Web app for editing files in a folder
The most realistic and most complete virtual guitar online. Play it with your keyboard or by touch, slow songs down and see which strings each strum hits.
I used AI to reverse engineer real binaries, understand how they work, and then clone their functionality into brand-new applications. In this video I show the full process — what the AI can actually figure out, where it falls short, and how far you can push t…
LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models