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μRepRap - A 3D printer project designed to work at the micron scale - VikOlliver/RepRapMicron
Someone behind the software
I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.
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Search & Fetch | DeepSeek API Docs
The Search API and the Fetch API give agents and RAG applications access to live web content:
88x31 button book using ImageMagick
Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
Hermes Agent: My containerized take | ricardodevries.com
Running Hermes Agent on Debian 13 with Docker
If it hurts, do it more!
The phrase “if it hurts, do it more often” has bee applied variously to software teams and processes in the last fifteen years, and is a means to improve team processes and efficiency, but must be wielded carefully! This post covers my application of, and expe…
Pi Durable on Cloudflare | Earendil
Running Pi Durable on Cloudflare.
How I compute: an opinionated nerd post for computer nerds
An opinionated nerd post for computer nerds
We're always limited by attention · Kadhir
Speeding up engineering in isolation misses the constraint that actually limits a business: attention.
I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
I built KillSwitch, an esoteric language designed to confound LLMs and coding agents, and benchmarked the major models against it.
Bitter Lessons and Premature Optimizations
Donald Knuth wrote “premature optimization is the root of all evil” in 1974, in a paper called “Structured Programming with go to Statements”. It’s high…
Is it always better to patch? · Kadhir
Quick fixes can ease the pain, but they can also hide structural problems and delay lasting solutions.
Writing is no longer proof of work
Tech companies structurally depend on writing to serve as evidence, in the same way that Bitcoin depends on proof-of-work hashing. However, in the last few…
It's still OK to enjoy programming
Programming is fun!
Let's Write About Writing
Why it's so hard to gain momentum at writing. A reflection post as much as it is an advice post.
Where is the Value of Software
Claude, Codex, and Gemini are writing most of the code now, and triaging incoming bugs. What used to be a high-skill craft is suddenly a…
Inline rendering with document.currentScript
Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline <script> element that replaces itself when the …
Release: web-edit 0.1a2
Web app for editing files in a folder
The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise
Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the abyss...
Pele · Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
Pele is a lightweight open source library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG, themed with CSS variables.
Why Math Dumped OpenAI
Honest people cannot "embrace change" when that change is a lie.