BlogDB

Oct 05, 2025 from HunterDavis.com

A big ole stack of one-off projects in 2025

I actually wrote quite a bit of code in 2025! While my professional life was centered around AI enablement for my teams and getting the big launch out this year to customers, I did a fair amount of...

Oct 05, 2025 from Let’s get Person-al

🌰 the difference between ai and an intern

With an AI agent, you need to validate its output every time. With interns, at some point they can prove that they will always learn from feedback how to do a specific task. With AI, it’s less dete...

Oct 04, 2025 from is this it?

Melbourne Photography XIII

Enlightenment ideals lead to orthogonal cities. Blocks of houses with roads intersecting at right angles. Intentionally designed, orderly, and rationale. Fitzroy and surrounding suburbs echo this s...

Oct 04, 2025 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Apollo Elements v3.0.0 - GraphQL Meets Web Components

After 3+ years, Apollo Elements v3.0.0 is here with Apollo Client 4 support, Node.js 24, and a cleaner API. Build GraphQL-powered web components that work in any framework—or no framework at all.

Oct 03, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Credit Feed #3: Here be Dragons

Diving into the weird world of Psikyo shmups

Oct 03, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Credit Feed #3: Here be Dragons

Diving into the weird world of Psikyo shmups

Oct 03, 2025 from Palladium

How GDP Hides Industrial Decline

A deep-dive into GDP methodology shows that it is neither objective nor an actual measure of production. Serious people should stop using it. The post How GDP Hides Industrial Decline appeared firs...

Oct 02, 2025 from PREPEND

Organizational Lock-in

I worked in an organization with lots of processes. I was in an office with no windows, a bit of a hole or maybe even oubliette. You couldn’t tell time of day, weather, etc but it was better than a...

Oct 02, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Litestream v0.5.0 is Here

I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream makes it easy to build SQLite-backed full-stack applications with resilience to server failure. It’s open source, runs anywhere, and ...

Oct 01, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

Halloween 2025 on R74n

All the things going on around R74n in October! Souls in Sandboxels, a special Infinite Chef bowl, trick-or-treating...

Oct 01, 2025 from Tim Hårek

September 2025

Fall is upon us! It’s getting colder and darker everyday now, it’s starting to smell like fall. Anyhow, this is what I’ve been up to this month! From the blog since my last recently post: A year wi...

Sep 30, 2025 from Refereeing and Reflection

From Camelot To Whitechapel: Two Chaosium Referee Guides

Time for a bit of a Chaosium special. Chaosium’s books have tended to get thicker and heavier over the years, particularly recently. That’s thanks in part to the glossier production values Chaosium...

Sep 30, 2025 from Commented Out

Countdown Timer for Children's Games: Hardware Design

The idea for this project was a simple countdown timer to be used by children for various games and activities where the user interface was designed to be as simple as possible; the display was cle...

Sep 30, 2025 from Nadav Ami

When You Forget Your BIOS Password

I have an old Linux laptop that I decided to repurpose last weekend. After spending 5 hours backing up files (APFS drive + read-only FUSE drivers + stubborn dev who doesn’t want to think too hard (...

Sep 29, 2025 from briancmoses.com

DIY NAS: 2025 Texas Linux Fest Edition

I'm going to have a booth at Texas Linux Fest, so I built a TXLF-inspired DIY NAS that I will give away in a raffle! It has an Intel N150 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, TrueNAS CE, 4TB of NVME storage, 10G...

Sep 29, 2025 from The Phoenix Trap

Patch-Perfect: Smarter Homebrew Upgrades on macOS

Homebrew upgrades don't always need to drag you through major version bumps. I wrote brew-patch-upgrade.pl to keep updates patch-perfect, and along the way fixed my own Log::Any::Adapter::MacOS::OS...

Sep 28, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Do large language models respect copyright notices?

A group of researchers studied what happens when you explicitly remind large language models to respect copyright notices.

Sep 28, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W38

Surviving Long-Running Projects — A nice reality check on how grueling big projects can be. The author basically says: expect them to drag on, plan for “boring” maintenance, and set up routines to ...

Sep 28, 2025 from Virtuwise

The Clock is Ticking: CISA Orders Patches for Cisco Zero-Days

CISA directs federal agencies to patch zero-day flaws in Cisco firewall devices amid active exploitation by hackers.

Sep 28, 2025 from BattlePenguin

Cryptocurrency, Collapsing Governments and Captain James T. Kirk

The dominant US headlines for the fall of 2025, in both mainstream and big-alternative media, involve the assassination of Charlie Kirk. As expected, people are taking to social media, politicizing...