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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...

Sep 27, 2025 from Suffix

Paperless note-taking

From an iPad mini to the Supernote Nomad.

Sep 27, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution

I recently learned a neat trick from Marcus Buffett: xkcd has an undocumented way to get images of the cartoons at double their normal resolution. The _2x trick For example, xkcd #2582 “Data Trap” ...

Sep 26, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Credit Feed #2: Fail/No Fail

I talk about two platformers---one of them a modern classic---that I picked up during a sale on the Nintendo Switch

Sep 26, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Credit Feed #2: Fail/No Fail

I talk about two platformers---one of them a modern classic---that I picked up during a sale on the Nintendo Switch

Sep 26, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

You are holding BUILD files wrong

I’ve heard it from people new to Bazel but also from people very familiar with the Bazel ecosystem: BUILD files must go away. And they must go away because they are redundant: they just repeat the ...

Sep 26, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Assassin’s Creed II is better than I thought it would be

I played Assassin’s Creed II in preparation for my trip to Florence this year and it was almost as good as Florence itself.

Sep 24, 2025 from Personal Log at usebox.net

Physical editions coming!

I released two games in 2024: The Heart of Salamanderland for the Amstard CPC, and Alien Intruder for MS/DOS 16-bit, and both are getting a physical release with Poly Play. The Amstrad CPC game edi...

Sep 22, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Yes, I took a short break

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have returned from my hiatus and have absolutely nothing to show for it.

Sep 22, 2025 from Rock and Null

Billin: Building a modern cross-platform invoice app with Compose Multiplatform

Billin is a cross-platform invoicing app built with Compose Multiplatform, designed to deliver a clean, consistent experience on both Android and iOS. By sharing logic across mobile while fine-tuni...

Sep 22, 2025 from kmcd.dev

My Favorite Interview Question

Why I love asking candidates to explain how the internet works.

Sep 22, 2025 from The Phoenix Trap

My mini Mastodon server

Running Mastodon on a tiny Mac mini? Yes, it’s possible—and surprisingly easy. Here’s how I built a secure, low‑maintenance, single‑user server with Docker, Cloudflare Tunnel, and a few smart overr...

Sep 21, 2025 from The Autodidacts

Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration

The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow. The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayle...

Sep 21, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

The Future of CFE.dev

All things must come to an end, I suppose, and so it is with CFE.dev which will conclude after the current schedule of events.

Sep 21, 2025 from catonmat.net

Try an Online Android Emulator! (For Free!)

TLDR: Need to see how your site or app works on Android without buying a phone? Fire up a free online Android emulator at browserling.com/android. The emulator runs right in your browser – no downl...

Sep 21, 2025 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

Windows Dev Drive - Too good to be true?

A couple of years ago, in 2023, Microsoft released a new feature called Dev Drive, which is supposed to speed up common developer tasks. In the announcement blog post Dev Drive for Performance Impr...