BlogDB

Mar 08, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog

How to write robust webhook handlers

Webhooks are surprisingly hard to process correctly. Almost every software project I’ve worked on has needed to process webhooks from third party vendors, and almost every team I’ve worked with has...

Mar 07, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Some Thoughts on Mozilla, Apple and Linux Mint

This post was inspired by the fact that I am going to be traveling and I needed a new laptop. I am not a “laptop” guy. I much prefer to use desktops, even though I do connect an external screen to ...

Mar 07, 2025 from Julia Evans

Standards for ANSI escape codes

Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understand...

Mar 07, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Mini: DeepSeek’s smallpond - a distributed duckdb

There has been a lot of buss around DeepSeek (R1) and their Open Source mission, and lately they released their full stack to train State-of-the-Art LLM’s. One of the tools is a Distributed Data Pr...

Mar 06, 2025 from Coding Horror

Let's Talk About The American Dream

A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work....

Mar 06, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Introducing My Notes System

I've added a new notes system to my personal site to share book reviews, thoughts, and other content that doesn't necessarily fit the blog format.

Mar 05, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério

Status of old PyPI projects: archived

Since late January, the python package index (PyPI) supports archiving projects/packages. This is, in fact, a very welcome feature, since it clearly tells without any doubt when a package is no lon...

Mar 05, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Why I Love the Fediverse

I am not as much of a free software user as I was in the past. There was a time where almost all of the technology I used was open source. That is no longer the case (I am heavily invested in the A...

Mar 04, 2025 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Enterprise Software Sales Lessons

Some insights from my experience in sales and software development that might help you turn interactions into successful collaborations

Mar 04, 2025 from briancmoses.com

An all-flash DIY NAS that fits in my pocket!

Brian reviews a pocket-sized NAS with an Intel N100 CPU, dual 2.5GbE networking, and room for four M.2 NVMe SSDs.

Mar 04, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Breakdown of all Satoshi's Writings Proves Bitcoin not Built Primarily as Store of Value

An evidence-based analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto's writings showing Bitcoin was not built primarily as a store of value.

Mar 03, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Add Logprobs to Openai Structured Output

When working with LLMs sometimes you want to know if the response you’re getting from the model is the one that at least the model itself is sort of confident about. For example, I recently worked ...

Mar 03, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Unc's Unlearning Outfit for 2024

In Which I Write a Short Fiction

Mar 02, 2025 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

My first Game Jam

In January 2024 I started making small video games for pure fun. After some practice, playtesting with friends and new languages, I decided to test my skills and publish something. So I joined my f...

Mar 02, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week — Everything Changes

This Week — Everything Changes TL;DR:I switch out Firefox and Thunderbird for their soft forks. I start taking daily notes in Memos. I also consider whether to open donations for my writing. This b...

Mar 02, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Marimo WASM Apps

This post will be short, I recently built a WASM app that allows you to 1) convert between Parquet/CSV/JSON and 2) explore the data using Marimos built-in tooling. I shared an initial introduction ...

Mar 02, 2025 from Muffin Man

Image comparison slider in 6 lines of JavaScript

While I was writing this post, I wanted to create an image comparison component. I made one with just a few lines of JavaScript, but I didn't include it in the post. Here is the finished slider, wi...

Mar 02, 2025 from Thranpages

Road Rage Maxxing or Trolling in the lanes

I hate crossover SUVs. What to do when one gets too close for comfort on the motorway.

Mar 01, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree

If you grew up in the PC scene during the 1980s or early 1990s, you know how painful it was to get hardware to work. And if you did not witness that (lucky you) here is how it went: every piece of ...

Mar 01, 2025 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

The cost (savings) of AUTO_SHRINK in Azure SQL

Have you ever wanted to reduce the disk space used by an Azure SQL database? You will quickly find out that the general advice on the Internet is Don't do it!. But how bad is it? Read on for a repo...