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Lessons from my First Exit

In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about ...

FauxRPC and Protovalidate

CSS fix to prevent orphan icons dropping to a new line

When an HTML element becomes too narrow, its content starts to wrap into multiple lines. This is intended behavior and works well in many cases. However, for short text, it doesn't look great when ...

Perfect Image Processing with Hugo

With the correct image processing you can still get a 100 score from PageSpeed Insights despite an image heavy article. This is an evaluation of my Speedgoat race report in July. I use Hugo to buil...

A new webring for the weird and wonderful personal web

Following up on my recent post about colophons (“meta” pages), I’ve decided to create a webring to gather more personal websites through opt-ins. I chewed over the initial idea for the former blog ...

Leveraging logprobs to build better generative AI systems

Autofilling form fields has become an increasingly common and practical application of generative AI. With just a bit of context and a well-crafted prompt, AI can produce reliable results for vario...

Writing Fonts

In search of the perfect font for drafting and digital journalling. # Inter The story began when I was looking for Logseq themes. I chose miA, a theme inspired by iA Writer and MacOS UI. It recomme...

New microblog with TILs

I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/...

Open source mac apps I love

I want to share some really nice open-source applications I use on a daily basis. I did a similar post about six years ago, so I felt there is a need for an updated one. I focused on the apps that ...

Custom syntax highlighting with Hugo and Tree-sitter

I recently helped migrate the homepage of Cognate, a stack-based, lisp- and ML-inspired programming language, to Hugo. Here’s how I added Cognate language syntax highlighting for our Hugo site. # O...

Announcing Tui000

Announcing Tui000 (sounds like ‘three thousand’) Source and download here -> Tui000 Tui000 is a passive game / screensaver for your terminal. Watch virtual avatars make life decisions, visit the gr...

Add a Meta page to your personal website

Update (2024-11-11) I’ve made a webring! Read more about this topic at meta-ring.hedy.dev If you have a personal website, chances are, you take great care into making your site yours. You update it...

Memory dump in Kubernetes with kubectl debug and dotnet-dump

One of the classic bugs is the memory leak. Even garbage collected languages like C# can leak memory, even if all the code is safe/managed. Sometimes such issues are easy to find and fix. Other tim...

A guide to bookmarklets

Create and use bookmarklets to streamline your web browsing.

Typing vs Writing

I type faster than I can write. But regardless of how I put my thoughts down, the speed at which my thoughts can keep up with me putting them down is the same[1]. I believe that my speed of thought...

GraphQL collection lookups

One of the powerful design patterns that can be employed within a GraphQL schema is the concept of collection lookups. This pattern allows API consumers to retrieve specific elements from a collect...

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass

MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump pr...

BGP Route Origin Authorization Regulation

Recent heightened scrutiny of government regulation surrounding BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ROA (Route Origin Authorization) has emerged as a critical topic within the internet infrastructure com...

Linkfest #26: “Cryptophasia”, Wigner Crystals, and How van Gogh Mastered Turbulence

Hello hello! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”, crammed full of the finest items of science, culture and technology that I could find, entirely just for you. ...

ASCII control characters in my terminal

Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII ...