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Digdoku

I randomly had the idea that it would be interesting to “dig into” all possible Sudoku puzzles. So I created Digdoku. The landing page is an “empty” puzzle, each link leads to a puzzle with one add...

Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea

Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.

Mine, All Mine

Gustav Holst, The Planets, op. 32, Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Steinberg, Deutsche Grammophon, 1971, LP. I stepped into a music store this weekend for the first time in quite a ...

64-bit Misalignment

I’ve been following CMU’s 15-445/645 Database Systems course lately, trying to fill some gaps in my low-level systems knowledge. When the lectures covered memory alignment, it all made perfect sens...

PALLADIUM 19: Long History

Our fall 2025 print edition is now available to all Palladium members. Subscribe today to receive your copy. The post PALLADIUM 19: Long History appeared first on Palladium.

You Should Index Your To-Go Cup Lid

Here’s a quick tip to improve your “drinking a hot to-go beverage” experience: Index the lid opening so it’s opposite the seam in the lid. This helps immensely in avoiding the dreaded drips. Here’s...

Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens

How many clicks does it take to add a new VLAN to an OPNsense firewall? Nothing fancy. Just your regular, basic VLAN with its own IPv4 range. How many clicks should that take? Maybe two or three? F...

Easy alias for dealing with Python Virtualenvs

There’s something oddly comforting about a shell function that takes care of boring things for you. This venv() helper does exactly that. It checks whether you’re already in an environment, spins u...

Timeline and Early Days

Timeline and discovery: the early days The simple timeline of my journey sounds deceptively easy at first: I found out about the issue after an echocardiogram on January 23rd, 2025. I had open hear...

Potential threats to the validity of LLM-based software engineering research

Large language models have become a popular tool for software engineering research, but they can also influence the outcome of experiments.

Deploying Single Instance Neo4j On A VPS With Custom Domain

A complete guide to deploying Neo4j Enterprise 5.x on any VPS (Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) with SSL/TLS encryption, database restoration, and read-only user configuration.

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIV 〜 Blue light buyout

Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Setting up a new Laravel project with Sail – without installing PHP

It’s surprisingly hard to figure out how you can create and run a new Laravel app via Docker without installing PHP first.

Burned by the vibe

I talk about my bad experience with relying on chatGPT to write my code for a school project

How Hospitals Can Build Patients’ Trust

Trust is an essential part of healthcare in hospitals. Patients need to have faith that their healthcare provider is giving them correct medical advice, suggesting the best treatment, and prescribi...

Birds • Art

The Platonic Case Against AI Slop

Content generated by artificial intelligence reduces variety and poignant outliers. This harms viewers by training them to want and expect conformism and uniformity. The post The Platonic Case Agai...

Introducing Pale Blue Spring Admin: auto-generated admin UI for Spring Boot

Pale Blue Spring Admin brings Django-style auto-generated admin power to Spring Boot. Built in Kotlin, it offers an intuitive UI for exploring your JPA entities.

Is Kubernetes Ready for AI? Google’s New Agent Tech | TSG Ep. 967

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, and Chris Short discuss the state of Kubernetes following the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 conference.

The Trouble With TUIs

I discuss the issues that crop up while writing and using a Terminal User Interfaces