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Aug 13, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Seven Years

It’s been seven years since Hello World. A lot has happened since then, in the world, in my life, and also on this website. What started as a minimal blog, grew into a proper online home for myself...

Aug 13, 2025 from BattlePenguin

How Large Scale Protest Organizers Can Build Big Tech Surveillance Networks of their Participants

Earlier this week, a friend of mine sent me an invitation to a “community resistance gathering.” It came in the form of a text message with a link to a website called Mobilize dot US. My friend was...

Aug 13, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 8

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

Aug 13, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

The Collective Choice of Oppression

So I've been going back to the gym lately and I think I hit a wall today. I was just too tired to go, and I don't enjoy how I don't seem to have the capacity for many things in life anymore. My bod...

Aug 12, 2025 from Tim Hårek

Volkswagen ID. Buzz first impressions

Photo from the ad of my Volkswagen ID. Buzz. I bought a used Volkswagen ID. Buzz last month and have been driving it for a few weeks now. These are my first impressions coming from a 2013 Skoda Rap...

Aug 12, 2025 from Volution Notes

EU-based cloud alternatives affordability for small projects and companies

My personal experience in finding affordable EU-based cloud providers for a small personal project. And my pessimistic assessment of the competitiveness in this segment with their USA-based competi...

Aug 11, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io

Recently, I suggested that The Future Isn’t Model Agnostic, that it’s better to pick one model that works for your project and build around it, rather than engineering for model flexibility. If you...

Aug 11, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

On Irreligious Christianity

I've been feeling better today. I was able to go to the gym and do my laundry. Overall, I feel like I'm out of depression once again. Now I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm happy, but I at least d...

Aug 10, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Escaping the Escapism

I've been having a greater desire to escape my head lately. I've done better at cutting out addictions and other escapist tendencies in my life as of late because I know that it's not good for me, ...

Aug 09, 2025 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

Improving my resignation letter generator

Two years ago, I have a released a resignation letter generator. There are a few rules and good practices around how these letters should be written, formatted and delivered. This tool makes helps ...

Aug 09, 2025 from Refereeing and Reflection

Star Trek: The FASA Frontier (and Philosophical Theories On Spiritual Successors)

Though Star Trek Adventures, particularly in its tightened-up second edition, is my current gold standard when it comes to Trek-based tabletop RPGs, it’s hardly the first game in that sphere. As I ...

Aug 09, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

The Void in Peace

I've been feeling rather prolific this last week or so, but that's clearly due to the continued novelty of my new workflow. I had to switch from nano to micro today because I couldn't do proper tex...

Aug 09, 2025 from BattlePenguin

Fixing Yum Indexing on Sonatype Nexus and the Non-Open-Source Upgrade

I’ve been using Sonatype Nexus for the past few months as a repository for build artifacts (Python and RPM packages) for project I’ve been developing. Recently several of my build pipelines broke w...

Aug 08, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W31

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive — AI does not make engineers ten times more productive because much of coding involves thinking, reading, and preventing unnecessary work. AI helps ...

Aug 08, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

My Experiences as a Digital Nomad

Like many, I've always romanticized the idea of traveling long-term, all while earning my living solely through my laptop and my phone. I've loosely experimented with this, traveling for periods fr...

Aug 08, 2025 from The Fly Blog

The Future Isn't Model Agnostic

Your users don’t care that your AI project is model agnostic. In my last project, I spent countless hours ensuring that the LLMs running my services could be swapped out as easily as possible. I co...

Aug 08, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Beyond the Fish Bowl

I felt a brief pause before starting this entry today. I have this desire to try and maintain novelty with my thoughts, so I don't want to harp on the same thoughts over and over again in sequence ...

Aug 07, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

ProTip™: Rollback a Homebrew Package

Recently, at work, I had to figure out how to rollback a Homebrew package to a specific version. As it turns out, this is non-trivial and requires a bit of a hack-ish workaround. Buried deep in a S...

Aug 07, 2025 from Commented Out

Comment Driven Development for low-level design before coding

When trying to write code samples in front of someone else, for example during an interview, it's a good idea to start by writing down the steps required before converting those to code. Instead of...

Aug 07, 2025 from Noahie's Blog

Logical Derealization

Well probably the most exciting thing that's happened today is that I got a new desk. It's a much needed replacement from my old one that was this stupid L-shaped thing that I had to build myself a...