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You Should Write An Agent

Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. T...

Zürich and Vaduz

I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who have been important in my life as well as being involved in open source I figured...

How systemic inequities lead to internalised ableism

For a long time, whenever I was failed by a system in supporting my needs, I internalised it as proof that something was wrong with me. These weren’t isolated incidents but a pattern that reinforce...

Leverage Event Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time

Running a Volleyball club with N8N

Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this article, I share how we used n8n to transform the day-to-day operations of our LG...

A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025

Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’

The tiny office, the compact cassettes, and the speaker upgrades

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of cassettes from my childhood days, I upgraded my office desk speakers.

NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW

Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.

NixCon 2025

Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...

The Grand Sun

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects?

Notes from 2 years of building with Cloudflare Durable Objects

Holy Shame

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...

Apply New Kubernetes Pod/Deployment Configuration

Overview Applying configuration to kubernetes pods/deployments is a pretty big part of administering these environments. Whether you are making minor/major changes to the configuration of your depl...

Another Long Unexpected Water Supply Disruption in 2025

Having to endure an unscheduled water supply cut that lasted more than a day was not in my 2025 bingo card, let alone having to experience it twice in the same year. In late May, my house experienc...

Minimal Materialism

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less than what's required

Promise based Web Worker Messaging

If you've ever used Web Workers (or any other event-based communication), you probably noticed that this kind of code can be hard to read and reason about. You also have to implement some kind of i...

Efficient and green LLMs for software engineering

Training and using large language models to develop software is bad for the planet – but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLII 〜 Dinogourd OS

Welcome to the 251st 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...

Factory Farming is a Blight

The practices of industrialized animal farming are aesthetically and morally revolting. These practices can be phased out. The post Factory Farming is a Blight appeared first on Palladium.

Engineering a Rust optimization quiz

There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that’s literally called the “Unfair Rust Quiz” at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/, but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of t...