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My Journey Back to Being Pain-Free

Neck pain and shoulder pain have been part of my occupational side effects. I have made some changes in my posture and working styleto reduce it. But sometime early last year, in 2025, it suddenly ...

Seeed Studio's Open Source Robotic Arm Promises to Lower the Barrier to Embodied AI

The 6-DoF arm handles 1.5 kg loads with a 650 mm reach, targeting desktop AI work.

Man arrested in Japan after leaving car in coin parking lot for six years, racking up three-million-yen bill

Says he remembers parking his car, but can’t remember the exact date he did it anymore. Because many Japanese apartments and condominiums don’t have their own attached parking spaces, it’s common f...

Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents

Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article. It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-based coding trend. I’ve been grumpy about the “push from above to use AI or else”....

E2EE Backend part 1: Homomorphic Encryption

This is the first post in a series exploring a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can calculate totals on encrypted user data with...

Sabbatical #02: Doha

A travel journal from my visit to Doha, Qatar.

Sandboxels on Neal.fun - A New Home

We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and I’m Not A Robot.

Trying out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait For An Invite

OK, I'm actually a little impatient to use the new open source schedule booking tool by the Thunderbird team that will be a part of Thunderbird Pro.

Xcode Enters the Agent Era - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #122

The arrival of Xcode 26.3, with almost no advance notice, responded to these doubts with concrete action. By integrating Claude Code/Codex, Apple's answer was direct: with the right strategy, Xcode...

IRC Log: Standup

MTG: Avatar: The Last Airbender

New set has been out for a while on Arena, so here's my overdue recap for the previous set Avatar: The Last Airbender. Flavor / Mechanics / Universes Beyond One thing I noticed about universes beyo...

Book explores Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee Heritage

In his first book since 2014, Jaxson co-owner Ennis Davis has collaborated with urban planner and historian Adrienne Burke to highlight the story of Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee Heritage. Preorder...

The Conductor’s Model for Enterprise Go-To-Market

Go-to-Market (GTM) mishaps are often coordination failures rather than execution failures. Every smart person in the team works at their best; marketing is busy, sales are active, product is shippi...

Visualizing my Electric Energy Options

Today’s the day my electrical contract expires, so it’s time to choose another one.

Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data

I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied...

Weekly Robotics #347

Hopefully, this will be the last issue in the coming months to arrive later than usual. On the other hand, it brings some very fresh news about Ouster and Stereolabs. Let's look into some robots! T...

Carbon Dating

Weekend flights along the pareto frontier

I was curious to see whether I could find cheap cross-country flights for this upcoming long weekend. Spoiler: guess. The problem with sites like Google Flights (gflights) is that the interface onl...

Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release

Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just releas...

Step Aside, Phone!

I read this post on Manu's blog and it immediately resonated. I've been spending more time than I'd like to admit staring at my phone recently, and most of that consists of a stupid game, or YouTub...