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Victor Blomqvist's blog

A software developer's blog and project portfolio focused on coding, software architecture, and technology.

• Scheduled GitHub Actions are now useless May 19, 2026

  Scheduled GitHub Actions are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless. Here I have two graphs ...

• AI makes open source release faster. Or does it? May 03, 2026

  The other day my colleague noted that it feels like our Renovate bot triggers much more often in the repos he manages...

• Are AI SQL yet? Feb 10, 2026

  Whenever I ask an AI for help on a nontrivial database task I'm always extra careful. By experience I know that they ...

Stranger Than Usual

• Zstandard May 18, 2026

  Es gibt einen neuen Spieler auf dem HTTP-Transportkompressionsfeld. *Papierrascheln*: oh, was, schon seit zwei Jahren?

• Goodbye Search Console May 16, 2026

  Warum ich Google Search Console nicht mehr nutze und warum ich es überhaupt genutzt habe.

• Webbloat reduzieren May 14, 2026

  1,5 Megabyte? Das sind ja fast zwei Megabyte! Sechs Megabyte unkomprimiert! Zwanzig Megabyte im Debug-Build!

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared May 18, 2026

  Along with the money bet on them?

• The bid-ask spread on used physical goods May 11, 2026

  For most of my life I fundamentally misunderstood buy & sell prices

• The art of getting back on one’s horse May 10, 2026

  It’s a long process

Darek Kay

Darek Kay is a professional front-end developer and an accessibility advocate.

• Sabbatical #13: Wānaka May 18, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Wānaka, New Zealand.

• Sabbatical #12: Milford Sound Apr 28, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Milford Sound, New Zealand.

• Sabbatical #11: Queenstown Apr 23, 2026

  A travel journal from my visit to Queenstown, New Zealand.

Fatbobman's Blog

English Home | Fatbobman's Blog ｜肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.

• The Vanishing WWDC Wishlists - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #136 May 18, 2026

  WWDC 2026 is just 20 days away. Every year around this time, I usually see many developers sharing their WWDC wishlis...

• CocoaPods Is on Its Way Out, but SwiftPM’s Story Is Just Entering Chapter Two - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #135 May 11, 2026

  Google recently announced that, starting with the next Flutter stable release, version 3.44, Swift Package Manager wi...

• Getting AI from Handy to Heartfelt - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #134 May 04, 2026

  It's been three years since I started using AI tools in earnest. Over these three years, I've witnessed AI's remarkab...

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed: A place where I complain about technology or dive into quasi-philsophical subjects.

• A Rant on Owning a Modern EV May 18, 2026

  This post is not about electric vehicle hesitations like range anxiety and more complicated trip planning. No, this p...

• Minimizing and Finding Satisfaction with Less May 08, 2026

  We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two a...

• How to Build a Time Machine: A GPS-Disciplined Stratum 1 NTP Server Jan 02, 2026

  During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-bas...

xkcd.com

• Particle Census May 18, 2026
• Speedrun May 15, 2026
• Results Age May 13, 2026

Let’s get Person-al

A personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.

• 🌰 great big beautiful life - a book review May 18, 2026

  Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...

• 🌱 an LLM models our worst behavior May 11, 2026

  “Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”

• 🌰 yumi and the nightmare painter - a book review May 04, 2026

  Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...

Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter - stay up to date on state of the art robotics, drones, space, open source projects and research.

• Weekly Robotics #360 May 17, 2026

  If you were eagerly awaiting your weekly dose of robotics news and it didn't come - apologies; I've been traveling qu...

• Weekly Robotics #359 May 03, 2026

  Today issue turned into a bit of a YouTube party as I'm traveling and I don't have as much time as I would like to do...

• Weekly Robotics #358 Apr 26, 2026

  The glider from today's issue seemed to have scratched an itch I didn't know I had. I seriously feel like doing a sim...

The New Leaf Journal

Where the leaves are perennially virid

• The Emu Café and Blog Hospitality May 17, 2026

  In part four of six of my blogging "wisdom" series, I revisit "Welcome to The Emu Café" six years after its original ...

• April 2026 at The New Leaf Journal May 17, 2026

  Wherein I review The New Leaf Journal's sixth birthday month with a new and original inflatable spring decoration pho...

• Blogging Promises, Schedules, and Burnout May 13, 2026

  On how to establish a sort of blogging/online writing rhythm or routine while avoiding what the kids call "burnout" o...

Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

A software engineering blog focused on operating systems, build systems, and reliability engineering, drawing from experience with FreeBSD, Bazel, Rust, and major tech companies.

• A Markdown-based test suite May 17, 2026

  This article is not about AI and it is not written with AI, but the work that I’m about to present was definitely mot...

• What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? May 08, 2026

  Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on ...

• I think AI is pushing me toward the AGPL Mar 17, 2026

  Why agentic coding changes everything for the open-source craft and maintainership. It has been two months since I’ve...

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• MeshCore radio network in Cape Town for off-grid communications May 17, 2026

  Many may be familiar with the Meshtastic network which uses cheap LoRa radios (usually linked to a mobile phone app) ...

• Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly May 14, 2026

  “A new study from Gartner immediately caught our eye. As Fortune reports, the research and advisory firm surveyed 350...

• With KOReader My ancient Kobo eReader is now better than a new Kindle May 14, 2026

  The linked article inspired me to install KOReader on my old Kobo eReader. It was just a question of copying two file...

Peter's Path

Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.

• Who Is Jesus? by R.C. Sproul May 17, 2026

  Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Who Is Jesus? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions series. Sp...

• Marskramer Path part 04 May 16, 2026

  Hiked part 4/20 of the Marskramer Path, 21.5 kilometres from Delden to Rijssen. You walk through the stream valley of...

• Ascension Day May 14, 2026

  Happy Ascension Day to all of you. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a clo...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal

The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. It is written by Nicholas A. Ferrell, the editor and administrator of The New Leaf Journal. Our weekly issues include links to the newest articles at *The New Leaf Journal* and its sister projects and associated new...

• Virid Burnout 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXX May 16, 2026

  Leafy intro Welcome to the 280th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

• Niche bouquet 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIX May 09, 2026

  Leafy intro Welcome to the 279th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

• Weathered letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVIII May 02, 2026

  Welcome to the 278th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

The Linkfest

The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me. Full, free archives here. I'm Clive Thompson, a longtime science and tech reporter (Wired, New York Times ...

• Linkfest #44: Hallucinopedia, Salmon on Cocaine, and How Phil Collins Accidentally Invented Gated Reverb May 16, 2026

  Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I scroll through the endless B...

• Linkfest #44: Microchimerism, Sonic-Boom Duct Tape, and the Hidden Tetris Champion May 03, 2026

  Hello there! It’s time again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest Linkfest, for which I have sifted throug...

• Linkfest #43: Archaeoacoustics, "Nocotourism", and the 8-bit Backrooms Mar 18, 2026

  Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — a new Linkfest, in which I sort through the planet-wide ...

Chuniversiteit

A personal blog about programming, design, and software engineering research

• I’m not sure what to make of Google’s Pixel 10 Pro May 16, 2026

  The Pixel 10 Pro is supposed to be Google’s flagship phone, but it certainly doesn’t feel like one.

• The Eurovision Song Contest and the European Union May 10, 2026

  The Eurovision Song Contest is technically not related to the European Union, but it does affect how the EU is percei...

• Access your Docker Compose services via easy-to-remember names May 05, 2026

  Did you know you can make your Docker web app containers available via simple names instead of hard-to-remember port ...

Kev Quirk

Kev Quirk

• Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale? May 16, 2026

  Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas writes about the warning signs that Bitwarden might be h...

• Replacing my ISP router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max May 15, 2026

  So I recently upgraded my home internet to full fibre, after which I also decided to upgrade my router as there were ...

• Upgrading My Home Internet to Full Fibre May 12, 2026

  As many regular readers know, we live in the North Wales countryside, which means it can take time to get the latest ...

bearblog

Writings by Alexander Harkness

• Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre May 16, 2026

  The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...

• Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves Nov 01, 2023

  Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...

• Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates Aug 12, 2022

  London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

A look at history and popular culture

• Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026 May 16, 2026

  Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odd...

• Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries May 08, 2026

  This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised...

• Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals May 01, 2026

  This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and cons...

Suffix

Personal blog for posting my ramblings, mostly about programming.

• Rubycon May 15, 2026

  A trip to the Rubycon conference and the east coast of Italy.

• 2025 Movie List Jan 08, 2026

  Movies I watched in 2025.

• 2025 in Review Dec 30, 2025

  Reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the next.