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Though I've done longer races before, this was my first time targeting my training for a 10k distance.

No one, not even Google, knows when a site is indexed or not. Thankfully there are other search engines out there.

Rambler can fundamentally change the intent of your writting. There is no way to control it, nor catch what it does.

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened...

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and...

My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for...

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle —...

Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of diffi...

Writing in this era is difficult.

Carding the CEO is the ultimate unit test.

Spent hours trying to identify my neighbor's piano song through apps.

I forget when I was first introduced to open source. Back when I got my first computer in 1978, most of the software ...

For $REASONS I decided to cancel my 1Password subscription. It renewed in February so I have time to get comfortable ...

Today marks the start of my fourth week at Percona and these few weeks have been, well, exciting to say the least. I ...

“The Australian government is proposing to give social media users the option to switch off the default algorithmic f...

“If you’ve been in the Linux space for a while, you know just how customisable KDE Plasma can be. However, a lot of u...

It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as l...

Announcing “Curse of the Herder”, a screensaver experience for the web. It’s about a pissed-off little herder learnin...

No AI was used to draft this post, these are my words fully.

A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time ...

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thin...

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and pro...

L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques ent...

Back in August, SourceHut wrote about their terms of service regarding LLMs. I was behind on my RSS-reading, so I did...

Back to work, back to kindergarten, back to routine, and back to writing my monthly recently post! 🍀 Life Going back ...

It’s now just two more days until I go back to work after a fantastic three-week summer vacation. I want at least thr...

An ad showed me a tool I'd never seen or searched for, but I instantly wanted. A small reminder that They know my int...

What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.

How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.

Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and tru...

Roguish 1920s adventurer Calvin Rafferty and gender non-conforming Miskatonic University academic Faye Bennett are de...

In the midst of a desperately cruel August, we ended up losing Tim Curry. He had a ton of wonderful performances to h...

I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news...

A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 ...

A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.

Imagine you join a new project with a clear goal, improve ClickHouse performance, so our biggest customers can run th...

You should never be angry at work — The line that got me was “you are not Linus Torvalds or Bryan Cantrill”, because ...

Git at any scale — The move that stuck with me is putting a write-ahead log in S3 as the source of truth and treating...

Before I started working from home, I was lucky enough to commute to the office by foot. That was 35 minutes in each ...

A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectru...

I am not good at detecting when a piece of text has been produced by a large language model (LLM from now on). Very o...

Late last month, Apple released the new Mac mini and Mac Studio. Alongside the impressive performance upgrades, the n...

Once a dataset grows large, SwiftData lists start to stutter. This has been the performance complaint I've heard most...

Last weekend, I attended an App Accelerator event hosted by Apple in Beijing. The event focused primarily on app deve...

I was originally going to post this on r/ipad, but when I tried to submit my post I got a warning that I might be vio...

It is September! Officially Christmas season over here. My Week I spent most of the week at home. It was kinda lazy a...

Feels like I didn't watch a lot of movies the past month or so, mostly because I've been working my way through all 1...

I’ve administered a lot of system design interviews over my career, and I’ve never had anyone use shuffle-sharding.I ...

Exponential backoff with jitter is an effective retry strategy that helps avoid thundering herds, but most implementa...

There’s a subtlety in building AI agents that took me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate: your tool responses ...

Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a...

Weekly Robotics 374: an insanely cheap robot duck, a guide to autodocking, highlights from the 2026 World Humanoid Ro...

Weekly Robotics 373: how to train robots at a million-hour scale, NASA abandons satellite rescue mission, ROS enters ...

The final release of the 2001 forum software, running on PHP5 + Apache + mySQL 4 in a modern Docker container. Also i...

SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry,...

Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.