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Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see ...

Hiked part 2/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.3 kilometres from Oldenzaal to Borne. The area west of Oldenzaal is home t...

The decision to go with Swift brought a lot of unexpected advantages for us. We come from a world of iOS in the front...

I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) on 30 November 2024 when seeing an eye doctor, then I wrote...

International Women's Day and Women's March Malaysia 2026 Permalink to section 'International Women's Day and Women's...

It is March now, and today being March 1 also means it is Zero Discrimination Day. Returning to School After Lunar Ne...

Recently, Hacker News updated the comments section of their guidelines: Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited co...

I’m still enjoying programming in OCaml, but because most of the code I have written to date is a toy compiler that m...

So after more than 20 years using a dark theme for coding, I realised that a light theme works better during the day....

This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune....

Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing t...

This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herber...

Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.

AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.

The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code unti...

If you’ve been thinking about making the move to Portugal, you may want to do it through the Residence Permit for Inv...

Dark circles and under-eye puffiness are a growing concern for most people. If these things are something you’re deal...

Home renovations are a large undertaking and you need to find a reliable and trustworthy contractor who can stick to ...

I'm addicted to my phone. We're all a little addicted. What can be done?

A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch

A cryptic prediction regarding The Foundation's recent proclamation regarding a future collaboration

I'm addicted to my phone. We're all a little addicted. What can be done?

A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch

A cryptic prediction regarding The Foundation's recent proclamation regarding a future collaboration

This is WIP write-up. § praise LLM! While playing with spectre V2 side channel, I found an issue and LLM helped me to...

h1, h2, h3, h4 ,h6 { font-size: unset;} § the language keywords primitive types integer, float, string, array, slice,...

A blunt reference, but I immediately thought about Kaczynski 1 when the idea randomly jumped into my mind. There is n...

How I fought my smartphone addiction In a poignant Gemini post, Kevin Boone wrote about his anxiety to go out of his ...

Capitalisme, IA et éducation Extrait de mon journal du 29 janvier, en lisant "Comprendre le pouvoir" de Chomsky. Le c...

Préface à « La déception informatique » Ce texte est la préface que j’ai écrite pour le livre « La déception informat...

Way back in May of 2019, I signed up for Arcadia Power. A couple years later, in July of 2021, I wrote a review of th...

Over three years later, and my Worth Bonds are worthless.

I got the following email from Chase yesterday:

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

A travel journal from my visit to Tongariro National Park, New Zealand.

A travel journal from my visit to Rotorua Lakes, New Zealand.

Leaving the autoresearch loop going, the LLM was able to make 7.8% progress on the distillation task. I saw Andrej Ka...

Leaving the autoresearch loop going, the LLM was able to make 7.8% progress on the distillation task. I saw Andrej Ka...

TLDR: I extracted fens and stockfish evaluations for 3.9 billion chess positions. I then trained a neural network on ...

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Just because we could didn't mean that we should

Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Intern...

It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one ...

The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...

"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.

Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...

I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s...

We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers ...

Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so ...

Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what m...

Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that...

Ever wondered why a package ended up in your Nix store? Here's how nix why-depends can help you find out.

Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.

There are plenty of CLI tools to calculate the checksum of files. But, which one is the fastest?

07th March 2026, 3:33 PM-5:16 PMI have been pushing and dragging and coercing and compelling myself to write this. Wr...

I had a short chat with my sister and mother, and as my mother finished braiding my hair, the conversation fell like ...

The satisfaction in self-destruction is what keeps me from getting out. Last night, right after I finished writing my...