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Benny Powers, Web Developer
Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec br...
In 2024 we server-rendered Lit web components in Drupal using a Node.js sidecar container. Now we can do it with a si...
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I’m a data scientist based in Amsterdam, currently working at Spotify. I work on projects aimed at enhancing the productivity and experience of developers, using research and data analysis to inform our platform strategies.
I have added several long conversational youtube videos into a playlist, hoping I’ll come back to the them some day, ...
I quite liked this metaphoric view of the morning ritual from Herbert Lui: A good morning ritual needs to be flexible...
I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...
the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
A software developer's blog and project portfolio focused on coding, software architecture, and technology.
Scheduled GitHub Actions are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless. Here I have two graphs ...
The other day my colleague noted that it feels like our Renovate bot triggers much more often in the repos he manages...
Whenever I ask an AI for help on a nontrivial database task I'm always extra careful. By experience I know that they ...
A personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.
Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...
“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”
Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...
Writings by Alexander Harkness
The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...
Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...
London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...
I prefer Djot over Markdown Why Djot? Markdown is very useful, widely adopted and at a first glance simple. But the s...
Can We Make Simpler Software With LLMs? Growing numbers of abstraction layers, vast amounts of dependencies and gener...
Raising Notifications From Terminal When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified whe...
Nadav Ami
TL;DR Skip the doc and use agentic coding to build a microdemo. Building it forces you to scope the problem and under...
TL;DR Skip the doc and use agentic coding to build a microdemo. Building it forces you to scope the problem and under...
Say you built an app and wanted to show a user’s initial in an avatar, to do so you KISS: const avatar = displayName[...
Early Retirement through Badassity
In the world of very early retirement, we tend to ignore one of the most important things for normal retirees: the So...
As a man of Science, I’m supposed to hide my enthusiasm about this somewhat controversial subject, and instead direct...
It all started last winter when I innocently posted a review for a heated vest I had bought on Amazon. I was happy wi...
Recent content on Lorenzo Setale's Blog
I have been using iCloud to synchronize files for more than I can remember. Recently, I became a little annoyed by th...
Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this a...
In January 2024 I started making small video games for pure fun. After some practice, playtesting with friends and ne...
I'm a software engineer at the Coop Genossenschaft, swim coach and swimmer in Switzerland.
My workflow of letting Claude Code process raw files into notes and sort them into my personal wiki, while making sur...
A short overview on how I self-host.
There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink co...
A cozy little corner of the web.
It’s been a while, I know. I sit here writing today because I feel trapped; a prisonless prisoner who laid bricks unt...
Slowly emerges from the sixth sea of silence. Hello! I’m back for the time being. I started working on a handful of p...
These past two days have been something of a whirlwind, as I made a couple of important life decisions. The decisions...
Technical blog covering software development, game modding and reverse engineering, web technologies, and command-line utilities.
Why is it the way it is?
All Delta Force Land Warrior + Task Force Dagger OSTs extracted from the SBF assets
All Delta Force 2 OSTs extracted from the SBF assets
Apps for macOS and iOS that feel at home. Local first, no subscriptions, no tracking.
HavenApps has released HavenAcknowledgments, an open source Swift package that shows licence notices for your depende...
HavenApps has released HavenDevice, an open source Swift package that collects device and app information in one plac...
HavenApps has released HavenGPXParser, an open source Swift package for working with GPX files. It reads, validates, ...
For some time I wanted to design a CDB (Constant DataBase) alternative that fits better my use-case for Kawipiko (hig...
I've made some experiments with compressing individual URLs, and I describe my initial observations (while comparing ...
My personal experience in finding affordable EU-based cloud providers for a small personal project. And my pessimisti...
Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD, GNU/Linux, system administration, programming, and other stuff - the pragmatic way
This RSS feed is no longer maintained. You can find the links for the two new feeds at: https://unixdigest.com/feeds....
Whether you're dealing with a web application or some other application, all user input should always be considered "...
systemd is great as an init system, but - as you know - it's not an init system anymore, it's a behemoth of a monster.
A forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs.
THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...
THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...
LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...
The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
So, the funny thing is that I really did want to blog for the 25th anniversary of Firefly next year because it was my...
Someday all of the posts to Once We Were Browncoats will get imported here as part of the ongoing blog restoration pr...
In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...
I'm Boris Tane, and I build software
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...
The feed of updates to Paul's Weblog
Here’s a quick one live from Hack Night. 🧑💻 I met a cool human, Cullan, who made a website that I think is neat and ...
I’ve written about restaurant week before: Scraping Minneapolis / St. Paul Restaurant Week. Well, good news: it’s sti...
I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, V...