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I randomly had the idea that it would be interesting to “dig into” all possible Sudoku puzzles. So I created Digdoku....

PostgreSQL major version upgrades is something that NixOS currently doesn’t handle for you. This is my process, docum...

I’ve been taking a few timelapse videos recently and as an ammeter I’ve just been using the default phone camera apps...

Timeline and discovery: the early days The simple timeline of my journey sounds deceptively easy at first: I found ou...

Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or any...

Listen, there isn’t much in this world that’s as luxurious as being able to pee whenever you want to. Imagine floatin...

A complete guide to deploying Neo4j Enterprise 5.x on any VPS (Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) with S...

Building interactive graph visualizations with Sigma React - from basic setup to advanced customizations

Using aerial imagery and Spatial SQL to explore Forest Service road networks

If you've ever used Web Workers (or any other event-based communication), you probably noticed that this kind of code...

After almost two years (life and other projects happened), I finally plotted something new. I resurrected the Moon pr...

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post ...

Special Edition — Colors TL;DR:Purple is my color. This blog post has approximately 301 words and may take 2 minutes ...

Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has ...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Its that time, friends! The festivities of July 2025 has come to an end. Its been a fantastic opportunity to host the...

On Tangled's existence and direction Also published at: https://icy.leaflet.pub/3m47cll72hs25 We set out to build Tan...

The new age of social-enabled apps atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identit...

Getting told when to get things done Way back in 2021, I wrote about my productivity endeavours, which were—in summar...

This post is a quick TIL* (sidenote: “Today I Learned”) for posterity. I’m building a side project* (sidenote: It’s c...

Leaving logistical plans until the last minute leaves you with fewer decisions to make, fewer options to compare, and...

If you use Discord on Linux, and installed via a .deb, you might have seen this annoying pop up every time you start ...

I worked in an organization with lots of processes. I was in an office with no windows, a bit of a hole or maybe even...

I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the w...

There are a few business urban legends I’ve heard over the years that I try to trace down. It’s interesting to me bec...

I have an old Linux laptop that I decided to repurpose last weekend. After spending 5 hours backing up files (APFS dr...

In my previous job, I was building a side-car app using Electron. I occasionally found myself needing to debug a pack...

Like many today, I woke up to reading about Facebook’s major DNS outage. While I’m looking forward to hopefully readi...

All things must come to an end, I suppose, and so it is with CFE.dev which will conclude after the current schedule o...

Yeah, I'm pushing a decade of running CFE, which is crazy. Here's the history of the site that you never wanted.

I'm switching browsers due to The Browser Company's recently announced change in direction. Here's some migration tip...

TLDR: Need to see how your site or app works on Android without buying a phone? Fire up a free online Android emulato...

TLDR: Want your team to browse the web safely without risking company devices or networks? Try free Remote Browser Is...

TLDR: Want to see how your site looks in different browsers without installing them all? Try a free online browser em...

In-person meetings are hugely beneficial for academic research; they provide a venue to collaborate and connect, maki...

The Reserve Reviewer Policy is an experimental policy to help conferences scale to increased workloads. We outline it...

Neural networks are more useful when placed in a suitable, specialized environment.

Daniel Fletcher shared some very sad news with me. His father—my friend—Ted Fletcher, passed away today. Ted Fletcher...

I can’t help but feel that blogrolls are now suddenly more relevant than they have ever been. I found myself revisiti...

I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner...

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 ...

When comparing REST and GraphQL, it’s not just about payload size, flexibility, or tooling. The real distinction is i...

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in ...

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...

My attempt to write more frequently by sharing random updates clearly failed (just look at when I published the last ...

It’s officially official. I just turned off our last Slack integration. We’re no longer announcing new episodes there...

We’re kicking off 2025 with some big changes. Starting in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing ...

In the 14+ years we’ve been making The Changelog podcast, it has never gone viral. We’ve had popular episodes and not...

In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment

In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed

In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding

Wow! After years of hard work and countless commits, we have finally reached a huge milestone: GIMP 3.0 is officially...

In a move that has sparked significant discussion within the Ubuntu Linux fan-base and community, Canonical, the comp...

Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and direc...