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I like things that make me think.

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Cope...

By 10:25 AM, I’d entered what Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans call “Deep Hurting.” The migration plan was solid. Th...

Keep secrets out of your images: use Docker Compose secrets mounted at /run/secrets and a tiny wrapper script that ex...

Claude Code fails silently when run over SSH on macOS because it can't access your OAuth token stored in the keychain...

So you want to let users upload files directly to Cloudflare R2 from their browser? Great idea! Presigned URLs are th...

I recently built a SQL practice platform for my DBMS course at IITM BS Degree. About 50-100 students were hitting it ...

FastAPI expects array parameters in the standard key=v1&key=v2 format. However, many frontend client generators like ...

Formatting is not something developers should be spending much time on, but we spend a lot of time staring at code to...

The reasons for having unit tests in your projects are well-known and accepted; I'm not going to rehash them here. Wh...

Most embedded C developers start writing their code on their microcontroller manufacturer's provided IDE - STM32CubeI...

I’ve been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to cle...

About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When ...

Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little diffe...

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.

The esteemed band 'My Bloody Valentine' announced more shows in the UK. Yet when I went to purchase presale tickets, ...

Expose a local database to the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel and Hyperdrive

Simple ClickHouse intro by analyzing GPX activity data

Fun with HTTP proxies and user space tunnels with Wireguard

Carding the CEO is the ultimate unit test.

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

Any product you can think of, Crafty can build.

An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form f...

A summary our trip to Austin, TX to be a community exhibitor at 2025 Texas Linux fest! Especially the success of the ...

I'm going to have a booth at Texas Linux Fest, so I built a TXLF-inspired DIY NAS that I will give away in a raffle! ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...