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I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...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

Mend Renovate is a wonderful set-and-forget utility that helps you keep your project’s dependencies up to date. It’s ...

I’ve been using HAProxy for a very long time. In most cases, I work on stuff where HAProxy configuration fits into th...

SOPS (Secret OPerationS) is a useful tool for encrypting sensitive data, but it doesn’t get enough praise. It support...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate Transparency.It may be late, but combined with CRLite (and its other ...

The four most popular ways to use RDF-based metadata on websites are RDFa-Core, RDFa-Lite, Microdata, and inline JSON...

Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scraper...

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...

On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separa...

This would have been a great opportunity to use “The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed” if not for the sake of my confo...

Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing ...

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically ...

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventu...

During my undergraduate studies, I relied on a gaming laptop for most of my university projects because I needed a po...

In this post, we’ll explore the crucial role of distributed training in scaling Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to handle...

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This is a dump of my custom elements knowledge and how to make it all work with React.

There is the occasional need for the tiniest possible image, but what can we use as one?

Sometimes you want to have inline elements that have two lines of text. Can you achieve that with just CSS?

I have a soft spot for poetry. That is what poems are for - sentimental musings and meditative cogitation. These are ...

You've likely heard some variant of the morality story where someone justifies their (commercial) worth as mostly a m...

Conventional wisdom in modern software development generally endorses the use of an ORM. "Any project that doesn’t us...

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I ...

Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder ...

Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and ...

I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...

I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investin...

Using Bayesian statistics at work, sometimes there is a bias towards conjugate priors. Conjugate priors are great due...

I’ve written a bit about Gnus on the blog before, but if you are just now starting to follow along, all you need to k...

There is a new utility on my GitHub page, air-quality.el. It’s a status indicator for the Emacs modeline. I wanted a ...

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

CMake is a build configuration tool. In other words, CMake generates Makefiles. This post gives an example on how to ...

PREPARATION. PREPARATION. PREPARATION. Preparation is the key to be successful in any interview and land that job or ...

This is my blog where I will document recent interview questions, tips and tricks. Also my plan is to post some how-t...