Blogs tagged "tech"

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Our first update since the transition to Neal.fun! And it's a big one.

We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such a...

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...

My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into wate...

My resolution for 2025 was to make more art, and I had fun keeping it. I took acrylic painting lessons, got into wate...

Every year, on the first of January, prices change and new laws come into effect. Mostly, life gets a little more exp...

I have recently started experimenting with LoRa radios, and the LoRaWAN network protocol. Interestingly it seems that...

Basic Distribution Constraints In SystemVerilog, almost all constraints are some form of boolean expression. The cons...

Note: Since publishing this post, ChirpStack released their version 4 LoRaWAN network server, which significantly cha...

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...

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 ...

Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de pe...

La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond Outre la première victoire au Tour de France d’Eddy Merckx, 1969 fut une ...

Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Extrait de mon journal du 24 septembre 2025 Nous sommes fiers de nous passer de pét...

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 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...

Announcing a new, free and open source site for hosting in-real-life gatherings for niche tech communities.

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.

From its debut in 2019, SwiftUI is approaching its seventh year. It has long shed its initial growing pains and gradu...

Anthropic recently announced that because its latest model, Mythos, has become 'too powerful' at cybersecurity work a...

For iOS users, recent news about the Coruna and DarkSword vulnerabilities has become unavoidable. Both exploit chains...

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at w...

Old Game, New Clothes Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, ...

LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago. Meanwhile we m...

Why agentic coding changes everything for the open-source craft and maintainership. It has been two months since I’ve...

It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex ...

Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article. It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-bas...

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve seen automation evolve from a nice-to-have to a non-negotiable part of how organi...

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve been lucky enough to work across many roles and industries. In that time, I’ve al...

Last year I wrote Subscribe via e-mail. I made it possible for people to subscribe to the blog with an e-mail instead...

I must be getting older, because it feels like I just wrote my previous recently-update. I must’ve kept busy this mon...

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about moving away from US-based services, and social media platforms in general....

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...

A couple of years back I was discussing the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP). It includes a table expressing as a sum...

A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that peopl...

A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to ma...

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...

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

Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane...

Hiked part 20/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.8 kilometres from Garderen to Elspeet. Walked from Garderen past the ...

Hiked part 19/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.5 kilometres from Rozendaal to Arnhem. Left Castle Rosendael behind a...