Blogs tagged "tech"

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 ...

Updating map.kmcd.dev with an interactive 3D globe, more BGP cities, historical submarine cables back to 1858, and li...

The traditional advice is REST for public APIs and gRPC for microservices. But is this a false dichotomy?

A check-in for my career

Today’s Refresh goes over the past few months of events, including minigame updates and our Halloween event.

You can now rank every human on Earth with a single webpage.

Highly anticipated features such as Undo/Redo, Copy/Paste, and more are now in the game!

After you get an agent working, you’ll want to get it to run cheaply and quickly. There are four key metrics I track ...

I’ve administered a lot of system design interviews over my career, and I’ve never had anyone use shuffle-sharding.I ...

Exponential backoff with jitter is an effective retry strategy that helps avoid thundering herds, but most implementa...

A UI shouldn’t lose your inputs.If you are typing, each and every key should result in a letter in order. No characte...

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 recently released FreeFall 800, open source firmware for the Gravity 800 smoker/grill from Masterbuilt. The project...

Today I’m publicly releasing a project I’ve been working on for a while: FreeFall 800. FreeFall 800 is a local first,...

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

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 ...

Last week, I was invited to Beijing to attend the inaugural Apple App Incubator event, where Tim Cook attended in per...

Over the past few months, the community has seen a growing number of cases where AI is used to quickly reverse-engine...

As AI coding becomes widespread, more and more developers lean toward one view: imperative frameworks like UIKit may ...

Sakura pens are great, but they’re hard to tell apart from one another, especially in a stuffed pencil case at the bo...

I have used Buttondown for almost a year now for All About Berlin’s newsletter. I could not find reviews for Buttondo...

I am subletting my apartment. These are the mistakes people make when they contact me about my listing. Kleinanzeigen...

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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Tech is a tough place to work right now, but especially for women.

This is a very personal post about going back to the roots of this blog to refind the the passion for writing that dr...

I thought I knew what AT Protocol was about. It was for Bluesky and Bluesky-like sites and maybe auth. I wasn't entir...

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...

The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside ...

Ah ouais, quand même, on en est là ! À ce point immergé dans notre propre stupidité. Durant la dernière vague de chal...

Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Le numérique est-il intrinsèquement mauvais ? Comme le souligne Sandra, le...

In the last couple of years, most companies have adopted some kind of AI. Most of them have done so by buying API acc...

I used to describe my position on AI and infrastructure with a simple rule: AI should never operate your infrastructu...

I often review git pull/merge requests (PRs) both for work and open source projects. Many of those PRs have a number ...

MonsterID as Gravatar Fallback Today I stumbled across a link at Simon Willison's blog: Visual Security: 9-block IP I...

My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. Howe...

Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short wh...

We are right in the middle of fall, and that means BazelCon 2026 just took place. This time around it was hosted in A...

Extending getopts into a small framework for Unix-style Rust command-line tools. Over the years, I’ve written tens of...

How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not...

release-ref { color: #b34700 } metainfo-commit { color: #007a5a } tree-commit { color: #0072b2 } While I was still at...

I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one starte...

The Fibonacci sequence is so-called because in Western mathematics is first appears in connection with a problem from...

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...

In June, Reddit put old.reddit.com behind a login. It already blocked Mullvad, the VPN I use, so I was locked out ent...

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

Network tunneling seems to be a recurring theme for me, but every time I revisit it, there's something new worth shar...

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...