Blogs tagged "tech"

bearblog

Writings by Alexander Harkness

• Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves Nov 01, 2023

  Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...

• Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates Aug 12, 2022

  London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...

• To Escape the Heat, Just Apply Suncream? Aug 10, 2022

  Heatwave precautions are a meme. Is it really more important to wear your suncream when outside on a hot day than a c...

ℤ→ℤ

The mapping of integers to integers is a fair summary of the work of programming. A blog about computer science, history of computing, engineering, game theory, and other things that attract my interest.

• TimesSquare Programming Puzzle - Part 1? Apr 23, 2026

  TimesSquare is a programming puzzle created by Dennis Shasha and published in the April 2026 issue of Communications ...

• Plain Text Accounting & Financial Reporting Apr 15, 2026

  Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a co...

• README: A Bookish History of Computing (Review) Apr 14, 2026

  While the study of textbooks has proven fruitful in the study of the history of mathematics, there has been little at...

Karl Bartel's Website

• Can We Make Simpler Software With LLMs? Feb 28, 2026

  Can We Make Simpler Software With LLMs? Growing numbers of abstraction layers, vast amounts of dependencies and gener...

• Raising Notifications From Terminal Jan 17, 2026

  Raising Notifications From Terminal When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified whe...

• Raising Notifications From Terminal Jan 17, 2026

  Raising Notifications From Terminal When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified whe...

Jordi Villar

I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.

• Act like what you want to be Apr 15, 2026

  I used to roll my eyes at people who started a new sport and immediately bought all the gear. Day one of running and ...

• 2026W13 Apr 05, 2026

  The Singularity Will Not Be Streamed — What makes this story land is the contrast. The Singularity doesn’t get stoppe...

• Nobody Talks About the Hardware Apr 03, 2026

  These days I’ve found myself reading about hardware shortage and how RAM, disk, and NAND manufacturers have all their...

Dev Blog

Developer-focused technical blog with practical programming tutorials and setup guides across web development, backend technologies, and developer tools.

• Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron Feb 12, 2026

  Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron

• Electron Resources Feb 12, 2026

  Electron Resources

• Create a simple server with Node.js, Express and Typescript Feb 12, 2026

  Create a simple server with Node.js, Express and Typescript

Ishan Das Sharma

Self-taught developer, writing about the things I have learned

• How to Generate Presigned URLs for R2 When Using Cloudflare Workers (And Make Sure They Actually Work) Jan 14, 2026

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

• What I Learned Using Neon Postgres for a Week of Live Traffic Dec 09, 2025

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

• How to Handle "Bracket" Array Query Parameters (key[]=val) in FastAPI Nov 27, 2025

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

Isaac Clayton

A cozy little corner of the web.

• 196 Years Apr 06, 2026

  It’s been a while, I know. I sit here writing today because I feel trapped; a prisonless prisoner who laid bricks unt...

• Neopack is live Mar 04, 2026

  Slowly emerges from the sixth sea of silence. Hello! I’m back for the time being. I started working on a handful of p...

• Programming as theory building is true now more than ever Feb 21, 2026

  These past two days have been something of a whirlwind, as I made a couple of important life decisions. The decisions...

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• Playing White Box again Apr 21, 2026

  I played a lot of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) at the end of the 90s: a little of AD&D, lots of Middle-earth ...

• Actually overflowing Apr 06, 2026

  So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and toma...

• Be human Mar 14, 2026

  Recently, Hacker News updated the comments section of their guidelines: Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited co...

The Fly Blog

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

• Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP Mar 10, 2026

  Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...

• Litestream Writable VFS Jan 29, 2026

  I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s...

• The Design & Implementation of Sprites Jan 14, 2026

  We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers ...

Thranpages

Thranpages; home of idiosyncratic variety and curiosity. Personal website of Thran. Featuring writ, RSRU, WMW and other collected interests.

• SimCity 3k in 4k Dec 20, 2025

  SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry,...

• Street Vending Oct 15, 2025

  Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.

• My Bloody Ordeal Apr 04, 2025

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

Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter - stay up to date on state of the art robotics, drones, space, open source projects and research.

• Weekly Robotics #357 Apr 19, 2026

  We are again happy to be the media sponsor of Cracow Robotics and AI meetup. Can't wait! Today's issue starts off ver...

• Weekly Robotics #356 Apr 12, 2026

  Last week, I had the pleasure of traveling to Zurich and visiting the ETH Robotic Systems Lab and the RAI Institute. ...

• Weekly Robotics #355 Apr 05, 2026

  The other day, I sat down with Adar Hay, the CEO of Jiga, to talk about supply chains and moving projects from protot...

Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Alejandro AR (kinduff) website with blog posts, projects, videos, and more.

• The Doorman Nov 30, 2025

  Carding the CEO is the ultimate unit test.

• The Piano Melody Aug 30, 2025

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

• When AI Sells You What You Want May 28, 2025

  Any product you can think of, Crafty can build.

micheal@ecliptik.com

Professional Website of Micheal Waltz

• Vibe Coding a Fluxbox Inspired Wayland Compositor Feb 27, 2026

  Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post from it’s memories, git log...

• Three Days with Claude Code Jan 20, 2026

  Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post since I was curious what it...

• Surfing GlobalTalk with a Macintosh 512Ke Mar 10, 2025

  While I’ve discussed the origins of my Macintosh 512Ke and the enhancements I’ve done over the past year. What really...

Julia Evans

Hey! I'm Julia. Welcome to my blog. Here's every post I've ever written, organized by category. Enjoy!

• Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages Mar 10, 2026

  Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so ...

• Notes on clarifying man pages Feb 18, 2026

  Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what m...

• Some notes on starting to use Django Jan 27, 2026

  Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that...

FAELIX

News articles and blog posts by the team at FAELIX.

• Moving into a New Data Centre with Equinix MA5 Jul 12, 2023

  We’d been operating out of the Equinix MA2 Reynolds House data centre in Manchester for many years - it was our first...

• Planning Our Manchester Network Migration Aug 01, 2022

  Over the next three months there are going to be a lot of moving parts in the FAELIX machine. All of these will be ch...

• Triple Whammy of Loss of Wavelength, Routing Control Plane Crash, and IGP Issues Jul 26, 2022

  Background I have written many times about our network platform, with the peering and transit edge based around the o...

fasterthanli.me

amos likes to tinker

• 2025 Recap: so many projects Dec 31, 2025

  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...

• Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution Dec 13, 2025

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

• Does Dioxus spark joy? Nov 22, 2025

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

Caffeinspiration

Recent content on Caffeinspiration

• Timeline and Early Days Nov 16, 2025

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

• On having heart surgery at 32 Nov 09, 2025

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

• Cathy: my dear, helpful catheter Nov 09, 2025

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

Changelog

Changelog Posts

• Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip! May 08, 2025

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

• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe Dec 05, 2024

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

• The Changelog has never gone viral Dec 28, 2023

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

Pavan Kalyan's Blog

Technical Blog

• Tips on DP + Bitmasking for competitive programming Jul 01, 2023
• Understanding the different kinds of keys used in databases May 21, 2022
• TIL: Determine expected solution from given constraints Apr 14, 2022

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 (and 3 Reasons to Stay Away) Apr 24, 2026

  Should you skip this new release or jump on the bandwagon and upgrade to 26.04? Let me help you with that.

• Lubuntu 26.04 LTS Ships LXQt 2.3, and Keeps Wayland on the Backburner Apr 24, 2026

  The lightweight Ubuntu flavor hits the 30 release mark with a refreshed app stack and Wayland support still in the wo...

• Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Drops X11 Support and Goes All in On Wayland Apr 24, 2026

  You also get Plasma 6.6, Linux 7.0, and three years of standard LTS support.