Blogs tagged "tech"

Tim Bachmann's Blog

I'm a software engineer at the Coop Genossenschaft, swim coach and swimmer in Switzerland.

• Letting Claude Improve my Notes in Obsidian Apr 12, 2026

  My workflow of letting Claude Code process raw files into notes and sort them into my personal wiki, while making sur...

• My Selfhosting Setup Dec 04, 2023

  A short overview on how I self-host.

• Getting the Absolute Path of a Remote Directory in Ansible Sep 20, 2023

  There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink co...

Commented Out

Technical blog on embedded systems development, covering electronics, firmware, and software engineering from the perspective of decades in the industry.

• My C source file format preferences Jan 08, 2026

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

• Unit Testing Embedded C: Off-Target with CppUTest on Windows Oct 28, 2025

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

• Building Embedded C Applications on Windows with GCC, CMake and Ninja Oct 24, 2025

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

bearblog

Writings by Alexander Harkness

• Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre May 16, 2026

  The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...

• 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...

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.

• Number of bags of a given length with exactly d distinct elements Aug 14, 2026

  We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(...

• Inventing ELIZA (Review) Aug 10, 2026

  This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural L...

• Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review) Jun 29, 2026

  Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many t...

Karl Bartel's Website

• I prefer Djot over Markdown May 14, 2026

  I prefer Djot over Markdown Why Djot? Markdown is very useful, widely adopted and at a first glance simple. But the s...

• 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...

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.

• 2026W32 Aug 17, 2026

  Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck wi...

• Write it down Aug 14, 2026

  I spent a few years writing down everything I learned about ClickHouse internals. Most of it I can’t read anymore. It...

• Write it down Aug 14, 2026

  I spent a few years writing down everything I learned about ClickHouse internals. Most of it I can’t read anymore. It...

Dev Blog

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

• Exporting Project Files into a Markdown Document with Bash Jun 02, 2026

  Exporting Project Files into a Markdown Document with Bash

• 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

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

• Outpost progress Aug 12, 2026

  I have been working lately on “Outpost”, a video adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It is a bit metroidvania in some ...

• It is the game, stupid! Jul 25, 2026

  Paraphrasing the famous American catchphrase, I have noticed a pattern in my gamedev failures. Generally, people get ...

• Cepeceros Podcast Jun 28, 2026

  Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula: the ho...

The Fly Blog

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

• Turn And Face The Strange Jul 24, 2026

  We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite wa...

• Building Agents that Don't Break Themselves Jun 08, 2026

  Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents wit...

• Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP Mar 10, 2026

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

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, ...

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...

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 #372 Aug 16, 2026

  If your Monday coffee didn’t taste the same as usual due to me not sending out an issue - apologies. I hope today’s i...

• Weekly Robotics #371 Aug 02, 2026

  Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Gemini Robotics 2, a place to find your next robot dataset, how it is to bui...

• Weekly Robotics #370 Jul 26, 2026

  In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about designing an underground robot scheduler, an open-source L2 autopilot, the...

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...

Julia Evans

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

• Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Jul 21, 2026

  Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where...

• Learning a few things about running SQLite Jul 17, 2026

  Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting s...

• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS May 15, 2026

  Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure ...

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...

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...

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...

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