Blogs tagged "tech"

Paul's Weblog

The feed of updates to Paul's Weblog

• make-bookmarklets.com Mar 05, 2026

  Here’s a quick one live from Hack Night. 🧑‍💻 I met a cool human, Cullan, who made a website that I think is neat and ...

• Restaurant Week: Winter 2026 Edition Jan 29, 2026

  I’ve written about restaurant week before: Scraping Minneapolis / St. Paul Restaurant Week. Well, good news: it’s sti...

• “Skip Level” Interview Questions Jan 23, 2026

  I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, V...

Max Brenner

• My first steps in indie hacking Mar 04, 2024

  Photo by Jake Hills / image source Hey, thanks for stopping by. After over two years of silence on this blog I finall...

• Sharing a Kubernetes cluster between multiple tenants Jan 11, 2022

  Running and maintaining Kubernetes clusters is hard. They need to be upgraded, automatically scale based on demand, b...

• Moving from utterances to giscus Dec 27, 2021

  Why migrate? I added the ability to leave comments on posts of this blog around a year ago. Back then I was looking f...

seize the dev

• Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS Jul 18, 2026

  A guide to setting up a DDNS server with support for nsupdate.

• Will Software Engineering Survive? Feb 17, 2026

  Investigating recent claims amidst the rise of LLMs.

• Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? Jan 06, 2026

  The current state of app bloat.

PREPEND

Technical and personal notes from Brian Alexander Lee, technologist/architect/software developer/data engineer/ api guy. Not a work site.

• Organizational Lock-in Oct 02, 2025

  I worked in an organization with lots of processes. I was in an office with no windows, a bit of a hole or maybe even...

• Quantified Kilimanjaro (or Procrastination) Sep 23, 2023

  I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the w...

• Business Urban Legends Jun 06, 2021

  There are a few business urban legends I’ve heard over the years that I try to trace down. It’s interesting to me bec...

Gonçalo Valério

Thoughts, projects and some other stuff

• My harness, or whatever that means Sep 15, 2026

  That’s one of those words that, one year ago without context in a question, it could get you off guard. Today it appe...

• Interesting and worrisome views of the European public digital infrastructure Jun 27, 2026

  Digital sovereignty is currently the order of the day. It seems European leaders suddenly opened their eyes and reali...

• Managing SSH keys with KeePassXC is actually quite nice Mar 21, 2026

  It all started with a post on Lobste.rs, someone asking how others manage their SSH keys. It was a question that I ha...

~gallant

Thoughts and Code

• Whither poetry? Nov 28, 2024

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

• Knowing Where To Tap Jan 15, 2024

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

• A Consideration of SQL ORMs Dec 04, 2023

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

Prakash S

Prakash is a hobbyist turned professional Software Engineer with a background in Mechatronics. He is a tinkerer, deeply passionate about exploring and building new technologies.

• Bottom Up Jan 29, 2026

  Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

• Bottom Up Jan 29, 2026

  Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

• Invisible Obvious Jan 10, 2022

  Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Cope...

catonmat.net

catonmat.net

• Try an Online Android Emulator! (For Free!) Sep 21, 2025

  TLDR: Need to see how your site or app works on Android without buying a phone? Fire up a free online Android emulato...

• Try RBI – Remote Browser Isolation! (For Free!) Sep 20, 2025

  TLDR: Want your team to browse the web safely without risking company devices or networks? Try free Remote Browser Is...

• Try a Browser Emulator! (For Free!) Sep 20, 2025

  TLDR: Want to see how your site looks in different browsers without installing them all? Try a free online browser em...

Hugo’s Blog

Recent content on Hugo’s Blog

• Secret environment variables with Hermit and 1Password Oct 16, 2025

  This post is a quick TIL* (sidenote: “Today I Learned”) for posterity. I’m building a side project* (sidenote: It’s c...

• Freedom of the Last Minute Jul 08, 2024

  Leaving logistical plans until the last minute leaves you with fewer decisions to make, fewer options to compare, and...

• Skip Discord Updates on Linux May 18, 2024

  If you use Discord on Linux, and installed via a .deb, you might have seen this annoying pop up every time you start ...

Brajeshwar

I’m on an adventure to create beautiful, meaningful products that improve the world for my daughters and their friends.

• Syntactic Sugar Sep 01, 2026

  Peter Landin coined the term syntactic sugar in 1964, in the paper, “The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions.”1 P. J...

• 10x Is Easier Than 2x Aug 13, 2026

  Ten times the result, and less work than doubling. I read 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy1 e...

• User Experience of Nomenclature Aug 05, 2026

  work-in-progress

Volution Notes

• Designing a single-file mmap-backed read-only hashed multi-table database Mar 28, 2026

  For some time I wanted to design a CDB (Constant DataBase) alternative that fits better my use-case for Kawipiko (hig...

• Individual URL compression experiment initial thoughts Aug 19, 2025

  I've made some experiments with compressing individual URLs, and I describe my initial observations (while comparing ...

• EU-based cloud alternatives affordability for small projects and companies Aug 12, 2025

  My personal experience in finding affordable EU-based cloud providers for a small personal project. And my pessimisti...

Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Recent content on Lorenzo Setale's Blog

• Leaving iCloud, without self-hosting: Syncthing for files, notes, and passwords Apr 12, 2026

  I have been using iCloud to synchronize files for more than I can remember. Recently, I became a little annoyed by th...

• Running a Volleyball club with N8N Nov 04, 2025

  Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this a...

• My first Game Jam Mar 02, 2025

  In January 2024 I started making small video games for pure fun. After some practice, playtesting with friends and ne...

Michael Lynch

I'm Michael Lynch, software developer and blogger. I used to work as a software engineer at large companies, but now I create indie businesses and blog about the process.

• Refactoring English: Month 22 Oct 21, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? Oct 09, 2026

  The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized. Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI...

• Refactoring English: Month 21 Sep 21, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

Python Learning

My coding journey using Python

• Codility – Slalom Skiing – Python – 100% Feb 15, 2024

  If you haven’t read the first part of this post, you can do so HERE. What happened after I posted that blog was… …pre...

• Slalom Skiing – Codility (Python) Feb 04, 2024

  The battle is over. But I don’t feel relief, lol! Mostly shellshock, I suppose 😉 So, let’s get into it. If you haven’...

• Dip your toes in! Jan 16, 2024

  The water is *just* fine! And what water is that, you might be asking? Why, the Flood Depth exercise on Codility, of ...

Remains of the Day

The blog and personal website of Eugene Wei

• How to Blow Up a Timeline Jul 07, 2023

  NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new ap...

• My Favorite Movies of 2021 Mar 01, 2022

  A second year of the pandemic passed in which I didn’t attend any film festivals in person. I miss it. My viewing out...

• And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep Oct 10, 2021

  It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that...

Renfei Mao on flujoo

Recent content in Renfei Mao on flujoo

• My Approach to Automatic Musical Composition Feb 13, 2022

  In this blog, I will introduce my approach to automatic musical composition, including the theory, the algorithm, and...

• 我的专辑《夜》 Dec 29, 2021

  今年在做一张纯钢琴的氛围专辑。还没做完，这里先放出前四首曲子，包括音频和乐谱。这些音乐都和“夜”有关，要么描述与夜有关的意象，要么表达和夜有关的情绪。非常期待有朋友愿意演奏这些音乐。 前奏曲《午夜》 乐谱 午夜，客厅的大钟在铛铛作响。...

• My Early Music Nov 30, 2021

  Here are some of my early compositions. Most of them are for practice purposes excerpt for the first one “Wind Is Rin...

SIGPLAN Blog

The Blog of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

• Equality Saturation: An “Incomplete” Project Oct 01, 2026

  Equality saturation is a program optimization technique built around storing and rewriting large equivalence classes ...

• How the SIGPLAN Budget Works Jul 20, 2026

  SIGPLAN runs on a simple arithmetic: around $2M USD a year in conference registration income from POPL, PLDI, ICFP, a...

• The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work May 15, 2026

  How will documents evolve when AI agents become ubiquitous? In a world of AI agents, does the repository become the s...

Pankaj Tanwar - CS Engineer, writer & creator.

Pankaj Tanwar : A self-taught developer, writer & creator who loves to read, write and learn about tech.

• UNLINK vs DEL - A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis 🪢 Jan 18, 2025
• Building a tiny load balancing service using PID Controllers 🚘 Dec 26, 2024
• I turned my 10 year old tablet into a digital photo frame, displaying google photos album. 🌴 Jul 15, 2024

The Phoenix Trap

Code, music, philosophy, etc.

• Migrating from Docker Desktop to Colima: When Hardened Images Break Jan 20, 2026

  By 10:25 AM, I’d entered what Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans call “Deep Hurting.” The migration plan was solid. Th...

• 10 Lines to Better Docker Compose Secrets Dec 22, 2025

  Keep secrets out of your images: use Docker Compose secrets mounted at /run/secrets and a tiny wrapper script that ex...

• Claude Code CLI over SSH on macOS: Fixing Keychain Access Oct 26, 2025

  Claude Code fails silently when run over SSH on macOS because it can't access your OAuth token stored in the keychain...

Nadav Ami

Nadav Ami

• Microdemos: Just 🤬 Show Them Apr 28, 2026

  TL;DR Skip the doc and use agentic coding to build a microdemo. Building it forces you to scope the problem and under...

• Microdemos: Just 🤬 Show Them Apr 28, 2026

  TL;DR Skip the doc and use agentic coding to build a microdemo. Building it forces you to scope the problem and under...

• str[0] lies about emoji Apr 18, 2026

  Say you built an app and wanted to show a user’s initial in an avatar, to do so you KISS: const avatar = displayName[...