Blogs tagged "tech"

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...

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

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.

• 2026W23 Jun 14, 2026

  Software Is Made Between Commits — The claim that stuck with me: “the conversation that generates the code is becomin...

• How Lazy Container Loading Works Jun 02, 2026

  A few weeks ago I read Modal’s post on truly serverless GPUs. They describe getting GPU container starts from many mi...

• 2026W20 May 24, 2026

  We’ve made the world too complicated — The piece names something I keep circling back to — most of us operate daily w...

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...

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

• 10 bands May 25, 2026

  I have been struggling a bit lately finding things to write about in this blog, mostly because I don’t want to contri...

• Back to streaming May 21, 2026

  I haven’t mentioned it here very often, which is a bit surprising considering that I have uploaded over 60 videos alr...

• 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 ...

The Fly Blog

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

• 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...

• 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...

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 #365 Jun 21, 2026

  My favorite local Robotics Meetup is back in Krakow, Poland, on the 29th of June. We are also thrilled to continue be...

• Weekly Robotics #364 Jun 14, 2026

  This weekend, I took a wood planing workshop. If you are in robotics, you probably know the feeling of satisfaction t...

• Weekly Robotics #363 Jun 08, 2026

  ICRA 2026 was lots of fun! Having attended ICRA in 2023 and staying on top of what is happening in robotics, I though...

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.

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...

Julia Evans

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

• 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 ...

• Links to CSS colour palettes May 04, 2026

  A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I...

• Testing Vue components in the browser May 02, 2026

  Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or an...

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

• PINE64's Smart Speaker is a Home Assistant Powered Alternative to Amazon Echo Jun 23, 2026

  It is powered by a RISC-V chip, has a hardware mic mute switch, and costs $49.99.

• No More Reboots During Kernel Patching for ARM64 Systems on Ubuntu Jun 23, 2026

  Canonical's Livepatch finally extends to the platform in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26.

• I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About Jun 23, 2026

  Niri brings a different, scrollable tiling window experience that has captivated many Linux users.

Virtuwise

👋 Welcome to my blog! I’m Angelo, community evangelist, for the leader in the hybrid multicloud computing space. This blog provides commentary, analysi...

• The Quiet Catastrophe: AI's Compounding Errors Undermining Everything Mar 01, 2026

  As AI outpaces human grasp, minor errors compound into chaos, eroding trust and operations. Experts urge kill switche...

• Why Your Next Migration Shouldn't Be a Host-Based Slog: Hitachi's Storage Hack Changes the Game Feb 13, 2026

  Hitachi's storage offload slashes VM migration to OpenShift Virtualization from months to days, dodging duplicate inf...

• Infrastructure-as-Code is broken by design—formae wants to start over Oct 25, 2025

  Platform Engineering Labs unleashes Formae, an extensible open-source fix for infrastructure-as-code woes, ditching b...