Posts tagged "tech"

Daily News Stuff 3 February 2026

Spinning Wheel Edition Top Story SpaceX has merged with xAI in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $1.25 trillion. (CNBC) In a turnaround from recent nonsense, 80% of that valuati...

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie foun...

Professional Home-Building Teams

A quick post tonight because I should already be in bed. A lower-bound estimate for the number of calories the average adult American expends exercising a day is about ~150 calories per day (spent ...

Daily News Stuff 2 February 2026

Strange Days Edition Top News Notepad++, a text editor used by every programmer in the world, got hijacked and used to install malware. (Notepad++) You're probably safe to click on that link. I thi...

Monthly update #0429 • January 2025

Posts The following posts were written last month. Books On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray End-to-End The Worlds Longest Train Journey by Scott Manson Toxic Empathy by Allie Beth Stu...

Polygenic Risk Score for Coronary Artery Disease "At Home"

Way back in the day I used 23andMe. So lets do some analysis with plink and PRSice-2 to calculate a polygenic risk score for coronary artery disease.

Shifting Light, Unchanging Haystacks - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #121

Two weeks ago, taking the opportunity of attending iOS Conf SG 2026, I visited the National Gallery Singapore and had the pleasure of viewing the special exhibition "Into the Modern: Impressionism ...

Yak Shaving

Or, how you sat down to send one email and ended up reinstalling your operating system.

Weekly Robotics #346

It is my pleasure to welcome Jiga as a sponsor of Weekly Robotics! Jiga is built for hardware teams who want the speed of digital manufacturing with the trust of a long-term supplier relationship. ...

Habits and transition points

Whenever you’re at a transition point in your life, I wonder why I’m writing this! moving to a new city, starting a new semester, changing jobs, making a life decision—you need to pay close attenti...

Composing systems in an automated way with Ansible, Podman, and bootc

Will They Inherit Our Blogs?

I've thought about this topic more generally before, but this one is specifically about blogging. This blog is by far the hobby I have sunk the most time into over the last 13-ish years, and I'd li...

Daily News Stuff 1 February 2026

Carcainisation Edition Top Story Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has denied reports that his company is not going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. (CNBC) He explained that the real story is that Nvid...

Weekly Recap: 1 February 2026

My Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'My Student Showcase Presentation' # My school, 42 Malaysia, just held a roadshow event on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two weeks ago, I and two othe...

2026W04

Automatic Programming — The distinction antirez makes here finally gave me language for something I’ve been fumbling with. It’s not about whether you use AI to write code—it’s about whether you’re ...

Digital Independence Day: Posteo statt Googlemail

Am Digital Independence Day im Februar 2026 habe ich bei einigen Accounts meine Kontaktemailadresse auf meine Posteo-Adresse geändert.

Technology Connections über erneuerbare Energien

Der Youtube-Kanal „Technology Connections“ hat ein Video über die Überlegenheit von Solar- und Windkraft gemacht.

Classes start tomorrow

Today is Sunday, the day of rest. My day today was very good. (My goodness it’s so nice to be back home in Cambridge, MA.) I was debating whether or not to post anything today, but I figured that a...

Ship types, not docs

Types are the contract between services, docs are not

git.usebox.net and bots

I just had a chat with Alex because I couldn’t reach any of his websites, but I fired Tor browser and they were there. Alex has been documenting his fight against the AI-crawlers, so I assumed that...