Jan 25, 2026 from tenticle Tech Interview II In the previous installment of the Tech Interview saga we left off just as things started to get fun, perhaps expecting some quite heavy chunks of code dropping. Will they materialize? Or perhaps t...
Jan 24, 2026 from Peter's Path Utrecht Path part 09 Hiked 13.5 kilometres from Baarn to Hollandsche Rading. You walk through the wooded area of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, starting at the Baarnse Bos with its French style. Past Soestdijk Palace through the...
Jan 24, 2026 from Gonçalo Valério Using !bangs without the duck Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day was the !bangs. Essentially, if you want to search on a particular website, you...
Jan 23, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.
Jan 23, 2026 from Paul's Weblog “Skip Level” Interview Questions I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, VPs, and similar. Those that you wouldn’t interact with on a daily basis but perh...
Jan 23, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Trumps Sturmabteilung Lange habe ich nur vorsichtig Parallelen zwischen den Nazis und dem Trump-Regime gezogen. Nicht mehr.
Jan 23, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 04/2026 I have a sore throat and a cold. I think I got it from Uma, and she got it from school. I have also been talking a lot in meetings this week, and that’s not helping. Also, it’s very cold.
Jan 23, 2026 from Brajeshwar Avoid Losing Items - Assign Places for Them I like to believe that everything has a place, especially for smaller household items that usually go wherever and “have to be found” later, leading to frantic searches.
Jan 22, 2026 from Peter's Path Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct i...
Jan 22, 2026 from Rock and Null Cog in a great machine VS building one from scratch Working in a big tech company feels like being a cog in a powerful, well-oiled machine, while launching your own startup means building a smaller machine from scratch and owning every decision. Bot...
Jan 22, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog CGMs Part 1 - Great FOSS tools for an OK Quality Consumer CGM A Stelo CGM I had was expiring so I decided to try out xDrip+. One of those two things works really well. In this part I talk about CGMs in general.
Jan 22, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Modern Solution: Good riddance! Modern Solution, bekannt für Inkompetenz in der IT-Sicherheit und das Verklagen eines Entwicklers, der ihnen diese Sicherheitslücke mitgeteilt hat, ist wohl insolvent.
Jan 22, 2026 from Ploum.net Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commis...
Jan 21, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog isolated(any) and #isolation: Letting Swift Closures Automatically Inherit Isolation Swift 6 introduced many new features and keywords for concurrency. While many of these might be rarely used in daily development, encountering specific scenarios without understanding these new con...
Jan 21, 2026 from Thejesh GN Back to Basics on an old Bike I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solut...
Jan 21, 2026 from Victor Blomqvist's blog AI Made Hobby Coding Expensive Again For the last twenty years, we've lived in a "golden age" of hobbyist coding. If you had a laptop and an internet connection, you had access to the same world-class tooling as a developer at Google ...
Jan 20, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog Appy - An AppImage Installer Appy - An AppImage Installer I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic, a subsonic compatible music player written in go. One of their recommended ways to run it is a...
Jan 20, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ OREGON (Trail): BASIC Game Design from the Teletype Era In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westward migration along the Oregon Trail and proved to be a hit among the students. O...
Jan 20, 2026 from The Phoenix Trap Migrating from Docker Desktop to Colima: When Hardened Images Break By 10:25 AM, I’d entered what Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans call “Deep Hurting.” The migration plan was solid. The backup discipline was comprehensive. The execution? Chaos. I run a containeriz...
Jan 20, 2026 from Chris Short Looking for a new role 30-year tech veteran seeking remote Developer Advocate or Technical Marketing role. Translates complexity into adoption. Available now.
