Posts tagged "tech"

Who is going to train the juniors?

Junior engineers can get instant answers and working code, but risk skipping the hard-earned understanding that comes from struggle. AI is a powerful multiplier for experienced engineers, but witho...

I Tried the TerraMaster F4-425 Plus as My First NAS; Here’s What I Liked (and Didn’t)

Thinking about your first NAS, too? Here’s my hands-on TerraMaster F4-425 Plus review covering setup, performance, software, and limitations.

Glue Work in Software Product Design and Development

You know how things work, understand customers better than most people on the team, see where the product is headed, and you are called in to calm the never-ending designer-developer feud over how ...

Daily News Stuff 4 February 2026

Wheat Have Edition Top Story How it started: Europe shrugs off tariffs and plans to end its complete reliance on America for all its technology. (The Register) Except for ASML, anyway.Forrester fra...

From Pixel Capture to Metadata: Reimagining Screen Recording Architecture on macOS

Independent developer Sintone shares a deep dive into building a macOS screen recorder. Learn practical solutions for ScreenCaptureKit errors (-3821), high-performance video composition with Metal,...

Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal

The bug itself was reported all the way back in November 2024, and the issue is still present for current Snap versions of VS Code and even VSCodium.

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.2...

Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files 🫣

echo "don't panic"

Finally! Firefox Is Getting a Kill Switch for Its (Unwanted) AI Features

Maybe this will bring back some of those lost users.

HTTP/1.1 From Scratch

When the web became whole.

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...

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. ...

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...