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Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
I wrote a piece a long time ago about The Wolf. It's my personal take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren't a myth. They exist. I've seen them.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,968 posts.
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Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All
For April First, a guide to replace everything with 555 ICs.
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The age of Pump and Dump software
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
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Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
After careful consideration, we’ve decided on a meaningful way to use the generous donations from our community: funding longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
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I made my own Git
Personal home page of Tony
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Software Pump and Dump
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
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The state of Linux music players in 2026
Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
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Doing the thing is doing the thing
Software Engineer, LITM
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Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
Kimi K2.5 defines Visual Agentic Intelligence. Trained on 15T tokens, it introduces SOTA visual coding and autonomous agent swarm. Read the full tech blog.
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State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
Hi! Long time no see, huh? :) It’s been three years since my last State of the Windows article, which was about the inconsistencies in the Windows 11 user experience. Since then, Microsoft (a…
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Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
Understanding Threshold Map in Ordered Dithering.
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ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago, was …
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Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.
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AI code and software craft
Update (Feb 17, 2026)—I no longer agree with many statements made in this blog post. I am leaving it here unmodified. See my follow-up: AI can sort of code, can't write .
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Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info
In the world of matching decompilation, projects use a tool which consumes an input binary and lifts objects for comparison and linkage.
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The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
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The mountain that weighed the Earth
Suppose you want to find out how much you weigh. It’s easy enough – get a scale, stand on it, and read the number. Now suppose you want to know how much the Earth weighs. You get out a scale and…hm…
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RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
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What “The Best” Looks Like
A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
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There is an AI code review bubble
Today everybody's doing AI code review. Here's how Greptile's viewpoint is differentiated - independence, autonomy, and feedback loops.
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Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Television is 100 years old today
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Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Apple today unveiled the new AirTag, now with an expanded finding range and a louder speaker.
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Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
I read this post “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases [from C++ to Rust]. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.” and it got me curious, how difficult is it really?
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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
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US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors
Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).
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TSMC Risk
If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.
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MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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Apple, What Have You Done?
I've been an Apple user for over a decade and generally very happy with that life choice, but since iOS / iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe were released a few month...