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A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime. Today, I'm happy to say the fix has been found and merged . This post is an overview of what caused the leak, a look at some of Ghostty's internals, and some brief…
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
As my cat woke me up way too early for a Saturday morning, I decided to put all this extra time (and my ChatGPT Pro subscription) into good use and generated a QR-code generator for PostgreSQL, written as a single pure SQL statement. No external libraries or Postgres extension installation needed! The pqr.sql example…
From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.
We discovered that entire sections describing domestic U.S. intelligence facilities were deliberately removed from two published documents, while equivalent foreign facilities remained visible. The evidence exists in an unexpected place - the PDF metadata of documents published by The Intercept in 2016, and by The…
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
When I switched from an iMac to a Mac mini in late 2024 I choose an ASUS ProArt 5K PA27JCV (24", 60 Hz) for the monitor and while it looked great, it…
I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…
Debunking an alarmingly common HTML misconception.
It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. Just a quick FTC required note: When you buy through my links, I may earn a commission. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll…
How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.
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A responsible disclosure write-up on an organization-wide ArcGIS API key embedded across multiple public front-end bundles.
For the past several months, I’ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sendin…
Sometimes, you need to deal with secrets in an interactive shell. Say, for example, you want to do things with the API of a GitLab instance for which you require authentication:
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
Model Context Protocol has taken off as the standardized platform for AI integrations, but this popularity will be short-lived.
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!
After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue…
Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.
Explore how 20 leading AI models respond to tough ethical, social, and political questions. See how their answers compare to each other and to you.
The core of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp isn't magic. It's about 200 lines of straightforward Python. Let's build one from scratch.
New : You can now watch a recording of my talk on my YouTube channel ! Or you can just click "play" below, I suppose.
This blog post shows how to fix a buffer overflow in the su progam of UNIX v4
Vulnerabilities in IBMs Bob AI allow attackers to trigger the download and execution of malware via indirect prompt injection if users select auto-approve for even one known trusted command.
If you read OpenAI’s recent announcement about ChatGPT Health, you might wonder why an AI company under immense financial pressure is venturing into the health business. The answer is buried...
