631
I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
Not only did I give internet strangers unrestricted access to send me completely anonymous physical messages, but I also self-hosted the entire site on a Raspberry Pi
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
632
VisiCalc on the Apple II
In 1978, Bricklin and Frankston took out a loan to develop "Calcu-ledger," a tool that could project the fiscal health of taking out that very loan
633
Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
We're excited to announce an enhancement to Gemini CLI that makes your workflow more powerful a...
634
New coding models and integrations
GLM-4.6 and Qwen3-coder-480B are available on Ollama’s cloud service with easy integrations to the tools you are familiar with. Qwen3-Coder-30B has been updated for faster, more reliable tool calling in Ollama’s new engine.
635
ImapGoose
ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…
636
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable. Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones...
637
Getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
638
Zed is now available on Windows
From the Zed Blog: Zed for Windows is finally here. Download it today.
639
Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
640
How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
A tale of suspiciously cheap ADS1115s
641
Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.)
Four years after my post on doing network captures on macOS with Process ID, Wireshark 4.6.0 has been released which includes support for parsing this…
642
My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
A technique for deterministic labeling from stochastic models, with benchmarked Golang implementation.
643
Modern Linux tools
Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics
644
Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
As all developers, I’ve been using git since the dawn of time, since its commands were an inscrutable jumble of ill-fitting incantations, and it has remained this way until today. Needless to say, I just don’t get git. I never got it, even though I’ve read a bunch of stuff on how it represents things internally. I’ve…
645
Abstraction, not syntax
Alternative configuration formats solve superficial problems. Configuration languages solve the deeper problem: the need for abstraction.
646
Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What can …
647
Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
648
Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)
Not long ago, I introduced acp.el, an Emacs lisp implementation of ACP (Agent Client Protocol), the agent protocol developed between Zed and Google fo...
649
How I'm using Helix editor
My Helix editor config and how I am using it
650
No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Microsoft is doing everything in its power to alienate users. When it's not enshittification, it's user hostility. You can't even dismiss forced reminders.
651
Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI.
652
Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.
653
How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet
Many years ago, while working at Apple and running a lab at WWDC, I met a guy who was using a piece of Apple software designed for creating interactive ads t...
654
I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.
655
656
Examples are the best documentation
Examples are the best documentation | exotext
657
ESP32 and Termux
Documenting my journey in trying to use my ESP32 on my phone through Termux
658
Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC
Though I spend the majority of my time working with microcontroller class devices, I also have an embarassingly robust collection of single board computers (SBC), including a few different Raspberry Pi models, the BeagleV Starlight Beta (RIP), and more. Typically when setting up these devices for whatever automation…
659
The RSS feed reader landscape
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
660
Become unbannable from your email
You don't own your email; you rent it. This vulnerability leaves your entire digital life at risk. Read how to seize back control of your most critical online asset by switching providers and setting up your own unbannable email server.