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Yet Another Zip Trick
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Building a Personal AI Factory
Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.
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Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP
I built a small proof-of-concept for a system that enables real-time bidirectional editing between any modern code editor and a GUI, enabled by an LSP1 server. Code-based CAD I like working on small projects at home that benefit from CAD. I’m also a programmer with a personal development environment that I’ve spent…
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About AI Evals
A guide to AI and LLM evals for engineers and product managers. Learn how to test AI systems, analyze failures, and improve retrieval, agents, and AI products.
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Tools I love: mise(-en-place)
Once in a while you get introduced to a tool that instantly changes the way you work. For me, mise is one of those tools.
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Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk
A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.
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MCP in LM Studio
New in LM Studio 0.3.17: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Host support. Connect MCP servers to the app and use them with local models.
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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.
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Fun with uv and PEP 723
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.
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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output. At least provided they aren't overused, just like colour.
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
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How I use my terminal
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.
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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
Preamble# The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate…
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Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
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The Zed Debugger Is Here
From the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.
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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
How I turned an old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered OCR server using Apple's Vision framework. Running 24/7 off-grid, processing thousands of images.
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Snorting the AGI with Claude Code
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Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
I recently found myself needing to change the monitor that a cheap HDMI “dummy plug” pretended to be. It was a random one I had bought on Amazon several years ago that acted as a 4K monitor, and I needed it to be something simpler that didn’t support a 4K resolution. The story behind why is a long one that I’m still…
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A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
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DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
It's a developer toy that brings developers joy. Open-source. 3D-printed. Palm-sized.
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface
"I love C". "I enjoy writing in C". "I don't feel well when I have passed a day without coding a line of C". "My conversation with my wife simply doesn't flow without the C language". "I want to write everything in C, even the everyday scripting, but due to the steps required for writing make files and other things, I…
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Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work
Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app
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Knowledge Management in the Age of AI
My personal website
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Curate your shell history
You can make your shell history more useful by removing the typos and false starts.
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Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
It’s quite gratifying that Markdown has not only become so popular, but after 21 years, continues to grow in popularity, to the point now where there clearly are a lot of people who seemingly enjoy writing in Markdown more than even I do. But I think it would be a huge mistake for Apple to make Apple Notes a “Markdown…
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How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025
How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire