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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,696 posts.
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Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs,…
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“I just chose words carefully”
A blog about software craft and quality
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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
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Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Eleven days after Apple was notified of the eMudhra CA compromise, the git, curl and python3 that Apple ships with macOS still trust the compromised certificates.
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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
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Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
Gmail's rapid descent into belittling their users, powered by AI.
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GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post
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I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
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I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
When you talk about Papua New Guinea, people may say, oh, is that the place where:
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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Americans, be warned: Age verification is identity verification.
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...
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Passkeys are a trap
Intended audience: non-technical citizens of the web
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
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Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
TLDR: Despite claiming to backup all your data, Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders - along with potentially many other things.
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Friendster was the first social network. It has a long history, but the website friendster.com went dead in 2015 and the company officially…
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I am building a cloud
Today is fundraising announcement day . As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing this. What is the goal of building exe.dev ? I am already…
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I'm helping my dog vibe code games
My cavapoo Momo vibe coded playable Godot games. All I had to do was teach her to type, route her input to Claude Code, and build the right tools.
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Chatto is now open source
The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
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Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
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Libghostty 1.0
libghostty-vt 1.0 is here. libghostty is a portable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation, extracted directly from the core of Ghostty. The 1.0 release means both the library itself and the C ABI are now stable.
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Claude Code is being dumbed down?
A blog by Yoshi.
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I don't want to read what you didn't write
Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts