You made me create a wooden Game Boy shell. Yes, you made me do it. After I got myself a CNC machine a while back I just made a wooden Game Boy cartridge to get to know the machine, but social media wanted more. So, I made a Game Boy out of walnut wood. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. You can see the…
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Craig takes a look at the history of Postgres. From the origins of the project through some of the key production features that make Postgres what it is today.
Why every database will become a vector database, sooner or later
It is difficult to write software which reliably and safely manages processes on Unix; this is because of flaws in the API. I know of no Unix system which has solved these problems, but in this article I'll be specifically talking about the Linux process API.
I've been using SQLite in several production projects for six months, and I've encountered some surprising aspects.
An not-for-profit roundup of affordable PCB manufacturers. Originally published in 2023 and last updated January 2026.
The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
a personal blog
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
Starting later this year, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products.
I like Thunderbolt a lot. Mostly because USB's land of optional features is a mess which makes choosing a cable/peripheral difficult. With thunderbolt you have a single number to get right. And then you are supposed to be golden. However the idyll with Intel's interface took a hit when I tried to make sense of Apple's…
Why some report macOS updates as being more than 1 GB smaller than the figures given here. Don’t believe the size given by softwareupdate.
Based on your feedback, we've improved the Automatic Data Conversion settings, and made them also available in Excel for Mac.
The official videos from DEFCON 31 have been posted! Below you can watch our talk “Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you”. The talk, slides, files
Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.
Mac's Tech Blog
“🔄 Update: after posting this on HN, some commenters provided Stable Diffusion and Midjourney results as well which are now included.” In the recent Photoshop Betas, users are now able...
Audacity 3.4 adds a musical view, time stretching and a new exporter.
Viewport compositor, VDM sculpting, built-in hair assets, many lights sampling on Cycles, and so much more!
An early look at CSS state queries.
A talk by Dave Gauer , 2023. Made with minslides , which I made for this talk . Use the J and K keys to go forward and backward. You can also just scroll down like a regular web page. Toggle notes/annotations with the N key.
This is a story consisting of several little building blocks and they occurred spread out in time and in different places. It is a story that shows with clarity how our current system with CVE Ids and lots of power given to NVD is a completely broken system. CVE-2020-19909 On August 25 2023, we got … Continue reading…
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
