1501
The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I spent 100 hours vibecoding an app and it's not as simple as people say.
1502
What has Docker become?
Docker Inc's journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here's what their strategic shifts tell us about the company's search for identity.
1503
Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
As of this month, Netflix prices are going up again.
1504
The Joy of Folding Bikes
I was chatting to a friend about my folding bike and I had the urge to write about it - because this falls in the category of “Things I wish I’d had decades ago”. And maybe I can encourage some others to try these wonderful devices. Note: I’m 3 months into a new job so blogging has taken a back seat to drinking from a…
1505
What's the best programming language for coding agents?
This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. It seems to be cited enough that LLM search results agree. For example, when I searched for "dynamic vs static language token cost" (no…
1506
1507
Task Paralysis and AI
An article about ADHD, Task Paralysis and AI.
1508
Nested code fences in Markdown
Today, we will meet a spiky-haired nerd named Corey Dumm, who normally lives within Markdown code fences. We will get to know him a bit, smile with him when his fences hold and weep quietly when misfortune strikes.
1509
Camera Chase Vehicle
You stumble on a weird robot chassis in an industrial warehouse. Its adorable, enormous and will likely be scrapped.
1510
What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten majo…
1511
In Emacs, everything looks like a service
A common refrain is that Emacs is an operating system (OS). This isn’t true, but what invites comparison to an OS is its ability to orchestrate applications and utilities above the OS kernel...
1512
Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux
First, I want to tell you how exactly I got to this point and why I started researching different options for handling asynchronous I/O on Linux… Last year, my students and I built a reverse proxy server called TinyGate. It was super simple, worker-based, and it basically worked well. Of course, I didn’t expect it to…
1513
Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
Go 1.26 made Green Tea the default GC. We observe its cache-friendliness with perf, visualize the heap to see how Go allocates, and poke at a sparse-page problem a non-moving collector like Go's struggles with.
1514
How Singapore's government-run dating service works
Here are the 30+ questions in the matchmaking tool that Singapore is deploying on government workers.
1515
AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
1516
Norway should buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
1517
Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
A short write-up on my experience completing a Computer Science BSc from my bedroom.
1518
The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
1519
Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)
every regex engine that promises linear time breaks that promise the moment you ask for all matches. the problem has been there since the 70s, hiding in the iteration loop.
1520
20 years on AWS and never not my job
While I created my AWS account because I was interested in Amazon S3, that was not in fact immediately available to me: In the early days of AWS, you had to specifically ask for each new service to be enabled for your account. My new AWS account did come with two services enabled by default, though — Amazon Simple…
1521
Getting arrested in Japan
This is what happens when you get arrested in Japan and where you're sent off to will leave you speechless.
1522
Don't make me talk to your chatbot
It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.
1523
Reverse Engineering SimTower
Creating a perfect clone of SimTower in the browser
1524
.name Grandfathered
After a long and expensive battle, news just dropped that Verisign is retracting its plan to terminate 22,000 domain names and email redirects. Although they will be closing new registrations for 3rd-level .name domains, all existing domains (including this website) and email redirects will remain indefinitely.
1525
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Using the internet like it's 1999
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
1527
The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looked like the perfect fit. This lens is commonly found as a kit with the very excellent full-frame Sigma…
1528
Lisp's Influence on Ruby
Once I wrote users.select { |u| u.admin? }.map(&:email) and realized I’d written Lisp.
1529
Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
Learn how to use PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for event-driven systems. Case study from Wayfair showing how to handle failures in Kafka consumers with PostgreSQL.
1530
Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
How I returned a Cricut Maker back to service after Cricut remotely bricked the unit