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When it comes to observability, especially in an incident, more data is usually better. Without data, it's almost impossible to know what's going on. With insufficient data, you only get half the picture. More data isn't always better. The more data there is, the more you have to sift through. If you're going to have a lot of data, it had better be useful. Observability tools will generally collect… Continue Reading…
One thing I’ve been discussing with Rudi, Michel and Max is union find annotations. Union find enhancements that still feel like union finds.
Homepage polish pass III. Removed scanline screen textures in favour of soft radial ambient glows; improved secondary text contrast, prose typography for blog/changelog panels, and section breathing room. The vibe video placeholder now uses a terminal-style overlay; protocol pills gained a sidebar alt-nets nav; Friends, Countries, and Buttons collapse into accordions on mobile. Images stay PNG — no WebP conversion.
We just released Perfetto v57 and I wanted to share the new things I’m most excited about. This is something I wanted to do for past releases but I just never quite got round to it. It’s also something I plan on doing more of going forward: there might even be dedicated pieces if I think the feature deserves it! PyTorch traces reliably work!# What I’m most excited about in this release isn’t a feature but a bugfix. If you used the PyTorch profiler and opened the resulting trace in Perfet…
Two years ago I wrote about why I don’t use Copilot . I still don’t use Copilot. But I have since started using Claude Code, which is arguably worse. Why am I using it? Well, as a software developer I felt like I had to understand it, because so many of my colleagues and collaborators have started using it. Once things moved beyond relatively simple code completion I needed to understand what it was capable of, and what to look for in its work when reviewing code. I also had a good friend wa…
View on Ravelry Pattern : my own Yarn : Patons Kroy Socks Colorway : Sing’n the Blues Stripes Started : 30 May 2026 Finished : 2 July 2026 For these socks I did a simple 2×2 rib on 60 sts. Like I always do now, I split at the heel to work the top and bottom flat, and then sewed them together before knitting the toe. You can tell from how the stripes are thicker on the foot than the leg, and offset where they join. Another thing I’ve been doing lately is making the heel flap longer. I’ve d…
Visual polish pass across the homepage and startpage. Added a hero block with the Lain avatar, animated monospace tagline, and a more prominent "Where to start" card grid with emoji icons and neon accent hovers. Introduced subtle CSS-only ambient background textures (soft radial glows in dark mode, paper grain in light mode), section accent underlines, timeline-style update panels, guestbook card containers, and unified badge hover styling for friends/country/tile grids. Protocol pills and theme…
2026 is officially 50% done. My goal for this month’s post was to have a proper tagline for the lead, but I can’t think of anything… 🍀 Life Our youngest daughter is growing and “waking up”! It’s still so amazing to see tiny progress every day, and that she’s paying more and more attention. And our oldest is getting big, she’s turning three soon! At work we’ve been busy catching up to new and old leads, following through on projects, finishing things up, clearing up loose end…
I didn’t expect The Bear to make me uncomfortable. Not because of the kitchen chaos or the screaming, and there’s plenty of both. Because of how much the characters care. Carmen beating himself over a dish. Richie discovering, after years of drifting, that he’s actually good at something when he finally commits. Every one of them giving more than they have, suffering for it, and doing it anyway. Watching that made me aware of something I usually don’t look at directly: I don’t do that.…
I wanna expand on something I wrote a few months ago: One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”. “AI” companies […]
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When impressive performance gains do not matter is a very nice article covering some ways in which going after performance alone is not sufficient without considering the wider picture. It resonated a lot with how I think about performance. If there are multiple bottlenecks in the pipeline—and with these systems, this is common—the overall throughput will not improve until every last bottleneck is removed. His focus is on distributed systems bottlenecks, but I’ve hit the same “do-nothing…
I recently came across Bubbles , a really nice IndieWeb aggregator. It’s great to see the IndieWeb ecosystem getting better and better, and I love the idea of having something like Lobsters or Hacker News for the IndieWeb community.
The eighth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 8, I chat with Brennan, the author of brennan.day. We talk about, among other things, writing routines, building community in the indie web, "start here" pages on personal websites, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
Building race telemetry for a ’92 Honda Accord — The RPM measurement bug is the part I keep thinking about. Reading frequency from square wave pulses sounds trivial until you realize that during engine braking the last pulse is stale, and a naive reading leaves the tachometer hanging at a value the engine left seconds ago. Their fix is taking the minimum of two estimates, pulse-only and pulse-plus-gap-to-now, which is the kind of thing you only learn by watching it fail. The other detail I l…
"One word that GPT starting with 5.2 likes very very much, what it tries to reduce a lot of coding to, is "contract". It's the kind of thing that reasons in contracts. In binding, verifiable seals. I wouldn't worry about the elites." – Teortaxes "Assistant! My dividend is half the size it should be!" .oO ( Thinking... ) You are correct, User. Your dividend of the Beyond was $25,514,376.30. Using last year's figures and correcting for growth in the Beyond, it should have been $51,026,980.28. Yo…
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Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60 2026-06-28 I recently had the urge to play around with SerenityOS on real hardware. Since the project is slightly catered towards older machines, I figured my ThinkPad T60 was a perfect candidate for running on bare metal. The following is a loose guide for those interested in doing the same. Take note that I built SerenityOS on a separate device running Fedora , so the instructions below are based on that. Initial Setup First we need to grab all the …
Recently I’ve been experimenting with local LLMs for coding. Up until a couple of months ago I was a happy GitHub Copilot subscriber. I’d been quite satisfied to let other companies take on the cost of buying and managing hardware, particularly while everything is moving so quickly in the field. Local inference would be ideal for privacy/security/reliability reasons but it’s not a hard requirement for the work I tend to do. Copilot was particularly nice because I could bounce freely betwee…
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Beavis and Butt-Head Become A.I. Tech Bros Will A.I. finally be able to help Beavis and Butt-Head score? It did everybody else’s homework; they deserve something! ai humor video 🔖 Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off A campaign has begun to get two large transmitter masts listed, after the BBC’s Long Wave (LW) service is turned off. The 700ft (213m) high Wychbold Masts in the Worcestershire countryside can b…
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I'm writing this while I'm flying over the Alps, seated on the Lufthansa A319 that is taking me back home after I attended this year's openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg. I've been at a openSUSE Conference before, November 2024 in Tokyo; it was just very inspiring, like having a little finger-food before dinner. This time I feel satisfied, energized, riplet, like how you feel when you scrape a gelato bowl with a tea spoon to complete a seafood meal by a mediterranean sunny coast. It's a feeling th…
@ayushnix@social.ayushnix.com made a new post: "I opened a Wikipedia page on Chromium after a while and immediately noticed how the hyperlink color (in light mode) bothers me. It has a [Lc value of 76.3](https://apcacontrast.com/?BG=ffffff&TXT=3366cc&DE...
There is a fundamental inconsistency between what consumers expect from transportation and what today’s electric vehicle market actually delivers. Most people want more comfort and less planning. They don’t want to drive. They don’t want to think about annual maintenance, tire pressure, or oil changes. They want to get in, go, and arrive — without any mental overhead. Enter the electric vehicle, marketed as the future. But instead of freedom, it demands more: plan your route around charg…
Maybe you’ve had a different experience, but I’ve never once looked at a system and said, “This is perfect, we’re done here.” There is always a new requirement, a shifting bottleneck, or a sudden spike in traffic. You can’t build a distributed system without at least one of your services eventually collapsing under the weight of its own dependencies. It’s a rite of passage. This is a tour of the patterns I keep reaching for across backend systems — written for engineers new to di…
After about eleven months of using an AArch64 desktop, I decided to end that experiment.
[…] in the context of preserving one’s creative fun (vs. “We mourn our craft). I have noticed myself the flashing of frustration when I sit for days over some code […]
Bookmarked Scrutineer: scanning open source without flooding maintainers by Andrew Nesbitt Post details Finding the vulnerabilities is the easy part
Bookmarked Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious by Jim Nielsen Post details Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted — The RSS analogy is what makes the whole thing click. Counting Bluesky instances misses the point the same way counting RSS readers would have missed the point of blogs. What matters is whether you can swap your hosting without losing your identity, and whether new applications can build on top independently. Dan literally moved his hosting to a different provider the same day he wrote this, which makes the argument more concrete than any arch…
"People accuse each other of using ChatGPT like they’re exposing a steroid scandal in professional baseball. Someone uses an em dash and suddenly we’re convening a digital ethics tribunal. God forbid you use an antithesis statement. Meanwhile the people actually building this stuff are moving at corporate scale. Quietly. Casually. Confidently." I used to work at Meta. Not in tech. God no. I was a pastry chef at one of the Meta data centers, which is somehow an even stranger sentence to say o…
When I announced that I was open-sourcing a quiz maker earlier this week, I noted that there were several limitations to what I had built. Most importantly, my quiz maker was a Python script, which substantially limits how many people can use it. After writing the blog post, Kami has made a HTML quiz maker that works in the browser. You can read the write-up on her blog, and try out the quiz maker for yourself. I helped out with the styles, which I really enjoyed. It is always nice to have a new…
Improving performance for Mockingbird Ministries' mobile app during a cross-platform rebuild.
Content warning: This poem is about the ongoing heat in Europe. I strike an optimistic tone toward the end, but if you would prefer not to read about the heat, I offer you one of the Scottish poems I have written in stead. Nature’s weary tears fill the air; invisible, warming. Relentlessly, days proceed. Hours pass; Celsius rises. Midnights: warm like day. We stay inside. Blinds closed, water glasses full, cookers off. Flowers bloom early. Eyelids weigh; we yearn for rest that does not come. H…
Reposted Nikita Gill (@nikitagill.bsky.social) Post details Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.
Reposted Justin Garrison (@justingarrison.com) Post details I migrated a group chat of mostly elderly women to signal and I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do I also firmly believe the stereotype of elderly women not being technical is complete bollocks perpetuated by the patriarchy
handy bookmarklet to export a chat from the claude web interface 1 Install the Bookmarklet Drag this button to your browser's bookmarks bar: Export Claude to Markdown v0.5.24.3 2 Use the Bookmarklet Navigate to a Claude conversation on claude.ai and click the bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar. The tool will: Extract the conversation content Remove unnecessary UI elements Prepare a clean export file 3 Save the Export The bookmarklet downloads a .md file to your computer. Keep the conversation in …
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Epithalmion for Tyler by James Tate I thought I knew something about loneliness but you go to the stockyards buy a pig’s ear and sew it on your couch. That, you said, is my best friend – we have spirited talks. Even then I thought: a man of such exquisite emptiness (and you cultivated it so) is ground for fine flowers.
AI statelets, capped in size by a meta-ethical commitment to human exit rights, must propagate themselves by sexual reproduction: a genetic recombination of the constitution of any N statelets forming a new statelet overmind. with environmental fitness to spare, sexual selection dominates: the statelets spend the majority of their time in mating displays, consisting of absurd feats of state capacity. The Solar Dynasty maintains a list of exactly 108 million environmental and meta-environmental l…
If you've been writing Python code for any amount of time, you've probably used or heard that you should use virtual environments , also commonly referred to as a venv on the command line. A virtual environment is a set of scripts that enable you to toggle the virtual environment on and off in your current shell. There's only two scripts that you need to know about: activate -- activates the virtual environment by temporarily modifying your current shell's PATH , so that the virtual environment'…
I am continuing to experiment with writing some fiction on this blog. Here is a story I wrote today. Where were words when you needed them the most? Lena had been searching for the answer to that question for her whole life. For Lena, telling a story to light coming from a million miles away felt somehow easier, more comforting, than looking someone in the eye. A woman of few words since childhood, when “please” and “thank you” comprised most of what she said, the light of the stars open…
The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 7, I chat with Ana, the author of ohhelloana.blog. We talk about, among other things, the growth we see in our websites over time, finding an in-person indie web community, and connecting with people using personal websites. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
A practical setup for a Raspberry Pi-friendly voice assistant based on Platypush.
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/#comment-238393">Nolan Lawson</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I just came across this, you might find it and some of the comments interesting Nolan<br><a href="https://antman-does-software.com/i-will-never-use-ai-to-code-or-write" rel="nofollow ugc">https://antman-does-software.com/i-will-never-use-ai-to-code-or-write</a><br>…
seriously. it's not fucking hard Oh, Bluesky is getting a little shitty, you say? Oh no! Who could have predicted Bluesky could ever have run that risk? I mean, apart from everyone warning us that it was launched by weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird Jack Dorsey, and that their current CEO came from a weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird background. You know. Besides them. Now quelle surprise, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber’s out there mocking people asking why …
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 RFC 9958: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers The advent of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) would render state-of-the-art, traditional public key algorithms deployed today obsolete, as the mathematical assumptions underpinning their security would no longer hold. To address this, protocols and infrastructure must transition to post-quantum algorithms, which are designed to resist both traditional and…
I had an odd experience the other day with an open source project. That project was dirge . It's clearly and unashamedly developed with heavy use of generative AI, both in the code and in the PRs. Normally, as a first impression, this would turn me off a project. There's a lot of low-grade slop out there after all and most of the time I'm looking for the "mature" option if it exists. In this case I came to learn about dirge through an article the author wrote , describing some novel ideas in mak…