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Articles from blogs I follow around the net
The Worlds Left To Conquer
It has been a year and a half since I quit my job to start a consultancy. It took me years to build up to quitting, and I had not only a chip on my shoulder, but to quote Seth Sentry, “the guac and the dip and the salsa.” The people that read this blog pro…
via LudicityMay 10, 2026Intermezzo bag
I've been reading the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo. It's really beautiful. The perfect kind of novel to read slowly. She manages to write prose that's engaging at the micro and macro levels - beautiful sentences, as well as lovely long narrative arcs…
via macwright.comMay 05, 2026Signed By Default Camp
As with many discussions in the programming space, there are ;wars; between different ways of doing things. These are typically about minor aesthetic preferences, such as:Tabs vs Spaces for indentation vs vs for naming conventions vs for strings (if the…
via gingerBill - ArticlesMay 03, 2026I can't cancel GitHub Copilot
Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn’t interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community members to apply for a free subscription…
via Drew DeVault's blogMay 01, 2026The burden of hypersensitivity
This was written in a single throw in less than one hour. I needed to make it that way, because otherwise it would have ended up in one of my daily journals. But for some reason, I wanted this to be public. I wrote that in my Kakoune editor, and no LLM was…
via strongly-typed-thoughts.net blogApril 21, 2026[WFD 42] Atlas: structural code-intelligence for LLM agents (an empirical evaluation)
2,239-trial benchmark across 8 OSS repos: Atlas beats a text-search baseline by +0.223 deterministic, +0.127 LLM-judge, at 42% fewer tokens.
via Ryana May Que — Writings for DiscussionApril 19, 2026How to create a slick CSS animation from Star Wars
I will make a CSS animation of the iconic opening title sequence for the movie Star Wars. I focus on the text crawl portion of the sequence, which introduces the general plot. I will make it responsive.
via Rob O'Leary | BlogApril 16, 2026Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket
The funny thing about safety blankets is they can double as stage curtains for security theater. “When will a cryptography-relevant quantum computer exist?” is a question many technologists are pondering as they stare into crystal balls or entrails. Two pe…
via Dhole MomentsApril 13, 2026Bucklog’s Machine: Inside a Kubernetes Scanning Fleet
Most scanning infrastructure is boring. A VPS, a cron job, maybe a cheap proxy rotation service if the operator has ambitions. What we’re looking at with AS211590 (Bucklog SARL / FBW Networks SAS) is something else entirely – a purpose-built, Kubernetes-or…
via GreyNoise LabsMarch 23, 2026Status update, February 2026
Hi all! Lars has contributed an implementation independent test suite for the scfg configuration file format. This is quite nice for implementors, they get a base test suite for free. I’ve added support for it for libscfg, the C implementation. I’ve spent …
via emersionFebruary 21, 2026Investigating the SuperNote Notebook Format
I'm a big fan of eink tablets. I read a lot, I write a lot, I prefer handwritten notes, it's a match made in heaven. I've been using a Kindle Scribe for the past several years - I probably used it as much or more than my phone. Recently, I upgraded to a Su…
via Cracking the ShellFebruary 20, 2026Luxe, ocaml et volupté
Luxe, ocaml et volupté by Clément Delafargue on February 16, 2026 Tagged as: ocaml. After a couple years using rust as my primary language, I’ve got a new job where I’m using a variety of languages (including rust and typescript), but mostly go 1. So…
via Clément Delafargue - RSS feedFebruary 16, 20262025 in review
Come along with me as I review the past year. Heh, I often start these kinds of posts right at the start of the year, but it takes a few weeks longer than I ever expect to think them through.1 Two years of being independent After a second year of operati…
via seanmonstarJanuary 27, 2026The Birthday Paradox, simulated
I'm a fan of simulating counterintuitive statistics. I recently did this with the Monty Hall problem and I really enjoyed how it turned out. A similarly interesting statistical puzzle is the birthday paradox: you only need to get 23 people in a room a room…
via pcloadletterJanuary 23, 2026Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
It's now late into 2025, and just over a year since I wrote my last post on Passkeys. The prevailing dialogue that I see from thought leaders is "addressing common misconceptions" around Passkeys, the implication being that "you just don't understand it co…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logDecember 17, 2025Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office
In June, 2025, Shubs Shah and I discovered a vulnerability in the online poker website ClubWPT Gold which would have allowed an attacker to fully access the core back office application that is used for all administrative site functionality.
via Blog | Sam CurryOctober 12, 2025Testing multiple versions of Python in parallel
Daniel Roy Greenfeld wrote about how to test your code for multiple versions of Python using `uv`. I follow up with a small improvement to the Makefile.
via Technically PersonalJuly 21, 2025Generated by openring-rs