Web-Perf Wednesday 002 – The Metrics Don’t Tell the Whole Story(opens in new tab)
CrUX’s seasonal decline, Safari 27’s user-experience fixes, richer INP attribution, and long-session third-party costs all demand better interpretation.
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How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription?(opens in new tab)
I've been experimenting with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode for the past couple weeks, running GPT 5.6 Sol through OpenAI's $100/month ChatGPT Pro (5x) plan. Before this I only used the Claude Max plans for perso...
Knowledge and netiquette in today's AI era(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove Talks with Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Midnight Commander (mc), La Terminal, SwiftTerm, TermKit and Xogot.
glab-tui(opens in new tab)
A TUI to manage GitLab and GitHub projects.
You don't have to be smart if you can think clearly(opens in new tab)
Before I go: Double your business with companies you like(opens in new tab)
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about. As expected, “number chart go up” is always ...
I Told You to NEVER Install This Distro... So I Installed it(opens in new tab)
#490: It’s a vibe coding party(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? Where Did All Your AI Tokens Go? AgentsView to the rescue! Careful with phishing all Extras Joke Watch on YouTube ...
The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT(opens in new tab)
Originally published on Rails At Scale. We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete ...
A Short History of Duke: Java's Mascot(opens in new tab)
I'm sorry, Dave(opens in new tab)
HTTP Message Signatures with curl(opens in new tab)
The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes ...
Diskless infrastructure(opens in new tab)
In the same way that correct software architecture can bring many benefits in terms of costs and performance, a good architecture for infrastructure can significantly improve the reliability and reduce
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0(opens in new tab)
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release and I applaud the ...
Sitting down with Senra(opens in new tab)
Updates on Django's Async Story(opens in new tab)
For years, "Django and async" came with an asterisk. The docs themselves warned you off it. Scary performance notes, a story that felt half-finished. Well, that story just got rewritten, literally, and the person who rewrote it is here to ...
Measuring Component Performance with the Container Timing API(opens in new tab)
Measure how entire components render with the Container Timing API: how it differs from Element Timing, where it helps, and how to try it today.
108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering(opens in new tab)
Now—July 2026(opens in new tab)
Integration, studies, parenthood, the small things
The company you keep(opens in new tab)
The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion.
1,500 curl authors(opens in new tab)
It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository ...
Businessing 101(opens in new tab)
Back when I began freelancing I figured I’d set up a limited company eventually. I guess thirteen years later is eventually. I’ve finally got a local accountant working on company registration. Exciting times! The final push was this Making Tax ...
🔥 I'd describe my approach to work as,…(opens in new tab)
I'd describe my approach to work as, "light-hearted and heavy-handed."
Self-Host Weekly (24 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Jellyfin and Codeberg hurt themselves in their confusion
Codeberg Divides(opens in new tab)
Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Considering I want GitHub to get some competition I have thoughts about this. GitHub’s governance has never been democratic and there is plenty about the ...
Timeless principles, agnostic design and the power of CAP's abstractions(opens in new tab)
LLMs reward expertise(opens in new tab)
The Entire Game for AI Is Articulation of Ideal State(opens in new tab)
A person showing an AI the exact structure they imagine, and the AI building it/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp I've been saying this for something like eight months now, with varying approaches and volume levels, and no one is paying attention yet. ...
How to Share GPUs in Kubernetes at Scale with HAMi (Software vGPU Slicing)(opens in new tab)
Share NVIDIA GPUs in Kubernetes with HAMi software vGPU slicing: memory and compute limits, Helm configuration, a verified PyTorch manifest, a real RTX PRO 6000 OOM test, and Prometheus monitoring.
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v54 - Hot Sleeper(opens in new tab)
The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag ...
Compliant vs. Certified: Why Independence Is the Real Foundation(opens in new tab)
In last week’s article I discussed some of the benefits of obtaining compliance to either ISO 9001 or AS9100. This week I’ll discuss the difference between compliance and certification, and why independence and impartiality are important at every level. In ...
Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models(opens in new tab)
The OpenAI Hack Was a Mini Paperclip Maximizer(opens in new tab)
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html is that it's an actual instance of the famous Paperclip Maximizer scenario loved by AI safety types. 📚 A really good bo...
Rust service hardening and production checklist(opens in new tab)
There isn't a lot of resources about how to actually deliver Rust projects to your users: workflows, security hardening and artifacts management, so here is the checklist I use to
GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions(opens in new tab)
GPT 5.6 came out several weeks ago and the initial benchmarks look good - capable, fast, and cheap. Claude and Claude Code have been my daily driver for the past year, and I thought it was a good time...
it’s important to say things(opens in new tab)
Ambiguity sucks. It often leaves people self-conscious. It leaves room for anxiety and doubt. It’s super important to say things.
lazyrsync(opens in new tab)
A friendly TUI for rsync.
Wolves, sheep, and gypsies(opens in new tab)
Canary tokens and digital tripwires (Changelog Interviews #683)(opens in new tab)
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS ...
Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2026)(opens in new tab)
The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…
My entire life runs on these 5 self-hosted apps.(opens in new tab)
Python quiz: EuroPython 2026 edition(opens in new tab)
Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were celebrating 25 years of EuroPython at ...
#489: Or JSON?(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: django-orjson Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size Linus Torvalds puts the foot down against Anti-AI Kernel Maintainers Django Steering Council backs the Triptych Project Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
Are 128-bit symmetric keys really secure against quantum computers?(opens in new tab)
Quantum computers are a threat to traditional cryptography, more specifically to asymmetric cryptography (signatures and key exchanges) with Shor's algorithm enabling fast factoring of big numbers.
Some more things about Django I've been enjoying(opens in new tab)
Poetic CSS Course, Early Bird Launch(opens in new tab)
The Star 7: the Early Java Prototype that was a Precursor to the Smartphone(opens in new tab)
Writing about electrification(opens in new tab)
For years I've been thinking about electrification, now I'm going to write about it.
Slicing GPUs in Kubernetes with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)(opens in new tab)
GPU sharing in Kubernetes explained: time-slicing vs MPS vs MIG, every nvidia-smi command to enable and disable MIG on one GPU or eight, GPU Operator automation, pitfalls, and DCGM monitoring.