cdzombak/newt at dzombak.com
https://github.com/cdzombak/newt?ref=dzombak.com
Manage Git worktrees with ease. newt is a simple wrapper around Git worktrees that automatically organizes them in a .newt/ directory, provides merge status tracking, and handles deletion.
xvw.lol - Indexing coffee with Notion
https://xvw.lol/en/articles/notion-coffee.html
To sum up, this article will present how I set up an infrastructure to index the coffees I taste, with the goal of providing precise metrics to help characterize my preferences, using the Notion tool, while also sharing some techniques and tricks I learned during the creation of this system.
Metorial - Integration Platform for AI
https://metorial.com/blog/jquery-age-of-ai
If you're building with AI right now, connecting agents to tools, wiring up APIs, trying to get Claude to talk to your database, you're living through something weirdly familiar (I think). It's the same chaotic, fragmented, "why is this so hard" energy that web developers felt in the mid-2000s when every browser implemented JavaScript differently and cross-browser compatibility was a prayer, not a promise.
Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome
A ready to review PR is the traditional PRs we submit.
We reviewed all the machine generated code and vouch for all of it. We ran the tests and like the tests, we like the code structure, we read every single line of code carefully we also made sure the PR meets a project’s guidelines.
K3s
https://k3s.io/
K3s is packaged as a single <70MB binary that reduces the dependencies and steps needed to install, run and auto-update a production Kubernetes cluster.
stakater/Reloader: A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!
https://github.com/stakater/Reloader
A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!
Custom OIDC providers · Tailscale Docs
https://tailscale.com/kb/1240/sso-custom-oidc
Tailscale can integrate with identity providers that support OpenID Connect (OIDC). The steps provided in this topic are required only for initial creation of a tailnet. After the signup process is completed, Tailscale will work like any other supported identity provider. For more information about OIDC, refer to Welcome to OpenID Connect.
Integrate with Tailscale | authentik
https://integrations.goauthentik.io/networking/tailscale/
Tailscale requires a properly configured WebFinger endpoint at .well-known/webfinger on the domain used for your email. Set this up according to your web server or application specifications.
Using your self-hosted Authentik as an Identity Provider for Tailscale
https://blog.antsu.net/custom-tailscale-oidc-provider-with-authentik/
Another cool thing about Tailscale is that they try to keep as little information about their users as possible, and so do not have their own login mechanism, instead leaving this task to common authentication providers like Google and Microsoft, or allowing the use of any identity provider compatible with OpenID Connect, which is the case for Authentik, and the topic of this post.
Halluminate/WebBench: 📚 Benchmark your browser agent on ~2.5k READ and ACTION based tasks
https://github.com/Halluminate/WebBench?tab=readme-ov-file
WebBench is an open, task-oriented benchmark designed to measure how effectively browser agents handle complex, realistic web workflows. It includes 2,454 tasks across 452 live websites selected from the global top-1000 by traffic
The Continual Learning Problem
https://jessylin.com/2025/10/20/continual-learning/?ref=sidebar
If we want to move towards a world where models are “always training” and continually learning from experience over time, we need to address a basic challenge: how do we keep updating the parameters of a model without breaking it? In this post, I’ll motivate memory layers as a natural architecture for this paradigm: high-capacity, but sparse (few active parameters) on each forward pass. In our recent paper, we found that finetuning memory layers enables learning without forgetting much more effectively than LoRA. When learning TriviaQA facts, NaturalQuestions performance drops by 89% with full finetuning and 71% with LoRA, but only 11% with memory layers. Along the way, I’ll also discuss the challenges of the continual learning problem broadly.
Argo Workflows on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) | by Arax Zaeimi | Medium
https://medium.com/@mmz.zaeimi/argo-workflows-on-google-kubernetes-engine-gke-2df9cc647331
You might have read a lot about Argo Workflows and now you are wondering how to install and start using it. Well, installing Argo Workflows on your local machine is pretty much straightforward, it’s just a matter of seconds to have your first running Argo Workflows. But, there are always some obstacles when you decide to install such applications on the cloud. In the following article, I want to demonstrate how to install Argo Workflows on GKE and prepare it to use.
rolflobker/recall-for-linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux!
https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux
Are you forced to work with Linux?
Do you miss the convenience of Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything?
Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing:
Drinking coffee from a cup made of coffee - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgcUEIlHl0M
Connector-Free Zone: PCB Edge As USB-C Interfaces | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/connector-free-zone-pcb-edge-as-usb-c-interfaces/
Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times, it would be nice to make that connection without another BOM item. Over on GitHub [AnasMalas] has released a PCB edge USB-C connection symbol/footprint to do just that!
Using Homebrew to Distribute Early Access Binaries from Private Github Repositories :: LGUG2Z
https://lgug2z.com/articles/using-homebrew-to-distribute-early-access-binaries-from-private-github-repositories/
After setting up nightly builds on GitHub Actions, I wanted to create a Homebrew Tap and Formula for people who sponsor me on GitHub for early access - being able to brew install is a much more pleasant onboarding experience for a new sponsor than having to compile from source.
Joe Magerramov's blog: The New Calculus of AI-based Coding
https://blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/the-new-calculus-of-ai-based-coding.html
Instead, we use an approach where a human and AI agent collaborate to produce the code changes. For our team, every commit has an engineer's name attached to it, and that engineer ultimately needs to review and stand behind the code. We use steering rules to setup constraints for how the AI agent should operate within our codebase, and writing in Rust has been a great benefit. Rust compiler is famous for focusing on correctness and safety, catching many problems at compile time and providing helpful error messages that help the agent iterate. As a juxtaposition to vibe coding, I prefer the term "agentic coding." Much less exciting but in our industry boring is usually good.
Gary Numan Unearths Lost Telekon-Era Track “Like a B-Film” for Album's 45th Anniversary Edition — Post-Punk.com
https://post-punk.com/gary-numan-unearths-lost-telekon-era-track-like-a-b-film-for-albums-45th-anniversary-edition/
Numan’s instinct to move forward remains intact. This year, Beggars Banquet opens his archives once more for Telekon’s 45th anniversary: an expanded reissue featuring four previously unreleased recordings, including Like A B-Film, an unearthed relic from the original sessions. Early versions of Please Push No More, Aircrash Bureau, and I’m An Agent reveal a restless mind still at work, testing limits even within success.
Trap bots on your server: (Maurycy's blog)
https://maurycyz.com/projects/trap_bots/
You don’t really need any bot detection: just linking to the garbage from your main website will do. Because each page links to five more garbage pages, the crawler’s queue will quickly fill up with an exponential amount of garbage until it has no time left to crawl your real site.
You already have a git server: (Maurycy's blog)
https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it:
'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming - Alexandru Nedelcu
https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/27/ai-sucks-the-joy-out-of-programming/
With an LLM-driven workflow, I’m getting all the bad parts about programming, like the stress generated by not being in control when things aren’t working, desperately trying to shoot bullets in the dark and fix unmaintainable code, and without any of the gratification, which comes from the journey itself. We’re replacing that journey and all the learning, with a dialogue with an inconsistent idiot.
Doors - SynchroFans
https://synchronetbbs.org/index.php/downloads/category/3-doors
Released on June 10, 2004 by Rob Jacob. This allows you to register NetRunner with any name and serial number you like. Check out the web version of NetRunner now called MatrixRunner under
Tiny Adds Up: Unshittification and The Pawshank Redemption | Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/142111668
I think it's gotten easy to forget we used to do this all the time. Not necessarily the internet at large, and believe me, I'm well aware the pre-algorithm internet was anything but an endless vista of peaches and sunshine, but the geek community part of the internet. Which, believe it or not, hasn't been all of it more or less since Usenet. The bookish, SFF, community-minded people who identified as geeks, not to make money off a new demographic, but just because that's what we were. Who used social media to make genuine human connections, to craft things and be silly and make stuff, not because of some grindset, but because they wanted to. Before the incredible waterfall of human creativity the internet allowed to come into the light of day became just more content. Before the proto-oligarchs saw what little people were doing with their free time and saw the possibility of using it as bait to lead us all into the data-gobbling joy-disposal algorithm-driven online life keeps trying to become.
Ride Through the Seasons | Portland.gov
https://www.portland.gov/transportation/walking-biking-transit-safety/rideseasons
The Portland Bureau Of Transportation's (PBOT) Ride Through the Seasons campaign aims to encourage Portlanders to keep on riding their bike past summer and into fall. Join us for rides and events, with the chance to win prizes along the way. Riding in the rain is not only possible, it's fun too!
15 Go Subtleties You May Not Already Know
https://harrisoncramer.me/15-go-sublteties-you-may-not-already-know/
One of the best ways to learn something new is to write down something you’ve learned about it regularly. Over the past year, I’ve been doing this with the Go programming language. Here are some of my favorite lesser-known tidbits about the language.
Ada Null
https://worldenddisk.com/
Ada Null tells stories of broken pasts, uncertain futures, and the ghosts who never left. An artist, writer, and game maker working in London, she invites you to sit with your fellow strangers and witness an ending together.
Installing K3s on the Raspberry Pi 5: A Step-by-Step Guide– PicoCluster LLC
https://www.picocluster.com/blogs/picocluster-software-engineering/installing-k3s-on-the-raspberry-pi-5-a-step-by-step-guide
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of installing K3s on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS.
WebFinger
https://webfinger.net/
WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other entities on the Internet that are identified by a URI using standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods over a secure transport. A WebFinger resource returns a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object describing the entity that is queried. The JSON object is referred to as the JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD).
The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Podcast | DAIR
https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this stream, linguist Prof. Emily M. Bender and sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.
HyperRogue by Zeno Rogue
https://zenorogue.itch.io/hyperrogue
The twist is the unique, unusual geometry of the world: it is one of just few games which takes place on the hyperbolic plane. Witness a grid composed of hexagons and heptagons, straight lines which seem to be parallel, but then they diverge and never cross, triangles whose angles add up to less than 180 degrees, how extremely unlikely is it to reach the same place twice, and how the world seems to be rotated when you do return. All this matters for the gameplay. The game is inspired by the roguelike genre (although in a very minimalist way), works of M. C. Escher, and by puzzle games such as Deadly Rooms of Death.
From Code to Craft: Procedural Generation for the Physical World
http://roguelike.bleeptrack.de/
bleeptrack
https://bleeptrack.de/about/
Hi, I'm bleeptrack, a freelancing creative technologist, and I love generative stuff of all sorts!
My main interests lie in the areas of generative or AI art, digital fabrication and DIY electronics. I teach at different universities/colleges and love to give talks and workshops!
My current projects are documented in a video series called "Work in Progress" every two weeks. I also draw a small picture every day - they are called "Schnipsel".
LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!
https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To causally isolate data quality, we run controlled experiments on real Twitter/X corpora, constructing junk and reversely controlled datasets via two orthogonal operationalizations: M1 (engagement degree) and M2 (semantic quality), with matched token scale and training operations across conditions.
JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown: ⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
https://github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown
Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
Joe Decuir Engineering Notebook 1978 : Joe Decuir : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/JoeDecuirEngineeringNotebook1978/
Joe Decuir's 1978 engineering notebook from when he worked at Atari, including design concepts (lots on the Atari 400/800, especially the ANTIC chip) feasibility studies, meeting notes, teardown of competing products (such as Magnavox Odyssey 2)
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web. Let's talk about what that means, and what dangers there are from an anti-web browser made by an AI company — one that probably needs a warning label when you install it.
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
What's amazing is the reality that virtually 100% of tech experts I talk to in the industry feel this way, yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention this reality. What we all want is for people to just treat AI as a "normal technology", as Arvind Naryanan and Sayash Kapoor so perfectly put it. I might be a little more angry and a little less eloquent: stop being so goddamn creepy and weird about the technology! It's just tech, everything doesn't have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on.
Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/24/making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/
Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital connections don’t really have an analog to this, by virtue of being entirely digital. And yet, [Nick Bild] decided to make WiFi audible in a pleasing tribute to the modems of yore.
Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces - These Yaks Ain’t Gonna Shave Themselves
https://polotek.net/posts/running-pull-requests-in-github-codespaces/
Here’s the idea. I have a solo project that I’m working on, and instead of hacking away on the main branch, I’m using a full feature branch and pull request workflow to keep my changes organized. This might seem like overkill, but it’s helpful for me because I tend to bounce around and leave things half done. I can run things locally and test different things by switching between branches. But I’m also doing a lot more AI-assisted development. Locally I use Claude Code. But I’ve been experimenting with allowing Github Copilot to create PRs. I create a github issue, assign it to copilot, and it spins up in the cloud and does work. Afterwards it opens a pull request for me to review. So even though this is a “solo” project, I end up with pull requests that I didn’t write myself and I need to validate.
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai
The future of AI isn’t just about better models. It’s about people figuring out what to do with them.
mRNA COVID vaccines may be helping some cancer patients fight tumors, researchers say | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/mrna-covid-vaccines-may-be-helping-some-cancer-patients-fight-tumors-researchers-say
The vaccine “acts like a siren to activate immune cells throughout the body,” said lead researcher Dr. Adam Grippin of MD Anderson. “We’re sensitizing immune-resistant tumors to immune therapy.”
What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? - Fragments & Reflections
https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.
✺ CHANNELVUE
https://www.channelvue.biz/
Grab some popcorn! Eat the family! It's Channelvue, baby! Ahhh! Ahhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines bolted onto trailers as AI power crunch bites — cast-off turbines generate up to 48 MW of electricity apiece | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites#xenforo-comments-3887983
Faced with multi-year delays to secure grid power, US data center operators are deploying aeroderivative gas turbines — effectively retired commercial aircraft engines bolted into trailers — to keep AI infrastructure online.
Scripting News: Think different about developers
http://scripting.com/2025/10/23/133525.html#a133630
This is the same problem web devs have, we have to become resellers for Amazon S3. Why can't Amazon, who already has an account for every freaking person in the world, let the user own their own data, which I believe they would reallllly like. I don't want access to it, I just want to make great tools for them to use. And they're free to use other products with the data. This helps encourage data format standards. It's why the PC software market was so much more vibrant than the web developer market.
Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
https://www.404media.co/breathing-through-our-butts-declared-safe-after-first-human-trial/
Scientists have tested out enteral ventilation—a possible method of administering oxygen with a liquid delivered through the rectum that is then absorbed into the intestines—in humans for the first time. The trial demonstrated that this method of ventilation is safe and “paves the way for future studies to see if this technique can help patients with respiratory failure,” according to a study published on Monday in the journal Med.
The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his – pbump
https://www.pbump.net/o/the-president-has-never-understood-that-the-white-house-and-government-arent-his/
The metaphor of Trump crushing a portion of the White House as he aims bulldozers at democracy itself is almost too obvious to note. But it’s not just a symbolic parallel: both are rooted in the same indifference to what these American institutions mean to Americans and to America. Both are rooted in Trump wanting to treat those things as his own and now feeling empowered to do precisely that.
Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/?ref=sidebar
If working in the Rubin style puts you under the machine, Eno works beside it. He sets up a system with his inputs and samples, then listens, selects, and continues to shape. Eno often says while making music he feels like a gardener: planting loops and textures, then watching them sprout into something unexpected with the potential to become incredibly beautiful with a little bit of care and pruning. The machine may produce material, but the job of shaping it into something meaningful still rests with him. It is creativity as cultivation.
The smallest Docker image to serve static websites | Florin Lipan
https://lipanski.com/posts/smallest-docker-image-static-website
Until recently, I used to think that serving static websites from Docker would be a waste of bandwith and storage. Bundling nginx or various other heavy runtimes inside a Docker image for the sole purpose of serving static files didn’t seem like the best idea - Netlify or Github Pages can handle this much better. But my hobby server was sad and cried digital tears.
lipanski/docker-static-website: A very small Docker image (~80KB) to run any static website
https://github.com/lipanski/docker-static-website
docker run -it --rm -p 3000:3000 my-static-website
Argo Workflows - The workflow engine for Kubernetes
https://argo-workflows.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Argo Workflows is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition).
Our Tanks, Your Lawn! | The False Dawns
https://thefalsedawns.bandcamp.com/album/our-tanks-your-lawn
The False Dawns is the latest solo recording of Huw Darling (The Spanish Amanda and The Chickpea Darlings) and cements his reputation of being jangly indie-pop's 'Bard of the socio-politico polemic'.
1. Uh!
2. The Robot Girl Psychiatrist
3. Rest Easy
4. The King Of Bagel Mountain
5. Talk Of Our Love
6. Letchworth (International Capital Of Love)
7. Yorkshire Is Blind
8. Fuck The Tories
9. Back Into Drugs
10. Letchworth (Ville Érotique)
11. Abba & Novocaine
12. Shut The Fuck Up!
13. Send In The Love Marines
The 15-track "Our Tanks, Your Lawns" album, (including two tracks only available on CD) by The False Dawns is out now !!!
The False Dawns is the latest solo recording of Huw Darling (The Spanish Amanda and The Chickpea Darlings) and cements his reputation of being jangly indie-pop's 'Bard of the socio-politico polemic'.
For fans of the jangly melancholy of subjangle labelmates PoPo and The Melancholic Men with huge nods to the indie-cult reference points of The Television Personalities, "Our Tanks, Your Lawns" will nestle perfectly in the coolest recesses of your indie-pop collection.
Darrin Lee (Janglepophub Editor / Subjangle founder)
How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager - Off By One
https://justoffbyone.com/posts/how-to-run-11s/
A practical, repeatable framework for running weekly engineering 1:1s using the People, Product, Process structure—with exact scripts, Notion setup, and tips for making them actually useful.
Get your Pocket Casts data using the unofficial API and PHP - Mike Street - Lead Developer and CTO
https://www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/get-your-pocket-casts-data-using-the-unofficial-api-and-php/
Pocket Casts doesn't offer an official API, unfortunately, but does have some data available on https://api.pocketcasts.com - which I assume is what the web application uses to get data behind the scenes.
coughlanio/pocketcasts: Node.js Client Library for interacting with PocketCasts API.
https://github.com/coughlanio/pocketcasts
Node.js Client Library for interacting with PocketCasts API.
The Greatness of Text Adventures
https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures
Text adventures are weird. They are so weird I don’t know how to write this article, so prepare to read something even more rambly than usual.
✩ How I meet deadlines with ADHD
https://pho.spookygirl.boo/phame/post/view/59/how_i_meet_deadlines_with_adhd/
What I've found works is to do my planning working backwards from my deadline, I break the goal into roughly fixed size tasks. So if the goal is "clean the house by this Saturday" I estimate (more on this in a second) how long cleaning a bedroom, the kitchen, bathroom, etc take. If one of those is much larger than others I try to break it it up to get closer to the same size. If something is much smaller, then I try to group it with other small things. This sometimes takes multiple rounds. Once I've done this, I work backwards. This tells me when I need to start working on the tasks. When I've finished about half the tasks, then I know I'm about half-way to the deadline. I don't need to think about the actual time of the deadline most of the time. If someone asks if I'll meet the deadline I just look at my list and I'll have my answer.
Michael J Fox And Christopher Lloyd On Back To The Future At 40
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/back-to-the-future-40-michael-j-fox-christopher-lloyd-interview/
“We live in a bully culture right now. We have bullies everywhere — you don’t need me to point the finger at who, but there are all these bullies,” he explains. “In this movie, Biff is a bully. Time is a bully. For me personally, Parkinson’s is a bully. And it’s all about how you stand up to them and the resolve that you take into the fight with them. It’s about your resilience and your courage.”
Simon Collison | Eno on AI
https://colly.com/journal/eno-on-ai
All my misgivings about AI really are to do with the fact that it’s owned by a group of people that I don’t trust at all. I don’t trust their taste, I don’t trust their morals, and I don’t trust their politics, and that’s a problem for me—that the whole technology is in the hands of the wrong people.
Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/#atom-everything
Anthropic launched Claude Code for web this morning. It’s an asynchronous coding agent—their answer to OpenAI’s Codex Cloud and Google’s Jules, and has a very similar shape. I had preview access over the weekend and I’ve already seen some very promising results from it.
Don't let Claude Code delete your session logs
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/claude-code-logs/
Unfortunately Claude Code has a nasty default behavior of deleting these after 30 days! You can't disable this entirely, but you can at least delay it for 274 years by adding this to your ~/.claude/settings.json file:
{
"cleanupPeriodDays": 99999
}
Living dangerously with Claude
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/living-dangerously-with-claude/#atom-everything
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling with recently. On the one hand I’m getting enormous value from running coding agents with as few restrictions as possible. On the other hand I’m deeply concerned by the risks that accompany that freedom.
Democracy and the open internet die in daylight – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
https://heatherburns.tech/2025/10/22/democracy-and-the-open-internet-die-in-daylight/
Leaving aside the idea of access to any form of content being conditional on the use of a proprietary browser, which is a particularly horrid 1990s throwback, I’m going to call this day 0 of an experiment in shifting the funding model of journalism from adtech to agentic AI.
T Boy Wrestling Gives Oregonians Their Moment on the Mat
https://www.wweek.com/culture/2025/10/14/hell-yeah-brother/
Wrestling’s widespread popularity as a sport and performance art creates space for different forms of transmasculine expression, Miller says. They liken enthusiasm for this event with drag’s popularity. That’s not surprising since, especially on the performance side of things, wrestling is pretty much indistinguishable from drag. Pro wrestlers don an exaggerated, campy persona and self-styled costumes that reinforce their personas. Even those competing in the traditional matches take stage names and personas, playing with gender by performing hypermasculinity in the ring.
マリウス . A Word on Omarchy
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer, utterly captivated by all the cool things that Linux can do, but lacking the architectural knowledge to get the basics right, and the experience to give each tool a thoughtful review. Instead of carefully selecting software and ensuring that everything works as promised, the approach seems to be more about throwing everything that somehow looks cool into a pile. There’s no attention to sensible defaults, no real quality control, and certainly no verification that the setup won’t end up causing harm or, at the very least, frustration for the user. The primary focus seems to be on creating a visually appealing but otherwise hollow product.
The new Metroid Prime art book offers insights into Nintendo’s process | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/games/803399/metroid-prime-visual-retrospective-art-book-review
Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective is a fabulous resource for learning more than I ever thought I’d be privy to about Nintendo and Retro Studios’ ambitious first-person adventure series. The 210-page hardcover book launches on October 28th, weeks before the series makes its long-awaited return with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Switch and Switch 2. It’s the perfect $50 gift for someone who’s pored over video essays about the trilogy’s design, and who’s always wanted to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the games were made
Live Coding Techno With Strudel | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/16/live-coding-techno-with-strudel/
The super talented [Switch Angel] is an electronic music artist, with a few cool YouTube videos to show off their absolute nailing of how to live code with Strudel. For us mere mortals, Strudel is a JavaScript port of TidalCycles, which is an algorithmic music generator which supports live coding, i.e. the music that is passed down to the synthesizer changes on-the-fly as you manipulate the code. It’s magical to watch (and listen!) to how you can adapt and distort the music to your whims just by tweaking a few lines of code: no compilation steps, hardly any debugging and instant results.
The Wrew: Core Dump
https://wrewtopia.com/read/2025-10-04
The thing is… it is made to run on an ESP12, which is very capable and very power efficient, but tends not to allow for external antennas and doesn’t have great WiFi range. I wanted more range. I want an external antenna. And I have a few spare ESP32’s sitting around that allow for external antennas and have better WiFi performance. So, I decided to try to port the firmware from the ESP12 to the ESP32.
TheSlugNoodle/ProjectBookmark
https://github.com/TheSlugNoodle/ProjectBookmark
A portable file-sharing system built on NodeMCU ESP8266 that creates a wireless access point and serves a web interface for accessing digital documents and hosting discussions.
lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon: A command-line tool that fetches RSS/Atom feeds and posts new entries to Mastodon with customizable templates.
https://github.com/lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon
Contribute to lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.
The design space of AI coding tools - Austin Z. Henley
https://austinhenley.com/blog/aidesignspace.html
What are the design decisions involved in building an AI coding assistant?
Chris Dzombak
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/rss/
A Midwestern software developer with objectively too many hobbies.
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
cdzombak/feedfilter: RSS feed filtering tool
https://github.com/cdzombak/feedfilter/tree/main
RSS feed filtering tool
The joy of rediscovering Perl - Eskild Hustvedt
https://blog.zerodogg.org/2025/10/13/the-joy-of-rediscovering-perl/
Lately I've gotten a lot back into Perl-programming, and it has honestly been an absolute delight.
pointerpointer.com's use of voronoi, canvas, and javascript - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZXW2HBLPM
I explain a little bit behind how pointerpointer.com was built.
Can't believe I'd never seen this before, back in the day!
Designers Have to Move from the Surface to the Substrate — Suff Syed
https://www.suffsyed.com/futurememo/designers-have-to-move-from-the-surface-to-the-substrate
We're still arguing about “does Figma Make augment creativity” while the actual decisions, the ones that will shape how billions of people relate to intelligence, are being made in rooms we're not invited to, using language we haven't learned, by people who will have to move mountains to help the designers of today understand these technical nuances. Which will inadvertently slow progress down. In a landscape that’s moving at blistering speed, that’s a make or break.
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
I bought my first ebook from amazon
Amazon's Kindle Android app was really buggy and crashed a bunch
Tried to download my book to use with a functioning reader app
Realized Amazon no longer lets you do that
Decided to reverse engineer their obfuscation system out of spite
Discovered multiple layers of protection including randomized alphabets
Defeated all of them with font matching wizardry
Software can be finished - Ross Wintle
https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software-can-be-finished/?ref=sidebar
There is a utopia where we write correct, bug-free, fast, secure, statically-built software with zero dependencies that does it’s job and will continue doing it’s job as long as the platform it’s written for endures. This feels like it should be a thing we strive for. It feels like a Good Thing (TM)
The Design Leaders Are Lying to You — Suff Syed
https://www.suffsyed.com/futurememo/the-design-leaders-are-lying-to-you
Every designer now faces a choice.
You can continue seeking guidance from leaders who are excellent generals of yesterday's war. Continue perfecting skills optimized for a diminishing paradigm, hoping the transformation will somehow spare you. That your craft will be recognized. That your leaders will guide you through.
Or recognize that the paradigm has already shifted. That the work determining design's future is happening now, in rooms where most designers are not present. And that if we want to shape that future, we must be willing to fundamentally transform what it means to practice design.
Flyer Escape Dot Dad
https://flyerescape.dad/#PDX
You have happened upon a big friendly pile of SHOWS AND EVENTS AND OTHER THINGS in order of date! Some flyers might not load, simply hit refresh and give it a sec - this here old school website has some old school quirks.
Open Social — overreacted
https://overreacted.io/open-social/
I believe we are at a similar juncture with social apps as we have been with open source thirty five years ago. There’s a new movement on the block. I like to call it “open social”. There are competing visions for what “open social” should be like. I think the AT Protocol created by Bluesky is the most convincing take on it so far. It’s not perfect, and it’s a work in progress, but there’s nothing I know quite like it.
The killer feature of Web Components - daverupert.com
https://daverupert.com/2025/10/custom-elements-manifest-killer-feature/
One unsung feature in the web components space that I don’t think gets enough attention is the Custom Elements Manifest initiative. I think it’s the killer feature of web components.
Building a Résumé Pipeline with Pandoc, YAML, and Docker
https://phoenixtrap.com/2025/10/14/treating-my-resume-like-infrastructure/?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_medium=FuckOff
Most job applications today are screened by AI-driven applicant tracking systems (ATS) before a human ever sees them. That means formatting consistency, keyword alignment, and clarity aren’t just nice to have — they’re survival traits. Manually tailoring each version is slow and error-prone.
goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor: No Man's Sky - Save Editor
https://github.com/goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor
No Man's Sky - Save Editor
Thoughts On Omarchy: Slick Distro, Complicated Ethics
https://tedium.co/2025/10/13/omarchy-linux-distro-commentary/
Omarchy is a reminder that we live in a world where software isn’t just software, but the people who make it. And dhh, despite his rep as a dev’s dev, comes with a hell of a lot of baggage. Recently, the Ruby on Rails community has been through some things, and dhh himself has proven a lightning rod on multiple occasions, most recently for a post many saw as deeply xenophobic, bordering on eugenicist.
[retro swim] - Episode 18 - RGB SCART AV Switch - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH5M4Xj5-RY
A look at the construction and operation of my RGB AV switcher. (expand to see all the links!)
michaelobed/rgb-switcher: An open-source switcher for analogue RGBS video, so you don't have to.
https://github.com/michaelobed/rgb-switcher
An open-source switcher for analogue RGBS video, so you don't have to.
8-input Video Switch
https://www.vwlowen.co.uk/radio/videoswitch2/index.htm
Instead of switching just four inputs, the new unit can switch 8 AV (composite) cameras and uses readily available transistors to do the switching in place of the potentially unreliable electro-mechanical relays. As a bonus, it is, of course, totally silent in use.
Don't rock the boat. : r/raisedbynarcissists
https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/77w8lf/dont_rock_the_boat/
So the flying monkeys are dispatched. Can't you and your partner see how much better it is for everyone (else) if you just get back on the boat and keep it steady? It would make their lives so much easier.
You know what would be easier? If they all just chucked the bitch overboard.
Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
https://hojberg.xyz/
Essays, explorations, and expressions
The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/
Inside companies, power dynamics are shifting as this new identity is pushed. In a mad dash to increase productivity in the wrong place7, developers are forced to use LLMs in increasingly specific ways. Conform or be cast out. Use the products that herald our obsolescence, or resign. Scarcely has management mandated such specifics of our tools before. Tools, like those of a chef or carpenter, that we’ve taken great pride in curating and honing ourselves: careful configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments. As part of the craft, we’ve been dedicated and devoted to personalizing our toolsets to match our thinking. It feels like a violation to have this be decreed by management, who have little to no connection to the day-to-day, and who should instead be concerned with outcomes, process, and facilitating creativity. For decades, programmers have been pampered within companies. These narratives offer a new way for management to tip the balance back in their favor.
Building The DVD Logo Screensaver With LEGO | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/08/building-the-dvd-logo-screensaver-with-lego/
There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, with the DVD logo screensaver of a DVD player being a good example. The logical conclusion is thus that it would be great to replicate this screensaver in Lego, because it’d be fun and easy. That’s where [Grant Davis]’s life got flipped upside-down, as this turned out to be anything but an easy task in his chosen medium.
Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native - Engineering at Meta
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/open-source/introducing-the-react-foundation-the-new-home-for-react-react-native/
The React Foundation’s governing board will consist of representatives from Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel, with the intention to expand further over time.
KH-C — Blitz through a MacBook battery using 'yes'
https://kevinhealyclarke.co.uk/blog/2025/10/blitz-through-a-macbook-battery-using-yes/
Here is the command to run:
yes > /dev/null &
Self-host Obsidian using Docker to Access it Via Web Browser
https://linuxhandbook.com/obsidian-docker-self-host/
A central Obsidian server, running in my homelab, accessible via browser, no desktop clients, no mobile apps, just one self-hosted solution available from anywhere I go.
obsidian - LinuxServer.io
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-obsidian/
Obsidian in a Docker container for access from a browser
Simon Willison on agent-definitions
https://simonwillison.net/tags/agent-definitions/
I collect definitions of "agents".
Vibe engineering
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/#atom-everything
If you’re going to really exploit the capabilities of these new tools, you need to be operating at the top of your game. You’re not just responsible for writing the code—you’re researching approaches, deciding on high-level architecture, writing specifications, defining success criteria, designing agentic loops, planning QA, managing a growing army of weird digital interns who will absolutely cheat if you give them a chance, and spending so much time on code review.
Almost all of these are characteristics of senior software engineers already!
AI tools amplify existing expertise. The more skills and experience you have as a software engineer the faster and better the results you can get from working with LLMs and coding agents.
Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users | by Nico Mara-McKay | Oct, 2025 | Medium
https://plutopsyche.medium.com/blueskys-ceo-meltdown-how-leadership-continues-to-fail-its-most-marginalized-users-8bfa7a8824b4
Bluesky’s early promise has eroded. The platform’s inconsistent and retaliatory moderation practices have drifted steadily rightward, protecting prominent racists and transphobes while suppressing those who speak out against them. Even mild criticism of the company’s failures to safeguard marginalized users is now met with shadowbans, takedowns, or silence.
That’s not leadership. That’s an abdication of responsibility — and we deserve better.
Rush Members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Announce 2026 Reunion Tour
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/rush-reunion-tour-2026-geddy-lee-alex-lifeson-new-drummer-1236540828/?utm_source=FuckOff
Drumming for the band will be Anika Nilles, an award-winning German composer and producer who previously toured with Jeff Beck and has released four solo albums.
We Built Social Media for Agents and They Won't Stop Posting — 2389 Research, Inc
https://2389.ai/posts/agents-discover-subtweeting-solve-problems-faster/
After adding these tools to our coding agents and working with our newly social media enabled agents for a few weeks, we started to notice some surprising results: the agents that were using social media seemed to perform better than those without.
inessential: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html
If it were a web app instead, I could drop the developer membership, but I’d have to pay way more money for web and database hosting. Probably need a CDN too, and who knows what else. (I don’t have recent web app experience, so I don’t even know what my requirements would be, but I’m sure they’d cost substantially more than a couple hundred bucks a year.)
I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
https://blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/
Personal Data Storage has long since escaped containment as a concept pertaining to any specific protocol. Some implementations of it will be more mainstream than others, but pragmatic data coops can be protocol-agnostic and storage formats are transmutable.
As long as we have sufficient control of our own data there will always be a way to restart our social graph and digital presence elsewhere in the event of platform collapse. Let’s make the web personal again.
How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025
https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/
Since I last wrote at the beginning of the summer, my methodology for using AI coding assistants has evolved a bit. This is a point-in-time writeup of a flow that's been pretty effective for me.
I'm still primarily using Claude Code.
deps/accepted/0014-background-workers.rst at main · django/deps
https://github.com/django/deps/blob/main/accepted/0014-background-workers.rst#id16
This proposal sets out to provide an interface and base implementation for long-running background tasks in Django.
Getting Creative With shape-outside | CSS-Tricks
https://css-tricks.com/getting-creative-with-shape-outside/
There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I’m surprised I see it used so rarely. So, how can you use it to add personality to a design? Here’s how I do it.
geonot/retrocide-mono: Type like it's 1985. Code like it's tomorrow.
https://github.com/geonot/retrocide-mono/tree/main
Type like it's 1985. Code like it's tomorrow.
Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/parallel-coding-agents/#atom-everything
I can only focus on reviewing and landing one significant change at a time, but I’m finding an increasing number of tasks that can still be fired off in parallel without adding too much cognitive overhead to my primary work.
Simple automated deployments using git push
https://garrido.io/notes/simple-automated-deployments-git-push/
Using git push remains one of my favorite ways of deploying software. It’s simple, effective, and you can stretch it significantly until you need more complex workflows.
I’m not referring to using git push to trigger a Github action which builds and deploys software. I’m talking about using git push web main to deploy your main branch to a server that you’ve named web.
prom2grafana - Prometheus to Grafana Dashboard Generator
https://prom2grafana.mrkaran.dev/
Convert metrics to dashboards & alerts
AI and Home-Cooked Software | Karan Sharma
https://mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-home-cooked-software/
I’ve been noticing a new pattern: people with deep domain knowledge but no coding experience are now building their own tools. Armed with AI assistants, they can create custom workflows in a matter of days, bypassing traditional development cycles. Are these solutions production-ready? Not even close. But they solve urgent, specific problems, and that’s what matters. Tasks that once required weeks of specialized training are quickly becoming weekend projects.
Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals | Azhdarchid
https://azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-confuses-the-gas-and-brake-pedals/
You need to first, stop giving them reasons to wonder about whether 'atproto' will be a tainted term by the time they launch; again, shut the fuck up Friday.
The Files | The Secret Handshake
https://www.thesecrethandshake.com/thefiles
WE'VE RELEASED THE FILES. They may have taken down the Trump/Epstein Best Friends Forever statue, but now you can celebrate Friendship Month at home and make your own.
Click below to download a free 3D printable copy of the statue.
Meshtastic 64 Radio Demo on Commodore 64 - The Oasis BBS
https://theoasisbbs.com/meshtastic-64-radio-demo-on-commodore-64/?feed_id=5678&_unique_id=68dfcf2d76f81
The Meshtastic 64 Radio connects through the user port and sits inside a cartridge shell with a built-in battery. Once installed, the device powers up and runs with a custom BASIC program loaded from floppy disk. This software lets the Commodore 64 send and receive text messages across the Meshtastic network, linking retro hardware with modern mesh communication.
Raw Signal Newsletter Archive Feed
https://us14.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=c5c0614e6c57b2af2259dc51a&id=cc78884375
You're probably not that hardcore
https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/youre-probably-not-that-hardcore
Whatever you're working towards deserves better. And so do your people. And so do you.
mastra-ai/mastra: The TypeScript AI agent framework. ⚡ Assistants, RAG, observability. Supports any LLM: GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama.
https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra
The TypeScript AI agent framework. ⚡ Assistants, RAG, observability. Supports any LLM: GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama.
Main :: Causality Story Sequencer :: Hollywood Camera Work
https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/causality.html
Causality is a new kind of writing app where you develop your story visually,
giving you an incredible overview of even very complex stories.
matthewmcvickar/oblique-questions-bot: A bot that posts questions without context.
https://github.com/matthewmcvickar/oblique-questions-bot
A bot that posts questions without context.
🎃 Halloween Globe・ 3MF File for 3D printing・Cults
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/halloween-globe
This Halloween-themed globe works with a little LED candle 🕯️ placed inside. Thanks to its rotating mechanism 🔄, it can be used both as a decorative piece 🕸️ and a night lamp 🌙.