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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns
Claude Code won April Fools Day this year
They gave people a heckin tamagochi, what's not to like?
Small note about AI 'GPUs'
They are graphical processing units that can't process graphics.
Homelab downtime update: The fight for DNS supremacy
Turns out everything DID NOT go offline somehow. Yay!
My homelab will be down for at least 20 days
Dang, guess I have to suffer.
I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction
AI tools push us to higher abstraction. I'm not sure I like what that costs us.
Some Thorns Have Roses
Recovery gave me things I didn't ask for and I'm not ready to give them back.
Vibe Coding Trip Report: Making a sponsor panel
I needed to ship this before my surgery, so I vibe coded it. It turned out well enough.
Using Clankers to Help Me Process Surgery
At 4 AM in recovery, the machines that never sleep turned out to be exactly the right company.
Advice for staying in the hospital for a week
Hard-won wisdom from a week of fluorescent lights and beeping machines.
The Unbound Scepter
My post-surgery medication stack gave me the most on-the-nose dream of my life.
Killing my inner Necron
On surviving surgery, confronting mortality, and finding peace on the other side.
Portable monitors are good
A review of portable monitors for travel
Life Update: On medical leave
Taking some time off for medical reasons until early April
Anubis v1.25.0: Necron
Hey all,
I'm sure you've all been aware that things have been slowing down a little with Anubis development, and I want to apologize for that. A lot has been going on in my life lately (my blog will have a post out on Friday with more information), and as a result I ...
The Discourse has been Automated
An AI agent submitted a PR to matplotlib, got rejected, and then wrote a callout blogpost attacking the maintainer. I have no idea how to feel about this.
Matrix ain't it chief
Watch arathorn get in the replies for this one.
Humanity's last programming language
What if markdown was executable? You get markdownlang.
Zendesk, get your shit together please
BORN TO GET SPAMMED, WORLD IS A FUCK, SPAMHAUS THEM ALL 2026, I am inbox full man, 410,757,864,530 Zendesk emails
Life pro tip: a Steam Deck can be a bluetooth speaker
Your headphones may only let you get audio from one source at once, but Linux has no such limitations!
Did Zendesk get popped?
I've got like 50 emails from Zendesk customers to activate an account.
Backfilling Discord forum channels with the power of terrible code
Hey all! We've got a Discord so you can chat with us about the wild world of object storage and get any help you need. We've also set up Answer Overflow so that you can browse the Q&A from the web.
Today I'm going to discuss how we got there and solved one of the...
Tormentmaxxing 'simple requests'
Automating the full lifecycle of 'quick' requests with Claude Code slash commands
I made a simple agent for PR reviews. Don't use it.
Reviewbot is eternal, yet also very cooked.
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
The meme will no longer be a dream.
Git's HTTP server side design does not scale
A small rant about CGI.
Arcane Cheese with Doomtrain Extreme
If you don't play Final Fantasy 14, try to identify how many words in this post are in the bible.
New AI slop signal: code blocks with weird indentation
If the first line of a set of commands isn't indented but the rest are: the post is AI slop
Valve is about to win the console generation
Valve does nothing and still wins