for as long as I can remember the chunk of the year that I most closely associate with winter is actually autumn, and correspondingly the time I most closely associate with spring is actually winter. So it is winter/spring 2026, even though it feels like spring. Living in Northern California further confuses things by the year being divided into two co-equal seasons, spring and late spring (offset by two modes, “raining every day” and “no rain for 9 months”).
- the
beatingsPDF tools will continue until morale improves! - git has so many subcommands. It’s the only tool that I’ve been using day-in, day-out for 17 years and still be finding whole unexplored rooms.
- databases
- these postgres optimizations are … unconventional
- clever sql trick for making complex schema palatable for agents
- Apple corner
- wakes up once or twice a decade to ship one or two good CSS thing, and then promptly complains that it’s not out, tells you to use masonry.js as a polyfill like its 2013.
- beautiful article on the absurd state of the Fn key with a brief history of Apple keyboards
- Dan Woods on X: “Autoresearching Apple’s “LLM in a Flash” to run Qwen 397B locally” / X
- Dudes rock
- This is cool
- I spent some time playing with text-to-speech that you can run locally, these projects are very promising! VibeVoice is great for light-duty article reading as long as it fits in the 10 minute context window.
- I remember OAuth when it was new, neat that we’re still living under its design choices 15+ years later
- some perspectives on what has likely been the most interesting 6 months in software development in decades
- I read stuff like this but then don’t remember the details. Mostly leaving this here so I can come back to it later and try to understand it again.
- every single one of these demos is worth spending some time with
- I’ve mostly stopped using IA Writer because nobody needs two note taking systems, but I have not stopped appreciating their design thinking. They have good taste.
- good open source, very neat to see the barrier to entry come down for ambitious web projects
- interior design, especially industrial interior design, is one of those topics that make me realize I have a woefully incomplete education
- finally, an all day dj set from Caribou