Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

It all started with an email.

A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game

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Extension for Visual Studio Code - Visualize your codebase structure with interactive diagrams

I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.

Two large structures that once were key to NASA's successes in orbit and at the moon have fallen back to "earth" at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down.
Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t…

A deep dive into an OpenJDK commit that replaced slow /proc file parsing with a single syscall, revealing obscure Linux kernel internals and a 20-year-old optimization opportunity.

Blog post by Marciano Planque: EOL

AI for Formal Mathematical Reasoning

How I reverse-engineered GitHub node IDs to avoid a database migration and discovered their dual ID system along the way.

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One interesting thing about the building construction productivity puzzle is that it’s a worldwide phenomenon.

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.