writing programs should be no harder than writing a resume

Lately I have been observing the constant picking of Neon, mainly I presume for its performance from Planetscale’s CEO, and the X/Twitter community.
Here are some of the many tweets I have encountered, but I didn’t save them, so a simple search resulted on…

Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …

Why I don't do tutorials on the odious containerization system Docker.

With 5,000 electric semi trucks on the road logging more than 100 million real-world miles, Volvo is sending a big message.

My Journey into Haskell: Building a Reverse Polish Notation Calculator
Introduction: A Side Quest

In my attempt to get my first paycheck, aka get a job, ...

The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast. No drugs were found, but officials and regional security sources…

I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts.

Recorded at Clojure/NYC meetup on June 4th, 2025.

A California appeals court ruled this week that holding a phone while driving, even while looking at a map to navigate, is still illegal.

This isn't innovation, it's tyranny

Security Service continued to provide misleading evidence even after its lie was exposed, BBC can reveal.

On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia—a book that explained why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why NASA is still lighting enormous tubes on fire to fling humans into orbit 337 years later.

Video Games Europe voices opposition to Stop Killing Games movement as it clears threshold to become an EU Citizens' Initiative.

A roundabout way to downsampling data
Maps in the Modern Era GIS is probably one of the best things to happen to cartography in the last couple hundred years.

This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My...

I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible…