Everything is about definitions.

Making Python virtual envs fun again with direnv and uv.

I’m loving the fact that “npm” is autocorrecting to “nom” for me at the moment.

Robovan looking very Art Deco.

Me atop my unused free GitHub Actions minutes.

My shoddy ASCII art about writing data to disk was surprisingly popular, so I finished off an old set of notes talking more comprehensively about durably writing data to disk and added a better version of the diagram. transactional.blog/how-to-learn/d…

Advent of Code: my awesome solution that I’m totally happy with gets crushed by some Twitter rando’s three line masterpiece that makes you question everything you thought you knew about programming.

Pretty audacious of Microsoft to claim the name 'Code' for the Visual Studio macOS app. Sweet that it's a noun as well as a verb whereas 'Xcode' merely a noun.

My putting-on-the-duvet-cover robot failed because one gripper got upset at the other one doing it the wrong way and stormed off.

When you’re cleaning up and get distracted by the things you find.

Feels like I just won the lottery. Got my Github Actions working with only one failed run.

Adjacent tweets.

omg the logo for the sudo project is a sandwich

If your job is mostly typing code that part of the job will disappear. If it’s mostly problem solving, decision making, inferring context, leveraging proper tools to accomplish those, then delivering results will be further enriching moving forward. Skill up, don’t fear down.

When you have Linux at home but forced to use Windows at work.

“Ultrathink” is probably the least Clojure-esque thing ever.

There Is No Antimemetics Division is out 11 November 2025, and YES you can preorder: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041/t…

Skykraft 4 mission a milestone for space-enabled Air Traffic Management Network 🛰️ Today Australian company SkyKraft launched 5 more satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to join their growing satellite constellation. Read more spklr.io/6013BEU5T

TIL SQLite has bytecode.

overheard in sf: “wow duckdb is the perfect database and i want marry it”