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Rain has finally come to an end in flooded Washington and the Pacific Northwest, but the region can’t breathe easy: More heavy rain from new atmospheric rivers will arrive next week. As of Saturday, Stehekin Valley, a remote area of Washington only reachable by boat or aircraft, is already under…

A mechanical keyboard provides a superior, tactile input experience – a professional tool unmatched by common consumer electronics. Furthermore, the system is designed for simple construction with minimal required soldering, and maintenance is streamlined – all internal components are easily reached via sliding access panels. If you have been looking…

I’ve used GraphQL, specifically Apollo Client and Server, for a couple of years in a real enterprise-grade application. Not a toy app. Not a greenfield startup. A proper production setup with multiple teams, BFFs, downstream services, observability requirements, and real users. GraphQL solves a real problem, but that problem is…

Cast your mind back to when you learned to drive, ride a bike, speak a foreign language, perform a tracheostomy, or acquire any other skill. Wasn’t confidence the key to your success? Whatever we do in life, confidence is always critical. If you run a business, one of the metrics…

Apple recently teamed up with Japanese fashion brand ISSEY MIYAKE to create the iPhone Pocket, a limited-edition knitted accessory designed to carry an iPhone. However, it is now completely sold out in all countries where it was released. iPhone Pocket became available to order on Apple’s online store starting Friday,…

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence. 745 + 325 = $1070 per pay period $1070 x 2 pay periods per month = $2140 per month $2140 x 12 months = $25,680 annual health insurance premium Discussion, links, and tweets I’m the CTO and founder of Petabridge, where…

I feel for Mozilla. Legitimately. They haven’t been having an easy go of it for years. None of their attempts to diversify their finances away from Google have panned out. They’ve bought services and shuttered them, rebranded, and replaced their management team multiple times. Actions speak louder than words, and…

Crypto-hoarding companies are ditching their holdings in a bid to prop up their sinking share prices, as the craze for “digital asset treasury” businesses unravels in the face of a $1 trillion cryptocurrency rout. Shares in Michael Saylor-led Strategy, the world’s biggest corporate bitcoin holder, have tumbled 50 percent over the…

The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy who is speculated to have photographed or filmed the events that occurred in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza at the time President Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the US Army headscarf she…

Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the results of your work. Where attention is important, and the flow state is precious. Where getting things done is what matters most. It’s a computer, built with a different set of principles. For whatever you’re making—we work for you.…

Earlier this year I demoed iOS 6 running on an iPod touch 3 – a device that Apple never gave iOS 6 to, making iOS 5.1.1 the latest build it can run A few months later I also released a script that generates an iOS 6 restore image installable on…

The misconception: await gives up control (in every language… right?) The key truth: await on a coroutine does NOT yield to the event loop Concrete Example 1: Awaiting a coroutine is synchronous Concrete Example 2: Tasks actually introduce concurrency Suspension points define concurrency, not async or await Putting it all…

I find it particularly disillusioning to realize how deep the LLM brainworm is able to eat itself even into progressive hacker circles. I encountered friends who got fully sucked into the belly of the vibecoding grind. Proficient, talented coders who seem to experience some sort of existential crisis. Staring at…