Site Is Closed on Sundays
This thing is so overloaded with ridiculous ’80s signifiers, and its picture is so pristine, I initially thought it was a nostalgic throwback made sometime in the last 10 years (à la the dreadful Kung Fury). But the hair, the clothes, the cars, and the music are simply too perfect, and that pristine picture comes […]
AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one 🙂 I spent way too much time finding new Mini-ITX case for the next one … and after all possibilities … I got […]
AI, Tools and Transformation
The typical big American company today has hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of different pieces of software. It has giant ‘big iron’ horizontal systems of record like SAP and Workday, it has hundreds of vertical SaaS applications, and then there are hundreds more workflows, scripts, automations and databases, right down to the 10 meg spreadsheet running […]
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms | Robocurve September 4, 2026 A follow‑up to our comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Fable 5.1. We gave OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra control of the same YAM arms under the same Inspect Robots agent policy, on the same two tasks: “Pick up the red block from the table and place it inside […]
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
TLDR: Cloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job. I’m frustrated with the state of the digital world. The software we use is so misaligned with our own incentives (intentionally addicting, loaded with […]
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings Previous: Copycats in Apple Books Articles index Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon) September 5 2026 Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, […]
OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents
A Domain-Neutral, Git-Native Persistent Project Memory for AI Agents based on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.2. 🌟 Overview Conversations with AI agents reset when context windows close. Valuable architectural decisions, domain discoveries, and operational facts are lost unless stored persistently. OKF Agent Memory provides a standardized, vendor-neutral memory layer that lives directly in your […]
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs
Each entry is phrased as the falsehood. Some of these may sometimes be true and sometimes be false. NAT My LAN is behind a NAT. I’m only behind one NAT. My LAN isn’t behind a NAT. My IPv6 hosts aren’t behind a NAT. If I have a RFC 1918 address, I’m behind a NAT. If […]
The revolt of the reader
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act […]
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
No rocket had ever reached orbit from Western European soil — until today. The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today (Sept. 5) at 4:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT; 10:12 p.m. local time in Norway). A little over seven minutes later, it etched its name into […]