Most people never think twice about the random mix of letters and numbers the DMV assigns them. I’m not one of those people. Online, I’ve always chased having a clean and memorable digital identity. Over the years, I’ve been able … Read more
I’ve been working on a personal project recently, rewriting an old jQuery + Django project into SvelteKit. The main work is translating the UI templates into idiomatic SvelteKit while maintaining the original styling. This includes things like using semantic HTML … Read more
Here’s the problem: You’re coding, and in flow state, and you make a lot of changes to a single file. Now you want to commit it, but because there isn’t a single atomic change you have to suck it up … Read more
Published on December 08, 2025 By Alireza Alavi • 6 minutes read • Table of Contents Table of Contents Showcasing end results Attempt1: Deskreen Attempt2: VNC Setting up the VNC server Install and initial setup Run x0vncserver directly Running x0vncserver … Read more
While LLMs are adept at reading and can be terrific at editing, their writing is much more mixed. At best, writing from LLMs is hackneyed and cliché-ridden; at worst, it brims with tells that reveal that the prose is in … Read more
We should all be using dependency cooldowns Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Nov 21, 2025 Tags: oss, security TL;DR: Dependency cooldowns are a free, easy, and incredibly effective way to mitigate the large majority of open source supply … Read more
Skip to Translations Introduction Generative AI tools (GenAI) that allow users to rapidly generate new and creatively unique media (video, sound, text, and image) are increasingly being used across creative workflows in Content Production. At Netflix, we see these tools … Read more
November 08, 2025 posted by Leonardo Taccari This report was written by Vasyl Lanko as part of Google Summer of Code 2025. As of the time of writing, there is no real sandboxing technique available to NetBSD. There is chroot, … Read more
2025-11-01 – Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more As evident by my last blog post “A prison of my own making”, I needed to change something about my relationship with technology. How I was doing things … Read more
Introduction Database schema designs inevitably evolve over time as the software that interacts with the database change. It is important to be able to transition your schemas to incorporate new requirements as they arise in a safe and reliable manner. … Read more