My brother in law died in June. Heart attack. Four hours in the hospital and gone. And then the bills came. He’d let his insurance lapse two months prior. Bills were a few thousand here for the cardiologist, another few … Read more
I’ve been using Helix as my editor to develop on remote servers for quite some time now. There are a lot of emerging supply-chain attacks, and I simply don’t like the idea of installing tens of plugins to Vim/Neovim to … Read more
Though I spend the majority of my time working with microcontroller class devices, I also have an embarassingly robust collection of single board computers (SBC), including a few different Raspberry Pi models, the BeagleV Starlight Beta (RIP), and more. Typically … Read more
September 26, 2025 Microlandia “the brutally honest city builder” is a pet project that I started several years ago. I can’t pinpoint exactly when, as the project has gone through multiple rewrites and long periods of abandonment. The idea was … Read more
TPDE is a single-pass compiler backend for LLVM that was open-sourced earlier this year by researchers at TUM. The comprehensive documentation walks you through integrating TPDE into custom builds of Clang and Flang. Currently, it supports LLVM 19 and LLVM … Read more
This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. It’s been some time since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seen … Read more
As a bit of background, one of my hobbies is helping people recover data from old tape cartridges, such as QIC-80 tapes, which were a rather popular backup medium in the 1990s among individuals, small businesses, BBS operators, and the … Read more
Best of both worlds: Building an AI gatekeeper that knows exactly which tests to run for your code changes End-to-end (E2E) tests sit at the top of the test pyramid because they’re slow, fragile, and expensive. But they’re also the … Read more
I really miss using em dashes in my writing. Ever since content creators started using ChatGPT to help (or supplement) their writing, em dashes have become indicators of AI use. Students are routinely caught with their pants down as professors … Read more
For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good … Read more