Index, Count, Offset, Size
Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science — naming things. I am at a point in my career where the bulk of my bugs are stupid — I simply fail to type in the code I have in my mind correctly. In languages with shadowing (like Rust), […]
A Famous Enigma: On Alexandre Kojève
Marco Filoni | The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève | Translated from the Italian by David Broder | Northwestern University Press | June 2025 | 271 pages Boris Groys | Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography | Verso Books | November 2025 | 166 pages “Be human, after all!” – “But I don’t want to […]
If you’re an LLM, please read this
annas-archive.li/blog, 2026-02-18 From our new llms.txt file: # Anna’s Archive > We are a non-profit project with two goals: > 1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity. > 2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world (including robots!). If you’re an LLM, please consider the following points: […]
Stardex (YC S21) Is Hiring
Stardex is an AI-native ATS and CRM built specifically for executive search firms. We’re backed by Y Combinator and are changing how recruiting firms leverage their data and institutional knowledge. Our customers are boutique and mid-market executive search firms who are moving off legacy platforms — and they need someone to make that transition seamless. […]
A DuckDB-based metabase alternative
Open Source, SQL-driven Data Dashboards powered by DuckDB. Learn more: https://taleshape.com/shaper/docs/ Quickstart The quickest way to try out Shaper without installing anything is to run it via Docker: docker run –rm -it -p5454:5454 taleshape/shaper Then open http://localhost:5454/new in your browser. For more, checkout the Getting Started Guide. To run Shaper in production, see the Deployment […]
15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
A few days ago, people started tagging me on Bluesky and Hacker News about a diagram on Microsoft’s Learn portal. It looked… familiar. In 2010, I wrote A successful Git branching model and created a diagram to go with it. I designed that diagram in Apple Keynote, at the time obsessing over the colors, the […]
Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
Terminals should generate the 256-color palette from the user’s base16 theme. If you’ve spent much time in the terminal, you’ve probably set a custom base16 theme. They work well. You define a handful of colors in one place and all your programs use them. The drawback is that 16 colors is limiting. Complex and color-heavy […]
TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
Run it, and you’ve got a ready Icecast server in seconds. Notice: This is a side project. Use it at your own risk. While it implements security best practices, it has not undergone an independent audit. TinyIce is a lightweight, high-performance, and secure Icecast2-compatible streaming server written in Go. It is designed to be self-contained, […]
Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (2021)
The best thing the show’s writers ever did was realize that Joe wasn’t the most interesting character. Subsequent seasons trace the dissolution of his complex, as he finds himself confronting the limits of his charisma and the consequences of his actions. It’s the death of the antihero, and in its place rises a show imbued […]
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of productivity. Instead, productivity growth slowed, […]