About Roame Roame is a flight and hotel search engine for points and miles. Booking business or first class with points instead of cash saves travelers thousands of dollars on a single trip. The hard part is finding the seats. … Read more
Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it’s pain all the way down. I run Olly, an AI assistant that lives in iMessage, on open source models through OpenRouter. To date Olly’s transacted over 18 million messages, … Read more
Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a … Read more
We are pleased to bring you Jellyfin 12.0, our new stable release. This release continues in the same direction as 10.11: finishing what the database conversion started, turning that new foundation into real performance work, and finally giving books and … Read more
I’m venturing into Rust and it’s both satisfying and mind-boggling at the same time. So far I’ve been learning from the book and Mara Bos’ book, but I got the itch to do some dissecting myself. My initial goal of … Read more
September 4, 2026 Guest post Lobsters While I’m taking a short break from low-level programming, here’s a story by a friend of mine, Sonya, about debugging a seemingly impossible bug in ARM code. This bug hunting saga started several months … Read more
Elevator World Project of the Year Winner, for elevator modernization! San Francisco in 1907. The City is still shaken from the aftermath of one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. However, The City is surging back to life; … Read more
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment.” The original study, published in Psychological Science in 2002 (.htm), found that … Read more
I joined the productivity tools market in 2004 and have had the luxury of observing its dynamics for 22 years now. From time to time the market changes and I write a holistic “visionary” article. The last one was in … Read more
Bug blindness Bug blindness | Patreon I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. I easily observe hundreds to thousands of bugs per week and nothing seems to work, but most people I talk … Read more