日本語 README A Pi-hole-style DNS ad-blocker that runs on a $2 ESP32-C3 — no PSRAM required. 📰 Featured on Tom’s Hardware, XDA Developers, and Korben. The trick everyone misses: you don’t need to keep the blocklist in RAM. Store the … Read more
September 19, 2026 [I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.] Something that … 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
Note: This is a community fork of adevinta/maiao. The original maintainers are no longer at Adevinta and the upstream repository is no longer actively maintained. This fork continues development under runetes/maiao. Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo, … Read more
I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making … Read more
Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts working from spare rooms, garages, and tiny workshops. Some earn a … Read more
In 2023, I was in need of a new laptop that should hopefully last me for a while. While looking at my options, I was seduced by Framework’s promise of a repairable and upgradable laptop that supports Linux out-of-the-box without … Read more
Other Date/Time Articles: A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output 17 August 2026 Converting a day-count (“rata-die”) to the day-of-the-week (“weekday”) sounds like it should be so trivial, that there’s almost nothing to say about it. But, as it turns out, … Read more
Agent skills that fact-check the internet. Point your agent at a viral YouTube video, article, tweet, or PDF — get a claim-by-claim verification report with sources and a BS score (0–10) instead of taking “10 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH … Read more
Why The Atlantic and the Moral Panic Machine Are Misdiagnosing the “End of Reading” I had started my last post by promising to go into further detail on a paper I co-authored that explored a pedagogical framework for teaching English … Read more