“We are not suggesting this is attainable on the first try, but we think we know how to get there.” There are no new ideas in software engineering, only ones we’ve learned and then forgotten. In 198...

On designing finger-friendly interactions

When you can make anything, what do you choose? And why even try, when someone else is doing it better?

Beverage maker Long Island Iced Tea Corp's <LTEA.O> shares jumped nearly 300 percent on Thursday after the company said it would rebrand itself Long Blockchain Corp, the latest U.S. firm to tap ...

This weekend, I gave a talk at BSides SF 2026 to a full theater at the Metreon AMC. This is that talk, as a blog post. It’s about the hidden ecosystem of attackers’ tools and how they factor into a...

I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?

As the title implies, I just created a font that displays numbers in a compact format used by Cistercian monks . You can play with it on my demo site here :

Before Macs or mainframes, computers were people: a brief etymology of people becoming tools.

A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

To reduce unwanted noise and help you focus on what matters most, we’re removing notifications generated from mentions in commit messages. Previously, mentioning a user or team in a commit…

A view of all alt text (image descriptions) on the Bluesky Firehose

An investigation of image descriptions (alt text) on the Bluesky social media platform.

A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.

Who said you had to be reasonable?

Cheerleading

These influential editors don't use the common Ctrl-K shortcut. Why?