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The older you get, the faster time goes. Nana used to say that whenever I complained about the pace of events. At a young age, my mind could not imagine what that speed of time would feel like. But now, I know the feeling all too well. If once-a-year review posts interest you, check out my 2023 post…
I’ve been working with Django full time since roughly 2016. 8 years feels like an eternity in the software world. In my opinion, no other framework compares to Django in terms of off-the-shelf solutions In Python land that is, I know Rails is also a great experience. If you have a problem, there’s a…
One of the standout features of tools like Docker and Kubernetes is the ability to quickly exec into a production shell. With environment variables configured, working directory set, and everything ready to go, you’re primed for action. But not every project uses Docker in production, which makes…
Published on 2025-09-09, 971 words, 4 minutes to read That NPM attack could have been so much worse. CadeyThis post and its online comment sections are blame-free zones. We are not blaming anyone for clicking on the phishing link. If you were targeted with such a phishing attack, you'd fall for it…
Every month or so, a new blog article declaring the near demise of CSV in favor of some "obviously superior" format (parquet, newline-delimited JSON, MessagePack records etc.) find its ways to the reader's eyes. Sadly those articles often offer a very narrow and biased comparison and often fail to…
In perpetuity All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey. Kyle Orland – Sep 8, 2025 12:24 pm | 0 The iPod might not be the ideal device for playing Sonic the Hedgehog, but you can do it!…
Illustration by Melinda Beck Annenberg professor Emily Falk’s new book probes the human brain’s value system. For Emily Falk, who studies how we make choices, choosing to take a job at Penn was easy. For one thing, it meant coming home. Falk grew up in the Delaware Valley, got interested in…
Since my last post on alienation and social media, I’ve been thinking more about how I experience technology and a couple more paradigms from things I’ve read occurred to me. One of them is again from Marx, this time from another unpublished manuscript from around 1857, the Grundrisse. In these…
I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line…
(You can find my Nix config over on Github) I'm a disorganised person. My workflow is to bounce around a codebase for days/weeks at a time and when I come up for air I'll usually have left a slew of configs, tools, scripts, repos scattered around my computer like the socks near the bed, or the pile…
NGINX and Let's Encrypt share a common vision of an open and secure web. Now, with built-in support for ACME, the world's most popular web server, reverse proxy and ingress controller for Kubernetes can simplify certificate management for everyone. From the home lab to scaled-out, mission-critical…
11 Sep 2025 — shared on Lobsters, Reddit, Twitter, and Bluesky Semlib is a Python library for building data processing and data analysis pipelines that leverage the power of large language models (LLMs). No, this is not pseudocode. Yes, it runs. Semlib provides, as building blocks, familiar…
Virtualization Learn how to run Archil inside of a Firecracker microVM Firecracker is a lightweight virtualization technology from Amazon that allows you to run Linux-based applications in a secure and isolated environment. Archil can be run inside of a Firecracker microVM, giving these user-created…
10 years(-ish) of Elixir José Valim January 11th, 2021 Edit Sep/2021: The list of companies using Elixir in production has been updated to add recent successes and new cases. This past weekend, on January 9th, we celebrated 10 years since the first commit to the Elixir repository. While I personally…
Introduction This is an attempt to wrap my head around using the Phoenix web framework for a small project. However, it got too long so I broke it into two parts. This is part 1 and just talks about the Elixir language, part 2 is PhoenixForCynicalCurmudgeons but that is still WIP. However, I…
Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors when revolutionary technologies enable waves of innovative, investable companies. Think of the railroad, the Bessemer process, electric power, the internal combustion engine, or the microprocessor—each of which, like a stray spark in a fireworks…
FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE CONTACT RSS DONATE May 1, 2025 Building my childhood dream PC In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers[1]. That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking…
Learning Elixir’s official documentation includes a Getting Started guide to learn more about Elixir’s foundations. Later on, it explores how to build projects with Mix and OTP. Elixir also includes extensive API documentation. The Elixir Community has also produced plenty of resources to learn the…
Source: Worry about stagflation, a flashback to 1970s, begins to grow (The Herald Star) It looks like we're entering a new age of stagflation—that toxic combination of stagnant economic growth, high unemployment, and persistent inflation that shattered economic theory in the 1970s. But the current…
I ran into an investor friend who was summering in California. He ordered a glass of Santa Barbara pinot and told me: “I didn’t drink for a year. Then on New Year’s I woke up and realized how boring my life had become. So I had a few drinks that day, and suddenly life had color again.” When I asked…
The systems that enable modern life share a common origin. The water supply, the internet, the international supply chains bringing us cheap goods: each began life as a simple, working system. The first electric grid was no more than a handful of electric lamps hooked up to a water wheel in…
In my old age I’ve mostly given up trying to convince anyone of anything. Most people do not care to find the truth, they care about what pumps their bags. Some people go as far as to believe that perception is reality and that truth is a construction. I hope there’s a special place in hell for…
In my last post I talked about how I spent a week heads down using AI to work on a greenfield engineering metrics tool. As I built it, I’d often navigate the web app and spot things that needed to be fleshed out. Sometimes it was a small typo; other times it was a bigger feature that was still TODO.…
Credits James O’Sullivan lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. At first glance, the feed looks familiar, a seamless carousel of “For You” updates gliding beneath your thumb. But déjà‑vu…
This is the first part of my series; the other parts are Java 25’s new CPU-Time Profiler: The Implementation (2) Java 25’s new CPU-Time Profiler: Queue Sizing (3) Java 25’s new CPU-Time Profiler: Removing Redundant Synchronization (4) Back to the blog post: More than three years in the making, with…
Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash If you're like me, you probably also have many scripts lying around which look like this: Collecting massive amounts of data from various sources across your company's ecosystem. Sources such as Jira, GitHub, Google Drive, and Confluence. This allows you to have…
The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the…
Imagine trying to build wealth in the United States in 1950. If you were a man, you got a job, bought a house, and went from there. This was an era where you could walk into a company’s offices, ask the CEO for a position, and actually get it. This is how Warren Buffett met Lorimer Davidson, a GEICO…
If I gave you $100, would that change your life? What about $100,000? How about $100 million? Your answer will depend on many things including age, family situation, and your current net worth. More importantly though, how you change your behavior after receiving such money can tell you a lot about…
Imagine tomorrow that 100 random people woke up with an additional $10 million in their bank account. What would happen next? Do you think the majority would blow the money within a few years? Or would they have enough self-control to make it last? Despite what you may have heard, the research…
Optimization culture has gone too far. What started as a movement to save time or improve health has morphed into a never-ending quest to maximize everything. We track our sleep. We count our steps. We chase credit card rewards. We obsess over our allocations. And much more. While improving yourself…
Financial independence. It’s the ultimate goal in personal finance. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Though financial independence is clearly better than financial dependence, many people race toward it without thinking through the possible consequences. As a result, they can end up creating a…
Table of Contents Remove ads Python is making history, and headlines. The much-anticipated Python: The Documentary premiered last month, capturing 34 years of programming history. But Python isn’t just looking back, it’s also moving forward at breakneck speed. The recent developer surveys revealed…
Last month, the Trump administration and Nvidia worked out what some have called an unusual and surprising deal for the latter to export its defeatured AI chips. That is, President Trump reversed a decision made by his own administration to decategorize Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s chips as a national…
Follow @popovicu94 I recently implemented a minimal proof of concept time-sharing operating system kernel on RISC-V. In this post, I’ll share the details of how this prototype works. The target audience is anyone looking to understand low-level system software, drivers, system calls, etc., and I…
Say you’re a senior member of your team at work. You’re 12 minutes late to the weekly staff Zoom. Once you’ve “joined audio,” the first thing you hear is your old friend’s voice. “There you are! So glad you could fit us in.” You laugh and explain the disastrous traffic, difficult drop-off at your…
Trains still hold a powerful grip on the American imagination. Last week, that fascination was split into two starkly different realities. In Charlotte a homeless guy murdered a 23 year old Ukrainian refugee on a train which the President even commented on. Meanwhile, Amtrak unveiled its NextGen…
When buying and selling homes, there is no national record of who owns a property, who has a title to it. The Planet Money team has the story of a new kind of villain trying to exploit that system. Sponsor Message STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Homebuyers have to ask, does the person selling the house…
Arundhati Roy’s latest book, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is the first memoir she has written — the book is, therefore, deeply personal to her and gives the reader an intimate account of who Roy is as a person. (There was a small controversy recently on Twitter/X on that word “intimate” in relation to…
Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a…
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