Nick Allevato

CI/CD has been solved.

There’s a naming collision at the center of the AI conversation right now.

Pascal built the Pascaline in 1642 — one of the first mechanical calculators.

Richard Dawkins is one of the clearest scientific communicators alive.

Most of what we’re calling “AI” at the product layer is just traditional computing in a trenchcoat.

I set up OpenClaw in forty minutes.

Slashface, V3R.

Riley Brown said something that caught my attention: “AI Agent Workflows in 2026 will look like Online Poker in 2010.

Had 45 hours of synthwave I’d ripped from YouTube over the years.

A shell suite that makes moving between sixty-nine projects cost one keystroke — and makes coming back after a reboot cost nothing at all.

The Conversation 3 AM.

License Radar’s visual identity wasn’t designed.

Paintball has them.

Apparently Blow said: the problem with video game cutscenes is game devs don't study the theory around cinematography, or lighting, or blocking, or what even makes a good acting performance, they just autistically copy things without understanding what ma…

This is absolutely incredible.

reference previous post ‘hyper multitasking’ and coin similar macro strategy of the musk grindset. read twitter posts on this day: “rewrote code backend; thank you elon; i’ve never felt this alive.” hyper-multitasking and hyper-focus. multitask between sp…

i hereby coin this term if it has not been already.

I think we have near peak contraction (in computing terms).

Experiments with Stable Diffusion image generation.

It isn’t just technology that is contracting.

This was said by someone random: Tiling wms are a textbook example of a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Update: In short, this post was meant to capture the idea that tons of opportunity exists…those who choose to use computers ’the best’ are the ones who will benefit.

On the first day, He created Developers.

That’s the difference now.

It’s blockchain.

If it matters, get it out of email.

Being away from a project costs more the longer you are away from it.

There isn’t any way to describe it to someone who hasn’t lived it.

When the ‘pawn’ reaches the other side, the pawn becomes whatever it wants.

The most important piece of gear for remote work is a headset.

Very interesting the more you look into it. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/05/bin_laden_maint.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html

Meta-content allows the audience to experience a new set of emotions.

Remote work increases the labor pool.

There is not much to say on the technical front.

Switching between multiple customers requires, by definition, context switching.

I’ve heard this, and worked through it, and felt the same way, and consider it part of ‘general purpose’ developer workflow now.

In remembrance.

Hashicorp’s “crawl-walk-run” framework for adopting Consul.

Eppy.

The Great Contraction.

The great contraction.

We can give them a couple of more years to solve the problems from 2014!

Also movable type.

Sometimes systems administrators need to perform some ‘alternative’ tasks that require some ’temporary’ workspaces.

Pulseaudio allows for one-click to stream audio over a network to another machine running PulseAudio.

Xfce is great full time, but full-time VLC in your audio control is not.

If the mainframe evolved into desktops, isn’t web hosted email a re-centralization of what already was not?

Simply put, AWS is adopted by a company, not the IT department.