Sam Saffron's blog

Over the past few months, I have been struggling with the Hyprland screen‑share dialog (hyprland-share-picker via xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland). traditional xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland only title is visible816×483 23.7 KB Under the hood, Chromium / OBS talk

As both developers and stewards of significant open source projects, we’re watching AI coding tools create a new problem for open source maintainers.

Disclaimers and technical details If you are looking for comprehensive benchmarks, head over the Anthropic announcement blog post, or to the fantastic LMSYS leaderboard.

In 2015 I wrote about some of the tooling Ruby provides for diagnosing managed memory leaks.

The boy who cried wolf695×564 286 KB A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. : Aesop Once you have a project that is a few years old with a large test suite an ugly pattern emerges.

I have been a long time i3 window manager user.

I made this tweet that got reasonably popular: We benchmarked how long it takes to run the Ruby test suite for Discourse across our various dev machines.

I have always been somewhat fascinated with logs.

Recently, we have been experiencing “stalls” in the Puma web server in development, this means that quite often during our dev cycle we would hit CTRL-C and be stuck waiting many many seconds for Puma to stop.

I have blogged a bit about the Ruby GC previously and covered some basics about malloc triggering GC runs.