Widgita

I think out loud.

I stumbled on a term the other day - “dissonance fatigue” - and the more I read about it, the more it clicked into place for a feeling I’ve had on and off for years without ever having a name for it.

I wanted a “how noisy is this neighbourhood, roughly?”

I’ve been a Google Photos user for the better part of a decade, and for most of that time I made peace with the trade-off: Google gets to look at every photo I take, in exchange for all of my photos automatically backed up, searchable, and accessible from…

Cron is one of those things I’ve been using for twenty-odd years and still occasionally stare at for thirty seconds before committing.

Welcome to Widgita.

The question I get asked most often when someone wants to ship an LLM-powered feature is, basically, “okay but what’s this going to cost?”

Half my life as an engineer is moving things between configuration formats.

I used file watching loops for almost my entire career (professionally and personally).

Every now and then I need to peek inside a JWT - debugging an auth flow, sanity-checking what scopes a CI service account actually has, or figuring out why a token is being rejected at 23:00 the night before a release.

If you’ve ever tuned a CUDA kernel, you know the dance: pick a block size, count registers per thread (or let nvcc tell you with --ptxas-options=-v), figure out how much shared memory you’re using, and then work out how many of those blocks can actually l…