Wilhelm Codes · Bits

Page loads had been creeping up again, so I went looking.

With all the frenetic redesigning of Plant🌱Smart these past few weeks, I couldn’t believe I completely forgot about the image gallery on the details page.

This is still very early days, but Sifa is a professional network built on the AT Protocol.

Welp, I finally did it!

A measured and reasoned critique of the shit-show that is Omarchy.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”

Goodbye Tailwind.

It’s an oldie, but I always go back to it.

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.

Spent an evening on the tags.

Read this for the third time and it still lands.

Opened the bill expecting a fright and found a NAT gateway I have not needed since March.

I keep promising myself I will write more on the weekends.

“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”

Sat down to fix one broken keybind.

“The most damaging phrase in the language is: ‘It’s always been done that way.’”

An interesting read a mate of mine shared about how relatively simple it is to exfiltrate your sandboxed Claude memories when pairing it with an agent that can access the web.

Strangely sudden news today.

Having a play with a more dynamic menu drawer.

Decided to introduce a new projects page to showcase some of the bigger things I’m working on.

I am very smart.

Welp.

I should update Plant🌱Smart.

Some small incremental updates for the site today: The addition of a new bit type for site updates like this one.

Man, some of these router CVEs are laughably bad.

An interesting study on the concept of “cognitive surrender” or, how we simply offload thinking to an LLM and implicitly trust whatever it spits out the other end.

Tempted to drop the custom fonts altogether.

I am not a smart man.

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it.

“Talk is cheap.

I’m keeping these stupid test quotes around.

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

“The best error message is the one that never shows up.”

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”