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A while back I listened to [a Pragmatic Engineer podcast with Peter Steinberger](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-of-clawd-i-ship-code) about his AI-native development workflow – the one where he runs 5-10 coding agents in parallel a…

## Why do we need sandboxed agents Simon Willison describes [the lethal trifecta](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/) as the combination of: 1.

## Video After I posted a [thread on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1oka6k1/the_single_most_useful_line_for_getting_what_you/) about a simple but effective method of prompting Claude Code to ask clarifying questions, Abhishek Ray (YC…

After reading Jacky's article [An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI](https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/left-ai/) via [Tante's post](https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115448308729711122), I was a bit sad that the lefty parts of…

## "Just use Alpine" The container base image you choose can make or break your deployment experience.

This year we visited Lisbon, partially inspired by the pictures from Wim Wenders's Lisbon Story.

## Motivation This is a follow-up post to [Installing and configuring TrueNAS Scale for home use](.

This article is the second in the series **Building applications using embeddings vector search and Large Language Models**.

This article is the first in the series **Building applications using embeddings vector search and Large Language Models**.

## Motivation This is a follow-up post to [Build a cheap but fast home NAS system](.

## Intro I had the delight to have a few hours on a Sunday afternoon just to myself, so I could freely indulge in going down a rabbit hole of reading, getting inspired and experimenting.

## Motivation A couple of weeks ago I found out that Synology [does not offer the latest (7.2+) DSM update for my Diskstation 213j](https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download/DS213j).

## Update After having used this method on and off for more than a year, I can't fully recommend it any more because of two issues: 1.

If the embedded video above doesn't load, open it here: https://vimeo.com/227249251/3644bdf7c6 Video recorded by Skills Matter, originally appeared on: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/10234-give-app-servers-a-rest-cdns-and-apis-are-the-new-lamp ## Ta…

I was interviewed by Creative Lives in Progress magazine while working at ustwo to show people how it is to work in the creative industry. ____________________________ Growing up in Hungary, Daniel Demmel used to sneak into his dad's office to use his com…

While git and Github brought tremendous improvement to how people can manage changes and collaborate on their software and simple textual content, most people still work with various binary formats and could benefit greatly from a similar boost in the way…

## Update We've had the Babboe Curve-E for years now and it's done an amazing job at being a car replacement.

## The web should be open and it needs you I recently spotted a reference about the [Indie Web Camp][1] somewhere – most likely on Twitter – and reading a bit about it I was immediately sold on the idea and principles.

## Why you should stop installing development environments locally This is the talk I gave about containers / Docker at the [re:develop conference](https://redevelop.io) in 2015 in Bournemouth.

## Your life was designed 150 years ago Western middle-class living operates on a working pattern [invented in the 19th century][1], grudgingly accepted by progressive capitalists like Henry Ford in the beginning of 20th century and finally written into l…

I gave a talk about building and iterating an MVP at the brilliant Workplace Hackshop organised by HackHumanity.

## Update 2 (2015/10/23) I realised I should really put an update on this post, at this point you should really not use Deferred and instead of jQuery (or any other 3rd party library) just start relying on the [native ES6 / ES2015 Promise](https://develop…

I'm working on an HTML5 desktop application which needs to load some HTML text from a server, but not through an existing API.

## Update I started a small blog / public notebook of all things sustainable / resilient at [transientresilient.tumblr.com](https://transientresilient.tumblr.com/) ________________ As part of the [Sustainability course on Coursera](https://www.coursera.or…

If you want to be able to edit files using your local Sublime Text 2 / 3 app over SSH, you can use `rmate` which is a small remote connection script developed originally for TextMate.