Technical inconsistencies blog

At home, I run a number of docker containers on my Beelink S121.

As a follow-up to a previous post about writing, I’ve been meaning to write the takeaways from Larry McEnerney’s lecture on writing.

Marcin Wichary blogged an extensive follow-up to my post from yesterday and I found it a fascinating read with a path forward for Redmond to fix their design.

Having commissioned fonts like Arial, it’s no surprise Microsoft doesn’t really care that much about fonts.

Lovely image, found on the GitHub Copilot subreddit,1 showing what is keep on happening with LLM-based coding assistant in the next months: they’ll keep on getting more expensive (as explained by GitHub on their blog).

I just found Kapal, a great app to get access to the essentials features of frigate.

Paul Graham wrote on Twitter how realizing an email is written by AI makes him stop reading the mail (which is the biggest failure.

A good piece on why AI pricing is changing Everyone who deals with road planning knows about is induced demand.

I always wanted a remote for PowerPoint that would allow me to use the phone as the laser pointer.

I keep Fantastical and Things on my second macOS space, and everything else on the first.

In a previous post, I described how uv can now protect you from supply-chain attacks with the exclude-newer feature.

I bought an Elgato Key Light during Covid, and lately I was operating it with Lolgato app.

I’m pretty stoked that this very blog was added to Kagi’s Small Web initiative.

The other day, I stumbled upon the GNOME-only app Hieroglyphic, that finds LaTeX and typst symbols when you draw them on a canvas.

Since having a notch on my MacBook, I cannot fit all the icons in my menu bar.

LiteLLM was recently victim of a supply-chain exploit, where an attacker was able to run arbitrary code on infected machines.

Minifeed is a nifty website by Rakhim Davletkaliyev, who added this blog there today.

Killer quote by John Siracusa on the (possible) existential dread programmers are experiencing because of tools as Claude Code: The skills that I’m most proud of are not the skills that involve me typing particular API calls.

Recently, Michael Lopp wrote I Hate Fish in which he outlined his approach to getting work done.

Slack’s /feed command is really useful; it allows you to subscribe to an XML feed and receive updates in any channel.

I stumbled upon this beautiful utility to create minimalist posters of the (water)ways of a city.

Today, I asked a simple question to Microsoft Copilot in Excel: In Sheet1, add a table that looks into the other sheets and then, per week number, sum the total hours marked Internal for Alice, Bob, and Charlie.

It’s been millennia since humankind realized that, if you follow the advice of medicine, you can live a better and longer life (that, and avoiding carbs, apparently).

I just stumbled upon Mole, a utility to clean and optimize Macs.

I recently started using Marked 2 again with some of my markdown files.

This post is so great, I want to frame it If you’re an engineer opposed to AI coding—or if you haven’t started yet—read it.

The folks at Astral have released ty, which they define as: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

Since posting about how I use llm to check my grammar, Dr.

Just before Christmas, I got an email from Bitbucket saying that inactive workspaces will be deleted.

We’re moving from Slack to here.

When starting this blog, I didn’t think about adding tags.

UPDATE: There’s a more refined version of this in a new post.

The promise of AI for engineers is getting rid of engineers.

However, whenever a customer went beyond the rigid scripts, the chat had to be routed to a person, only to reset the password to “Welcome97” (the previous one, in fact, was “Welcome96”, so it couldn’t be reused.

I just stumbled upon this (free) app, called Concurrent, that lets you benchmark different LLMs across speed, cost, and quality.

What a marvelously succinct article about typography with a punchy take-home message!

Use agents, they said.

David Smith, colloquially known as _, has compared iOS 18 with iOS 26 adoption.

I just written what has been, to date, my most popular LinkedIn post.

I get plenty of annoying spam emails from so-called legitimate business.

I recently bought the Preonic keyboard, as my two Model 01 were not really portable.

Sad news if the trends continue until the official release of macOS Tahoe: FireWire will not be supported by newer versions of macOS.

Yesterday, I attended the AWS GenAI for Healthcare Summit in Lisbon, hosted by the Champalimaud Foundation Here’s my impressions for the day.

Last year, I blogged about the Binepad BNK8, a macropad by Binepad.

One of the gripes I have with Helix is not having automatic list continuation when writing Markdown.

Reading Simon Willison‘s excellent blog on “Things we learned about LLMs in 2024”, made me realize why we’re not seeing much economic benefit1 from #llms yet.

Recently, the major browsers introduced the capability to go to a webpage highlighting and scrolling to a particular piece of text.

A thoughtful, as often, article by the Economist on how the usual defenders of free speech (the liberals) are not defending it, leaving the task to the (far) right.

Beautiful macropad by Binepad.

UPDATE: If you own a domain name (or can control its DNS 😬), I’ve written a new post to use Let’s Encrypt to issue certificates your devices will trust.