Tao Bojlén

I grew up on the Internet.

GitHub is having a tough time.

I just-one-more-prompt'ed myself into a new project over the weekend.

I love coding with AI.

Hello, dear RSS subscriber, I've added a new RSS feed for short notes, passing thoughts, and interesting links worth sharing.

I'm a heavy AI user these days -- most of my commits are co-authored with Claude.

It's a strange time to be a software engineer.

I love RSS feeds, but more and more often I come across blogs that don't offer one.

It's been four months since I left my job at a startup.

Our industry is in a weird place right now.

A few weeks ago outrage gathered around an "AI actress" called Tilly Norwood, an avatar being pitched to talent agencies as the future of acting.

Chesterton's fence is a useful principle in software engineering (and in life): do not remove a fence until you know why it was put there in the first place.

Over the years I've tried all sorts of to-do apps, productivity systems, and task management tools.

The relational databases that many software engineers are most familiar with, e.g.

Bloom filters are a data structure that can quickly answer whether an element is a member of a set.

In Django models, it's easy to customize the queryset that's returned by a model manager.

I've been thinking a lot about engineering values and principles lately, and one that keeps popping up is "use the right tool for the job".

Today, GitHub published a write-up on a number of CVEs[^1] in the npm packages tar and @npmcli/arborist.

In 1984 the co-inventor of Unix, Ken Thompson, delivered a seminal speech in which he highlighted that you can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself [^1].

Routing attacks on Tor occur when an adversary attempts to influence the route a Tor circuit takes in order to improve their chances of intercepting traffic.

Telegram defaults to unencrypted chats, so your messages are stored in plaintext on their servers.

ProtonMail is one of the most popular security-focused email providers.

Several security-focused messaging apps give users the ability to choose between two modes: unencrypted chats, or end-to-end encrypted ones that might lack certain features.

Jump the to the tl;dr.

I'm not one of those people who constantly has their head buried in a book -- one of those at heightened risk of falling down a manhole because they are reading while walking instead of looking in front of them.

My project fediverse.space is an interactive map of the fediverse.

In the age of social media, identity is becoming increasingly fluid and fragmented: with greater access to information comes more exposure to new perspectives and personalities, and for every side of our selves, there is a channel to express it and an aud…