Audiobooks are a problem of too much choice. Audible’s catalogue runs into the tens of thousands of titles across self-help, business, fiction, fantasy, technology, history, and several more genres I have never…
Most terminal email clients assume you want a mail reader. a2-stuff’s Indicium Mail TUI assumes you want a mail reader that can also hand your inbox to an AI agent and step…
A language model can look dependable in a demo and still fail the first question a real user asks. The problem is not a shortage of dashboards. It is that teams often…
I tried to set up a Kubernetes (an open-source container orchestration system) CronJob to run every 45 minutes, and the obvious cron expression did not do what I wanted. The expression 0/45…
The argument that “Rails is done” is one I have been hearing quietly from senior Rails developers for the better part of two years. The framework has reached a state where the…
If you have two payment processors and a wish list, the easy part is wiring them up. The hard part is the second processor, the third currency, the retry rules, the dashboard…
Most of the public web is hostile to the idea of paying attention on purpose. The big video site in particular has spent a decade making the act of “watch one video…
Every Steam owner’s library looks the same after a few years. Hundreds of titles, a handful of completed ones, and a long list of “I will play it later” purchases that keep…
If you have ever wished your vacation photos looked like they came back from the dead, there is now a tiny web app for that, and it does not phone home to…
YouTube’s recommendation engine has one job: keep you watching past the video you actually came for. The home feed is a slot machine wearing a TV guide costume. Most people have cracked…
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