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Four Scheme tools for building small static websites
Scheme is not where most people start when they need a website. That is exactly why these four static site generators are interesting. They treat publishing as a programming problem, not as…
TiDB gave me a distributed MySQL on my laptop in fifteen minutes
I have been the person explaining to a junior engineer why their beautifully normalised MySQL schema will not survive Black Friday, and I have been the junior engineer who built that schema…
Mozilla is rebuilding its fellowship program in public
Mozilla (the nonprofit behind Firefox) is rethinking the program that has trained a decade of public-interest technologists, and the rewrite is happening in the open. The fellowship itself, with its 200-plus alumni…
Context, not the model, is breaking your Python agents
Half of the agent failures I see in Python projects come from bad context, not a bad model. The other half come from the same thing in a different costume. Context engineering…
Run SuperGrok inside Hermes without an xAPI key
I have been paying for SuperGrok for eight months. I also use Hermes Agent (an open-source AI agent runtime that you can self-host or run on your laptop) for most of my…
Eleven Linux distros new users should actually try in 2026
I have installed Linux on at least thirty different machines over the last fifteen years. Old office desktops, retired family laptops, hand-me-down servers, a couple of cloud VMs, and one stubborn ThinkPad…
Past your first Python projects? Here’s what to learn next
I have been writing about Python for a while, and I get a version of this question every week. Someone is six months into learning Python, has built a few small projects,…
Pairing the Apple Pencil Pro on iPad Air: the steps Apple skips
I bought an Apple Pencil Pro for my iPad Air M2 last month and spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why it would not pair. The setup…
Cloud document management: structure on top of your storage
Cloud document management is a system that adds structure and control to your cloud storage. The storage part is easy: any of the big three (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive) or a privacy-leaning…