March 2026

Your USB cables may lie to your PC. Let me show you how to catch those.

I’m writing this from the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver where ATmosphereConf 2026 is taking place. It’s a gathering of developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about keeping the web and our online conversations free and open. The mood here is excited and very collaborative, and I’ve been meeting many of the people who…

On software engineering in the age of commodified code

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

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An explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]

Bloom is a refined file manager for Mac, offering enhanced search experience and many powerful tools.

Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…

Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.

In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.