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More than a decade ago, when I was applying to graduate school, I went through a period of deep uncertainty. I had tried the previous year and hadn’t gotten in anywhere. I wanted to try again, but I had a lot going against me. I’d spent most of my undergrad building a student job-portal startup…

80% of the people only need 20% of the features.

Yesterday, I checked out the Goodnotes app because I’m planning to buy an iPad to give note-taking on it a try again. I opened it and I saw that it has updat...

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Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.

It was not an easy choice to focus our crowdfunding campaign on care and maintenance as the condition sine qua non to consider it successful.

IA, batteries, et béton brut.

Explore why Markdown, despite its ubiquity, might not be the best fit for technical content.

It’s so easy

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TL;DR: bcrypt ignores any bytes after the first 72 bytes, this is due to bcrypt being based on the Blowfish cipher which has this limitation. bcrypt has been a commonly used password hashing algorithm for decades, it’s slow by design, includes built-in salting, and has protected countless systems from brute-force attacks. But despite its solid reputation, it also has a few hidden limitations worth knowing about. Let’s take a look at this code:

Five months ago, my lifelong profession of software development changed completely.

The more I speak about being poor, the more I realize how fundamentally other folks misunderstand what it means to be poor versus being broke.

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.

A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance. Learn what state belongs in URLs, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical patterns for modern web apps.

Killing the joy of homelabbing with my own expectation

Ever searched for a fix to a technical problem, only to get a 1,000 word essay on what the thing is? Yeah, me too.

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