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I recently attended a presentation by people from Anthropic at work about their large language models. One undercurrent in the presentation was that thinking is...

Privacy is when they promise to protect your data. Anonymity is when they never had your data to begin with.

Salut à toi, lectrice, lecteur ! Je m’appelle Marine, et j’ai un problème : j’ai bien du mal à répartir mon temps entre toutes les activités qui m’intéressent....

A measured-yet-opinionated plea to try HTMX. Skip the React complexity, skip the raw HTML limitations. There's a third option.

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...

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...

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options.

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

I've been treading water the last months, spending (link: page://bas25qtbfyoepfvq text: too) (link: page://o9fm0f2abnibkhkc text: much) (link:...

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...

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...

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...

Killing the joy of homelabbing with my own expectation