Fun fact: iPhone duo aspect ratio is deliberately very close to 1/sqrt(2) (specifically, 1:1.422 inside and 1:1.455 outside) which follows the same principles as A series paper. You fold in half, aspect ratio doesn't change. Cute.

When you try to open AliExpress with a VPN, they make you solve a captcha. Look carefully at the URL:

For people who do not want to purchase any commercial AI subscription (ChatGPT, Claude etc.) I highly recommend duck.ai - this is a service from DuckDuckGo which gives access to free lighter-weight models in a familiar chat interface.

Automated systems... safety protocols... right

OpenCode is awful. No other way of putting it. It's barely functional, most of its system-level calls are fraught with trivial errors often stemming from now handling between linux/macos differences. Don't get me started on windows/wsl - it's completely broken.

Air quality has significantly degraded, by the way. There are weird grey-purple clouds in the sky. A good time to leave the city, at least for a while.

If you use GitHub be sure to update this setting

I still use incandescent bulbs in 2026. In places where light quality matters, they’re still hard to beat: continuous spectrum, excellent color rendering, and true dim-to-warm behavior.

Consider using a filter that filters out everything containing an em dash.

At what point do you stop explaining to people what you do and just say "it's complicated"?

Well, OpenAI made a deal with the devil. Goodbye.

ChatGPT integration to Google Calendar is read-only, any alternatives? (please don't suggest using Gemini)

Unsplash turned from free photos to some weird free/commercial hybrid. Why?!?

The code in this screenshot was written by an LLM. Would you write code like this?

When working with agents, a really good idea to put into preamble is "do not propagate async/await in my code". Because otherwise agents see any async/await APIs and they just assume your entire codebase has to use it too.

Today something unsettling happened, I was less than vigilant and ended up getting 230VAC through my finger. This is the first time it has EVER happened, and it's not great. A totally preventable mistake.

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If you post something on YouTube, please disable automatic dubbing in settings.

After returning to incandescent lighting, I am also returning to wired headphones. No more of that wireless bluetooth-enabled rubbish!