GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack
Yet another week; yet another supply chain attack...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare's explanation of what was behind the great outage of 2025.
Everything I know about good API design
Interesting article to consider when thinking about what is and isn't a good API design.
Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon
In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.
Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.
Why Next.js Falls Short on Software Engineering
I'm still not sure about, or won over by, Next.js. Here's another post that covers some things that I think touch on what makes me uneasy about it as a development tool choice.
On DHH’s “As I Remember London”
DHH being a terrible person isn't new, but his "input" about London was a whole new level of terible. This is an interesting take on his post.
React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It
React has never felt quite right to me, but I've never been able to put my finger on why. This article does a good job of gettinng a similar feel to what I feel.
Lisp Logical Pathnames
A short and useful introduction to logical pathnames in Common Lisp.
What Does "use client" Do? — overreacted
Interesting description of what "use client" and "use server" do in React.
Understanding the Value of TypeScript Enums
Useful article for understanding how TypeScript folk see enums in their language.
What's New in Emacs 30.1?
Good overview of all that's new and worth noting in Emacs 30.1
All clocks are 30 seconds late
Kinda silly, kinda fun, kinda has a point too.
Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus
Fish has been ported to Rust; this is the blog post going over the history and the decisions.
My Emacs eye candy
Neat blog post about how someone configures their Emacs, which some fun and interesting things within.
What's New in Emacs: Last Decade Edition
Some folk use Emacs out of the box, and never realise just how much more it can do if you sprinkle some of the newer stuff over your configuration. This article does a good job of explaining some of those additions.
Dispelling Information Asymmetry
Tim Peters' take on his suspension from CPython development.
slash pages
Fun little guide to all sorts of "common" pages you could add to a website. I imagine most people would never discover them, but I like it as an idea.
giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A pretty wholesome story of some "hacking"; hacking in the correct and best sense of the word.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
» Oh Look, Misplaced Transphobia From a Man in Tech
Blog post talking about the bad take of the author of Pinboard. Pretty much the thing that pushed me over the edge on migrating off Pinboard.
Twitter: An update on our security incident
First real update by Twitter on the great bitcoin ownage of 2020 incident.
Indexing outgoing blog links
Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.
Neil Gaiman's reply/explanation to a question about Wanda, in The Sandman
Contains an answer to this question:
Neil, you've written a trans woman character in Sandman but the way the story develops makes it seem like you think trans women arent actual women. And well, considering what you said about your friend, im sure thats not the case. So... could you clarify things? (i hope this doesnt sound accusatory, thats not how i mean it)
Carlos D. - Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer - The Good
One person's experience of working as a developer using Common Lisp.
Musings on Python Type Hints
As a huge fan of type hinting in Python, I feel this is a good article introducing the sorts of things you should think about, and the benefits you should derive from using type hints.
transponderings.blog
Helpful review of a number of Mastodon clients for iOS, available late 2022.
A year of building for the terminal on Hacker News
Textualize devlog blog post on Hacker News; of course with the usual collection of very Hacker News replies along the way.
These Years in Common Lisp: 2022 in review - Lisp journey
A revew of Common Lisp's 2022.
Basic introduction to Pydantic
Nice little introduction to what Pydantic offers.