Prepping for the endgame of the open web - The History of the Web
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare.
InfraKitchen - InfraKitchen
I Got Terraform Enterprise to Work Offline with a Local LLM and the Terraform MCP Server!
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI is rapidly transforming the landscape of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows, offering unprecedented efficiency and power. I wanted to see if I could get the Terraform MCP server working with my local Terraform Enterprise (TFE) instance.
The Terraform scaling problem: When infrastructure-as-code becomes infrastructure-as-complexity
Terraform scales beautifully — until it doesn't. Explore the real challenges engineering teams face with Terraform at scale and the AI-assisted solutions reshaping IaC management.
Mike Hall | State of the Browser
Mike Hall is a web developer and Doctor Who fan, but not in that order. He has been building for the web since 1998, and in that time has been a frontend lead, a backend lead, a CTO, a devops engineer, a full-stack developer, a PHP guy, a JavaScript guy, a TypeScript guy, a CSS guy, and a pain in the neck. He is currently Lead Engineer at a Manchester-based startup named Zaptic, creating software for frontline workers in the manufacturing sector.
In his spare time, he is active in the fields of science communication and scientific skepticism, advocating for evidence-based thinking and reason. He produces and presents a weekly podcast called Skeptics with a K, is on the board of directors for The Skeptic magazine, and is co-founder of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. In his other spare time he likes to rest, but there isn’t much of that to go around.
Cyberdecks, Going Analog, Permacomputing, Medieval Guilds, and the Arts and Crafts Movement
People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement are all connected to our current moment.
Random File Format
This was an idea I had back in the days of Naptster. At the turn of the century, it was common to listen to an "acquired" music file only to find it was missing a few seconds at the end due to a prematurely stopped download. Some video formats would refuse to play at all if the moov atom at the end of the file was missing. I wondered if it would be possible to make a file format which was…
John Battelle's Search Blog Rebel, King, and Tyrant: Apple at 50
Apple turns 50 years old tomorrow. I’ve been using its products for 48 of those years. 48 years. Over those five decades, my relationship with Apple has shifted as dramatically as its market …
John Battelle's Search Blog Product, Platform, Interface, Medium, Language: What Is AI?
What is AI? I’ve been struggling with this rather basic question for several years now, so today I figured I’d write out loud about it, and see if anything coherent surfaces. First, let…
Burning Wood To Brew Wood To Preserve Wood : Pine Tar
Before there was pressure-treated wood, before modern paints, there was pine tar. Everything from tool handles to wagons to ships were made of wood preserved with pine tar, once upon a time, and [w…
Making The Case Against Markdown
For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some flair, but also for writing entire websites and documents. In a recent rant, [Burak…
With Affordable Storage Options Dwindling, Where To Store Our Data?
These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher, and project files easily zipping past a few hundred MB. At the same time our op…
"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
A conversation with Harper Reed
When AI Breaks the Systems Meant to Hear Us
On February 10, 2026, Scott Shambaugh—a volunteer maintainer for Matplotlib, one of the world's most popular open source software libraries—rejected a proposed
Multi-agent AI is the new microservices
Multi-agent systems, like microservices, can be powerful. But most enterprises risk adding distributed complexity long before they have a problem worth distributing.
How to integrate VS Code with Ollama for local AI assistance
Run a private, local AI coding assistant inside VS Code without sending a single query to the cloud.
FRACTRAN - Wikipedia
Turing-complete esoteric programming language invented by John Conway
Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code
Explain the architecture of Mozilla Firefox Browser - GeeksforGeeks
Your All-in-One Learning Portal: GeeksforGeeks is a comprehensive educational platform that empowers learners across domains-spanning computer science and programming, school education, upskilling, commerce, software tools, competitive exams, and more.
Reading leaked Claude Code source code | La Vita Nouva
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Our era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling
ENIAC’s Architects Wove Stories Through Computing
Grandchild of an inventor and a programmer reflects on their legacy
Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? | BGs Labs
Burak Güngörs lab where he does some stuff
Software Licenses and Workers' Rights
The open source ladder is leaning on the wrong wall.
When the Category Leader Stalls: Postman and the Future of API Tooling
How Postman went from redefining API tooling to stalling at its own ceiling and what the next generation of tools is doing differently.
Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark
a personal blog
What Tracy Kidder Stood For
His deep, immersive writing had moral stakes and changed people’s lives.
The Toolkit Pattern
Why your project's best documentation is a file only AI will read
Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
Voyd Programming Language
Voyd is a high performance WebAssembly language for full stack web development.