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If the question about gel-filled and waterproof-tape, direct-burial Ethernet cable has been keeping you up at night, or if there is a bet involving money about which is “better”, you have come to the right place! Read on, make money, and get your rest.

If you are confused about which outdoor Ethernet cable is the best choice for the job at hand, then you are not alone. Outdoor cable selection can be daunting for even the most experienced installer, let alone a DIYer tackling a home project.

It's not that hard to build a coding agent. 300 lines of code running in a loop with LLM tokens. You just keep throwing tokens at the loop, and then you've got yourself an agent.

Claude Code is the most delightful AI agent/workflow I have used so far. Not only does it make targeted edits or vibe coding throwaway tools less annoying, ...

Rakuten Kobo Integration is Live!We’re excited to share that Instapaper is now live on all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. Now you can log into Instapaper on your Kobo, download your list of articles, and read...

One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old

New GOMAXPROCS defaults in Go 1.25 improve behavior in containers.

Alex Russell pointed me to this principle in the Chromium security documentation as similar to my description of the lethal trifecta. First added in 2019, the Chromium guideline states: When …

Utility holding company middlemen have convinced timid regulators to give them guaranteed excessive returns. But why? If we cut out the middleman, we'd make money and cut our electricity bills.

PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks, a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domain and uses it to take over PyPI accounts through password resets.

Offloader speeds up iCloud Drive offloading to save space on your Mac. Set custom wait times, stay in control, and keep your Mac clean—automatically.

Parachute automatically backs up your iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive to your own storage.

Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist. There’s endless discourse around tech debt. Kellan has some really good categorizations of different types, Will Larson has a great explainer of organization debt in his book, and I also like the idea of product debt. Throughout my career, I’ve been an engineer complaining about tech debt, a manager prioritizing (and deprioritizing) addressing tech debt, and a product manager, where I assume I primarily inspire the creation of new tech debt.

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Whether you love it or hate it, there is no shortage of opinion on Liquid Glass. I have thoughts about what it is, but today I want to focus on why it exists. Apple’s public rationale for the new design language is that it offers a universal solution across platforms that takes advantage of recent […]

Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures can be greatly simplified using request metadata provided by modern browsers.

Releases after releases PostgreSQL is better and better on table partitioning, if you do run a version12 or 13 today you must have a look…