Things to know if you get cancer (2026 Edition) · JJ Maxwell
Personal website and portfolio
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Submarine cable resilience | APNIC Blog
The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years.
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Tiny Little Office
A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.
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A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors made before any such things were common tools of the artist’s, scientist’s, and industrial designer’s trade.
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The engineer to OF girlie pipeline
I like that we’re now asking engineers to solve marketing too. After all that talk about product-market fit, the person building the product now needs an audience of their own. Getting it to work was only part of the job. You also need to make people care that you’re the one building it, preferably before you have anything to sell.
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A modern web app in c | Corey Prophitt
A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.
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European Alternatives
European alternatives to popular US and Asian products and services: software, apps, electronics, cars, fashion and more, from companies headquartered in Europe.
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The Lightbulb Computer — Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors
A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.
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/ htmx ~ Yes, and...
In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
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Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
Workplace self-defence against people stealing your time.
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#humor
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Opus 5.5 is the first model whose design doesn’t look like AI slop - Quesma Blog
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra one-shot Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Three.js: AI design, UX, data visualization and explorable explanations.
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Coltrane
Interactive toys built around John Coltrane's tone circle, inspired by Tom Schroeder's write-up.
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Coltrane's Tone Circle
Exploring the circle of fifths, its jazz applications, and Coltrane's geometric approach to harmony
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#music
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Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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I don't want the details
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
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Can gzip be a language model?
A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
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Alice GG • Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their...
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Bodily Oddities
A sourced field guide to strange, normal things human bodies do: reflexes, illusions, sounds, tricks and rare abilities. Every entry says how common it is.
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven modern runtimes agree on what even the simplest async programs should do! In this paper we map the design space of async/await so you can find out where your language stands.
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So you want to use OpenRouter? — Mo Moustafa
Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
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What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks @ tautology.town
tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.
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Methods for random gradients
An overview of techniques I’ve used to generate random gradient images.
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The Real Luxuries In Life
Labor Day weekend has always been the back to school marker for me. I'm 60, closing in on 61, and thinking a lot more about what I actually care about. Amy texted me a list yesterday.
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Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication?
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of puzzlement. Such was the case with the cover of a book I recently bought entitled Calculating with Tones: The Logarithmic Logic of Music:
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Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
Sonic Pi is a new kind of instrument for a new generation of musicians. It is simple to learn, powerful enough for live performances and free to download.
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“I just chose words carefully.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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507 Mechanical Movements
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, now Animated for the Internet.
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Nebula Sans
Nebula Sans is the brand typeface for Nebula, available under the SIL Open Font License.
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GlassBox: what your browser reveals to every site you visit
See every signal a website can read from your browser, and how identifiable it makes you. Runs entirely in your browser, nothing is sent.
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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
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What is a Harness? | EARENDIL
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.
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typ.ing
A clean and simple typing trainer that cares about how you feel. Type to find out.
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HTMLcat — Compact notes on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
A small, opinionated collection of compact notes about useful HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features.
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My HTML boilerplate in 2026 - Manuel Matuzović
Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.
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PostgreSQL for Everything
You need simplicity if you want to move fast. PostgreSQL can very well replace Kafka, Redis, Clickhouse and Elastic. And many successful companies are doing exactly that. Let's check out how.
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all ostensibly from the network provider Vodafone. All pro-regime and all with the…
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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How AI text watermarking works
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
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Understanding is the new bottleneck
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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Taste Is All That's Left | Blog
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
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The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp
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What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones
Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.
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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI - ACM Queue
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Beauty In My Backyard - Works in Progress Magazine
Ugly architecture stops homes getting built – but not in the way you think.
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You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library
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AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation: This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg
This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg - AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation
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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond
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How my images are dithered | dead.garden
Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.
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Jay su X: "I’m going to punch you in the stomach" / X
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I Built an LLM From Scratch
In this video CJ explains chat bots, neural networks, tokenization, embeddings, transformers and more. He shows real working code for everything and gives hi...
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Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for: how tokens, embeddings, and attention make cached LLM tokens 10x cheaper and faster.
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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
Many connoisseurs of architecture are enthralled by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and I M Pei, who shared a belief that form follows function, or, as Wright had it, that form and function are one.
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The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
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Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online
Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
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Laravel Zero-Downtime Migrations: Expand and Contract Pattern | RichDynamix
A step-by-step guide to Laravel zero-downtime migrations with the expand and contract pattern: nullable expands, batched backfills, and flagged reads.
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How To Write an Email
This is not about grammar. It is about speed, clarity, and judgment.
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TLS certificates for internal services done right
No self-signing headaches, no TLS erros.
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1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.
Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites
A guide to implementing JSON-LD on your personal website for better SEO, covering WebSite, Person, BlogPosting, and more with ready-to-use code snippets.
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tamnd/kage: Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out
Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out - tamnd/kage
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LATHE CUT RECORDS - LATHE CUTS
Lathe Cut Vinyl Records Diamond Embossed With Our Westrex Stereo Cuter Head No Minimum Fastest Turnaround Time 2 Days
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...
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How LLMs Actually Work
A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
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The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.
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I Read the Claude Code Source Code. Here's Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You.
Hook fields that rewrite commands mid-flight, persistent agent memory, auto-mode rules in plain English, self-improving dream loops, and every example is copy-paste ready.
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A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code
A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns the Anthropic team actually uses.
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The Cost of Safetyism
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
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Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
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Canada is about to weaken every lock on your private messages — dontsurveil.me
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a second key, and give the copy to the government. What's changed, what's happening now, what's next.
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Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives
Inspired by the visual language, cultural history, and format of matchboxes, three contemporary Indian projects are reimagining this object in strikingly different ways.
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
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Reading code with AI, not generating it
Most posts about AI coding are about generating code. This one's about pointing Claude at an existing codebase to read it. The tools, the prompts, and where AI got it right and wrong.
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
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Bootstrapping a Frameworkless PHP Application
A single bootstrap file. A PSR-11 container. No fullstack framework required.
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Your website is not for you — Websmith Studio
A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.
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Composition Shouldn't be this Hard — Cambra
Fragmented systems are brittle. Coherent systems are special-purpose. We need a new, general-purpose model so we can build coherent, multi-domain applications.
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Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them
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Writing Your Own Framework in PHP: Part One | Blog by Dominik Chrástecký
A hands-on intro to building your own PHP framework entirely from scratch — handwritten, with minimal dependencies.
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Laws of Software Engineering
A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions.
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Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world:
And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because:
1. people aren't talking to people
2. people aren't listening
So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to turn talking to people
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Six Characters // a.s
What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains — and why the fare calculation line on your e-ticket is written in a currency that does not exist.
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Reinventing Payment: From One Table to DDD
How I evolved a PHP payment system from a single table to channels, state machines, and hexagonal architecture. Real code, real trade-offs.
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