McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)(mcmansionhell.com)

28 points by nivethan 4 months ago | 31 comments

Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB(matthew.science)

603 points by sodality2 2 years ago | 198 comments

Blog post describing how the author built a campus occupancy sensor using a $5 ESP32 counting Bluetooth devices and a serverless database.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub(mitchellh.com)

3380 points by WadeGrimridge 6 months ago | 1008 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that the Ghostty terminal emulator project is moving off GitHub, reflecting on his long history with the platform.

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens(sethpurcell.com)

1028 points by arch_deluxe 1 year ago | 338 comments

Personal essay arguing that science museums like the Franklin Institute rely too heavily on screen-based exhibits instead of hands-on physical experiences.

Aphantasia and Psychedelics(psychedelirium.substack.com)

44 points by yenniejun111 1 year ago | 63 comments

RF hacking my cloud-controlled ceiling fan(samwilkinson.io)

45 points by sammycdubs 4 months ago | 14 comments

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability(electrek.co)

80 points by ciconia 26 days ago | 93 comments

Electrek article reporting that Tesla is taking on $30 billion in credit as the company nears unprofitability.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.