I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus | Bas Nijholt

After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.

The Garbage Collection Handbook

GitHub - plbrault/youre-the-os: A game where you are a computer's OS and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events.

A game where you are a computer's OS and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events. - plbrault/youre-the-os

Om Malik taught Silicon Valley to read itself

Om Malik, the GigaOm founder, longtime technology writer and True Ventures partner, died June 24 at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart.

Deno 2.9 | Deno

`deno desktop` for building native desktop apps from web tech, first-class migration from npm/pnpm/yarn/Bun, CSS module imports, snapshot and parameterized testing, smaller `deno compile --bundle` binaries, and Node.js 26 compatibility.

Political bias in AI · Where the AI models stand | Trakkr

Political bias in AI measures where every major AI model stands on charged political and ethical questions: run many times, no web search, plotted with error...

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

The dominant programming languages support nothing but linear text to express domain-specific geometric ideas. What is needed are hybrid languages that allow developers to create visual syntactic constructs so that they can express their ideas with a mix of textual and visual syntax tailored to an application domain. This mix must put the two kinds of syntax on equal footing and, just as importantly, the extended language must not disrupt a programmer's typical workflow. This means that any new visual syntax should be a proper language extension that is composable with other language features. Furthermore, the extensions should also preserve static reasoning about the program. This paper presents Hybrid ClojureScript the first such hybrid programming language. Hybrid ClojureScript allows programmers to add visual interactive syntax and to embed instances of this syntax within a program's text. An enhanced hybrid IDE can then display these embedded instances as mini-GUIs that programmers interact with, while other IDEs will show a textual representation of the syntax. The paper argues the necessity of such an extensibility mechanism, demonstrates the adoptability of the design, and discusses what might be needed to use the design in other languages.

Seeing in Pangram Space

Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader — Max Glenister

I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul Se...