I'm Nick, a software engineer with 20 years of experience. I help developers work smarter and faster by exploring the ultimate workspace setups, mastering AI assistants, and customizing the best coding tools.
I really enjoy watching these videos. Nick has a lovely presenting style that is weirdly gentle and soothing. The Ollama related videos are top notch.
Can you find the comet? Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System.
I always try to avoid falling into Software Brain mentality, but it's not always easy.
I was working on a personal project, debugging a Native Messaging helper I had written for it. In the process I needed to check what Brave Browser had registered on my laptop. What I found was a file I had never put there. It was not mine. I had not installed it. I had not authorised it. I had not even been told about it.
It was from Anthropic.
Have you heard about this new app called BoopSnoop? It launched in the first week of January 2020, and almost immediately, it was downloaded by four people in three different time zones. In the years since, it has remained steady at four daily active users, with zero churn: a resounding success, exceeding every one of its creator’s expectations.
Why is Mastodon the best social medium in 2026? Picture 1: If I share a post with some objectively good news, it gets 97 boosts and 140 likes. Picture 2: If I share the same post on Threads, it gets zero interactions — zero! — because it contains a link to the competing social medium YouTube, and on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the algorithm should not promote such content. Threads is where the rich decide what we can talk about. On Mastodon, we decide.
Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.
No, you’re not too good to vibe code. In fact, you’re the only person who should be vibe coding.
A good discussion about the current state of Microsoft Windows.
If you're an activist, an academic, or anyone just trying to make this world a better place for humans to live out our lives, please take these fonts and use them for whatever you need. They're for you.
Bash scripting course and guide created by Dave Eddy of ysap.sh. Learn the Bash Shell and master beginner all the way up to advanced Bash scripting techniques.
A simple JavaScript package that generates snowflakes and corresponding CSS to make them fall on your webpage.
It’s time to admit, before God and the good readers of Ars Technica, that I have a problem. I love roguelikes. Reader, I can’t get enough of them. If there’s even a whisper of a hot new roguelike on Steam, I’m there. You may call them arcane, repetitive, or maddeningly difficult; I call them heaven.
A quiet corner of the internet where you can think, write, read and connect. Like how the internet was supposed to be.
Dual Boot Diaries follows two long-time Windows users as they see if they can switch to Linux full time. Each week hosts Adam Patrick Murray and Will Smith go through their experiences daily-driving Linux, with the whole show culminating in them deleting either Windows or Linux from their hard drives.
Cosmic desktop is looking pretty good.
Whatever the motivation for you to consider this—though after all, there are countries attacking, invading, and occupying other countries (e.g., Russia, Israel) and countries committing genocides (e.g., Israel)—, here’s one streamlined approach to geographic IP blocking via .htaccess
IPdeny offers country GEO IP address block downloads free of charge. Our country based IP zone files can be easily used in your applications and web sites to minimize on-line fraud, SPAM, floods and sometimes brute force attacks. IPdeny country IP block files can be used to set-up firewall or packet filter rules to disable specific service access and ports based on a specific country.
Harper is a free English grammar checker designed to be just right. You can think of it as an open-source alternative to Grammarly. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.
