youtube.com/watch?v=tc5i... saturday b like

Could have been a file format …

Started working on Tillys again ... I like to do these "consolidation by restarting" rounds where it kinda feels fresh bit you still do no have to spend a tremendous amount of cycles reinventing the wheel that was kinda working ...

Poldervuur 2026 edition … another round of the pop-up pizzeria, it’s happening, this summer.

No matter how much AI you throw at it … deeper insight takes time because it is you that needs to see the light, not the slot machine. Boundaries, models, structures and all that. I do think AI can help because often it pierces the hubris of “we’re unique” when it turns out what one is building is a

You can call me Jezus …

Language is a funny thing. Oddly enough it's patterns and practices that stimulate the use of natural language to "represent" that make you painfully aware of the ambiguity on one end and the importance of articulating well on the other.

Can highly recommend github.com/christiaande... if you're using QuestPDF, have to deal with localization and want to sprinkle some light markup (bold, color, italic) in your resources.

Claude: "... is a landmine for anyone reading the event later" Fuck you, Claude!

User interfaces, reports, analytics, search functionality are typical examples of "information magnets" that mess with the lofty goal of model purity.

That time of the year again …

New neighbors …

Putting constraints closer to the write / input path tends to put that responsibility in one proper place and removes a constant need to verify that same constraint in places it should not be ... all because there's a tendency to distrust.

Pretty neat idea if you ask me ... typediagram.dev

I've been dealing with some fairly large workflows in terms of # of messages they handle / emit lately. In an attempt not to run into storage / append limits, I've been chopping up the work in batches, having the workflow send continuation messages to itself as part of the batch, so it can resume

There's a second-system effect but there is no mention of the first-system effect ... stuck in the system (including its quirks) that is already in place with the accompanying inertia, the calcification of "this-is-how-it-is".

Naming is hard ... it still is. AMA.

WTAF?

The portability aspect of messages in a file is underrated.

AI fatigue ... are we there yet? Asking for a friend.

Names and addresses prove how piss poor our models are at capturing what is often the most basic of information.

If you are used to making your own fermented veggies then kimchi is overrated …

Bluesky waking up …

First time I reached for columnar JSON. Seriously cuts down on the verbosity.

Happy Easter 🐣

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffZ... - !Let Da Weekend Begin!

TIL typst.app

I had not realized how well thought out OpenFGA openfga.dev is ... write your authorization model and write tests for it before shipping to production, using the same DSL, is an underappreciated feature.

www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboratio... (courtesy of @ylorph.bsky.social )

TIL: there are 2 places you can stay for free, ... in your own damn lane and the fuck out of mine. Somebody needs anger therapy ...

duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a... DuckDb keeps getting better and better ...

Found an interesting way to chop up the work my fan-out workflow has to decide upon, sending out a batch of messages, by ending with a continuation message to itself to resume as of, causing the next batch to be decided, and so on, until all is done. Allows one to anticipate storage limits,

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... the various methods of fairly distributing seats applies to more than the domain of voting.

I called it or cursed it ...

Maybe they should just offer a off-peak tariff?

@pckt.blog JS error for new users ... FF 148.0.2 (on Ubuntu).

I've been using NodaMoney for some time now and while I get why it does things the way it does, I'm not particularly fond of the programming model.

Money, rounding, and allocation across a large set is taking me places I haven't been before. It's an interesting journey to say the least.

So, blockchain ... has AI beaten it to death yet?

Opened a suno.ai account so I can start creating my own country music. I have a swarm of agents helping me out by writing the best lyrics of all times.

Unit testing with .NET Decimal can be painful. If your test code does not mimic the exact same arithmetic you get subtle intermittent (due to test data randomization) rounding issues. Can't round either as that happens much later in the chain of events. 🤷

Hidden input fields are input too and require the same level of server-side scrutiny ... "hidden" does not mean safe to use as-is.

youtube.com/watch?v=hdWu... ... the weekend is almost here :-)

Switched from ASPNET MVC to Razor Pages ... lighter and the code that tends to change together is closer together.

I've been slowly tapping into more and more MCP servers for the front-end work I do. The output is stable by design (the irony) for a lot less tokens.

New post: Event-sourced Claude Code Workflows This is an experimental / proof-of-concept follow-up to my previous posts about Claude Code workflows. Blame @yves.reynhout.be nick-tune.me/blog/2026-03...

Iconify MCP if you are into icons.

The ability to move a computation from the query side to the projection side for charts has been invaluable both in reducing the amount of recompute but oddly also in the amount of storage needed.

Inline chart.js data delivery in ASP.NET MVC is now another trick up my sleeve.