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My obituary for programming « dumbmatter.com

I was very slow to use AI coding agents. It seems like a lot of programmers never actually liked programming and are thrilled to have a machine do it for them. But I like programming! That's the fun part! Even for programmers who like programming, I know a...

Topics: Programming

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Marcin Borkowski: 2026-10-17 Using timers to perform weekly tasks

There are some things I do on a regular basis, and of course I try to automate as much as possible so that I don’t need to remember them. One of these things is a weekly review. A part of my weekly review is checking how much time I’d spent on various...

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ranet3

High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN with userspace ESP, IKEv2, an embedded Babel speaker and SRv6 steering.

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A New Way to Think About Borrow Checking (In Reverse)

It turns out, there's actually some really good reasons to do this, and it's fairly common when you're doing e.g. optimization passes. 0 But I don't think anyone's done this for checking memory safety.

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ARP! Tell your network to explain itself - Ben's Web Space

So, I can never remember what IP addresses I have given to devices on my network, or which IP my router has assigned to each one. Recently I’ve been learning about ARP (or Address Resolution Protocol) and tools like arp-scan, and I wanted to share how cool...

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Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD

I recently acquired a lightly-used HP Envy 17" laptop, model DA0013dx, and of course wanted to run OpenBSD on it. It came with Windows 11 on an internal NVME drive. Booting OpenBSD from a USB device failed fast: it hung. To get there, first of course I had...

Topics: Infrastructure

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Making Hybrid Images

The Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings of all time. And there has always been a discussion around her enigmatic smile. He used a trademark Renaissance technique called sfumato, which involves many thin layers of...

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The Brain Sandwich

The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.

Topics: Programming

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It's time to talk about TEEs - Alin Tomescu

$$This post surveys some concerning attacks on TEEs.The goal is to persuade you to re-consider how you deploy TEE-based applications, if you should deploy th...