Inference Without a Round Trip
WebGPU shipped, quantization matured, and small-but-useful models exist. The browser is an LLM runtime now, and the consequences are bigger than the novelty.
10 MAY 202612 min read
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Copy Fail: A Ten-Year-Old Path to Linux Root
A 2017 in-place optimization in the kernel's crypto subsystem turned out to be a 4-byte page-cache write primitive. Disclosed last week, exploitable from any unprivileged shell, fixed by a single mainline commit.
03 MAY 20267 min read
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Static Is Enough: The Case for Hugo Over WordPress
Why most websites running WordPress don't need it, how Hugo wins on performance, cost, security, and complexity, and why LLMs just closed the last gap that was keeping WordPress in play.
19 APR 202610 min read
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Ghostty 1.3: The Terminal That Zigs
Mitchell Hashimoto's GPU-accelerated terminal emulator ships its biggest release yet. Six months of work, 2,858 commits, and the most-requested missing feature from 1.0 finally arrives.
31 MAR 20266 min read
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go-blueprint: The create-next-app for Go
If you've ever started a TypeScript project with npx create-next-app and wondered why Go doesn't have an equivalent, go-blueprint is your answer. One command, production-ready structure, no setup overhead.
31 MAR 20265 min read
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Loomdraft: Architecture of a Local-First Writing App
How Tauri, Rust, and React combine to deliver a native desktop writing experience with no cloud dependencies, no accounts, and complete data ownership.
30 MAR 20264 min read
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Loomdraft: Building a Pro Writing Experience with CodeMirror 6
How CodeMirror 6's extension system powers distraction-free writing modes, wiki-link previews, real-time word counts, and typewriter scroll — without fighting the framework.
30 MAR 20266 min read
READLoomdraft: SQLite, Plain Markdown, and the Local-First Model
Why Loomdraft stores everything in plain files, how SQLite FTS5 delivers instant full-text search without a server, and what 'local-first' actually costs in practice.
30 MAR 20265 min read
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Pretext: 300x Faster Text Layout Without DOM Reflow
Cheng Lou's new 15KB library rewrites the rules of text measurement. Pure arithmetic, no DOM thrashing, and it's already going viral.
30 MAR 20265 min read
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