Sorry I’ve been weird lately, but I was also weird before —Donnie Saphire

I'm slowly catching up on everything that piled up over the past few weeks. My poor impulse control has me daydreaming about home office renovations and improvements. I've also been tinkering with my Home Lab setup (Home Assistant, Paperless, etc.), which mostly runs on an old Mac mini running Linux. Since I occasionally need to reboot the machine and Linux still can't accept LUKS passphrases remotely (unlike macOS), I picked up a JetKVM switch to handle that. The JetKVM uses HTTP by default, which isn't ideal when entering sensitive data like passphrases, though there's experimental HTTPS support and a "secure cloud-native" connection method (which I'm somewhat skeptical about).

I finally took the plunge and upgraded to macOS/iOS 26.1. It's still got some rough edges but no longer has any dealbreakers for me. Also went to a sauna for the first time in years and am thinking about making it a regular thing. Not bad at all!

Articles

• Frontend
  • The fetch()ening | htmx 4.0?
  • Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance | I still like htmx the most, but interesting analysis!
  • Custom Asidenotes
  • marko - A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun
• Agentic Coding
  • Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres | Good idea!
  • What if you don't need MCP at all? | Skills without skills - nice 😊
  • Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex
• Python
  • PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports | Cool 🎉
  • Announcing DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens, Greece! ☀️🏖️🏛️🇬🇷 | Thinking hard about going there..
• Misc
  • Running 1:1s for Engineers

Videos

• Talking Agentic Engineering with Giovanni Barillari