Self-hosted Lato and Inter were dragging down a Next.js build. Subsetting the glyphs with pyftsubset and re-compressing with brotli cut the font payload by roughly 89%. Here are the commands, the real before and after numbers, the localization tradeoffs, and the risks.
The Shai Hulud worm hit TanStack and 170+ other npm packages by poisoning a pnpm store cache in GitHub Actions. Here is how the attack worked and the concrete steps I took to harden my own projects against it.
The official Claude Code extension had five behaviors that added friction to my workflow. Rather than waiting, I built a companion extension that patches it in-place.
A comparison of SwiftUI and AppKit as UI frameworks for macOS, covering how each handles layout and rendering, where each performs well, and what the choice means at scale.
What happens when you let an LLM refactor your dotfiles without checking the output closely enough. Spoiler: you boot into Recovery Mode.
Setting up a new Mac used to mean an afternoon of clicking through installers and trying to remember what I had last time. I fixed that with a single bash script — and learned a few things the hard way.