There's a fork of Cosmos on my box that I push to a handful of times a month, and two of those pushes from the last month are worth writing down: a RingBuffer that replaced Queue in the keyboard driver and then got promoted into the stable HAL contract, and a runtime bump to .NET 10.0.12.
Bo...
I've published a lot of code over the years, and I have never once learned much from cloning it.
That's the honest reason behind zarlo/bug-tracker-plan: I wanted to teach web application fundamentals, and shipping a finished bug tracker would have been the worst possible way to do it. So the rep...
Australia's under-16 social media ban came into effect on 10 December 2025. Ten months later I think it failed on its own terms, and that the privacy cost of trying has been considerably higher than advertised.
eSafety's headline figure is that platforms restricted access to...
I've spent a lot of time building software, experimenting with infrastructure, and working on projects that sit somewhere between application development and systems engineering. Looking across the things I've worked on, there's a fairly consistent theme: I like understanding how things work, findin...
The hard part of building an edge gateway to run other people's code isn't the sandboxing. Wasmer will give you a WASI sandbox in about four lines, and you can hand it a directory and go to lunch.
The hard part is that once you're actually hosting untrusted workloads, you owe someone an invoice, a...
PowerDNS-Admin is a good piece of work. It does forward and reverse zone management, user management with role-based access, SAML, LDAP and OAuth, two-factor auth, an API, and full IDN support, and it does all of it without ever asking you what you actually intend to use it for.
I run hosted DNS o...
I want to be clear about where I'm standing before I make any argument, because it would be easy to read what follows as though I'm defending what this organisation says.
I'm not. I don't like what they're saying. I'm not going to pretend my disagreement with it is a technical one that's rather t...
Every product I build needs the same layer underneath it: a cache abstraction, some DTO shapes, base models with soft delete, an HTTP layer that emits OpenAPI, auth plumbing, and a handful of small things I always end up rewriting badly.
That's punksky/utilitybelt in Go and punksky/utilitybelt-...
There are three places my code lives: github.com/zarlo, gitlab.com/zarlo, and git.punksky.com running on hardware I control.
Two of them are dead weight and one is doing all the work, which took me a while to accept.
The numbers first,...