Ramblings about software development, privacy, and whatever happens to strike my fancy.
This paper is available for download as a PDF . It might look more convincing. Abstract Over the 2025 Formula One season, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a driver for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, was observed to perform better in jurisdictions where titanium dioxide is a legal food additive. Using finishing position data for Grands Prix (including sprints) during the 2025 season, we found that…
In September, I had the privilege of being able to attend NixCon 2025 in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. Aside from listening to a lot of fun and/or interesting talks about Nix ( “You can’t spell ‘devshell’ without ‘hell’” was one of my favorites) and meeting some of my friends in real life for the first time, I also had the wonderful opportunity to observe Swiss graphic, and especially typographic,…
How many HTTP requests do you think Corepack makes when you run corepack use pnpm to use the latest version of pnpm in your project? Wrong — it’s both one and two. Two, in the sense that it makes two requests; one, because these two requests are completely identical . I came across this little idiosyncrasy while working on Moldau , a version manager for Node.js package managers that is part of my…
In last year’s macOS Sequoia release, one change attracted a lot of attention : the new periodic confirmation for apps that use screen recording permissions. Every month, macOS would display a prompt to confirm a user’s intent to continue allowing an app access to their screen when the app is used. This change drew criticism from a lot of macOS users, who accused the feature of being intrusive,…
Ever since switching to Ghostty , my Home Manager activation has stopped printing its headers as cyan and bold. I never bothered enough to fix it, since I work on my flake most of the time in VS Code, but since I happened to be working on morlana , an alternative implementation for darwin-{rebuild,installer,uninstaller} , and was getting acquainted with some of the internals of how a nix-darwin…