# see https (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover see https. Page: Feed: --- ## [Running buildah in forgejo-runner](https://drobilla.net/2026/07/08/running-buildah-in-forgejo-runner.html) _2026-07-08 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ I've been trying to get buildah working in forgejo-runner for building container images on CI, and it's been a frustrating process. There are some posts around the web about this, but nothing that sums up a working solution that doesn't simply disable all security measures. I eventually pieced it together with a lot of trial and error, so here's a summary to hopefully save somebody else (or me in… ## [Using Zed](https://mohundro.com/blog/2026-07-02-using-zed/) _2026-07-02 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ I've started using Zed more lately... the Vim key bindings support works great (I can't code without that), the speed is better than VSCode, and it is quite... ## [links (101)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-101/) _2026-06-15 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ xkcd: Types of Board Game It's a cross between Twilight Imperium and Cones of Dunshire, but implemented entirely in category theory. Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control ## [MDA.lv2 1.2.12](https://drobilla.net/2026/06/11/mda-lv2-1-2-12.html) _2026-06-11 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ MDA.lv2 1.2.12 has been released. This is a port of the MDA VST plugins to LV2. Changes: Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Fix build with MSVC 2022 Fix strict aliasing violation Fix use of uninitialized values in TalkBox Improve const-correctness Remove development symbols from modules by default Use a deterministic and more uniform RNG ## [Jalv 1.10.0](https://drobilla.net/2026/06/11/jalv-1-10-0.html) _2026-06-11 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Jalv 1.10.0 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv . Changes: Add block length command-line parameter for PortAudio Fix PortAudio backend Fix crash with plugins that have non-event inputs Fix stale… ## [Zix 0.8.2](https://drobilla.net/2026/06/11/zix-0-8-2.html) _2026-06-11 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Zix 0.8.2 has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures. Changes: Fix build with configure checks disabled Fix handling of invalid ring size parameters Fix potential out of bounds access on error ## [Jalv 1.8.2](https://drobilla.net/2026/06/08/jalv-1-8-2.html) _2026-06-09 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Jalv 1.8.2 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv . Changes: Add log window to Gtk interface Add separate menu item for saving current preset Clean up on exit from console interface Disable delete… ## [Lilv 0.28.0](https://drobilla.net/2026/06/08/lilv-0-28-0.html) _2026-06-09 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Lilv 0.28.0 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Add early assertions for non-null parameters in public API Add lilv\_state\_get\_bundle\_path() Always create state files with O\_CLOEXEC on glibc \>= 2.7 Clarify relative symbolic link creation when saving state Fix build with dynmanifest support Fix crash when loading… ## [Serd 0.32.10](https://drobilla.net/2026/06/08/serd-0-32-10.html) _2026-06-09 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Serd 0.32.10 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Address new warnings in clang-tidy 22 Fix writing quotes at the end of long literals ## [Monday - June 8, 2026](https://mohundro.com/fragments/2026-06-08/) _2026-06-08 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ So, last year, I created my first Obsidian plugin… see https://github.com/drmohundro/obsidian-igdb-game-search-plugin/ . I submitted a pull request in January. Then in May, Obsidian created their new community . I sat getting my submission and… someone else had the exact same idea as me and got their plugin submitted before me. It isn’t a big deal, though. I don’t have to support my plugin anymore… ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aCwH6D6jm5D6) _2026-06-07 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [My entirely unasked for reflections on AI](https://mohundro.com/blog/2026-05-18-ai-reflections/) _2026-05-18 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ I apologize in advance. Everyone is talking about "AI" right now. Well, actually everyone is still talking about the various flavors of generative AI and... ## [lv2plug.in outage](https://drobilla.net/2026/05/15/lv2plugin-outage.html) _2026-05-15 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Some irresponsible and/or malicious crawlers brought down lv2plug.in this week. To avoid this happening again, I've removed lv2plug.in/git entirely, since it was the only dynamic thing at that domain. There used to be a cgit interface to the repositories there, but I doubt anyone will miss this anyway. Everything else should now be back up and working as before. ## [links (100)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-100/) _2026-04-15 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Flighty Airports Meltdown Map \ Waymo saved my life... \[comment\] Suddenly a car ignored its stop sign and drove into the road. In less than a second, the Waymo moved into the left lane and kept going. I didn't even realize ## [Tuesday - April 7, 2026](https://mohundro.com/fragments/2026-04-07/) _2026-04-07 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ I am loving the Artemis II news. When I was a kid, some of my favorite memories were seeing photos from Voyager II of the outer planets. When my mom would take me to the library, I would beeline to the science section… either astronomy or dinosaurs. My kids are starting to share a lot of my interests and I took two of them to watch Project Hail Mary this past weekend - we loved it. There are a… ## [links (99)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-99/) _2026-03-24 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis For AI to produce a sustained negative demand shock, the economy must see a material acceleration in adoption, experience near-total labor substitution, no fiscal response, negligible investment absorption, and unconstrained scaling of compute. It is also worth recalling that over the past century, successive ## [New Blog Redesign](https://mohundro.com/blog/2026-03-14-new-redesign/) _2026-03-14 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ Well, it was time for another blog redesign. I'd been wanting to do something with this for a while, because I had still been coasting on the Tailwind Next.js... ## [Friday - March 13, 2026](https://mohundro.com/fragments/2026-03-13/) _2026-03-13 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ Welcome to the first fragment! Credit for this idea goes primarily to Martin Fowler , though Simon Willison has a similar idea, too. This is mostly a means of avoiding social media… whereas I used to post entirely random ideas on Twitter or BlueSky, now I’ll post them here. I might also post them on social media, but I might not. If you see really old posts on my blog, you’ll see I used to do this… ## [links (98)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-98/) _2026-02-26 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. You created a Maps key three years ago and embedded it in your website's source code, exactly as Google instructed. Last month, a developer on your team enabled the Gemini API for an internal prototype. ## [Board Game Table](https://writing.peercy.net/board-game-table/) _2026-02-12 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ The board game table that Austin Waldo built for me: This table fits my game room exactly. It's perfect for 6 player games, and it's circular enough to comfortably squeeze 8, and uncomfortably squeeze in 10. It has mounting rails for cupholders, hidden storage for them. ## [Claude Code Doesn't Make You Better at Multitasking](https://writing.peercy.net/claude-code-doesnt-make-you-better-at-multitasking/) _2026-02-12 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Engineers are running 8 instances of Claude Code at once. That doesn't mean they are completing work 8x faster. If you must hold the context for 8 agents in your head at once, your expertise as an engineer is wasted. See https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent- ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UlaQ0lts73NM) _2026-02-12 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [Suil 0.10.26](https://drobilla.net/2026/02/10/suil-0-10-26.html) _2026-02-11 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Suil 0.10.26 has been released. Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. It provides wrappers that allow Gtk and Qt hosts to load, and potentially embed, plugin GUIs that use the "native" windowing API (Coca, WIN32, or X11). Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Fix documentation build without sphinx\_lv2\_theme ## [Lilv 0.26.4](https://drobilla.net/2026/02/10/lilv-0-26-4.html) _2026-02-10 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Lilv 0.26.4 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Fix default LV2 path on cross-compiled Windows builds Fix loading of duplicate bundles with equivalent versions Fix potential crash when UIs have multiple types or binaries Use consistent… ## [Sratom 0.6.22](https://drobilla.net/2026/02/10/sratom-0-6-22.html) _2026-02-10 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Sratom 0.6.22 has been released. Sratom is a small library for serializing LV2 atoms. Sratom reads/writes atoms from/to RDF, allowing them to be converted between binary and text or stored in a model. Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Fix documentation build without sphinx\_lv2\_theme Gracefully handle reading vectors with missing childType… ## [Sord 0.16.22](https://drobilla.net/2026/02/10/sord-0-16-22.html) _2026-02-10 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Sord 0.16.22 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. Changes: Add clang nullability annotations Address new warnings in clang and clang-tidy 21 Make more API functions tolerate NULL ## [Serd 0.32.8](https://drobilla.net/2026/02/10/serd-0-32-8.html) _2026-02-10 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Serd 0.32.8 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Avoid use of snprintf() when writing Fix unbounded reader stack growth when reading NQuads Improve reader error handling Relax nullability of SerdNode buffer field Release reader stack memory on read error Strengthen handling of corrupt UTF-8 input Support writing all escapes in Turtle and TriG… ## [links (97)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-97/) _2026-02-07 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ There is way too much serendipity - by Malmesbury If you add the history of LSD to the history of artificial sweeteners, it follows that chemistry researchers are constantly tasting everything they touch, and I will believe that until someone gives me a better explanation. If you are a chemist, explain ## [Parallels Login Prompt](https://mohundro.com/til/2026-02-02-parallels-login-prompt/) _2026-02-02 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ How to get to the login prompt in Parallels: Press Ctrl + Alt + F3 (on a Mac keyboard in Parallels, you might need Fn + Control + Option + F3 ). ## [links (96)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-96/) _2026-01-17 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. How uv got so fast PEP 658 went ## [My 2025](https://writing.peercy.net/my-2025/) _2026-01-07 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ I emailed 18 links posts this year , down from 30 last year. Games I've been playing on my custom game table , on Board Game Arena , and on Tabletop Simulator . Some of my favorite board games this year have been: Scythe - My favorite, scoring takes a few plays to ## [ripgrep and the rgignore file](https://mohundro.com/blog/2026-01-07-rgignore/) _2026-01-07 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ I'm a huge fan of ripgrep. And that's not an exaggeration. It's literally my number one used tool on the terminal. So, to learn something new about it makes... ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LAfxxg3VbpLp) _2026-01-06 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [How to Extract Claude Code Transcripts](https://mohundro.com/til/2026-01-07-extracting-claude-code-transcripts/) _2026-01-07 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ Simon Willison has a tool for this … Just run: uvx claude-code-transcripts ## [Git Wrapped for 2025](https://mohundro.com/blog/2026-01-05-git-wrapped/) _2026-01-05 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ I don't recall pulling up my Git Wrapped before, but I saw someone link theirs today, so I decided to check it out. You can see mine at... ## [2025 Year in Review](https://mohundro.com/blog/2026-01-01-2025-year-in-review/) _2026-01-01 · david@mohundro.com (David Mohundro) · David Mohundro - Developer, Architect, Learner, Dad and more_ Well, 2025 is a wrap and we're in 2026. As I've tried to do over the last few years, I want to reflect on how the year went and on some of the things I've... ## [links (95)](https://writing.peercy.net/links-95/) _2025-12-22 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Prompt Caching: 10x Cheaper LLM Tokens That's it, those K and V matrices above, they are the 1s and 0s that the providers save in their giant datacenters to offer us 10x cheaper tokens, and much faster responses. Providers hold on to these matrices for each prompt for ## [A More Modern Gtk3 Jalv Frontend](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/26/a-more-modern-gtk3-jalv-frontend.html) _2025-11-27 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ My simple single-plugin LV2 host, Jalv , isn't quite sure whether it's a developer utility or polished user program, but in any case, it had become stale in the past few years and needed an update. Most of those changes are internal and only interesting for those who use it as a basis for larger systems. The internals have been largely rewritten to support various things, but this post isn't about… ## [Jalv 1.8.0](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/26/jalv-1-8-0.html) _2025-11-27 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Jalv 1.8.0 has been released. Jalv (JAck LV2) is a simple host for LV2 plugins. It runs a plugin, and exposes the plugin ports to the system, essentially making the plugin an application. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/jalv . Changes: Add "quit" console command Add AppStream metainfo file Add Qt6 version Add missing short versions of command line options Add option to… ## [Lilv 0.26.2](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/25/lilv-0-26-2.html) _2025-11-26 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Lilv 0.26.2 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Actually reload files if bundles are unloaded then reloaded Add support for loading xsd:float literals, "INF", and "NaN" Avoid warning about non-existent entries in LV2\_PATH Fix crash when duplicate plugins are discovered Fix lilv\_node\_is\_literal() with booleans Refine… ## [SEC Charges Against Solar Winds (2023)](https://writing.peercy.net/sec-vs-solarwinds/) _2025-11-13 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Selections from the SEC charges against SolarWinds. this is it. this is fraud. ## [Sratom 0.6.20](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/sratom-0-6-20.html) _2025-11-13 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Sratom 0.6.20 has been released. Sratom is a small library for serializing LV2 atoms. Sratom reads/writes atoms from/to RDF, allowing them to be converted between binary and text or stored in a model. Changes: Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Avoid use of scanf when reading MIDI events Fix lint checks Fix potential memory error when writing ambiguous relative paths Improve code quality ## [Suil 0.10.24](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/suil-0-10-24.html) _2025-11-13 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Suil 0.10.24 has been released. Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. It provides wrappers that allow Gtk and Qt hosts to load, and potentially embed, plugin GUIs that use the "native" windowing API (Coca, WIN32, or X11). Changes: Add header warnings test Avoid over-use of yielding meson options ## [Lilv 0.26.0](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/lilv-0-26-0.html) _2025-11-13 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Lilv 0.26.0 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes: Add header warnings test Add option to control indexing overhead for subject queries Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Cache LANG value and add option to override it Fix Python tests Fix build with dynmanifest support Fix loading plugins that haven't been loaded… ## [Sord 0.16.20](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/sord-0-16-20.html) _2025-11-13 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Sord 0.16.20 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. Changes: Add header warnings test Add missing const qualifiers to API Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Update man pages ## [Serd 0.32.6](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/serd-0-32-6.html) _2025-11-12 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Serd 0.32.6 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Drop graphs when writing Turtle output Eliminate recursion in the writer Fix handling of bad predicates in anonymous blank nodes Fix handling of some invalid EOF cases in lax mode Fix indentation of named objects after anonymous objects Fix indentation when… ## [Zix 0.8.0](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/zix-0-8-0.html) _2025-11-12 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Zix 0.8.0 has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures. Changes: Add ZIX\_REALTIME and ZIX\_NONBLOCKING attributes Add warning suppression macros Annotate count and size parameters of allocator API Avoid "deprecated" POSIX functions on Windows Avoid over-use of yielding meson options Clean up attribute documentation Gracefully handle failed allocation… ## [Sphinxygen 1.0.12](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/sphinxygen-1-0-12.html) _2025-11-12 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ Sphinxygen 1.0.12 has been released. Sphinxygen is a Python module/script that generates Sphinx markup to describe a C API, from an XML description extracted by Doxygen . Changes: Fix documentation for C++ namespaces Fix documentation for C++ template functions Improve formatting of macro initializers ## [Lilv “Object Index” Option Revised](https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/lilv-object-index-option-revised.html) _2025-11-12 · drobilla · drobilla.net_ My previous post, “Improving LV2 Discovery Performance” , described adding an option to lilv that controls whether an additional index is maintained for loaded LV2 data. While testing those changes for release, I discovered a few things (like lv2lint ) that break without the index, which convinced me that disabling it by default wasn't the right decision. So, I'm instead enabling it by default,… ## [Parallel Inventions](https://writing.peercy.net/parallel-inventions/) _2025-11-12 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Telephones, transistors, RNA vaccines, calculus... some ideas are inevitable. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_multiple\_discoveries ## [Simplicity](https://writing.peercy.net/simplicity/) _2025-11-12 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ Complexity very, very bad . Abstractions are dangerous. Don't use new technology. Stay boring . Small teams are fast . Write a plan first. If you can't explain it , you don't understand it. Communication reduces complexity. As does a good UI . Speed matters . Tight loops to ship ## [About Me](https://writing.peercy.net/about-me/) _2025-11-12 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ I'm Nathan. Hello! ## [This Ghost Theme](https://writing.peercy.net/nathan/) _2025-11-12 · Nathan Peercy · Nathan_ The theme: https://github.com/nbanmp/simple-green-ghost-theme is green!