It's warm again in Bucharest these days. The weather forecast says we'll have a winter without snow. That's unheard of. Even last year we had a little, a couple of times. Things are changing fast.

In other news, I'm still burnt out on coding, after doing way too much of it last year. Note to self, that can happen even with one's main hobby. Been working on a couple of semi-secret websites instead. Can't wait to let everyone know, but there's more polishing and double-checking to do first.

Overall, I've been a lot more active again starting in December. It's obvious from the amount of notes I've been taking. That's a good sign.

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

Page Weight chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering why page weight matters, bandwidth, complex pages, page weight over time, page requests, and file formats.

Three days ago, a friend showed me his attempt to formulate a personal manifesto on literal paper, like I did many years ago.

Two days ago, I saw a very nice agenda in our local stationery store, that can be used as a personal journal.

Yesterday, mom lent me one of her modern fountain pens. It's so much nicer than those I learned to hate in primary school. Another thing to rediscover and finally enjoy.

This is how magic happens. But damn, I need my glasses.

W is a lightweight CMS wiki tool, meant to help you design a surprising website.

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

Ukraine’s food exports are reaching wartime record levels due in part to the success of the Ukrainian corridor—but whether this meets “pre-war levels,” as many claim, and whether levels can be sustained, are unpacked by CSIS experts in this brief Critical Questions.

Everyone from RFK Jr. to Bernie Sanders wants to crack down on “ultra-processed” foods. There’s just one problem.

Jobs demanding real-time spatial and navigational processing had the lowest burden

Users are exploring alternatives like Bluesky and Threads.

So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages. Other languages

Hundreds of defunct satellites plunge toward Earth every year. Scientists are studying how the chemical stew left in their wake impacts the atmosphere.

City size comparison tool. Compare city sizes on a map! We use data from maps of towns and cities.

This is a website, which means it sometimes goes offline

Print good, not bad!

My Friend Colin Woodard has a Seriously Brilliant Theory

Building the right thing shouldn't take very long -- doing away with nonsense makes product development really fast"