Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates

Most people never think twice about the random mix of letters and numbers the DMV assigns them. I’m not one of those people. Online, I’ve always chased having a clean and memorable digital identity. Over the years, I’ve been able to pick up handles like my first + last name on Instagram (@jlaf) and full […]
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
18th December 2025 In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest. […]
Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals

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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?

You will recall the Apple Account fiasco of Paris Buttfield-Addison, whose entire iCloud account and library of iTunes and App Store media purchases were lost when his Apple Account was locked, seemingly after attempted to redeem a tampered $500 Apple Gift Card that he purchased from a major retailer. I wrote about it, as did […]
Please Just Try Htmx
Please Just Fucking Try HTMX A measured-yet-opinionated plea from someone who’s tired of watching you suffer Look. I’m not going to call you a fucking moron every other sentence. That’s been done. It’s a whole genre now. And honestly? HTMX doesn’t need me to scream at you to make its point. The sweary web manifesto […]
Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source

December 15, 2025 · 12 min read Benjamin Satzger Principal Software Engineer We recently enabled GPU VMs on NVIDIA’s B200 HGX machines. These are impressive machines, but they are also surprisingly trickier to virtualize than the H100s. So we sifted through NVIDIA manual pages, Linux forums, hypervisor docs and we made virtualization work. It wasn’t […]
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to […]
Classical statues were not painted horribly

Here is a Roman statue located in the British Museum: Townley Venus, British Museum. 2nd or 3rd century AD. Image Heritage Image Partnership Ltd via Alamy. It depicts the goddess Venus, perhaps originally holding a mirror. Something you will notice about it is that it looks great. Get the print magazine Subscribe for $100 to […]
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

Let’s grow together At Hightouch, we’re committed to helping our customers, business, and employees grow. As a series C startup backed by top investors, we are determined to continuously raise the bar and provide the best product in the market. Grow your career in a fast paced environment that values creative thinking and innovation.
Creating apps like Signal could be ‘hostile activity’ claims UK watchdog

Encrypted messaging developers may be considered hostile actors in the UK An independent review of national security law warns of overreach Encryption repeatedly targeted by UK lawmakers Developers of apps that use end-to-end encryption to protect private communications could be considered hostile actors in the UK. That is the stark warning from Jonathan Hall KC, […]