Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz

Behold, he rabbit hole of being weird enough to try to run 1) large models 2) on AMD 3) not GPU but NPU 4) that's from a basically abandoned XDNA1 line already. github.com/mistrjirka/p... At least I got the XDNA DKMS driver to build and run on kernel 7.2: github.com/lemonade-sdk...

programming as profession was never about generating tokens. but because generating tokens took so much time and was an essential skill in the profession, a lot of people have confused the two.

Here are the slides for my talk "Running Native Extensions and Ruby Code in Parallel Threads" at #EuRuKo 2026: eregon.me/blog/assets/...

yay, my first pr merged in openclacky: github.com/clacky-ai/op... this is my daily driver agent for private stuff. how and what coming up as two blogposts soon™️ that i already have drafted.

So, who's coming to Euruko 2026 in Brno?

deepseek-v4-flash-0731 is *absurdly* good for its price ($0.09/$0.18 per 1M tokens)

I'm not happy about the state of leadership in Rails (to put it mildly) but I like this perspective.

It's been exactly a year since Piotr's death and I still miss him.

I don't know who ran justactiverecord.com because I loved it but it's fully down now. It seems the domain is free, so I bought it and am going to reinstate the wonderful meme there. If you're the original author and owner - hit me up.

If you're a caveperson like me who sometimes uses web chat interface of different LLMs and likes markdown export then you might find it useful: bookmarklets! * repository: github.com/tomash/bookm... * page: html-preview.github.io?url=https://...

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with an exciting mix of end-user insights and really cool tooling: o11y.news/2026-04-27/ #observability

PSA: Don’t let anybody convince you to not spend those 15€ on a new hobby. Those 50€ will be the best 400€ you have ever spent.

DRY (don't repeat yourself) is actually a bad idea in many situations. For example, in a service (or microservice) architecture where you want independent deployability, two services sharing a library are effectively coupled not only to the library but also to each other. 1/3

i know what i'll be playing with over the weekend! also, light up a candle for crystal because they will be competing for same target audience: github.com/matz/spinel

New blog post: Let It Slop: A New Approach to Modularity in the Age of AI Code Generation. Still a bit rough and needs some editing but the main arguments are there: tomash.wrug.eu/blog/2026/04...

Hey #wrocloverb, the slides for my Modularity lightning talk are online at the usual spot: tomash.wrug.eu/talks/

this year's #wrocloverb starts on friday and ends on sunday. and it opens with a throwback for me: headius about jruby is a conference talk i saw on my first ruby conference, euruko 2008 in prague.

More than 8 months later, I finally managed to put some thoughts about the passing of my dear friend Piotr into a post. Grief is tough. Remembering Piotr @chastell.net Szotkowski pragtob.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/r...

Because I'm a cheapskate and don't code after-hours as much as I want to, also I want to keep the manual-coding skill sharp, I only pay for Cursor and not Claude Code (which I use a lot at work). And I'm happy to report that cursor-cli is not that far behind!

Claude Code added /btw command, but I don't think it works correctly.

On March 10th we seem to celebrate Men's Day (40 Martyrs of Sebaste). Ask a friend what's up and if he wants to grab a coffee, beer or just hang out.

It's hard to scale your way out of shitty code.

How're things with the thought leader, is he still "optimistic" about Trump now that Trump wants to basically start a war with Denmark?

just when you begin to think he's maybe not that bad, just trying to make it in a weird industry, he pulls of shit like this ram deal

this was mildly irritating (maybe even sometimes amusing) before 2022 but now it's fucking infuriating.

Testament just released their new album, Para Bellum. Way better than Brotherhood Of The Snake and Titans Of Creation, as they've toned down the black metal experiments (not fully though) and we're back to Bay Area thrash. It might replace Dark Roots as my second favourite!

Can we, for a second, appreciate the Director of Engineering who flat out refused to produce falsified data for the founder, telling her that he doesn't think it's legal, refusing further pressuring to do so. So Javice had to contract externally to get the fraud done.

My weakly-held opinion on DHH's political ramblings: as far as my political views are from his, freedom of speech means he can express non-extremist views, including right-wing ones. Open-source, like workplace, has and will have people from different parts of political spectrum.

today i learned: les goddamns

judging by my bluesky timeline, i'm guessing the thought leader has shared another piece of wisdom with his views on society.

Diverse cities where strangers from different backgrounds respect, welcome, and care for each other are literally the most amazing thing to ever come out of civilization. It's why I loved living in NYC so much, and why I want to move to London once our nest is empty.

Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.

ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.

Awesome opensource got released a few days ago: Copyparty, a self-hosted portable file server that runs on everything and with any browser. Check out the video with announcement:

When the news is overwhelming, it can be helpful to have an emotional support puppy. Today, we thought you might need two.

"bloodshed" has left early access recently. it's a combination of vampire survivors (most mechanics, including autoshoot) with a retro fps (aiming, dodging). climate and aesthetics are very close to "blood". hits a combo of dopamine releases i never knew could be combined.

Your timeline has been blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays

Migrating from Twilio's Authy -- because it refuses to run on my Onyx Boox Note Air 3C, despite the system being unrooted and secure -- to Bitwarden Authenticator and I already love the latter. Syncing the 2FA keys in Bitwarden Vault is *chef's kiss*. (FIDO migration alongside)

Privatisation is always the same. Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases. No one wins apart from shareholders. Successful privatisation in the UK: … … … *tumbleweed* Unsuccessful: ❌ Water ❌ Energy ❌ Rail (service, tracks) ❌ Post

GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952