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moebrowneon Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

I used to do this purely so that I could attach a name, then I found out that you can add a message when stashing: `git stash push -m "trying a thing"`

moebrowneon Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

It appears that BitBucket also does not currently support SHA256 hashes.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-23729

moebrowneon I don't like passkeys

Some would consider spending over $200 on hardware keys an issue.

moebrowneon Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

> Submissions close on September 4th, 2026.

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic...

moebrowneon Htmx 4.0

Because serialisation and deserialisation have a price and you almost never need what you describe

moebrowneon Htmx 4.0

Where are you getting those numbers from? The minified code is about 40kB before compression and about 13kB with gzip.

https://bundlephobia.com/package/htmx.org@4.0.0

moebrowneon Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Not sure what you mean by "private payments" but Kagi accepts Bitcoin: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html

moebrowneon Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Nope, but there are unofficial ones:

https://github.com/taobojlen/anthropic-rss-feed/tree/main

moebrowneon Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

It depends. If you have a Claude Code subscription then it defaults to an hour, if you use Claude via an API or third party then it defaults to 5 minutes. You can opt-in to the 1 hour TTL but it obviously costs more.

> 5-minute cache write tokens are 1.25 times the base input tokens price > 1-hour cache write tokens are 2 times the base input tokens price

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/prompt-caching#on-a-claude-s...

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

moebrowneon Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

That article is well over a year old. The current privacy FAQ right now explicitly states:

> We never sell your personal data. Unlike other big tech companies that collect and profit off your personal information, we’re built with privacy as the default. We don’t know your age, gender, precise location, or other information Big Tech collects and profits from.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/

moebrowneon Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Not saying your wrong, but the number, and type, of sites you browse is going to be a very narrow slice of the sites that all Firefox users browse

moebrowneon HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

> HTMX only does GET

The very top of the docs (https://htmx.org/docs/) shows how HTMX sends a POST request:

    <button hx-post="/clicked"
        hx-trigger="click"
        hx-target="#parent-div"
        hx-swap="outerHTML">
        Click Me!
    </button>

moebrowneon DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

Can be seen here at 1m30s: https://youtu.be/2x2W3mwERiU?si=ySQh_-QMCetehasK&t=90

moebrowneon Local models will not win

The foundation of this article is that the frontier models are going to keep advancing at the same rate, and therefore always be ahead of local ones. I dont believe this trend will continue. I think we are reaching the top of the S-curve.

moebrowneon How Claude marks AI-generated content

There are many free lock picking tutorials, but yet locks are still effective.

moebrowneon The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

A small bolt could easily replace the pin, this would also allow a washer to be added preventing any chance that it working loose.

moebrowneon Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026

Standard NiMH AAA battery is ~1Wh so 12 Trillion (12,000,000,000,000)

moebrowneon So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

What if the plants were algae?

moebrowneon Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

They also often have a small magnet embedded in the rotor which can be picked up with a reed switch or hall-effect sensor

moebrowneon Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

https://archive.is/ZuKV6

moebrowneon It's getting harder to focus every day

I don't buy this. I think people find it easier to make excuses about lacking some magical, unobtainable, abstract property like "the drive" than to actually put in the effort to improve themselves.

moebrowneon It's getting harder to focus every day

It seems to me that lots of people consider the ability to focus as some kind of innate ability which we are all born with, it's not. It's a learned skill which requires practice. Stop practising and it atrophies.

We all understand this for physical exercise, I think we need to understand the same principles apply to skills.

moebrowneon Back to Kagi

> It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding tooling, but the actual search quality is about the same

For me the quality of results is improved exactly because of the customization. Removing sites which I don't trust, are low quality, spammy, etc.

moebrowneon Back to Kagi

AI slop is actively down-ranked based on community feedback: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

moebrowneon Back to Kagi

Kagi Assistant + customised search/lenses is super powerful. It gives you control over what context from the internet the AI can use/you trust

moebrowneon Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL

Here's the Bugzilla link which was closed last month: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021722

moebrowneon Airbus Takes Flight from AWS

> Is Airbus still using Google workspaces for mail? Nice vector for industrial espionage.

Whatever email provider they use, people will always be the ultimate vector, clicking links they shouldn't.