Links

• CLI-Anything ↗ by Data Intelligence Lab@HKU
  Any software. Any codebase. Any Web API. Generate an agent-native CLI and let AI agents operate it — install with a single command.
• What separates a good MCP server from a demo ↗ by Tomas Grasl
  • Every tool you expose is a tax on the agent’s context - Tools are for acting. Resources are for reading. - Make writes conflict safe with optimistic concurrency. - structuredContent roughly doubles your response size: the payload is serialized into the response twice
• Drucee Art (Instagram) ↗ by Drucee Art
  A bunch of really cute doodles for drawing inspiration.
• I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write ↗ by Colin Breck
  A really well-written essay by Collin. He does a really good job of articulating why I hate writing everyone’s AI copy+paste. He also talks a bit about what AI is good at for writing.
• How To Be Successful (2019) ↗ by Sam Altman
  Kind of interesting to read Sam Altman’s advice around what he believe success is.
• Making the internet boring ↗ by Cemrehan Çavdar
  Cemrehan went next level by making his phone and entire web browser grayscale. HN Discussion
• Find a good available .com domain ↗ by Derek Sivers
  4 years ago, Derek wrote about how to find a “good” .com domain name. I’d like to try to give this a shot in 2022 and see if the available domains have changed since then.
• Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown ↗ by Kyle Lambert
  Kyle Lambert wrote about turning a Tuff Shed into a home office for about $20k.
• Sticker: We do not test on animals, we test in production ↗ by Florian Kohler
  O.G.. Backup Copy
• How to Run with Perfect Form (YouTube) ↗ by RunnaTV
  “And the more we drive our hips forward, the faster we start to run. And as a result, our heel comes up behind us more. We’re driving those hips.”
• Programming Still Sucks ↗ by Steven Langbroek
  This story is so good. It was inspired by this Programming Sucks from 2014.
• Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym ↗ by Thienan Tran
  It was fun reading Thienan’s story/experiment/challenge about talking to strangers at the gym. After reading it, I regret not doing something like this years ago.
• Emma Goto Posts tagged #blog ↗ by Emma Goto
  Posts about blogging and building a blog by Emma.
• How I use Obsidian ↗ by Steph Ango
  How the CEO of Obsidian uses his own note taking application.
• Concrete Laptop Stand ↗ by Sam Burns
  Not exactly my aesthetic, but a pretty cool project!
• neatocal ↗ by AbeTusk
  A handy single page calendar via HN. GitHub
• Blogosphere — the frontpage of the indie web ↗ by Ramkarthik
  Blogosphere is an aggregator that fetches the latest posts from over 1,000 indie web blogs.
• Worrying well: how to bring wisdom to your worries ↗ by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
  The difference between worry, anxiety, and stress.
• Spatchcock Chicken Butchery ↗ by ChefSteps
  My favorite way to cook a chicken.
• Table to Markdown ↗ by John Franey
  Paste a table to markdown.
• Paste to Markdown ↗ by Euan Goddard
  Paste anything to markdown.
• Presidio - Data Protection and De-identification SDK ↗ by Data Privacy Stack (previously Microsoft)
  “An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines.”
• Universal POST*CODE® DataBase ↗ by Universal Postal Union (UPU)
  POSTCODE® DataBase, General Addressing Issues for info required fields for different countries, Postal addressing systems in member countries and/or territories shows example addresses and explanations of the different components required for different fields.
• Statistics for Hackers (PyCon 2016) ↗ by Jake Vanderplas
  “If you can write a for loop, you can do statistics.”
• Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? ↗ by William Oncken, Jr. and Donald L. Wass
  I ask myself this question at least once a day. PDF
• The Monospace Web: A minimalist design exploration ↗ by Oskar Wickström
  Clean and simple. I like it.
• My Official Ranking of The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes on the Internet ↗ by Alex (Lily P Crumbs)
  35+ chocolate chip cookie recipes baked and ranked.
• Don't @ Me Stickers ↗ by Rob Knight
  Don’t know, don’t care, Don’t @ Me
• 45 Small Quick Doodles to Draw When Bored ↗ by Shihori Obata
  Fun, quick doodle inspiration.
• How I write Django views ↗ by Kevin Renskers
  Halfway between function and class-based views. You get class inheritance without all the magic of Django’s delivered class based views.
• How to Speak (YouTube) ↗ by Patrick Winston
  Love this lecture on public speaking.
• Thrashing ↗ by Mike Hoye
  I too get frustrated with unproductive tools and unprioritized tasks.
• Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook (PDF) ↗ by JamesG
  I found an excellent series of posts about technical writing by Jamesg. They were combined into this book.
• How to make backups of PostgreSQL? ↗ by Hubert Lubaczewski
  Much easier to use and reason about than the “official” PostgreSQL Wiki Backup scripts. There’s also a more recent, efficient version.
• Postgres Full Text Search is better than ... (Part 1) ↗ by Adam Cooper
  Great example and progression of PostgeSQL full text search (FTS) features. Series: 1, 2
• When Are You Ready To Write A Technical Book? ↗ by Dan Moore
  tl;dr: write 10 blog posts on the topic first.
• You should not be displaying relative dates ↗ by Aaron Parecki
  Display a real date, not “4 days ago”.
• Index card productivity systems ↗ by u/PecanPlan
  Reddit comment with a roundup of index card productivity systems. 1 2 3 4 5
• Decoupling database migrations from server startup: why and how ↗ by Itamar Turner-Trauring
  Why? Reduce production problems.
• Securing Go HTTP webservers ↗ by Jan Pieter Bruins Slot
  A VERY technical article about the settings and configuration to secure Go HTTP webservers. (timeouts, TLS, and secure headers)
• Different ways of working with SQL Databases in Go ↗ by Alex Pliutau
  Pros, cons, and examples of 4 different ways to use SQL databases in Go. (database/sql, sqlx, GORM, sqlc). (My favorite is sqlc).
• 2025 HR Strategy Resources (LinkedIn Post) ↗ by Esther AbraaS
  Helpful links to 2025 HR Strategy resources. Gartner - Top 5 Priorities for HR Leaders in 2025 Lattice - 2025 State of People Strategy Report 6 Foundations to build a future-proof HR strategy in start-ups by JooBee Yeow Gartner Playbook for Increasing HR’s Strategic Impact Gartner - 5 Steps to Building an HR Strategy Leapsome - A complete guide to effective HR strategy planning (& a free template!)
• Sensible SQLite defaults ↗ by Brian Douglas
  In case I ever have a website that gets enough traffic to actually need this.
• A Developer's Guide to SAML (YouTube) ↗ by Nick Gamb, Okta
  This SAML explanation really clicked for me.
• jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering ↗ by David Crawshaw
  JSON file database for small Go projects. github.com/crawshaw/jsonfile
• templatemaker ↗ by Adrian Holovaty
  Python library to extract unique data from temmplated files (a.k.a. webpages). Google Code Archive
• Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites ↗ by Daniel Fedorin
  13-ish features to add to a personal website.
• Name an album you can listen to in its entirety without ever hitting "SKIP". ↗ by Reddit u/cbeagle
• Obituaty for a Quiet Life ↗ by Jeremy B. Jones
  Just a really well written essay.
• 3/3/3, a method for structuring the day ↗ by Oliver Burkeman
  Intention to spend your day with: (1) 3 hours on the most important current project (2) complete 3 shorter tasks or urgent to-do’s (3) complete 3 maintenance things to keep life running smoothly.
• Take Ownership of Your Future Self ↗ by Benjamin Hardy
  alt source.
• Pomodoro Technique ↗ by Francesco Cirillo
  Besides a to-do list, my most used prodoctivity technique.
• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation ↗ by Dan Slimmon
  Be a nerd; code your checklist.