From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

TLDR: I made a CLI tool that can resolve an IP address to a country, US state and even a city. https://github.com/jimaek/geolocation-tool

It works well and confirms ipinfo's findings.



Recently, I read how ipinfo finally proved what most technical people…

Cash comes as Mark Thomson takes the reins at CERN

It’s difficult to say with certainty what the most popular noscripts or genres were in the early years of computer games. Many of the games were sold directly by mail-order, or through tiny single-pro…

One old dragon that’s reared its head again in this “age of AI” is the very wrongheaded notion that productivity == code. Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev tea…

Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specificall…

A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

My experiences using Guix System after its 1.5.0 release.

A collection of articles about software engineering, API design, and product development.

John Voight, Professor of Mathematics

Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."

Dive into CPython internals, trying to illustrate every detail of CPython implementation - zpoint/CPython-Internals

The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext

htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable…

In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025. The announcement1 says …

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.

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