#219 — Apr 7, 2026 by Evan Chen

TIL that sed can delete all lines matching a pattern:

sed -i '/pattern/d'

I think I should learn more about sed.

#218 — Apr 6, 2026 by Evan Chen

Woke up to Tailscale DNS not working on desktop. Ended up installing openresolv to replace resolvconf, to match my laptop. I have no memory at all of installing either.

#217 — Apr 4, 2026 by Evan Chen

I hope Python and Rust rule the world together.

#216 — Apr 4, 2026 by Evan Chen

Spent the morning trying to wrap my head around the nvim IDE stuff and wrote up a note to self.

#215 — Apr 4, 2026 by Evan Chen

Reading about mkdocs falling apart is… huh. I had no idea.

#214 — Apr 2, 2026 by Evan Chen

CI is killing my productivity because I feel like I can't focus on the actual work until the CI is set up perfectly.

#213 — Apr 2, 2026 by Evan Chen

Might really switch from prettier to rumdl.

#212 — Mar 31, 2026 by Evan Chen

Finally realized I could use CloudFlare's functions/_middleware.js for a small basic HTTP authentication. That's nice.

#211 — Mar 29, 2026 by Evan Chen

Something about running this command was deeply satisfying:

$ rm -rf Therapy/

#210 — Mar 25, 2026 by Evan Chen

Trailing commas being forbidden in JSON drives me nuts. I hope Python gets TOML 1.1 support into a builtin module soon, for now I have to keep including it as a dependency.

#209 — Mar 25, 2026 by Evan Chen

Isn't fate pull such a good command name?

#208 — Mar 24, 2026 by Evan Chen

On the litellm attack:

We discovered it when the package was pulled in as a transitive dependency by an MCP plugin running inside Cursor. The .pth launcher spawns a child Python process via subprocess.Popen, but because .pth files trigger on every interpreter startup, the child re-triggers the same .pth — creating an exponential fork bomb that crashed the machine. The fork bomb is actually a bug in the malware.

(Passed to me by a work colleague.)

#207 — Mar 23, 2026 by Evan Chen

Man, I can just like, upload whatever I want to PyPI and it's great.

#206 — Mar 22, 2026 by Evan Chen

I really want to like biome, but having to have a configuration file to cause it to use spaces over tabs (the default for prettier) isn't great. I don't have .prettierrc and don't really want to start with biome.json either.

#205 — Mar 21, 2026 by Evan Chen

What does it say about me that tinkering with CI is more addictive than Netflix?

#204 — Mar 21, 2026 by Evan Chen

python -m http.server is such a nice built-in command and I wish I knew about it like ten years ago

#203 — Mar 20, 2026 by Evan Chen

I think I have an unhealthy addiction to setting up CI.

#202 — Mar 19, 2026 by Evan Chen

Are people really so slow at reading emails that having an LLM summarize the email for them is useful? I can't imagine not preferring to just read the original.

#201 — Mar 18, 2026 by Evan Chen

we learned that apparently the actual purpose of MOP was to mine OTIS diamonds buried deep within the earth

that has got to be one of the quotes of all time

#200 — Mar 17, 2026 by Evan Chen

all i want for christmas is django support for ty