Decoded Node

PHP & Perl Web Development, and the Craft of Programming

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Using LLMs Again

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They insisted on selling out the future for dubious short-term interests again #capitalism, so about three million tokens in, I have more th...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Identity Requires Long Term Secrets

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One cannot remove all long-term credentials.  The process of establishing a session is one of identifying a stable entity (such as a user a...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Trying Stage Manager

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I tried Stage Manager on my desktop in macOS 26.  There’s not much to say about it, because it didn’t click for me.  I just don’t work with ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Lazy Init Only Scatters Latency

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People report on the Internet that their “Hello World” NodeJS functions in AWS Lambda initialize in 100–150 ms on a cold start, while our re...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Two Thoughts on Ubuntu Signing Keys

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Here’s something I don’t get: why is there a trusted “2012 CD signing key” on my Ubuntu 24.04 machines, when there is also a “2018” signing ...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Adventures with my old iPod Touch

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The iPod Touch (4th Gen) in the car could no longer be detected, so we pulled it out of the console to find it in DFU mode.  Yikes. I had e...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Three Zsh Tips

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To expand environment variables in the prompt, make sure setopt prompt_subst is in effect.  This is the default in sh/ksh modes, but not zs...
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