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Back in August I mentioned the new curl performance tests we have running. I figured it could be apt to return to this topic just to mention some of the initial outcomes. When the team gets a new set of ...
Most semantic layers come with a great declarative modeling language to define metrics and measures well1, but very soon after, you start building wrappers around the semantic layer that enable agentic work and context engineering, that work well with harnesses ...
Release: web-edit 0.1a1 Includes performance optimizations written by Claude Opus 5.5 after I fed it this Python 3.15 profiling report generated by GPT-6 Astra. Tags: profiling, projects
I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the phone, usually on the ...
An Iceberg table is a tree of JSON, Avro and Parquet files. DuckDB can read every one of them, so you can walk the tree yourself with SQL: from the metadata file, through the manifest list and manifests, down to ...
Release it for visionOS, you cowards! https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/10/no-mans-sky-gets-unlikely-iphone-and-ipad-release-including-10-years-worth-of-updates
Look at this clock. It’s a clock. I bought it once because I needed… a clock. It’s $29, which is totally reasonable for… a clock. Then it was Daylight Saving Time one day, and I went to update it, but… ...
In which I complain about the amount of time I spend apologising to my team about git.
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book. The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS version of that chapter (which Michael ultimately ended up ...
Unlike Sam Altman, I sat down and did the math by hand to calculate that it would actually be less time to produce the show if I were to livestream it than to edit it after the fact and upload ...
I remember working in digital prepress decades ago that .eps files were just kinda weird, and I didn’t love it when I had to deal with them. Like, what even made this? Why? I assumed it was some kind of ...
Learn how to use lazy imports to speed up the startup time of your Python applications. Python 3.15 introduced explicit lazy imports. An explicit lazy import is an import statement that starts with the keyword lazy: import json lazy import ...
The curl security team happens to also double as the curl core team. The small group of people who assess security reports and take project decisions. The exact set of participants in this team of course vary over time, as ...
Taking Breaking Change LIVE for the first time this morning. Plan to kick off around 9 AM eastern in I promise to be bad at this. Tune in! https://youtube.com/live/ij7orMMeoa4
Today's links How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist: If you care about labor justice and artists' rights, stop focusing on copyright. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: China unblocks Wikipedia; CCC cracks the Bundestrojaner; "Children ...
Riker is a persistent teammate that lives in my coding agent, hands work to the agents I already use, and checks the result itself. It is closed source for now.
Pete Millspaugh has a lovely article over on WIRED that peers into the world of domains. (If you’re as interested in the esoteric details of domains as I am, follow Pete’s writing at Dot Com Press.) You should just read ...
The time has come to address the elephant in the comments. Whenever my blog hits a place with a comments section the most predictable comment I see — besides some variation of “this idiot is utterly delusional!”† — is this ...
Dave, from #735: Never trust an adult over 35 who can’t explain what they need from you in a bulleted list. I’m thinking like a laptop sticker or t-shirt, right? A little AI slop to help pick a direction can ...
Sundays are for realising that this is speeder racing. No, not podracing. You're not skilled enough for that yet. You've got to get your reps in to be the best of the best on the tracks of the galaxy far, ...
At this rate, we're gonna get a PC port of GTA 6 a year before a PC port of GTA 6 comes out. https://kotaku.com/we-might-be-cooked-as-these-vibe-coded-web-browser-ports-of-halo-the-simpsons-hit-and-run-and-gta-vice-city-seem-to-work-perfectly-2000743300
Not much screen time for me lately, so this is a few months’ worth. But I have enjoyed some things! I have all these shows that I really wanna finish, but just can’t get the gumption to do it. Lanterns ...
Was burning through both the Codex and Claude $200 plans just triaging SwiftUI issues across my suite of apps. Told it to abort UI testing after at most one fix attempt and token consumption dropped 80%. I have become the ...
It’s official, Deno is as dead as a dodo. “We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno ...
The descent into autumn continues: this week I slept with an extra blanket on the bed. I'm not into swapping the duvet out for the winter tog yet, I'll be holding off on that until at least December, but the ...
Just noting Mat’s Multipage Version zine rules. I bought both issues right away. It’s weird, it’s funny, it’s a work of art, and you might even learn something. The page that is a spliced version of Marc Andreeson proposing the ...
A colossal purple intelligence building a stone arch while a small figure on a ladder lifts a cheap cracked mask off its face, and a second figure watches with arms crossed/images/renaming-ai-to-super-intelligence.webp/images/renaming-ai-to-super-intelligence.webp I'm torn on this one. First, I h...
Fun seeing CSS be a topic in WIRED. Pete Millspaugh shouting out some greats: One programmer recently re-created Doom in CSS. Others have used it to build holographic Pokémon cards and 3D-rendering engines. Cassidy Williams, who competed in this year’s ...
Today's links Thwarted: Behold the awesome destructive power of a fully operational billionaire. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Anthrax v National Inquirer; Grey goo v Second Life; Predictive policing v actual crime; Spooky cookies; California v ...
Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo, joins Adam to explain how a 40-hour weekend project became a viral open source hit and the foundation of an enterprise AI company. Gavriel describes the security concerns that led him ...