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Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different design for that implementation. In many ...
"$599 is a fucking statement." https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo
A lot of people were confused by Trump's immediate embrace of Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, but it makes a lot more sense when you consider that he thinks they spell it "Golf"
Nobody knows what the future of software engineering looks like, and that's incredibly uncomfortable. But instead of waiting for someone to hand us the answer, I think the move is to embrace the uncertainty, because these moments of deep uncertainty ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in Feburary 2026.
I recently shared some performance benchmarks of moving my blog from C# to Rust - Rust came out to be 4x faster and use 4x less memory. I've since gotten several questions about why I'm choosing Rust...
Archive a lifetime of email with analytics and search in milliseconds, entirely offline.
If you love building things, and the process of building is just as important to you as the result itself, itās not unreasonable that youāre in a slump these days. The world is telling you that your thinking process is ...
Continuing from Part 1, where we learned what git for data is, how the architecture and use cases work, how you can achieve git-like functionality with different approaches, and how the key is to avoid moving data as much as ...
Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees. Entire system becomes unresponsive eventually. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543
Today I learned how to install jupyter properly while using uv to manage tools. Running a Jupyter notebook server or Jupyter lab To run a Jupyter notebook server with uv, you can run the command $ uvx jupyter notebook Similarly, ...
February 23-25 2026, Big W Engineering Solutions partnered with T&O Group, Tessere, J.E. Dunn, Platinum Roofing and Larsen Consulting to exhibit in booths 88-89 at the Missouri Association of Manufacturers (MAM) Midwest Manufacturer's Trade Show and Conference in Branson.
Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs canāt do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
Getting involved in open source doesn't have to be scary! Understand how to find a great project and make your first contribution in this guide.
I made the experiment: Claude Code as a full engineer on GitLab, as part of the development team for a mini game. I create tickets and review merge requests, while Claude Code submits code as merge requests and iterates on ...
Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our Changelog++ subs!
It's been a while since I posted about WASI support in CPython! š Up until now, most of the work I have been doing around WASI has been making its maintenance easier for me and other core developers. For instance, ...
The M4 iPad Air is notable, because it will set Apple apart as the only company to release a product in 2026 sporting more RAM for the same price as the outgoing model. (8GB to 12GB) https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/02/apple-announces-ipad-air-with-m4-chip/
Topics covered in this episode: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026? pytest-check releases Dataclass Wizard SQLiteo - ānative macOS SQLite browser built for normal peopleā Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: ...
Sure feels like some combination of AI, the US military, and the AI military could bring an end to the world any day now, so I figured I'd better record one last show for posterity. Welcome me on this version's ...
I enjoyed this essay from my friend Ed Lyons, which I think speaks well to my particular state of mind as someone who has been in this industry for 30+ years, a parent, a people leader, a builder.
Thoughts about things I really enjoyed during the approximately two years we lived in London.
TL;DR - In 2026.02, I built an AI orchestrator, launched CloudSeed Rust, moved to a terminal-focused dev workflow, wrote several posts, stuck to my exercise routines, and generally led a very balanced...
Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today Iām talking with David Flood from Harvardās DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What ...
https://youtu.be/6pP8x8sXoaM The Great Transitionāmultiple streams converging/images/the-great-transition.webp/images/the-great-transition.webp I'm going to try to encapsulate a whole bunch of stuff that's going on right now and wrap it into a single container. It's actually very difficult to do ...
Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions
Pattern matching is one of the first things you'll learn in Elixir that might just completely rewire your brain. Let's dig into how it can change the way you handle data, errors, and control flow.
Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and ...
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today. This blog highlights these behaviors so that you ...
Legal threats, exposed vulnerabilities, and a fond farewell
Finally got a chance to visit @izukiorlando with @instantsal this week. Generally, I set my expectations for sushi in Florida to quite low, especially if the restaurant isn't Japanese-owned. Izuki blew away those admittedly reserved expectations with one of the ...
The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a thorough simulation that I think it's convinced me to abandon my dreams of joining Starfleet when I grow up. Being a captain is no fun at all!
I first got exposed to django-simple-nav while working with Josh Thomas at the Westervelt Company over the last two or three years. It quickly became a go-to library in my toolkit. django-simple-nav lets you define nav items and groupings in ...
There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that everything is exploding as an exponential ...
I recently rewrote my blog from C# to Rust as a way to further explore High-Level Rust. Both versions serve the same 1,025+ posts from memory using the same architecture: parse all posts at startup, b...
I had no background in evals. I built two very different evaluation systems for two AI-powered developer tools, and they taught me the same lesson: trust isn't a feeling, it's a measurement.
The first time I visited GitHub's HQ2 in 2012, they had a TV showing off their first animations of Mona and were using it to push their new tagline: Social Coding. The phrase certainly captured the moment we were living ...
The best practices for building with AI haven't been written yet, and that's actually exciting. This post breaks down a layered approach to AI-assisted development, from chat to coding agents to agent fleets, with practical tips for getting started no ...
If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and I never responded: GitHub apparently disabled automatic watching for new repositories last year and nobody noticed. Issues are now graveyards from Day 1. No wonder my inbox has been ...
Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This metric increments each time routes are synced with the cloud provider. A/B testing watch-based route reconciliation This metric was ...
My coding agent harnesses are designed to enable parallel serial workāmultiple agents running in multiple tabs, all committing to main instead of worktrees. turbocommit does this by linking each session's commits: https://github.com/searlsco/turbocommit?tab=readme-ov-file#continuity-across-workstreams
SoCal Linux Expo - discount "FAFOF" -https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/Kubecon EU Amsterdam - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/Linuxfest North West - https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/Newsletter - https://sub.fafo.fm/Dr. Cat Hicks takes a different approach to traditional engineer productivity measurements. Instead of turning engineers into velocity numbers she takes a holistic approach ...
May the hardware shortages empower European and Chinese companies to drastically boost investments into RISC-V hardware so it could become a viable architecture for production workloads earlier than expected.
Another entry in the Toy Optimizer series. Itās hard to get compiler optimizers right. Even if you build up a painstaking test suite by hand, you will likely miss corner cases, especially corner cases at the interactions of multiple components ...
In this post we walk through how to delete a Google Cloud Project. I personally moved all my projects off Google Cloud last year to self-hosted and finally got around to cleaning up all my dangling re...
A rich terminal UI for Sidekiq.
Ever hear of the Cart of Thesius? It's when every single item you ordered from Instacart has been replaced with something else. It's a thought experiment: are the bags on your porch still your order? Their customer support contends that ...
Speaking of me nailing predictions, I feel like this one from 2023 is aging like wine. Not least of which because the decades-long debate over "10x developers" has been rendered moot by agents. https://testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer