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This announcement is a recap from a post originally published on the Headlamp blog. Headlamp has come a long way in 2025. The project has continued to grow – reaching more teams across platforms, powering new workflows and integrations through ...
Background and bytecode design The ZJIT compiler compiles Ruby bytecode (YARV) to machine code. It starts by transforming the stack machine bytecode into a high-level graph-based intermediate representation called HIR. We use a more or less typical1 control-flow graph (CFG) ...
The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important topics between interested contributors. Today we would like to announce the new Kubernetes Checkpoint Restore WG focusing on the integration ...
While combinators are a great way to make your code more functional and declarative, Rust has something even better in its sleeve: async combinators. You may be wondering: what combinators
A beautiful TUI battery and energy monitor for your terminal.
You can handle so much more than you think
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Context switching between terminals can be a mental lift, and this function to add touch to PowerShell has helped me a bunch!
Armin Ronacher thinks AI agent psychosis might be driving us insane, Dan Abramov explains how AT Protocol is a social filesystem, RepoBar keeps your GitHub work in view without opening a browser, Ethan McCue shares some life altering Postgres patterns, ...
If you've ever wanted to develop a command line client for a Kubernetes API, especially if you've considered making your client usable as a kubectl plugin, you might have wondered how to make your client feel familiar to users of ...
Topics covered in this episode: Better Django management commands with django-click and django-typer PSF Lands a $1.5 million sponsorship from Anthropic How uv got so fast PyView Web Framework Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on ...
After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!
How am I meant to enjoy this, without any SAUCE?
You might have noticed that I did a big design refresh on my entire site… unless you’re on RSS I guess. I’ll talk about aspects in detail, but at a high level there’s been three big changes: A monospace font ...
I made a game called Code Wave for the GitHub Game Off 2025, here's how I did it!
Formats over apps.
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We're diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why someone in Asia downloads a single episode so much.
I've always loved Cassatt's art, but it hits differently now that I have kids of my own.
Cryptography is full of footguns reguraly blowing the feets of unsuspecting developers that can't believe that the algorithm supposed to secure their data are actually full of holes. One of
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
A few years ago, I received a letter in the mail addressed to my then-toddler. It was from a company I had never heard of. Apparently, there had been a
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the ...
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do The post I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
37.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are memory safety issues, while only 27.2% are cryptographic issues, according to an empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries (Jenny Blessing, Michael A.
A TUI for inspecting network connections, like netstat for humans.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/534
I spent 2025 going from skeptical to genuinely excited about AI tools. My non-tech friends and family spent 2025 learning to hate them. The AI industry has fumbled this introduction so badly that we've turned a useful set of tools ...
Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design ...
Topics covered in this episode: port-killer How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster CodSpeed Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/465
Taking a vacation to the beach 3 months after starting a business is probably not something you'll find in any entrepreneurial self-help book. The best entrepreneurs, however, will remind you to never lose focus on your true north star. Partnership ...
Over 10 years ago, I put together a self “liturgy” of sorts (basically just a prayer) that I love reading. It takes a bunch of my favorite verses but changes them to the first-person perspective. There’s something about first person ...
As I was playing around with contrast-color(), I got a wild idea that you could use contrast-color() to invert its return value by nesting it: contrast-color(contrast-color(var(--some-color)). When would this be useful? Uh… Good question. I couldn’t come up with an ...
Habit-tracking can feel useful and insightful. But how does it help us, really?
How to go from starting things to finishing things.
I spoke with students at Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College about tech careers, AI, and networking.
If you are in tech, or possibly even if you aren’t, your social feeds are likely awash with AI. Most developers seem to be either all-in or passionately opposed to AI (with a leaning towards the all-in camp). Personally I ...
2025 was my year of doing ALL the things - speaking at 5+ conferences, starting a podcast, shipping side projects, and somehow not completely burning out. I learned that momentum creates more momentum, perfectionism is overrated, and seeing people in ...
The Shirt is at the heart of what this website redesign became.
Did you know that kubectl can run arbitrary executables, including shell scripts, with the full privileges of the invoking user, and without your knowledge? Whenever you download or auto-generate a kubeconfig, the users[n].exec.command field can specify an executable to fetch ...
Most programming language haves built-in data structures such as Hash Maps and B-tree for in-memory processing, but what about serializing these data structures to save on disk or send over
[Last Week in AWS] AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate The post AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey ...
The first thing I did last year was run | Henry From Online A tiny website by Henry (From Online) which I am publishing in February 2026 for your exclusive reading pleasure :) The first thing I did last year ...
I've recently tasted AMD Zen 5 CPUs (AWS' m8a instances) and... Whooaaa. Even before talking about GPUs and NPUs, the next 5 years of CPUs will be very exciting! For
Fast TUI for searching, inspecting, and queueing pacman/AUR packages.