alexwlchan
Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my...
yesterday
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my phone, and put it down.
I’m free to wash the dishes, fold the laundry, or shop for groceries.
Unfortunately, more and more information is only published as a video. Technical talks,...
Patrick Kayongo
AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open...
yesterday
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open source, and how these tools that generate code according to one’s specification may replace the general reliance on open source implementations done by contributors around the world. I’d...
PostHog's RSS Feed
6-7 loops we use everyday to make PostHog self-driving
I've mostly given up keeping up with agent trends. Every few months, I ignore all of it and ask what...
yesterday
I've mostly given up keeping up with agent trends. Every few months, I ignore all of it and ask what I'm actually getting use out of. Three things…
charity.wtf
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
2 days ago
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
Maggie Appleton
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
2 days ago
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Charles Chen
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
3 days ago
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
Seldo.com
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
3 days ago
sancho.dev
What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?
What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
4 days ago
What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate is back
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription...
6 days ago
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...
Quentin Santos
My first PCB: AIC3204 eval board
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the...
a week ago
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the (TLV320)DAC3100 audio chip. “DAC” stands for “Digital-to-Analog Conversion”; that is, it takes some audio signal (here, I²S) and converts it to the analog equivalent (differential for speakers,...
Marco.org
Bob and Van
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a...
a week ago
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died....
Ink & Switch
A Morphic programming kernel
TODO
a week ago
A Beautiful Site
Most Software Was Already Slop
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
a week ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The best data warehouses for developers, compared
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
a week ago
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
TokyoDev
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
a week ago
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here.
I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
Charles Petzold
Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication?
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of...
a week ago
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of puzzlement. Such was the case with the cover of a book I recently bought entitled Calculating with Tones: The Logarithmic Logic of Music: ... more ...
SOS
Clean your Mac & Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing...
a week ago
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible.
My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
David Gerrells
A Cavalcade of the Olfactory Dimension
We have all been there, at least once in life. The door opens and a special kind of odor slinks its...
2 weeks ago
We have all been there, at least once in life. The door opens and a special kind of odor slinks its way up your nose. The gym.
Steve Klabnik
So, what happened to my Claude Code series?
I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And...
2 weeks ago
I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And then… I didn’t manage to. In some ways, this is because I have just been super busy! I’ve never had less free time, and I’m okay with that. There’s a tremendous amount of good things…
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Dinosaur Kingdom II
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
2 weeks ago
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
Tom MacWright
Recently
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
2 weeks ago
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics.
For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was...
James Vaughan's blog
Going back to Linux on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro
2 weeks ago
Buttondown's blog
Dashboard and Archives downtime
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
2 weeks ago
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
2 weeks ago
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
Coding Horror
You Can't "Vibe Code" Love
About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in...
2 weeks ago
About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the...
James Vaughan's blog
Building the Open Task Light
2 weeks ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2026
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of...
2 weeks ago
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of a bandgap voltage reference circuit. As its name implies, a bandgap voltage reference generates a near-constant voltage for use inside chips. The voltage is intended to be fairly...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: Summer 2026
The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the...
3 weeks ago
The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the move and making developmental leaps. Time is this sort of weird compressed experience, not dissimilar to the way I felt about COVID and 2020 (wasn't that just yestersday? No indeed...
Jordan Eldredge's...
FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet...
3 weeks ago
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client
Paolo Amoroso's...
The origins of my computing journey
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX...
3 weeks ago
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned.
At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session...
David Gerrells
how to be authentic
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind...
3 weeks ago
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind when I try to understand why I have such admiration for and disgust with mainstream pop, hip-hop, and rap music.
Matt Keeter
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
3 weeks ago
Charles Petzold
AI-Supercharged Phishing Emails
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and...
3 weeks ago
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and other blunders. Now that scammers are apparently using AI to aid in their phishing emails, the tells are more subtle. ... more ...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing memory use in markdown parser
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which...
3 weeks ago
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which I mean: my friend Claude does the porting, I’m just directing.
It uses markdown-rs (a CommonMark + GFM parser) markdown parser so I ported it too.
Then I optimized it.
This post...
Josh Collinsworth
In defense of two-state theme toggles
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or...
3 weeks ago
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or three, with an added "system" option. I maintain two-state toggles are better in most cases (though not all), and that the case for a third option rests mainly on problems most...
On Test Automation
Should testers write unit tests?
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will...
3 weeks ago
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I recommend...
The History of the...
A website for everyone
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing.
The...
4 weeks ago
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing.
The post A website for everyone appeared first on The History of the Web.
Greg Brockman
The Defender's Window
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek...
16th Aug 2026
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one theme is clear: they know they...
Acko.net
Curvature Beziers
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
...
15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
{left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true},
{left: "$", right: "$", display: false},
]});
});
Improving on a timeless recipe
The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
Quentin Santos
A few spikes in Pico cos()
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x),...
15th Aug 2026
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it took to evaluate cosf(x) for each x, in...
Marco.org
Unforgetful
I have ADHD. Probably.1
My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework,...
14th Aug 2026
I have ADHD. Probably.1
My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential.
I’ll be working on the resulting shame...
Tom MacWright
Technology optimism hour
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool...
14th Aug 2026
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again.
It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room is...
alexwlchan
How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug →
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how...
13th Aug 2026
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career.
I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and the blog post.
Before Tailscale, I was...
Ferd.ca
Control and complexity: tension in systems design
The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their...
10th Aug 2026
The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their practices and structures. Old methods are questioned, replaced, and repurposed as the economics around creating new code get shaken up. Because humans and LLMs aren’t...
Confessions of a...
x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing...
9th Aug 2026
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing modes along with some interesting examples and exercises.
Tony Finch's blog
Counting the days, revisited
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian
Day numbers or similar counts...
9th Aug 2026
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian
Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used
in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of
C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down date-time
into linear time_t.
I recently...
Irrational...
Middle management roles are also a trap.
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into
a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management
aspects of the role made being...
Charles Chen
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
8th Aug 2026
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
Lee A Johnson
The Caretakers
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back.
That’s an upload to...
davidyat.es
Static websites and right-sizing software
7th Aug 2026
Ink & Switch
The Object Model in Livelymerge
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
7th Aug 2026
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
A Beautiful Site
I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.
The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
Herman's blog
Committing to creativity
The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
Eric Migicovsky's...
We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget...
5th Aug 2026
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life…
Eric Bailey
Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary...
4th Aug 2026
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill.
For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then paving over it. It enjoyed popularity as a...
The Changelog
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a...
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was...
3rd Aug 2026
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill...
TokyoDev
Joining Toastmasters in Japan to Make Friends
“Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of...
3rd Aug 2026
“Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of advice people give when you’re wondering how to meet new people, and I decided to take it.
I had just moved to Fukuoka after my job hunt as a post-graduate and a friend introduced me...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Caldera Music
A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp
1st Aug 2026
A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp
ByteofDev
Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A
Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
Buttondown's blog
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a...
1st Aug 2026
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Aug 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in July Concluded my trip to Japan and posted more photos to the Tsundoku pop-up newsletter. I am having a lot of fun exploring photography as a hobby.
davidyat.es
LLMs are good at inline code formatting
31st Jul 2026
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system....
30th Jul 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still...
Daniel Marino
Moving from Eleventy to Astro
28th Jul 2026
Patrick Kayongo
Software Praxis
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
Ink & Switch
Convergence Is Not Enough
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
27th Jul 2026
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
A Smart Bear
What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it...
19th Jul 2026
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
Maggie Appleton
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
tonsky.me
Logo: Squawkbox
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
14th Jul 2026
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early simulations with GravityLoops
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