29 links from the last 24 hours · 26 October 2026
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
Seam Cutter
wordexp(3) is a POSIX API for performing shell-style expansions from C.
Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.
2026-10-25
Bringing uv and ty together
Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.
Maintenance Futures - Christopher Butler
Future visions tend to organize around narratives of gain or loss, dystopia or utopia. But what of the neutral position?
Bootstrapping the Verified Software Stack | Theorem
A shared, verified software stack, starting with every project in the nixpkgs ecosystem.
I must participate in building the future.
Dieting can make you snap at the people you love. Hunger is unpleasant, and your mind blames whoever is nearby. A steep deficit makes it worse.
Password manager recommendations — DennySORA
From password reuse to vault encryption, TOTP, FIDO2, passkeys, autofill and backups—with diagrams and expandable technical notes.
Why leave a perfectly good Linux shell hidden inside a camera?
What is “the true cost of a token”?
On agentic development and resisting the pull of multitasking.
Quitting the news can leave you flat even when you are better off. The habit was also filling your day, and the problems it covered surface all at once.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
Emacs finally folds to my liking
Emacs finally folds to my liking … and understands what folds are in many languages and modes.. this really feels like absolute power and overview capability.
bbtree: making range reads 2x faster on hot keys | Rahul Yadav
bbtree is the fastest ordered map I know of. Its scans still latch every leaf they read, so I took the latch away. Scans doubled on shared leaves, seeks got 1.5x for free, and the wrong turn on the way is the useful part.
I Couldn't Sleep, So I Built a Factory
One sleepless night, one Mac and Claude: how I built a small software factory that turns tickets into reviewed pull requests.
As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom, I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore.
We've heard the same arguments from lazy unskilled devs for decades:
I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.
A few months ago I wrote about the greenhouse and the lens, the idea that agentic AI work splits into two modes: a greenhouse where you let everything grow and…
What Austin Kleon’s Don’t Call It Art taught me about play, curiosity, and a beginner’s mindset as an adult. Just make stuff.
My x86-64 artisinal, hand-crafted, bespoke cyberdeck laptop.
What changed in ASP.NET Core authentication, authorization and Data Protection in .NET 11 RC2 and the .NET 10 updates, found by comparing the source code.
How Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Learn how Cerebras maps trillion-parameter frontier models across WSE-3T wafers to deliver scalable inference at 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Sleeping Giants and CTRL-Z sent evidence to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court today showing Meta AI continues to spontaneously link Lula to negative content
October 22, 2026