31 links from the last 24 hours · 12 October 2026
I've made a new video. It is just one minute. You will like it. It's a good video. You can also share it because it is a good video. Part two is 2 minutes long.
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“Software Factories” have become all the rage recently. I saw one HN comment compare them to the Cambrian explosion of JS frameworks back in simpler times and that’s pretty accurate. Before we go …
A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.
Now you can ship software you don't understand
Shipping used to require learning how a system works, including the parts nobody wrote down. With agents, it doesn’t.
I built a HOCON conformance suite. It found bugs in the reference implementation.
I have used HOCON in production for years. I like the format because it is readable and it allows config file composition, so it allows simple multi-environment config shared config files overrides minimizing config differences. As a Python developer, my ultim…
I continue to hear this claim made regularly that “nobody knows how large language models work,” and I want to put this claim to rest finally.
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On Intelligence and Sentience
I have a conjecture which I’m almost certain is true. Intelligence — as defined as ability to solve open-ended, novel problems — 1Yes it’s my em-dash if at all necessary, is not strictly the same as sentience, which — without defining it — consists of more tha…
Tests and lints tell you the code works. They don't tell you it's written the way your team writes code. Here's how we use a decision model to close that gap at Filed.
Immigration
A border is where the control of one sovereign ends and another’s begins. In the ideal case where individuals are sovereign, borders are in the simplest case just the boundaries of your home.…
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
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Muse Wonder
A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents
Find all currently running Datasette instances and list their ports
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? - Musing Mortoray
AI companies claim their hacks were unpredictable accidents — but they follow foreseeably from deliberate design choices, and that establishes criminal intent.
Python 3.15 is here! Here’s the essential What’s new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open …
GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
Large language models are shifting from single-turn code generation toward broader professional collaboration (Professional Cowork). Real-world knowledge work introduces distinct requirements: models must digest fragmented source files under concrete objective…
Add QEP428: No ai contributions permitted by nyalldawson · Pull Request #387 · qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals
Followup discussion at https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-September/068576.html. This formally changes the AI policy to a strict "NOT ALLOWED" policy.
Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI
Many software engineers are righteously angry about AI. It’s understandable to be upset that the skills you built your professional identity around are getting…
Cartographers of North Korea :: 북한의 지도 제작자
An analysis of the OpenStreetMap data in North Korea: Who are the contributors?
Bold Squid
The one where I finally address the number one comment.
DNSSEC Validation Failed | no dogma blog
Today I started getting DNSSEC validation failed errors while using Ubuntu 24.04. All DNS lookups were failing! Here is how I fixed it.
One way of thinking about access specifiers in C++/WinRT implementation types - The Old New Thing
Mapping them to concepts from C# and the now-defunct C++/CX.
Software developers, the GNU Project urges you to avoid hosting your repositories on GitHub. This is to avoid being on the receiving end of harmful practices, and avoid leading others to be victims too. This article focuses on a few of GitHub's worst problems,…
Nanolathe — Open-source RTS engine. Play the Total Annihilation demo.
Play the original Total Annihilation demo in your browser with Nanolathe, an open-source 2.5D RTS engine. Install the native beta, play online with friends, explore the code and build on it.
The Ticket Is Not The Work
When I said tickets have almost nothing to do with agile software development, I was greeted with some very odd looks and incredulous "hu...
I had a booth for Message24 at HITEX 2026, a tech expo run annually in Erbil where local companies and startups show their products to businesses and the public. Message24 gives a business one inbox for all its social media messages, plus an AI agent that answ…
The Multitasking Trap ~ Andrea Canton
AI coding agents tempt us to fill every wait with another task, or to trade quality for speed. Some thoughts on multitasking, Slow Productivity and Kent Beck's view on quality, and why waiting is part of the work.
Giving Muse access to my iMessages · Sid
How I built a private iMessage archive for Muse with Railway, Tailscale, and a Mac uploader.
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