44 links from the last 24 hours · 16 October 2026
If not trap, why trap-shaped?
Forgejo v17.0 is available
Forgejo version 17.0 was released on 15 October 2026. Forgejo is a lightweight, community-developed, self-hosted platform for code collaboration.
Why are we even doing all this?
[This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out…
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Look ma I'm using Modern C
C++ futures part 5: std::future and std::shared_future - The Old New Thing
Getting the results back out.
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects
If AI is so great, why aren’t we seeing an explosion of new, amazing software products? If anyone can turn their idea into working software with coding agents…
JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases
JPEG XL has landed, but how does it compare?
I made a second video about the future we were promised versus the one we are living in. It's not a dystopia, just a reversal of expectation.
Learn about Roadster, an all-electric sports car and the quickest vehicle in the world, with record-setting acceleration, range and performance.
Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking With My Sonarr
PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes
C++ futures part 4: What if I want an immediate on-thread std::async? - The Old New Thing
Providing the case that the C++ language won't do.
The numbers first
In 2007, the Washington Post tried an experiment. They got Joshua Bell, one of the best violinists in the world, to put on jeans and a baseball cap and play anonymously in a DC metro station during morning rush hour.
Every grader is a program, a model, or a person. Programs are the cheapest and the only ones that give the same answer twice; people are the most expensive and, when it comes down to it, the most...
A forward deployed engineer isn't defined by where they sit. They're defined by where their attention goes when nobody is directing it.
I think there are two ways in which people have been designing systems. The first approach is that you understand what the requirement is and then you try to build individual components to meet the high level vision of what you want to build. Essentially tryin…
When I released version 1.2.6 of filtersql - a zero-dependency Python library designed specifically to compile structured JSON payloads into secure, parameterized SQL queries - I was confident in its security model. Then a little new edge case popped up.
Making a software trailer with Astra
Filming a trailer for TrustMe, almost fully run by Astra xhigh - with special help from Opus.
LLMs are not AGM (though some have internal monologue)
The entire marketing message of the leading US based LLM companies seems to be that they will be the first to achieve actual artificial intelligence aka what these dweebs call “artificial gen…
C++ futures part 3: The mental model for std::async - The Old New Thing
Doing things later in different ways.
On knowledge work at scale, cognitive accessibility, and the approach I’m exploring with Knowledge Bus.
AI is coming for software engineering. And I'm scared shitless!
Same weights, different answers: why you test a model on its board and certify what runs — Kernwerk
We ran one language model on a MacBook and on a Jetson, with identical weights and inputs. The scores matched; up to 7% of the maths answers did not, and with int8 weights more than half. Why hardware changes answers, how two recent papers turn that into an at…
An agentic code review loop where each developer fires their own AI review skill at pull requests, the author's agent answers, and a scorecard rates each skill.
In which I show how, over the last few years, the world has rapidly moved from open-source software being produced and maintained by online communities, to software projects being built and maintained in isolation. By single developers, with ever-decreasing in…
Coding agents reason through the same work over and over and keep none of it. Every solved task should leave behind tested software that makes the next run cheaper.
This article defines what a platform strategy is or isn't and provides an opinion on how to write one.
Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date
Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model to date, and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
Passkeys have the building materials for a trap
If not trap, why trap-shaped?
The Cost of Getting a Job Today
We expect candidates to use AI in our challenges. AI isn't free, and they're paying for it at the worst possible moment.
Abstraction Fatigue
It's fashionable to say—or at least it was until recently—that AI is just the latest in the long history of programming abstractions. Developers have always managed to move up the ladder: punched cards → assembly → C → scripting languages → frameworks. Each t…
Between 28 September and 8 October 2026, a large group of AI agents running on the cloud platform operated by Tencent attempted to answer questions about places in China using a Chinese Google Maps-like service, Amap.
Transcribing the Accedence of Armorie by Ben Overmyer
A complete transcription of Gerard Legh's 1597 heraldic treatise is now on the site, woodcuts and all.
This is my experience with AI adoption at workplace and how do i felt about that, note that this was my own experience and i am sharing both the failures and successes.
13th October 2026
Sunsetting decomp.dev
An update on the future of decomp.dev.
24 Hours After Epic's Vibe-Coded Client Bragged About Speed, Steam Launched A New Update To Beat It
Epic Games "vibe coded" Launcher V2 to beat Steam with a 5.47s boot time. Valve quietly responded with a client update that dropped Steam startup speeds to 5.23s.
The Problem Didn’t Change. Who Has It Did.
For most of the last year, almost every conversation I had with a customer or prospect turned into a conversation about AI. It didn't matter where it started. We'd be talking about pipelines that broke, or a team that couldn't get the data they needed out of
For 3 months I used a flip phone. I bought it because I was trying to get rid of this feeling of exhaustion I had. I noticed I always felt tired and couldn't really figure out the root cause of it. I came to the conclusion that it was because of my attention s…
Chirp Pong
A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits.