15 July 2025

34 links · Tuesday

Claude Code Unleashed - ymichael

For the past two months, I've been obsessively dogfooding background agents while building Terragon. This quickly became an experiment in unleashing Claude Code from the constraints of local development.

Are We Entering A First-Order Optimizer Renaissance?

Musings on progress made by recent attempts to unseat the AdamW optimizer from its position as the workhorse optimization algorithm for training transformer neural networks.

Treat the Internet Like Real Life – 3.st

Talk about social media, and someone will inevitably start explaining how it’s unhealthy. They’re not wrong. In fact, most of the ways people use “the computer” (phones, laptops, even game consoles included) are bad for people as a whole, even if they aren’t c…

What Business Do v1.0 – mücehhez

For understanding what problems are worth solving, I started to analyze Y Combinator’s startup directory. And these are my research notes in 3 parts: what business can do, in which form, and which levels of completion.

Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5

As every year, we will have the new version of PHP this year too, which is PHP 8.5. It’s the minor version in the PHP 8 line, and the version will be released later this year. Let’s discuss everything that has been added in PHP 8.5 so far.

Reduce Your Decision Fatigue - kupajo

Making decisions feels productive, but our ability to make decisions diminishes as we make more of them throughout the day. Even small, unimportant decisions can erode judgment.

Billions of Edges Per Second with Postgres

Chances are you're reading this because, like me, you are a huge fan of Postgres. It's a powerful and featured-filled data framework, and is excellent for transactional workloads and analysis tasks. While I've always considered Postgres a pretty decent tool …

Am I Becoming Irrelevant?

The frustration of feeling like a buffer instead of a builder, and learning to measure impact through team success rather than personal output

Defeating Memory Leaks With Zig Allocators

I started reading the book Crafting Interpreters to learn about the process of developing and implementing a programming language (I have some criticism about the way the book presents formal concepts). The book is divided in two parts. The first one is an int…

DOGWALK by Blender Studio

Play as a big adorable dog and explore a hand-crafted winter forest with a little kid in tow.

The sound of inevitability

Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets lef…