Perma-Call: Permanently On-Call · Abutalib (Barish) Namazov
When the system owner becomes the default contact, regardless of who's actually on-call.
Rails Needs New Governance
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something r…
The Fake Social Binary
2025-09-13
Built an Open-Source SMS Dashboard
You know that sinking feeling when a customer says "I never got your text" and you have no idea why? That's exactly why I built Twilio SMS Tracker - then open-sourced it so everyone can have proper visibility into their SMS infrastructure. Here's what I've lea…
Goodbye, RubyGems
As chronicled by my teammate Ellen, the RubyGems team is no more. I wish the best of luck to everyone taking on the herculean task of keeping package management functional and working for the entire Ruby community. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to spend…
Simplifying Cross-Chain Transactions Using Intents by @developerayo
What if I told you there's a better way? What if you could just say I want 100 SOL for my 1000 USDC and have the blockchain figure out the rest?
Some Notes I Took on Software Architecture
Personal Blog from Lautaro Lobo
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS | exotext
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS | exotext
The Invisible Character That Cost Me Too Much Debugging Time | Dochia CLI Blog
Imagine spending too much time chasing a login bug, only to discover the culprit was an invisible character hiding in an email address. This story shows how tiny Unicode quirks can break systems in ways you never expect, and why I built Dochia, a free tool tha…
Vibe Coding: easy to say, difficult to survive
I predict we are in the first phase of VibeCoding: lets call it pre-K8s-take-it-all phase. Let’s see what I mean
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
Build Features That Delete
Help users clear the clutter
winning = fun | catherine jue
Ambitious people are happiest when they're winning. Why? It's because ambitious people love to build things, and you get the right to build things when you're winning.
Three meanings of Effects |
Three meanings of Effects
Introduction to Arm Memory Tagging Extensions :: Thore Göbel
This post is an introduction into Arm Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE), a hardware-based defense against memory safety vulnerabilities. Arm MTE is available in Google Pixel 8 devices (released 2023) and in iPhone 17 devices (released 2025). The focus of this po…
These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species
Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males
I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
Phase Changes
This Map Is Not Upside Down
While conventional and commonplace today, maps have not always had north at the top. And they don't need to.
Create a Phishy URL
This is a tool that takes any link and makes it look malicious. It works on the idea of a redirect. Much like https://tinyurl.com/ for example. Where tinyurl makes an url shorter, this site makes it look maliciou…
apple_ssh_and_filevault(7)
apple_ssh_and_filevault — SSH and FileVault
Learn Your Way: Reimagining textbooks with generative AI
Textbooks are a cornerstone of education, but they have a fundamental limitation: they are a one-size-fits-all medium. The manual creation of textbooks demands significant human effort, and as a result they lack alternative perspectives, multiple formats and t…
Meta's live staged demo fails; the "AI" recording plays before the actor takes the steps
Posted in r/LivestreamFail by u/Eienkei • 4,407 points and 349 comments
santa-lang Workshop: Exploring Agentic LLM Workflows for Language Implementation
Exploring how AI agents can implement programming languages from scratch. The santa-lang Workshop provides a structured approach using shared PHPT-style tests, Docker isolation, and stage-gated development to compare how different harnesses and models tackle t…
A Fairly Hostile Subtext
I really feel this advertisement has “said the quiet part out loud.” “One day you won’t have to assemble the entire creative team for every little request. Are they all wear…
Your business philosophy is just what you can tolerate doing
The debates between these camps don't realize there's no right or wrong.
On Rediscovery
Why rediscovering something isn't embarrassing—it's essential
Were RNNs All We Needed? A GPU Programming Perspective
An implementation of parallelizable GRUs and LSTMs for CS179 in CUDA.
On DHH’s “As I Remember London”
David Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote a piece about London and the “unite the kingdom” protests that happened there over the weekend.
Break down silos with a walking skeleton 💀
A walking skeleton forces developers to talk, aligning both code and teams from day one.
Object-Oriented Programming in C
Object-Oriented programming is a powerful (although controversial) programming paradigm that empowers developers to design modular systems and abstractions.
OpenAPI as a Single Source of Truth for APIs | Dochia CLI Blog
By treating the OpenAPI specification as the single source of truth, teams can design APIs up front, generate always-accurate documentation, enforce contract-based tests, and even auto-produce client SDKs and server stubs across languages. This eliminates drif…
Faster argmin on floats
If you know that you are working with "regular" floats, you can make argmin faster.
My Chinese learning journey (update March 2025) - Jaap Grolleman
Here's my review and experience of learning the Mandarin Chinese language with GoEast Mandarin.
Hired Through GitHub: Part 1 - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Stories from the open source contributors who became core team members.