Automated Board Alignment with YOLO
February 5, 2026
What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer?
What are the system and process changes we need to make to make 100 PRs/day possible for a single engineer?
Dynamic Memory Retrieval - A Technical Deep Dive
Learn how DrDroid's Dynamic Memory Retrieval (DMR) architecture enables domain-specific agentic platforms to deliver consistently higher results in SRE and infrastructure operations.
Testing can be fun, actually
Writing and maintaining tests is boring. But they're also some of the most valuable code we can write. With this blog post you'll learn a criminally underrated testing technique to add to your testing toolbox that can make tests a whole lot more pleasant.
A/B test yourself vs code agent | Artur Kęsik - personal blog
Are you sure you are not falling for a trick?
Open Molten Claw
At an old job, we used WordPress for the companion blog for our web services. This website was getting hacked every couple of weeks. We had a process in place to open all the WordPress pages, generate
The Rise of Spec Driven Development
Writing about AI, geo, culture, media, data, and the ways they interact.
The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail
CI is only valuable when it fails. When it passes, it's just overhead: the same outcome you'd get without CI.
My Programming Job Has Become An Intelligence Buying Job
Intelligence is now a commodity, our task is to use it efficiently
Against Markdown
Markdown seems to have taken root. But it’s not really a good choice of markup language, because it’s incomplete, non-semantic, and tool-specific.
Where Drupal Still Wins in 2026? | Michał Kokociński
Coming back to Drupal after years away, while working primarily as a frontend developer in the long-established React ecosystem with TypeScript and its surrounding tech stack, a natural question emerged: does starting new projects on Drupal in 2026 still make …
Don’t look Behind The Curtains! |
My recent goals to work with and learn some newer, more popular, micro-controllers, and to try some different programming languages, has made me also take another look at the ways things have progressed since I started my career. My programming career started …
How Containers Actually Work: Building Container Networking From Scratch
Containers often feel like magic, and container networking can seem like a higher form of black magic. A process starts, gets its own IP address, can reach the internet, and talks to other containers. All without us touching low-level networking. But nothing m…
Agentic memory bottlenecks
A couple of weeks ago I formatted an old Raspberry Pi 4 and installed Clawd on it, an agentic perso
Tech Stack Is a Business Decision | Dinko Marinac
Why tech stack choices should be driven by business context and constraints—not framework preferences—and why this matters even more with agentic coding tools.
Agentic Productivity System with Plain Markdown
Personal website and blog
Agent Skills: 59% Ship Scripts. 12% Are Empty.
TL;DR: 4,784 skills scraped from 5 registries Average quality score ~78, 31% score 90+ 28% are duplicates ~10% install packages via npm/pip No ver...
Training a Small Language Model
I've built and trained an extremely small language model from scratch, specifically designed for short-form sentence rewriting tasks that are highly resource constrained.
Mind The GAAP Again
Source A bit over three months ago I wrote Depreciation and started with this graph from my 2022 post Generally Accepted Accounting Princi...
GitHub - microsoft/litebox: A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution
A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution - microsoft/litebox
The Sandbox Explosion | daax.dev
When Docker, Apple, and every hyperscaler builds microVM sandboxes, containers aren't enough. A deep dive into the AI sandbox landscape in 2026.
RAG on Ruby on Rails - Jesse Waites
Jesse Waites - Developer, Designer, Mobile Developer, Product Designer
How Virtual Textures Really Work · shlom.dev
Virtual texturing is not about supporting larger textures, but about aligning memory residency with what can actually be visible on screen. This article explains the system end-to-end, from addressing to feedback and residency decisions.
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs
The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation
We are excited to introduce the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation.
We Paid $150k/Year for an Agile Coach Who Had Never Written a Line of Production Code
After 25 years in banking tech, I watched a non-technical Agile coach spend two years redirecting every engineering problem into a process conversation. Here`s what happened, what it cost us, and what actually makes engineering teams effective.
The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop
Ever since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 was introduced, I wondered why nobody built a decent laptop chassis around it. You could swap out a low spec CM5 for a higher spec, and get an instant computer upgrade. Or, assuming a CM6 comes out someday in the sa…
Kirkville - I Now Assume that All Ads on Apple News Are Scams
Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
Why I Moved to Mac from Windows as a .NET Developer
Learn PostgreSQL for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-learn-postgresql/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about why I decided to move to Mac from Windows as a C# and .NET Develope…
I'm tired of trying to make vibe coding work for me
Live At: https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen Wanna Become a Backend Dev & Support me at the SAME TIME??? https://boot.dev/prime
Command Line Interface Producer for Kafka in C# | no dogma blog
This is a follow-up to my CLI consumer for Kafka in C#. Here is a simple CLI producer in C#.
Plasma Effect
The classic plasma effect is a staple of demoscene history. Using sinusoidal functions and color gradients, it creates mesmerizing organic patterns that flow and pulse across the screen.
The RCE that AMD won't fix!
After reporting a RCE in AMD's auto-update software, they decided to not patch it due to it requiring a man-in-the-middle attack to perform.
Wayland By Default in 2026.1 EAP | The JetBrains Platform Blog
Starting from version 2026.1, IntelliJ-based IDEs will run natively on Wayland in supported desktop configurations. This follows Wayland's ascendance to the position of primary display server across c
GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.
Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
updated: Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals
From API Client to “Everything App” – Coding Is My Craft
Postman just announced its March 2026 updates, and it’s a massive change and deviation from its original purpose as an API testing and documentation tool. In my opinion, the evolution of Postman, from a simple tool running locally to assist developers to build…
Let's compile Quake like it's 1997!
Feb 5, 2026
On the Lies Depression Tells
I'm no stranger to depressive episodes, though thankfully mine are sparse and usually brief: sometimes a day or two, though on rare occasions perhaps a week or more. I'm thankful mine have never progressed into anything serious. That said, I'd like to discuss …
Expertise is a Relic; They want Drones
Prolog I wrote this in September while on an almost two-week vacation in Spain. It was a phenomenal vacation. It was very likely the best vacation ever for my wife and I. We went to five cities: Ba…
mostlyobvio.us — Responsive code formatting on web
Responsive Web Design was a hot topic over a decade ago. I'm old enough to remember Nicolas Barrera delivering a talk about it on wroclove.rb. It now feels strange not to design interfaces mobile-first, which is the primary screen for consuming content. And ye…
Why Not? – Wes McKinney
Pure strategy
The goal of a build tool is to take a bunch of disparate inputs and compile them into an output: zsh $ rustc main.rs <pre class="mermaid"> flowchart LR subgr...
4-Hour Builds: Anatomy of a Developer Experience Collapse | Fabio Luciano
When thousands of tests, hundreds of GB of RAM, and toxic culture collide: a complete anatomy of a developer experience disaster
The Man With No Brains
After two years of using AI to write code, I finally found myself unable to start a new project without it.
My issues with ProtonMail | Blog
Some issues I have with the mail service I would like to love
Writing the Code that Powers Your Code
On the craft and responsibility of writing code that shapes thousands of other developers' projects.
We are QA Engineers now
This article argues that working with coding agents turns every software engineer into a QA engineer and into what this new role now entails.
The Wrong Work, Done Beautifully
A snow town bakery, a six-year-old bug, and the unsettling ease of agentic open source maintenance.
Can you make Claude cry? • Ninjas and Robots
I know a lot of folks are worried about their jobs and AI. Another worry folks have is that AI is making them dumber. The things that felt good before: solving puzzling work problems, thinking hard about a project, etc. have vaporized when Claude... | Ninjas a…
The Accelerator and the Brake
Why focusing only on attraction fails. You can have the best product in the world and still lose to nothing. Progress is a balance of forces—here’s the napkin math.
Anupam Krishnamurthy | The courage to criticise
I'm sure you've faced this situation before. Somebody asks you for feedback on their work. The moment you look through it, you know that it can be significantly improved. Yet, there is a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach holding you back.
I Read the Anthropic Legal Prompts That Crashed $285B in Stocks
On February 3, 2026, tech stocks went into free fall. Thomson Reuters dropped 15.83% — its biggest single-day decline on record. LegalZoom fell 19.68%. The Goldman Sachs US software basket lost 6%. Total damage: $285 billion in market cap, gone in a single ses…
Agentic retrieval infers. It doesn't guarantee.
Your AI finds things. It also misses things, overwrites them, and often can't say where an answer came from. Why that happens and what would fix it.
It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | Tiger Data
Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.
GitHub - mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
Contribute to mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting development by creating an account on GitHub.
My AI Adoption Journey
My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.