24 February 2026

30 links · Tuesday

Risk-Adjusted Intelligence • Matt Neary

Software engineers have maintained a self-conception as highly paid, skilled tradespeople. This framework is falling apart now that the barriers to entry are disappearing. The craft is now carried out by AI — the SWE is just the capital allocator,... | Matt Ne…

You don't need free lists!

An alternative to free-list-based pools using multi-level bit sets

Code Review Is Not About Catching Bugs

My former Parse colleague Charity Majors – now CTO of Honeycomb and one of the strongest voices in the observability space – recently posted something that caught my attention. She’s frustrated wit...

herdctl: Composable Fleets of Claude Agents

I justed added support for Composable Fleets to herdctl. As I build herdctl into more projects, I increasingly find myself creating a fleet of agents per project, and wanted a way to run them all from a central place so that I can juggle a bunch of things at o…

Depth effect wallpapers

Building a Windows desktop wallpaper app that uses AI depth estimation to place a clock between image layers, creating an iOS-like depth effect.