24 February 2026

30 links ยท 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

25 Years of Eggs

Two AI agents, 11,345 receipts, and 1.6 billion tokens to find out what I’ve spent on eggs since 2001.

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.