Every Team is Building the Same Cache — TierFS
Why infrastructure teams keep solving the same storage problem from scratch, and what would happen if they didn't have to.
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Why aren't there more AlphaFolds?
Most of science isn't text
Accidental anonymity
JavaScript, math, maps, etc
Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store
📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases to expand capacity fo…
Repricing of Software Engineering Labor
As AI compresses implementation costs, the market is repricing software engineering labor—collapsing the premium for generalists while raising the value of deep expertise.
Throwing my Roku in the trash • Cory Dransfeldt
I work from a big corner desk and part of the space on that desk is taken up by a small TV positioned in the corner. I use it occasionally and, for the longest time, it's had a Roku stick attached to it. It's reliable, but the UI has been filled with more and …
Konrad Hinsen's blog
2026-06-25 science, scientific software
font-family recommendations — Chris Morgan
Draft: started 2026-05-09 • Tagged /css, /opinions
The Problem is Prompt Debt
The plain-English prompt that makes prototypes effortless turns out to be a poor way to specify how a system should behave, and the bill arrives slowly, disguised as ordinary progress, until the application can barely move.
Claudecaine · Baptiste Fontaine’s Blog
Tips and tricks in Python, Bash, Clojure and other languages/environments.
The favors we used to need
Work used to run on a quiet economy of small favors, and whole layers of managers grew up to keep it fair and fast. Then I shipped something I'd normally have called a friend to help with, alone, in an afternoon. No favor asked, no debt owed. When agents can d…
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%
iPhone maker blamed cost rises on memory chip shortages caused by AI boom
Hacker Trends: 18 years of Hacker News, charted
Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
The Secret RGB LED Features I Hid in this 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III
Dave demos his RGB LED third brake light strip and dives into the interface and power electronics needed to run it. Check out an episode of ShopTalk on Dave's Attic where we answer the best user questions! https://youtu.be/ZUvDO2g5Y1s Get the Code: https://…
web hl2
Downloading map bootstrap
Baryon Asymmetry
Your Interface Has Two Channels
This code would easily pass a cursory review: Then one day the endpoint returns a 500, flags becomes { error: 'Internal Server Error' }, no key matches a real option, and the server silently starts…
Travellers in a Foreign Land
A mental model for how to think about agentic capabilities
The Junior Developer Problem Is Becoming a Senior Developer Problem
AI is fundamentally changing how junior developers learn, but it’s also making senior developers a whole lot less valuable if all they’re doing is taking well-defined tickets and turning them into…
Wagtail as Django admin on steroids
Wagtail as Django admin on steroids.
Thoughts on Role Confusion
LLMs seem to almost ignore 'role' tags like <system>, <user> or <think>, and use the tone of text to infer roles. This explains a lot of jailbreaks.
When does data help automated agent engineering? · Andrew Jesson
When does data help automated agent engineering?
Security Is A Political Problem
Every now and then I meet a (usually) young and passionate security practitioner, uttering sentences like: “But this is just the bare minimum, we have to do (insert here: firewalls, phishing simulations, SAST, bcrypt, encryption at rest... pick one). We cannot…
The End of the Craftsman?
I noticed something a few months ago: I was talking to my colleagues less. Nothing was wrong. I’d have a question, describe it to an AI, get something useful back. Why pull in a human when the loop already closed? It took me a while to notice what that was cos…
Reinventing The Wheel, Now At A Bargain Price! – zwischenzugs.com
For twenty years, saying “don’t reinvent the wheel” was usually enough to win any argument about writing bespoke software. But that advice assumed two things: writing code was expensive, and importing code was cheap. AI and supply-chain governance are changing…
Vibe Code Is Legacy Code Before It Ships
Vibe coding is useful and fast. Nearly a quarter of the YC W25 batch apparently has codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated. This is a giant leap in speed and capability. But there is a point…
luck surface area
Your luck surface area is the amount of serendipity that will occur in your life. Luck = Doing * Telling Expertise is valuable and is created by doing with passion. Passion excites like-minded peopl
You gotta deal with the boring part first - Arnon Shimoni
Since 2024 the role of the CMO or marketer in a startup has really changed. Mostly, everyone has the same tools so everyone is producing the same slop at the same time. I can no longer remember times that I’ve read content that looks and sounds exactly the sam…
How to Live Without Options - and Why It's the Key to Happiness
It turns out closing doors is the key to happiness.
Building a LoFi radio | Cieslak.dev
After listening to LoFi for quite some time, I decided to build my own radio station.
Introduction to making Makefiles
Introduction to making Makefiles
Debugging in the age of agents
Coding agents can hand you a confident, detailed, and wrong explanation backed by persuasive evidence. The craft of debugging - building hypotheses, gathering evidence, and knowing a system’s internals - matters as much as ever.
Still have spare tokens? Use /autoresearch
Everyone is tokenmaxxing around you, and you are standing there with extra tokens, not sure what to do with all these wasted resources. Normal. We were never blocked by the amount of code we could …
Slop Paralysis
A complete or partial loss of function while reviewing the output of a coding agent.
Building an FDE Motion
How to think about building an FDE org