26 July 2026

23 links · Sunday

CSV Is Never Just CSV

Building CSV Unwrap taught me much less about CSV files than I expected — and much more about data, UX, and engineering.

Kimi K3 Is Not Cheap

The new Chinese LLM is not what (some) people think.

The Half We Don't Measure

Ask companies how AI is going and you'll get usage back. Seats filled, tokens burned, PRs opened. All of it is real, and none of it tells you if a single customer is better off.

How web browsers work - Arnau Camprubí

A few years ago, I started going down the rabbithole of browser engines. I wanted to write one, so I started looking for resources. None were as detailed as I had hoped. So, I decided to simply read the official specification (rather, the set of interleaved sp…

You don't hire juniors to do menial chores

The delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

htmx 4: the game

HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy® platform! Experience the power of HTMX, now on your favorite portable handheld. Four levels of pickle-collecting excitement.  Squish client-side JS down to size, avoid ...

What Is LLM-as-a-Judge, Really? A Field Guide to the State of the Art in 2026

I wanted to actually understand LLM-as-a-judge instead of nodding along the way I used to with CAP theorem before I’d actually read the paper. So I built a proper research pipeline, tried to find something genuinely novel to say about it, and watched all five …

Code Review Is the Hard Part

I don't have an actual solution for this. I'm just saying that the gatekeepers in my universe seem to be in short supply.