19 September 2026

17 links · Saturday

Jev is to tool use what RAG is to context

RAG fixes what the model reads before it sees the question. Jev fixes what the model can answer before it sees the state. They’re the same design, applied to opposite ends of the model.

From 150+ people to one system

I graduated in Computer Engineering in 2007. Some years before that, at 18, I moved eight to ten hours from home, knowing nobody. It was messy. It was also t...

Props Are Not a Design System

Most UI kits let you pass any style as a prop — radius, size, color, or a wall of Tailwind classes, whatever you need. That flexibility is exactly the problem: it turns every component call into a one-off styling decision, and no two buttons end up the same. L…

Maximizing Return-on-Feedback — Aviv Ben-Yosef

When I asked, the VPE said it’s been a while since he got feedback. When I asked how he handled the last few times it happened, I understood why. When you…

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

The San Francisco Onion Futures Company offers private, transferable contracts for the future physical delivery of yellow onions.

Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.