The reverts will continue until morale improves
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 si…
I was sitting in my air-conditioned class, pen in hand hovering over my notepad, when it hit me. An essay by Kenny Slimber.
by Wesley Moore
When a team is stuck, the reflex is to ask for more effort. An interactive essay, mostly in arrows, on why alignment moves a team further than speed.
Of more than 50 US actions over Iran against listed companies since 2009, six cut the shares by 10% or more within a week. Each one cut off the company's main business or threatened a bank's access to the US. None was preceded by a slide in the price, and the …
Refueling an EV be like
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
The Remaining Shortcomings of Coding Agents - nielstron
TLDR; I gave 4 coding agents a $100 budget to build a functional PDF editor. The implementations are okay, but not great: within a few clicks I find bugs in almost all of them. I hypothesize that this is partly because agents don’t interact with software like …
My Thoughts on running Linux vs Windows
My Thoughts on running Linux vs Windows Link to heading The age-old Linux vs Windows vs Mac. This year I finally went into my long-awaited deep-dive moving fully to Linux. Overall, I am quite impressed and happy with Fedora KDE Plasma. Below, I detail down the…
Why «English instead of code» does not work: COBOL, SQL, 4GL, CASE, UML and No-Code all promised to rid the industry of programmers and instead spawned new specialties with their own salary bands; the irreducible ambiguity of natural language, Rice's theorem, …
The Physics of Cold EV Batteries
A technical deep dive into low-temperature battery electrochemistry, voltage collapse risks, BMS safety, and effects on electric vehicle range.
Has software development become less fun?
An opinion on how AI coding agents are making software development more productive while replacing some of the challenge, learning, and joy of the craft.
In theory, math is pretty simple. You start with a bunch of axioms and logic rules and use them to prove increasingly complex statements. How hard could it be?
Software's centaur age may last decades
We are currently living in the age of centaurs (2022-20??). Right now, human engineers paired with AI coding systems are more effective than either by…
Who could have thought that privacy comes at the cost... of heat?
Oh Hai There
I'd like to alert people that several of the comparator challenges are noticeably broken and hackable. Afaik this hasn't been talked about elsewhere yet. The issue is that many definitions that should...
The problem with automatic fixes | alint blog
Applying a fix is harder than finding the bug. Four questions explain safety, collisions, convergence, and trust in an automatic fixer.
On abuse towards models and Anthropic's new usage policies
Moving at the Speed of Light
From literature major to software engineer to slop sherpa
OCaml's module language is the perfect fit for agentic programming
Write interfaces first, statically type check the design, then hand each module to an agent one at a time. OCaml's module language makes this a natural workflow for future formal methods too.
There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd gi…
I built a tool that let's you plan trips using only public transit. With that, I collected a ton of data on public transit routes: over 16,000 routes!
Jeremy Bernier - Software Engineer, Builder, Thinker, World Traveler
Generating the code doesn't replace the people who need to understand it
We have LLMs now. Why are the docs still wrong? · Amendary
Keeping documentation in sync with code takes more than generating text. My take on LLMs, stale docs, and what I am building with Amendary.
On taking AI’s risks seriously, questioning old assumptions, and choosing optimism as a reason to act.
Agentic coding is a financial trap
The hidden financial unit economics of pay-per-token autonomous coding loops.
Building a Better NAS for My Homelab
How I replaced my old home server with a compact, power-efficient NAS to handle my future storage needs.
The Case for Small Specialized Models
Don't Be the Drunken Sailor
on living intentionally, or what to do when everything's going fine but something still feels off.
Psychologically, almost every listener decides what you mean before you finish saying it, and decades of writing advice can’t fix that, because that's an aspect of the listener and the advice is aimed at the speaker. A language model is the first listener that…
Here, I study an ML method that I think is powerful & under-used: semi-supervision. In my experiments, semi-supervision increases…
That's How It's Supposed to Feel
Part 3 of my reflections on AI
The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno …
USER: Help me make a fix for issue #2032 GOD: Happy to help! Issue #2032 reports an increasing number of natural disasters affecting the tropical regions. To address this issue, we can implement a multi-faceted approach that includes: Early Warning Systems:…
Why Android apps can't talk to your camera when you're connected to a VPN - John Maguire
If you're having trouble connecting to a camera or IoT device from its Android app (e.g. Sony, Fujifilm, Nikon, GoPro, Ricoh, etc.) and you are connected to a VPN (e.g. Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, etc.), your VPN might be the reason.
Bevy 0.20
Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.i…
Our $445M Series D | Oxide Computer Company
Our Series D round of financing.
Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and …
Nobel Peace Prize 2026
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?
GitHub - franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT.
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT. - franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
Workplace self-defence against people stealing your time.
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web
I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I’ve sent out, both my free weekly Substack and …
Rust already has most of what I want from error handling: explicit control flow, errors as values, and concise propagation with ?. The friction comes when deciding what to put in the error half of Result. We often end up choosing between precise types that req…
Frontiers | ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy
Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...
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If one anti-malware software is good, does that make two better? - The Old New Thing
Not always.
It's not a political debate, it's a chance at finding a sound bite that sticks and help you win the political race. We can change how debates are presented.
I don't remember exactly when but, earlier in the year, I decided I didn't want this website to be indexed by search engines anymore. A lot of it has to do w...
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.
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