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Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?(opens in new tab)
You can use Polecats without the Refinery and even without the Witness or Deacon. Just tell the Mayor to shut down the rig and sling work to the polecats with the message that they are to merge to main directly. ...
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A Social Filesystem(opens in new tab)
Formats over apps.
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Notes #78(opens in new tab)
Du 3 au 18 janvier 2026
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Pursuing the Algorithm(opens in new tab)
[](/images/the-last-algorithm-header.webp) I just had a strange premonition that we're about to get ASI-like outcomes from AI in 2026, but not from a new model. It'll...
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Kaizen! Let it crash (Changelog & Friends #124)(opens in new tab)
Gerhard is back for Kaizen 22! We're diving deep into those pesky out-of-memory errors, analyzing our new Pipedream instance status checker, and trying to figure out why someone in Asia downloads a single episode so much.
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Appreciating Mary Cassatt now that I am a mom(opens in new tab)
I've always loved Cassatt's art, but it hits differently now that I have kids of my own.
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Self-Host Weekly (16 January 2026) (opens in new tab)
IRC, PDF copycats, and a celebration of all things self-hosted
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Writing tools to download everything(opens in new tab)
Using AI to help download photos so we can consolidate all our images into one place.
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Full context commitment for AES authenticated encryption(opens in new tab)
Cryptography is full of footguns reguraly blowing the feets of unsuspecting developers that can't believe that the algorithm supposed to secure their data are actually full of holes. One of
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Do not give up your brain(opens in new tab)
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
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5 AI Coding Best Practices from a Google AI Director (That Actually Work)(opens in new tab)
Addy Osmani, a director on Google's Gemini team, recently shared his AI coding workflow for 2026. I've been using AI to code daily for the past year and have found many of these principles useful in p...
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Let's Fucking Encrypt Everything(opens in new tab)
A few years ago, I received a letter in the mail addressed to my then-toddler. It was from a company I had never heard of. Apparently, there had been a
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The GitHub problem (and other predictions) (Changelog & Friends #123)(opens in new tab)
Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the ...
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I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do(opens in new tab)
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do The post I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
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Towards safe and modern cryptography: state of the Rust ecosystem in 2026(opens in new tab)
37.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are memory safety issues, while only 27.2% are cryptographic issues, according to an empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries (Jenny Blessing, Michael A.
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How Good Blogging Habits Yield a Book Each Year(opens in new tab)
Source: Good Blogging Habits Yield a Book Each Year I recently read this post and it got me thinking about my own writing habits and inspired me to build a simple stats page for my blog. Good bloggin...
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Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent(opens in new tab)
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for. However, things have advanced since. Yesterday I ported ...
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snitch(opens in new tab)
A TUI for inspecting network connections, like netstat for humans.
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AI Has an Image Problem(opens in new tab)
I spent 2025 going from skeptical to genuinely excited about AI tools. My non-tech friends and family spent 2025 learning to hate them. The AI industry has fumbled this introduction so badly that we've turned a useful set of tools ...
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A Diary of a Data Engineer(opens in new tab)
You ingest data. You model it. You transform it. You serve it. Someone asks for a change. Everything breaks. You rebuild. This is the loop. It was the loop in 2005 with SSIS and star schemas. It’s the loop in ...
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diskcache: Your secret Python perf weapon(opens in new tab)
Your cloud SSD is sitting there, bored, and it would like a job. Today we’re putting it to work with DiskCache, a simple, practical cache built on SQLite that can speed things up without spinning up Redis or extra services. ...
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Linus Torvalds gets the AI coding bug (Changelog News #176)(opens in new tab)
Linus Torvalds pushes AI generated code, Jordan Fulghum thinks this is the year of self-hosting, FracturedJson formats for compact / human readability, Scott Werner believes a flood of adequate software is coming, and Sean Goedecke explains why generic software design ...
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RSS Club #005: Expedition 33(opens in new tab)
I didn’t intend for my RSS-only posts to be video game reviews but that’s what you’re getting again today! I had big plans for my holiday break but I spent it gaming. If you subscribed for web dev stuff don’t ...
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#465: Stack Overflow is Cooked(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: port-killer How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster CodSpeed Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course ...
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ChaCha12-BLAKE3 is now ChaCha20-BLAKE3 and is stable and production-ready(opens in new tab)
chacha12-blake3 is now chacha20-blake3 ChaCha12 vs ChaCha20 I spent a lot of time studying the ChaCha stream cipher (and its parent, Salsa) to be able to say with high confidence
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Big W Engineering Values - Partnership and Mission Success at the Beach(opens in new tab)
Taking a vacation to the beach 3 months after starting a business is probably not something you'll find in any entrepreneurial self-help book. The best entrepreneurs, however, will remind you to never lose focus on your true north star. Partnership ...
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Words I Live By(opens in new tab)
Over 10 years ago, I put together a self “liturgy” of sorts (basically just a prayer) that I love reading. It takes a bunch of my favorite verses but changes them to the first-person perspective. There’s something about first person ...
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Focus rings with nested contrast-color()?(opens in new tab)
As I was playing around with contrast-color(), I got a wild idea that you could use contrast-color() to invert its return value by nesting it: contrast-color(contrast-color(var(--some-color)). When would this be useful? Uh… Good question. I couldn’t come up with an ...
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I tracked everything I wore in 2025. Was it worth it?(opens in new tab)
Habit-tracking can feel useful and insightful. But how does it help us, really?
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A career chat with students in the age of AI(opens in new tab)
I spoke with students at Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College about tech careers, AI, and networking.
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Good AI, Bad AI - the experiment(opens in new tab)
If you are in tech, or possibly even if you aren’t, your social feeds are likely awash with AI. Most developers seem to be either all-in or passionately opposed to AI (with a leaning towards the all-in camp). Personally I ...
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I redesigned my website (again)(opens in new tab)
The Shirt is at the heart of what this website redesign became.
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Kubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc(opens in new tab)
Did you know that kubectl can run arbitrary executables, including shell scripts, with the full privileges of the invoking user, and without your knowledge? Whenever you download or auto-generate a kubeconfig, the users[n].exec.command field can specify an executable to fetch ...
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2025 in review(opens in new tab)
2025 was my year of doing ALL the things - speaking at 5+ conferences, starting a podcast, shipping side projects, and somehow not completely burning out. I learned that momentum creates more momentum, perfectionism is overrated, and seeing people in ...
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Interpolate contrast-color() to manipulate lightness(opens in new tab)
In my first post on contrast-color() I demo’d using color-mix() to change a background-color on hover, but I will be honest… mixing black and white isn’t always what you want. It would be cool and helpful to coerce contrast-color() to ...
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Self-Host Weekly (9 January 2026) (opens in new tab)
Peer-to-peer chaos, German translations, and mild takes from ski patrollers
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So, you want to serialize a B-Tree (to save it to disk or send it over the network)?(opens in new tab)
Most programming language haves built-in data structures such as Hash Maps and B-tree for in-memory processing, but what about serializing these data structures to save on disk or send over
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Using your design system colors with contrast-color()(opens in new tab)
One predictable pain point with contrast-color() is that it only returns black and white named colors. From a design systems perspective, that’s not ideal because you want your colors. You want your harmonious brand and the colors you and your ...
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AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate(opens in new tab)
[Last Week in AWS] AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate The post AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
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Kubernetes v1.35: Mutable PersistentVolume Node Affinity (alpha)(opens in new tab)
The PersistentVolume node affinity API dates back to Kubernetes v1.10. It is widely used to express that volumes may not be equally accessible by all nodes in the cluster. This field was previously immutable, and it is now mutable in ...
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Algorithmic hover states with contrast-color()(opens in new tab)
Firefox 146 added support for contrast-color() joining Safari 26 in the First Implementor’s Club. For those unfamiliar, contrast-color() is a new CSS function that will take a as input and returns either white or black depending on which has the ...
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Recursive structural pattern matching(opens in new tab)
Learn how to use structural pattern matching (the match statement) to work recursively through tree-like structures. In this short article you will learn to use structural pattern matching in recursive, tree-like data structures. The examples from this article are taken ...