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Lately, there has been a lot of excitement around Durable Execution (DE) engines. The basic idea of DE is to take (potentially long-running) multi-step workflows, such as processing a purchase order …
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A teardown of Rust's mutex internals plus real benchmarks so you know when to choose std or parking_lot.
Outcrop is a modern knowledge base for software teams, built with Rust and Solid.
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic.
Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
TIL: `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword
Gemini 3 is introducing advanced agentic coding capabilities, plus Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform.
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0-preview2. Ruby 4.0 updates its Unicode version to 17,0.0, and so on.
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished.
Learn how code execution with the Model Context Protocol enables agents to handle more tools while using fewer tokens, reducing context overhead by up to 98.7%.
The story of how I wrote a leak-free, thread-safe grep in C23 without shooting yourself in the foot, and how you can too! Introduction Let's be honest: mos...
You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.
A review of the 20th anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer, updated for modern software development.
A long time ago, I spent a few years working on garbage collection in the J9 Java VM. 1 And even though I’ve since done mostly done higher-level stuff, having a deeper knowledge of GC has continued to come in useful.
In 2007, I was spending a my norther-hemisphere summer experimenting with UI automation. Born of those efforts, xdotool came into being when I separated it from another project. The goal was modest - write some scripts that execute common keyboard, mouse, and window management tasks. The first commit had only a few…
One of the first things any Rust programmer learns is that you can’t pass an object and a reference to that object around at the same time. It’s impossible to do, even indirectly. This limitation has been the subject of countless questions on Stack Overflow and posts on Reddit and the Rust forums and anywhere else…
A great engineer (controls being no exception) has to be part hacker, part master craftsman.
Kiro, Spec-kit, Bmad, Tessl, and other SDD frameworks turn business analysts into Markdown reviewers. Isn't there a more agile way to use Coding Agents?
Of course you want to design (and implement!) your own programming language! It’s fun. It’s creative. It’s empowering.
written by - Akshat Joshi Sometime back, I set myself a crazy constraint: Load only one thing at boot - A Pong game that fits in one floppy disk sector — 512 bytes. Why would I build this? I have played with Operating Systems and their workings by customizing them and tweaking their
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Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform guarantee API responses match your JSON schemas and tool definitions. Now in public beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1, this feature eliminates parsing errors and failed tool calls for production applications.
wingolog: article: the last couple years in v8's garbage collector
Stop deploying broken SQL queries. RegreSQL provides regression testing for PostgreSQL queries with performance baselines and automated warnings.
We used to use software; now software started to use us
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.
Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we lo…
