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Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd love to see the data), but I can't imagine more than a week per year.
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, using a variety of recent tools and algorithms or even via direct weight editing.
Five git log commands that diagnose a new codebase before you open a single file: code churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii
Today we are shipping Pi 1.0, a hardened, minimal, extensible agent harness, alongside Pi Durable, a new experimental substrate for long-running agentic applications.
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast .
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A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs,…
The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
libghostty-vt 1.0 is here. libghostty is a portable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation, extracted directly from the core of Ghostty. The 1.0 release means both the library itself and the C ABI are now stable.
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
I vibe-coded a GPU-aware Kubernetes TUI for 7 months, archived it, and started over. Here's what AI gets wrong when projects grow complex.
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a …
A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.
A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them. Models keep getting better, programmers are being laid off left and right…
I decided to make my own container runtime for fun, and even though I’m still early on, I’ve learned that Docker is weird . Here’s some weird things I learned about Docker.
Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.
Over the past decade, the timing of PostgreSQL major releases has become very predictable: no earlier than the middle of September, and no l...
