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How I'm using Helix editor
My Helix editor config and how I am using it
3002
Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
3003
3004
Thoughts on Cloudflare
Thoughts on its role and impact on the web’s landscape.
3005
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries
In the previous posts, we've explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser. It's time to put these pieces together and implement a query…
3006
Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100
StringZilla v4 brings CUDA acceleration for string processing: 109x faster than Nvidia's CuDF on edit distances, plus 52-bit MinHash fingerprinting and AES-based hashing.
3007
The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free
GitHub is adding a $0.002-per-minute fee on all GitHub Actions usage, so the control plane is no longer free.
3008
Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
Fastly’s survey shows senior developers trust gen AI tools enough to ship 2.5x more AI code, while juniors stick to traditional coding and caution.
3009
Machine Code Isn't Scary
Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.
3010
Knowing CSS is mastery to front end development
There are countless articles why developers should not focus on Frameworks too much and instead learn to understand the underlying languages. But I think rarely we can find good reasons except that Frameworks come and go. To me, the main reason is different: You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t…
3011
Uv overtakes pip in CI
An opportunity for more opinionated defaults
3012
The Bitter Prediction
The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.
3013
Becoming the person who does the thing
Bad news: your internal identity dictates everything you do. Good news: you can change it
3014
Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Composer is our new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed.
3015
Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any…
3016
Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study
The blood pressure lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of
3017
Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
3018
Omarchy Is Out
My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My Platonic ideal of what a developer…
3019
Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.
3020
AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
On a benchmark of real exploited contracts, AI agents found vulnerabilities worth a combined $4.6 million, underscoring the need for AI-powered defense.
3021
If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?
This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Watch the video here.
3022
Infinite Grid of Resistors
There is a well-known puzzle based on the premise of an �infinite� grid of resistors connecting adjacent nodes of a square lattice. A small portion of such a grid is illustrated below.
3023
A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
3024
It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
lol. I minted a new TLS cert and it seems that OpenAI is scraping CT logs for what I assume are things to scrape from, based on the near instant response from ...
3025
100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)
The integral of sec(x) is well known to any beginners calculus student. Yet this integral was once a major outstanding maths problem. It was first introduced...
3026
500 days of math
I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy. I wrote about my experience after 100 days here. TL;DR: I am still very impressed by the Math Academy system and highly…
3027
Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
3028
A vending machine, on the internet
These days, every new business seems to be a SaaS. I remember when software worked differently: you bought it, installed it, and used it without having to create an account, remember a password, or even connect to the internet. Your data lived on your C drive, and you were in control. Software was a tool, like a…
3029
Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines
Fizz Buzz is a counting game that has become oddly popular in the world of computer programming as a simple test of basic programming skills. The rules of the game are straightforward. Players say the numbers aloud in order beginning with one. Whenever a number is divisible by 3, they say 'Fizz' instead. If it is…
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End of an Era
I recall saying to one of my colleagues at Atari way back in 1982 that I wanted to make a game that would be genuine art. A year later I built a game that was my first experiment in that direction: Gossip. It was a ridiculously simple game in which a player attempted to win favor in a group by calling people and…