5041
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
Pensieve for developers: a local MCP server that gives Claude Code, Codex and Cursor your context. A thread for every piece of work. Free and open source, for Mac.
5042
Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests
Repository bez by burrito.space on Tangled.
5043
Automating Immersive Reading
How Storyteller’s forced alignment algorithm works.
5044
Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm
Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Research Center presented the paper “First Demonstration of 3D Stacked FETs at Gate Pitch of 42 nm Featuring Triple Stacked Nanosheet Channels for Advanced Logic Applications” at the 2026 VLSI Symposium, held from June 14–18.
5045
Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
i wanted to have a deeper grasp of how compression works, so i wrote a gzip decompressor from scratch. the result is about 250 lines of rust that can decompress gzip from a file or stdin.
5046
The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)
many traditional and modern card games. At only 120 cards, it supports a large number of existing game systems, such as: The Everdeck is a card game system that can be adapted to play many traditio…
5047
MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs.
5048
Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history
sqlite-backed shell history
5049
Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy
This is the fifth model in the ThinkingCap series. We reduced how much Google's gemma-4-26B-A4B-it thinks, without compromising the quality of its answers.
5050
Listen to Understand
You can captivate someone not by what you say, but by how you listen.
5051
Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
We presented MayaNAS at OpenZFS Developer Summit 2025, introducing objbacker.io—a native ZFS VDEV for object storage. No FUSE, direct kernel-to-SDK integration achieving 3.7 GB/s throughput.
5052
There is no posttraining data commons
The LLM revolution ran on a pretraining commons that humanity built for other reasons. Posttraining consumes tasks, not documents, and no such commons exists. If the open models community wants...
5053
The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs
Who is the Assistant? We investigate the character that most modern language models inhabit when interacting with users.
5054
"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"
A blog about software craft and quality
5055
I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago
My Happiest, Most Grounded Distraction
5056
All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible
In the Game of Life, which still lifes can be produced by crashing gliders together? We’ve known for a few years that the answer cannot be “all of them”, because in 2022 Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo found a patch of still life that, if it exists in the universe, must have existed since the beginning of time. And so…
5057
The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
Update 2026-04-07 Update: 2026-04-11 Update: 2026-04-17 Let’s kick the developers out! In the ongoing saga of The Document Foundation (TDF), their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners. That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice…
5058
Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful
Look, I really didn’t want to like Duet. I don’t want to be an Anthropic fanboy and it annoys me when they do things better than the competition. But they have done it again.
5059
Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees
Every productivity wave since the PC made work faster and piled on more of it, so companies gained more than workers did. AI does the work itself, which is why this one could land differently.
5060
C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper
If you're using Dapper with anonymous objects to query varchar columns, you're probably sending nvarchar(4000) parameters — causing CONVERT_IMPLICIT on every row and defeating your indexes. Here's the fix.
5061
Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
5062
Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat
My thesis on the AI-first society and the future of software
5063
NixOS 26.05
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
5064
Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To
Applying Alexis King's parse-don't-validate principle in TypeScript, where the type system fights back just enough to be annoying.
5065
An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
I’ve always wanted an ARM server in my homelab. But earlier, I either had to use an underpowered ARM system, or use Asahi which not only requires expensive Mac hardware but also slowed down in the past few years.
5066
The silent death of good code
I’ve been passionate about writing “Good Code™” since before I started my career, beginning way back when I was still a kid in middle school.
5067
Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
A beloved hometown impersonator had no idea what he was signing up for with this photoshoot.
5068
Life is too short for a slow terminal
I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell spends its time.
5069
Nobody got fired for Uber's $8M ledger mistake?
LedgerStore became a case study for DynamoDB, and system design publications keep praising it to this day. But the design was abandoned 3 years after it went live.
5070
Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology
People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement are all connected to our current moment.