Today
- I'm working on a new programming language named Solod (So). It's a strict subset of Go that translates to C, without hidden memory allocations and with source-level interop.Highlights:Go in, C out. You write regular Go code and get readable C11 as output.Zero runtime. No garbage...
- Squawk’s language server uses lsp-types, which provides serde-friendly types for the Language Server Protocol (LSP). This avoids us having to implement a lot of boilerplate ourselves. Before: A Manual Approach One of the provided types is SelectionRangeRequest, which is used for...
- Dave Rupert puts words to the feeling in the air: the unspoken promise of AI is that you can automate away all the tasks and people who stand in your way. Sometimes I feel like there’s a palpable tension in the air as if we’re waiting to see whether AI will replace designers or...
Yesterday
- My heuristics are wrong. What now? More words. More meaning? Some people who ask me for advice at get a lot of words in reply. Sometimes, those responses aren’t specific to my particular workplace, and so I share them here. In the past, I’ve written about echo chambers, writing,...
- The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in...
- How do teams choose vector databases search engines People wrack their brains between Elasticsearch OpenSearch Solr Vespa Pinecone Turbopuffer Weaviate......
- This post is the fourth and last in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo As a very crude metric, the conciseness of legible code can roughly...
- Welcome! This is the start of a journey which I hope will provide you with many new tricks to improve how you work with relational databases in your Python applications. Given that this is a hands-on book, this first chapter is dedicated to help you set up your system with a...
This week
- The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …
- One of the most optimized algorithms in any standard library is sorting. It is used everywhere so it must be fast. Thousands upon thousands of developer hours have been sunk into inventing new algorithms and making sort implementations faster. Pystd has a different design...
- David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of code review – Wikipedia will tell you as much. And sure, reviewers do catch bugs. But I think that framing dramatically...
- This post is the third in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo This post looks at another advantage of code over configuration: the degree to...
- 19 Mar, 2026 I was recently asked on a podcast what my biggest game-changer was, whether it be a habit, way of thinking, purchase, or change of context. I didn't need to fish around for an answer, since I already know my biggest game-changer: becoming a day person. By this I...
- Mastra Studio has evolved. It's no longer just a local development tool. You can deploy it to your own infrastructure and share the URL with your team. However,......
- AI agents that write code, open pull requests, and fix bugs aren't replacing developers — they're extending the same patterns of transparency, code review, and collaboration that have made open source successful for decades....
- Music To Build Agents By I don't have this problem, because I don't use a mouse. Press play, then start reading: Want to learn how to think about agent policy? Start with Goethe’s Der Zauberlehrling. So come along, you old broomstick! Dress yourself in rotten rags! You’ve long...
- This post is the second in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo Today let's look at how both projects define the overall structure of the site...
- A user searches for red shoes they click on some products Now you have a set of relevant products Great......
- March 17, 2026 This post series is for people who want to build or rebuild a site. You may have heard of Eleventy, a popular static site generator, and maybe heard it’s simple to use. To evaluate that simplicity, I’ll compare a sample blog in Eleventy to the same blog in Web...
- OpenAI today: Introducing GPT‑5.4 mini and nano. These models join GPT-5.4 which was released two weeks ago. OpenAI’s self-reported benchmarks show the new 5.4-nano out-performing their previous GPT-5 mini model …
- Imagine I’m the design leader at your org and I present the following guidelines I want us to adopt as a team for doing design work: Typography: Use expressive, purposeful fonts and avoid default stacks (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system). Motion: Use a few meaningful animations...
- Conversations with AI are ephemeral, decisions made early lose attention as the conversation continues, and disappear entirely with a new session. Rahul Garg explains how Context Anchoring externalizes the decision context into a living document. more…...
- Learn how to use the Gemini Interactions API to build a personalized Japan travel brochure with Nano Banana 2....
- Look at this math and grasp at its majesty: P(R) = P(R | BM25) * P(R | Emb) # Prob(Relevance) = lexical * embedding OK what’s so special about that? That’s an AND. A probabilistic way of combining scores so that when BOTH “things happen”, the final result becomes true. Here when...
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