This week
- A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime. Today, I'm happy to say the fix has been found and merged. This post is an overview of what caused the leak, a look at some...
- Mcp-cli is a lightweight CLI that allows dynamic discovery of MCP, reducing token consumption while making tool interactions more efficient for AI coding agents....
- AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review for risk, intent, and accountability....
- Go 1.26 is coming out in February, so it's a good time to explore what's new. The official release notes are pretty dry, so I prepared an interactive version with lots of examples showing what has changed and what the new behavior is.Read on and see!new(expr) • Type-safe error...
Last week
- The setup for my notes blog looks like this: Content is plain-text markdown files (synced via Dropbox, editable in iA Writer on my Mac, iPad, or iPhone) Codebase is on GitHub Builds are triggered in Netlify by a Shortcut I try to catch spelling issues and what not before I...
- AI coding assistants became game-changers this year, but harnessing them effectively takes skill and structure. Here's my workflow for planning, coding, and collaborating with AI going into 2026....
- One of the core design points of Pystd has been that it maintains perfect API and ABI stability while also making it possible to improve the code in arbitrary ways. To see how that can be achieved, let's look at what creating a new "year epoch" looks like. It's quite simple....
- AI coding assistants have quickly moved from novelty to necessity where up to 90% of software engineers use some kind of AI for coding. But a new paradigm is emerging in software development...
- Like I did last year, I reserved some time during my holiday break to prepare an independent report of the Flask ecosystem in 2025....
- A guide to connect a Synology NAS to a WireGuard VPN server....
Two weeks ago
- I've been exploring how to integrate advanced AI agents into my daily workflow, and email remains the most universal interface for asynchronous tasks. I built a "Deep Research" agent using Val Town that allows me to trigger complex research tasks simply by sending an email. It...
- Note: this post represents my personal opinions as a Debian maintainer of a single package (Meson). It is not my intention to throw anyone involved in the service under a bus, but some things about it are not good and need to be spoken aloud (in my opinion anyway, other people...
About a month ago
- A couple of months ago, I received a request from a random Internet user to add CSRF protection to my little web framework Microdot, and I thought it was a fantastic idea. When I set off to do this work in early November I expected I was going to have to deal with anti-CSRF...
- Building a fair, cancelable semaphore in Go and the subtle concurrency issues involved....
- With a fresh set of analyzers and the same backend as go vet....
- Deja vu: a large Cloudflare outage caused by an instantly rolled-out global config change – two weeks after a similar problem...
- Explore different types of leaks and how to detect them in modern Go versions....
- Today we are expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost....
- Gitanjali Venkatraman does wonderful illustrations of complex subjects (which is why I was so happy to work with her on our Expert Generalists article). She has now published the latest in her series of illustrated guides: tackling the complex topic of Mainframe Modernization In...
- I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe once or twice a year. It’s because analytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand? I mean, sure, you might try to...
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