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I can't believe PowerShell is actually good
Corbin Davenport of The Spacebar admits he underestimated PowerShell after Bash scripting frustrations, showing how its native data types, easy web API parsing, and .NET objects made a real scripting job, migrating old Tumblr posts with their metadata, far easier.
10 min · 2,286 words
Anthropic’s Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
A former Mononoke engineer compares Anthropic's description of 'derived data' in its new Scion version control system with how Meta's open-source Mononoke source control server used the same idea years earlier, and argues that Anthropic should have credited Mononoke as prior art.
4 min · 855 words
Gentoo developer Michał Górny asks Python package maintainers not to adopt uv-build as their build backend, arguing that its size and Rust toolchain requirement break builds on less common architectures and downstream distributions, while its benefits over backends like flit-core or hatchling are minimal.
3 min · 579 words
Paul Anthony Webb reacts to Deno's team moving to Cloudflare and winding down runtime development within a year, the second VC-backed tool he depends on to be handed to the community. He announces Ende, his own Deno fork that drops Node compatibility and extras like Deploy, KV and Jupyter, aiming for a December soft launch.
3 min · 735 words
Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?
Michael Lynch argues that while LLMs keep getting better, the coding agents that drive them have barely improved since early 2025: he separates the model from the agent, catalogs the workflow gaps and bugs he still hits in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cline and Pi, and sketches what a better agent would do.
10 min · 2,316 words
A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users
An opinion piece recounting a rough month for Codex users: a disappointing GPT-6 Sol launch, changes to the $200 and new $500 plans, an underwhelming Dots feature and a slow follow-up model, and arguing OpenAI must choose between consumer and enterprise instead of rushed launches.
5 min · 1,107 words
Authoritarian tendencies of Android Developer Verification Program
Vikrant Singh Chauhan argues Google’s Android Developer Verification Program, sold as malware protection, centralizes who may ship apps and threatens sideloading and small open-source clients—drawing on his experience publishing ivx/ai Chat.
9 min · 2,029 words
kowalski7cc explains why Flatpak works for desktop GUI apps but is awkward for terminal tools: entrypoints, PATH, sandbox friction, and packaging tradeoffs that hurt CLI UX.
6 min · 1,268 words
Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around ChangesetsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A proposal to organize GitHub pull requests around explicit changesets. Mitchell Hashimoto examines how mutable branches can disrupt reviews and describes a workflow that would preserve clearer review context.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written