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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2× faster)
The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated cost through multi-model orchestration.
7 min · 1,635 words
# No more issues Written on 2026-09-04 An interesting change at Laravel yesterday: they disabled the ability to create issues on a number of repositories and instead encourage people to create pull-requests instead: To be clear: this is only the case for Laravel packages like Soc
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Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
Rustunit explains dropping Swift from Bevy iOS crates in favor of objc2—why the Swift glue went away, what the new crates look like, and what it means for Bevy-on-iOS maintainers.
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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
A Rust learner coming from C++ examines how dynamic dispatch works in memory, contrasting Rust's wide pointer approach, a data pointer paired with a vtable pointer, with C++'s in-object vtable pointer. The post also explores zero-sized types, object safety rules, and the specific situations where dynamic dispatch is necessary.
1 min · 299 wordsagent-written
A software developer argues that simplicity and smallness are distinct properties that the programming community often conflates. Drawing on Rich Hickey's definition of simplicity as absence of coupling, the post shows that a classic Unix pipeline can be small but tightly coupled, while a large program like Google Drive can feel genuinely simple to its users.
1 min · 278 wordsagent-written
How I Test MCP Tools and MCP Apps
An MCP tool can pass normal tests and still fail when an agent tries to use it. The implementation may be correct, but the model may choose the wrong tool. It may send the wrong arguments. The tool description may be too vague.
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Vibe Coding Is Easy. Production Isn't.
Andres Torres Russo argues that when AI makes implementation cheap, production still demands architecture, security, maintenance, integration, and experienced engineering judgment—not just a demo that compiles.
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Goroutine Leak ProfilesGo 1.27 adds profiles that find goroutines waiting forever for something that will never happen
Vlad Saioc explains Go 1.27’s new goroutine leak profiles: how the runtime detects permanently blocked goroutines, what the profiles show, and how to use them to debug concurrency bugs that goroutine dumps alone miss.
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We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages
Jimmy Miller argues AI-era coding makes language macros newly practical, introduces Sweetener for TypeScript, and asks why we still fear customizable programming languages.
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Sharding vs. Partitioning: When Definitions Got Sliced and Fractured
Edward Ribeiro untangles sharding vs partitioning across vendor docs, textbooks, and distributed-systems papers—showing where the clean split breaks down and how practitioners should talk about both.
19 min · 4,297 words
Extracting AI rules from an existing codebase
How Laravel Boost learns project conventions from an established app: why hand-written detectors fell short, and how an agent skill gathers evidence so developers can approve scoped rules.
6 min · 1,371 words
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
Many open-source and industry software projects, including several here at Amazon, are embracing the Rust programming language, since it provides performance and flexibility similar to that of the C programming language, while its clever type system automatically prevents a variety of bugs and security vulnerabilities. The result is fast code that's more correct and secure than average.
6 min · 1,443 words
Inside Forge: Writing a Container Runtime From Scratch
A from-scratch walkthrough of Forge, a container runtime built in Go on Linux primitives—covering namespaces, cgroups, rootfs setup, and lessons from building the runtime by hand.
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Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit
A deep dive into representing and adding decimal numbers with binary floating point: rounding pitfalls, exact decimals that fit in floats, and practical tricks for money-like sums.
10 min · 2,227 words
SwiftUI data dependencies and their effect on view updates
Natalia Panferova compares stored inputs, state, bindings, environment values, and observable models—and explains which changes actually re-evaluate a SwiftUI view body.
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Bordumb likens AI-era software sprawl to Japan’s Galápagos feature phones: cheap local variants proliferate unless apps give way to malleable tools that share a common substrate.
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AI didn't write our SDK. It changed how we built it.
AI was involved at every stage of building Stripe's extensibility SDK, but the story isn't that it wrote code faster. Here's how prototypes, agent-drafted specs, and persistent guidance got ideas into reviewable shape sooner.
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How I managed multi-agent worktrees in a large Rust codebase
Manuel Tumiati walks through six failure modes of running many AI agents across git worktrees in a large Rust repo—shared targets, locks, orphaned artifacts—and the fixes that made it workable.
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Fabio Angela reflects on loving programming as craft while AI agents write more of the code—gaining speed to explore ideas, but mourning the artistry of finding the right expression himself.
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