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Developer Vale observes that CSS-Tricks, the long-running web development publication acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, has gone inactive again after a second revival attempt. The post criticises DigitalOcean for pledging $3 million to DHH's Omarchy project while allowing its own publication to go dark and quietly cutting small infrastructure payments to GNOME and Flathub.
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Celebrating 70 years of Fortran
Joe Wallwork marks seventy years since Fortran's 1957 debut: why the language still thrives in scientific computing, what the Fortran-lang community is building, and how modern Fortran fits high-performance and climate work.
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Pair programming: still a good idea
Artur Sapek makes the case that pair programming with coding agents remains underrated—why sitting with an agent in a shared problem still beats solo prompting for learning and quality.
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Unsloth Desktop: Local AI for Developers
Local models were never the hard part—stitching RAG, fine-tuning, APIs, and tools was. Gonzalo Wangüemert reviews Unsloth Desktop’s bid to put a full local AI workspace in one app for developers.
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Why JSON Array Diffing Is Harder Than It Looks
Positional JSON array diffs explode into noise when records reorder. Chaitanya Chandurkar walks through identity inference for semantic diffs—and why matching “same entity, moved” is harder than it looks.
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Building a continuous security testing harness
Robert Lackey at Cribl turns an agentic vulnerability-research workflow into a continuous security testing harness—architecture, loops, and lessons from Product Security.
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The last mile of a long road: faster NumPy in the browser
Notebook.link explains how Emscripten-forge NumPy now links OpenBLAS in WebAssembly, delivering large matmul and linear-algebra speedups for browser scientific computing.
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“The Secret Life of Circuits” is hereWhy Michał Zalewski wrote a book about how circuits actually behave
lcamtuf (Michał Zalewski) announces The Secret Life of Circuits—why he wrote a hands-on electronics book focused on how real circuits behave, with notes on layout, endorsements, and who it’s for.
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You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Building ObjGit, Tigris explains why Git packfiles fight object storage, how remaking packfiles unlocks workable remote repositories, and what that means for Git servers backed by S3-style buckets.
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Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
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I wish you the best in the Offline
Dave Rupert reflects on people he follows who have recently left social media, AI tools or the internet entirely, including Salma's exit from DevRel, Chad Whitacre's typewritten retirement letter and Brett Codes quitting AI, and wishes them well while wondering what the Offline is like.
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Tom Carlson's Adaptive 60/40 Portfolio: Momentum-based Selection of Stock Diversifiers
A quantitative review of Tom Carlson's Adaptive 60/40 idea after the post-2022 stock-bond regime shift, plus a Probabilistic Sharpe Ratio variation for weighting diversifiers.
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Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals
Marc Paul compares running the same stock-analysis workload on MySQL InnoDB (OLTP) and an Iceberg lakehouse (OLAP): what InnoDB optimizes for, and the two mechanisms that make a lakehouse work — read-side pruning and the atomic pointer-swap commit.
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".
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Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality
Dallin Crump examines Apple Watch's forthcoming Audio Intelligence feature — which continuously transcribes ambient conversations — as the latest in a long line of always-listening consumer devices. The essay argues that surveillance capability is migrating from fixed cameras to wearable devices carried by people around us, raising privacy concerns that existing frameworks are not equipped to address.
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?AI is really good at detecting deceptive adverts - why isn't Google using it?
The author documents a deceptive Google ad that mimicked an iOS system dialog, violating multiple Google ad policies, and argues that Google's own AI could trivially detect and reject such ads—raising the question of why it does not enforce its own rules.
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A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap
Running swap in production to absorb memory spikes, the author found that Go's garbage collector reads off-heap metadata during a stop-the-world pause, and when that metadata is swapped out the pause jumps from a median of about 51 microseconds to 40ms. Includes eBPF measurements and a note on Go 1.26's Green Tea GC.
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I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times
Lalit Maganti built buildprof, an open-source Linux tool that records every process spawned during a build and renders them on a shared timeline. He used it to investigate the 5x speed difference between Bun's Zig and Rust builds, tracing the bottleneck to Full LTO in the linker and a downloaded WebKit library that amplified it.
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The author designs a compact binary encoding scheme for national flags using a layered model and Huffman coding. Most flags can be represented in 55–76 bits by exploiting the statistical regularity of flag elements — stripes, stars, crescents, common aspect ratios — while allowing longer codes for complex outliers like Qatar.
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Ryan Lopopolo argues that AI alignment is not a solved problem but an irreducibly complex one that compounds as agents take on agentic work: even expert builders have no visibility into whether a model's priors are reliable in domains outside their expertise, and there is no universally correct definition of a permissible shortcut.
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