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Bryan Cantrill argues that LLM-generated LinkedIn posts are immediately recognisable to readers who have seen much AI content, and that using AI to write in your name undermines authenticity and signals to others that your stated views may not be genuine. He urges people to write in their own voice.
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The Graph Will Set You Free: Why Every Creative Tool Is Becoming a Node Canvas
Hirad Sab traces node-based creative tools from Sketchpad to modern AI canvases, arguing graphs are the right abstraction when generation becomes a networked, composable process.
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The Shadows Lurking in the Equations
FuzzyGraph visualizes equation error topography, not just exact zeros—revealing black holes, shadow lines, and near-solution underwater islands invisible to conventional binary graphing of algebraic curves.
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CorrosionOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Thomas Ptacek and Peter Cai examine Corrosion, Fly.io's state-synchronization system. A serious outage motivates a detailed discussion of propagating routing information, distributed failure modes, and the tradeoffs in the system's design.
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Notes on switching to Helix from vimOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A Vim user's account of trying Helix, with attention to built-in language-server support, contextual search, keyboard help, and multiple cursors. The post describes the everyday tradeoffs of changing editors.
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Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models
Fu et al. propose Cache-to-Cache (C2C): multi-LLM systems exchange KV-cache semantics directly instead of text tokens, aiming for richer inter-model communication with lower latency and token cost.
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How we built it: Real-time analytics for Stripe BillingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Reed Trevelyan explains the shift from delayed batch processing to fresher analytics for Stripe Billing. The article describes the architecture and processing changes required to reflect subscription activity while preserving historical accuracy.
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Advice for Tech Non-ProfitsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Advice for technical nonprofits from a donor's perspective. Mitchell Hashimoto discusses making the donation process understandable and reducing the practical friction that can prevent willing supporters from contributing.
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Trust Calibration for AI Software BuildersOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Daniel Botha examines how software should earn an appropriate level of user trust. Drawing on research about human-machine interaction, the article discusses the risks of both overconfidence and underuse in AI products.
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How we built it: Jurisdiction resolution for Stripe TaxOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Erich Rentz and Danko Komlen explain how Stripe resolves taxing jurisdictions for transactions. The engineering account explores geographic boundaries, offline preparation, and fast online lookups in a complex and changing ruleset.
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How the Tobacco Industry Drove Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods
A UC Berkeley research article traces how R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies entered the food industry in the 1960s and applied cigarette marketing expertise to engineer hyperpalatable, addictive ultra-processed foods, contributing to the obesity epidemic.
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
A practical introduction to compiling C programs for developers who rarely write C themselves. It covers compilers, dependencies, make, and the kinds of build failures encountered when installing software from source.
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
Ink & Switch’s essay on malleable software: why today’s locked-down apps strip user agency, and what it would take to restore tools people can reshape themselves.
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Using Kamal 2.0 in ProductionOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Sam Ruby introduces practical production guidance for using Kamal with Rails applications. The post explains why realistic deployment scenarios need more than a basic demonstration and links to the expanded walkthrough.
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Jens Egholm Pedersen argues modern science is synonymous with open-source software: why reproducible code matters as much as papers, and what researchers should do next.
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Reservoir SamplingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
An interactive explanation of choosing a fair random sample from a stream of unknown length. Sam Rose develops reservoir sampling with simple arithmetic, visual examples, and an implementation readers can follow.
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Operationalizing MacaroonsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Thomas Ptacek describes how Fly.io operates Macaroon bearer tokens in practice. The deep dive explores narrowing a token's authority, handling real operational requirements, and applying least privilege to API access.
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Stars in the sky: The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites
A deep history of the classified URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH ocean-surveillance satellites—from 1970s origins through later generations—and what open sources reveal about them.
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"As Code"Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
Mitchell Hashimoto explains his intended meaning of the phrase as code. The essay emphasizes recording knowledge as shareable, versioned rules and distinguishes that aim from treating every configuration system like a programming language.
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Taming A Voracious Rust ProxyOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Peter Cai investigates a CPU-hungry failure in Fly.io's Rust routing proxy. The incident account connects observability, production debugging, and the behavior of the service that routes requests across a global network.
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