Forget the hype. Forget the doom. Here’s what actually works when you’re trying to integrate AI into your daily coding workflow—from someone who helped revolutionize infrastructure as code. The Core Insight Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator...
How do you tell a navigation app that a building entrance has a fixed ramp but doesn’t allow guide dogs? How do you encode that an elevator has real-time operational status? Until now, the answer...
There’s a feeling that experienced programmers aren’t talking about enough. It’s not burnout. It’s not impostor syndrome. It’s grief. The Core Insight Gergely Orosz from The Pragmatic Engineer recently shared something that resonated deeply with...
A new AI system just solved four previously unsolved math problems. But it’s not the solutions that matter—it’s how the AI found them. The Core Insight Ken Ono is a famous mathematician who recently left...
AI makes you more productive. AI also depletes you faster than ever. Both statements are true, and we haven’t figured out how to reconcile them yet. The Core Insight Simon Willison surfaces a finding from...
There’s a classic tech interview question: “What happens when you type a URL into your browser?” You can go deep—HTTP, DNS, TCP, IP, ARP, radio modulation, transistor physics. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: nobody actually...
Security researchers love the SVG spec because it’s enormous and full of surprises. Case in point: Roundcube’s HTML sanitizer carefully blocked remote images on <img>, <image>, and <use> elements—but completely missed <feImage>. The result? Email...
What if you could install a Go CLI tool with just uvx tool-name? Simon Willison figured out how to publish cross-platform Go binaries to PyPI, and the implications for developer tooling are significant. Your Go...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency just dropped Binding Operational Directive 26-02, and it’s not messing around: federal agencies have 12-18 months to rip out every unsupported edge device from their networks. This isn’t...
Fabien Sanglard’s guide reads like a point-and-click adventure game, and that’s kind of the point Fabien Sanglard wrote a guide to compiling Quake using the exact tools from 1997, and honestly? Reading it feels less...