2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in…
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S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News. One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade: 2006-03-14…
Bluesky reply bot checker
Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless…
New keyword idea
(note this is my first new feature proposal feedback WOULD be appreciated) syntax $vis_quantifier wrapper $new_type_name wraps $type_it_wraps; purpose makes it easier to make a 'new type'. While this is a more basic…
Rust for enterprise grade systems?
One thing that I am genuinely interested in rust, If same thing that I can generally do in Java building enterprise grade system, I can do in Rust. Not a secrete Java and OOP become de-factor a standard for every…
Rust for enterprise grade systems?
This is design that became de-facto standard for every enterprise solution. How would you design this in rust? language = java interface Collection { int size(); // Iterator does only one thing, iterate. // Question…
Attempting to store a function with parameters in a Some variant
I had it working without passing parameters but now I get an expected function pointer, found function item error. Code Snippet: Creating the menu and the function it's storing fn create_menu() -> Menu { let mut menu =…
JavaOne 2026: How To Write Great Java Apps With LLMs and Agents
Java's open ecosystem—specifications, source code, JSRs, JEPs, mailing lists, MicroProfile, and Jakarta EE—made it an ideal training ground for LLMs. These models learned more than syntax: they absorbed Java's patterns,…
Pre-RFC: Cromulent Copy Closure Captures
RFC posted: Cromulent `Copy` closure captures by Jules-Bertholet · Pull Request #4011 · rust-lang/rfcs · GitHub Characteristic cognomen: cromulent_copy_closure_captures Calendrical commencement: TBD CCC (Call Concerning…
From documenting decisions to questioning them
I started with a simple task: I needed an AI agent to help me compile decision records, structured documents that capture why a team chose option A over B, using the open-source MADR format. Fill in the sections,…
Radim Marek: What REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) costs while it runs
Two years ago I compared pg_repack and pg_squeeze, the two extensions most of us reach for when a table has bloated beyond what autovacuum will ever give back and VACUUM FULL isn't an option. PostgreSQL 19 changes the…
Going on a Tangent with the Intel 8087’s Hybrid CORDIC Algorithm
Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such reverse-engineering is …read…
Building a Chrome extension that reads Hanifi Rohingya webpages in Latin script
Rohingya has two writing systems in active use. Hanifi Rohingya is a right-to-left script that has been in Unicode since 2018 (block U+10D00–U+10D3F). Rohingyalish is Rohingya written in the Latin alphabet. Many…
Chris van Eijk: Invoice numbers per tenant in PostgreSQL, without gaps
Sequence, max()+1, SERIALIZABLE or a counter row: five ways to number invoices per tenant, measured under load in PostgreSQL 17 for duplicates, gaps and speed.
Chris van Eijk: PostgreSQL indexes for multi-tenant SaaS: tenant_id first
Five indexes, 1,000 tenants, one query, measured in PostgreSQL 17: why tenant_id goes first, what RLS does to the plan, and when partitioning pays off.
Google Ads gives you 6 months to appeal a suspension. Merchant Center gives some violations zero warning at all.
If your Google Ads or Google Merchant Center account got suspended, the first thing worth knowing is how much time you actually have — and it isn't the same for every violation. Google Ads: you have at least six months…
From Tiled to PixiJS and back: editable maps in TypeScript
Open a map in Tiled. Build a bridge in the browser. Open the changed map in Tiled again. I'm working on pixi-tiledmap, a TypeScript library for loading, rendering, editing, and exporting Tiled maps with PixiJS v8. This…
How to Add AI Voice to Your Django App
Why Add AI Voice to a Django App? Imagine a learning platform that reads lessons aloud, a customer‑support portal that speaks answers in a friendly tone, or a productivity tool that reads back your to��do list. Voice…
Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc5
The 7.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "I don't think there's any real pattern to it other than 'big'. But nothing looks particularly alarming, I think that despite the diffstat it's just the same…
You Are Lying to Your Compiler. Use "satisfies" Instead of "as".
You are lying to the compiler. It is time to stop. I am going to say something that might make some of you uncomfortable. Every time you write as in TypeScript, you are basically telling the compiler to shut up and…
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