Pi agent extension to tell the user to go to bed after midnight 😄👍 github.com/mitsuhiko/ag...

I like to read a good AI critique, but find it hard to take those seriously where the author lacks any practical experience ("I continue to write all of my software by hand") and only rehashes tired arguments: hallucinations, sociopaths, "they write bugs", etc. aphyr.com/posts/418-th...

Crazy what github.com/ranaroussi/y... does to scrape market data from Yahoo 😳

We are hosting the next edition of our community conference, DuckCon, in Amsterdam on June 24. The registration is already open and you can submit your talk proposals until next Wednesday. Looking forward to your submissions and seeing the flock in the summer!

I fixed mathias.blog/tools/whatzi..., and now the new Zig version shows up in all its glory. ⚡️ corsproxy.io has started to block free usage from production origins. As a workaround, I switched to codetabs.com (cool 90s-style website, btw).

Look who made it into the list of contributors again 👀

Published new versions of duckdb-rs and duckdb-go for yesterday's v1.5.2 release github.com/duckdb/duckd... github.com/duckdb/duckd...

How can GPT-5.4 (xhigh) be such a good model and yet produce the most useless commit messages imaginable? It's almost as if it only remembers the last thing it did and ignores the diff itself.

I turned this into a skill. Now I can simply ask ❯ /bear-notes what did i do this month for client X? ❯ /bear-notes what is Y? or just ❯ create a note about Z 😍

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TIL: Bear.app uses SQLite under the hood - perfect for some exploration with DuckDB ❯ duckdb ~/Library/Group\ Containers/9K33E3U3T4.net.shinyfrog.bear/Application\ Data/database.sqlite -c '.tables'

If you loved Founders/Coders at Work, this book is for you. When it comes to tech, nothing humbles me more than reading stories about multi-year video game projects.

The first episode was very compelling. Looking forward to the actual interviews!

The 2nd edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications is out. This means: a) I'm going to buy it, and b) I can enjoy new reviews like this one.

Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image!

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-code-source-leak/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778)

Something I've been working on: duckdb-rs will soon allow you to statically link basically any extension by leveraging DuckDB's existing CMake build infra. github.com/duckdb/duckd...

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Hard truth

Spot-on take on AI tooling. I'm guilty of this myself. blog.jakesaunders.dev/is-anybody-e...

Direkt und ehrlich ist immer gut

What a great book cover

👀🍿 github.com/jepsen-io/du...

Cloudflare Pages is to web app hosting what Deno is to JS runtimes. Most people don't actually use it. github.com/clerk/javasc...

This reads different a year later, following the recent layoffs, with no word from Ry yet. 14 people left at Deno, according to deno.com/company deno.com/blog/greatly...

"Don't tell me what you think - show me your portfolio." Me: software engineer, 0% software stocks.

"Wir [Deutschen] versuchen praktisch immer, alles hundertprozentig wasserfest zu machen, ohne überhaupt was zu haben, was funktioniert" @thorstenball.com sagt, wie es (leider) ist youtu.be/RNGJNQrA-tU?...

Claude Code was never good at (anticipating) compaction. 1M token context is a BIG DEAL.

This is one of the most balanced critiques of AI I've read so far. "Reviewing AI output all day without the dopamine of creation is not a sustainable job description." tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-0...

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I really wonder how OpenAI can make money with Codex when they apparently reset their weekly limits at random?

this is one of the big reasons i can't use AI in my writing. it just doesn't actually help me for the way i think or write. code, on the other hand, is a completely different story.

Something that makes even less sense in the age of AI: billing freelance work by the hour

New releases of duckdb-rs and duckdb-go have dropped! github.com/duckdb/duckd... github.com/duckdb/duckd...

They say code review is the new bottleneck

Astro 6 is here! We completely rebuilt the Astro dev server and build pipeline onto a new, more powerful runtime-agnostic architecture. Plus: New Fonts API, CSP support, an experimental new Rust compiler, and more... astro.build/blog/astro-6...

Hunted down a gnarly bug that turned out to be a malformed C string in compiled Windows libs. - Opus 4.6 (medium) kept noodling, gave up multiple times - GPT 5.3 Codex Spark tried a ton of stuff before hitting the 5h limit - GPT 5.4 (high) finally cracked it!

How to update Rust with style Not shown here: auto-fixing of all issues introduced by the update

"No AI crawler uses content negotiation. Not one... Apparently Cloudflare didn't get the memo, or they know something I don't, because in February Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents" 🤔 dri.es/markdown-llm...

chardet was vipeforked to MIT and I have thoughts about it. Spoiler: I like it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/the...

How many of those AI vs. craftsmanship posts do we still have to endure? As if it were 100% one or the other.

It is amazing how many companies I talk to STILL have AI effectively blocked by IT & legal departments for out-of-date reasons when many companies in regulated industries have figured out ways to deploy enterprise ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini (including CLIs like Code) without any apparent problem.

Boy, is Codex Spark fast! I heard the other day that they had to slow it down a bit for updates in the Codex app to stream smoothly.

Good to be back

I always wondered why `claude update` is so slow. Asked Codex to debug it. Turns out that the latest binary is downloaded every single time. 🙈 github.com/anthropics/c...

In light of today's outages, I wrote a small script that I run as part of my Claude Code wrapper to learn about current Claude incidents. github.com/mlafeldt/dot...

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code • Mitchell Hashimoto on building HashiCorp, navigating the cloud giants, and how AI agents have transformed his day-to-day engineering workflow.

If you like short non-hypey videos about agentic coding, you should check out Matt's YT channel. www.youtube.com/@mattpococku...