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...

Die wohl bekanntesten AWS Consultants Deutschlands haben den (Ab)sprung ins Product Business geschafft. Und es freut mich sehr. @andreaswittig.bsky.social happy-bootstrapping.podigee.io/160-1-800-ku...

New post! Tests Are The New Moat saewitz.com/tests-are-th...

Noticing a pattern: Peter Steinberger, Mario Zechner, Armin Ronacher—all Austrian, all shaping core AI and dev tools. Coincidence, or something in the water?

@chadfowler.com One thing I noticed while reading through your series: doesn't aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c say the exact opposite of aicoding.leaflet.pub/3maob46kbz22v about the regeneration (pace) of UI vs backend components?

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

»Später Vorsatz für 2026: Weniger daran denken, was die AI tut, wenn ich schlafe. Und mehr daran, was ich tue, wenn ich wach bin.« gregorschmalzried.blog/p/fast-softw...

A team generates forty services in two weeks. Three months later, no one knows which validation logic is canonical and nothing can be safely deleted. That's the real industrialization problem. New post in #ThePhoenixArchitecture

DuckDB was added to the wall of fame of CWI, next to Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm, the Atlantic Crossing of the Internet & the creation of Python On the occasion of our 80th (really!) bday Congrats to @hannes.muehleisen.org & @markraasveldt.bsky.social @duckdb.org @cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social

Found my first serious vulnerability in a major open source project. Used Claude Code for discovery + PoC, and Codex for confirmation/review. Estimated CVSS: ~7.0-7.5, Local 😳

I've been reading through @chadfowler.com's Phoenix Architecture series and find the whole idea compelling. Regeneration over maintenance, durable evaluations over precious code, n=1 as a design constraint. My only wish: less philosophy, more practical recipes. aicoding.leaflet.pub

Definitely feeling it, everyone just hang onto your board. 🏄 justinjackson.ca/claude-code

Some people took this to be anti-AI, but it's not at all what the article is about. You can be nostalgic and embrace the future at the same time.

This is not what vibe coding means. "It wasn't the code that I would have written, it lacked my character, which made it hard for me to understand it at a glance." matklad.github.io/2026/01/20/v...

woah

I'm still actively working on this series on The Phoenix Architecture, but I've taken a pause in posting while I think about a new angle related to source control. In the meantime, if you haven't already been following I'd love to hear more thoughts aicoding.leaflet.pub

This is why agent-browser currently has a hard time performing checkouts. It can't reliably interact with cross‑origin iframe contents from Stripe, Polar, etc. As a workaround, Opus uses coordinates to click into fields, but it's very error-prone. github.com/vercel-labs/...

So true. Even spending a day to replace something that costs $100 a year doesn't make economic sense. There are other factors, such as learning or simply enjoying building things, but don't fool yourself. x.com/AveryChernin...

"I'd like to see more investigation into long-term patterns of AI use in tech companies. Is the slower learning rate per-task balanced out by the higher rate of task completion? Can it be replaced by carving out explicit time to study the codebase?" 🤔 www.seangoedecke.com/how-does-ai-...

🎞️ The slide decks and talk recordings of last Friday's developer meeting are out! duckdb.org/events/2026/...

Zig has started to reimplement libc (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4685...), which is exciting. I asked Claude what this means for macOS, where libc linking is a bit trickier.

"The question isn't whether AI is coming to Open Source. It's how we make it work." dri.es/ai-creates-a...

Nach der E-Mail von der freundlichen Kundenerfahrungssprecherin kommt jetzt das spezialisierte Speditionsteam. Ich freu mich.

"It's the best time ever to know how to program - without having to program" 😅

Published new versions of duckdb-rs and duckdb-go, featuring the latest DuckDB patch release 🎉 github.com/duckdb/duckd... github.com/duckdb/duckd...

Replaced my custom status line script for Claude Code with ccstatusline. The interactive lines editor is particularly neat. The tool provides the most common metrics, but you can also add custom commands. 💪 github.com/sirmalloc/cc...

Peak procrastination ❯ git log | grep -c 'Update packages' 74

OpenAI shipped a huge upgrade to ChatGPT Code Interpreter and failed to document it anywhere, even in the release notes - but ChatGPT can now pip/npm install packages and run code in Python, Node.js, Bash, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, Swift, Kotlin, C and C++! simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/...

Hope you all update to DuckDB 1.4.4, one way or another 😎

Astro asking for more money immediately after joining Cloudflare seems like a strange move. But maybe that's just me.

"Our reason for the strict AI policy is not due to an anti-AI stance, but instead due to the number of highly unqualified people using AI. It's the people, not the tools, that are the problem." github.com/ghostty-org/...

I'm sure this would have been a great, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

I'm testing agent-browser as a replacement for github.com/lackeyjb/pla... So far, I'm super impressed! Watching this thing log in via Clerk and complete a checkout flow with Polar is mesmerizing.

We’re doing an Agentic Coding conference in Hamburg on March 22nd! 🎉 Not many details yet, but super early bird tickets are on sale and selling fast. Super excited about this one! #hamburg luma.com/45lfeyeh

Landed another Zig contribution. My first on Codeberg, and the only reason I even have an account over there. Using GitHub to sign in, of course. :) codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/...

Pandora's box has been opened. There's no going back. My eye is on the future. Where's yours? mathias.blog/posts/change...

For me, few things are as mentally draining as reviewing a large PR. Only pair programming might be harder. I used to pair for hours every day. Unimaginable today and incompatible with my current life.

#de #jobs Wer gerade im Tech-Bereich auf Jobsuche ist (Remote/DE/familienfreundlich), schaut mal bei https://pirateship.tech/ vorbei! In meinem Team u.a. viele spannende Aufgaben: - Kontinuierliche Modernisierung/Modularisierung eines 11 Jahre alten - nennen wir ihn liebevoll - Monolithen […]

My favorite framework-on-infra combo has joined forces 🎉

Had some fun recreating this cool interactive particle effect from faster.dev with Codex.

New blog post inspired by Robert Greene's timeless observations on change and our need to adapt (in the age of AI) mathias.blog/posts/change...

With Astro 6, astro dev will run your entire application using workerd 👌 astro.build/blog/astro-6...

"AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation." dri.es/ai-is-a-busi...

Minus 4500 LOC ✨ duckdb-go is becoming simpler after a big refactoring to duckdb-go-bindings github.com/duckdb/duckd...