Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere. From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it. We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.

Applies to some tools, but this is where fine design makes a difference. Code is cheap to prompt, but the real bottleneck to good products is thinking through 99,999 design decisions and considering every edge case. DIY-ing your own tools will teach you how hard beautiful, thoughtful design is

Uber - From Batch to Streaming www.uber.com/blog/from-ba...

I am still sort of in disbelief how quickly we moved from "AI is not making me more productive as a programmer" to "of course AI can one-shot advent of code" in less than a year. bsky.app/profile/mits...

Going deep into FDAP stack is super fun. I’m finding a rabbit hole to dive into like every hour.

My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...

Reliability is our top priority. We have declared "Code Orange: Fail Small" to focus our engineering efforts on a single goal: ensuring the causes of past outages are fundamentally eliminated. Here is how we are building a more resilient network for the future. https://cfl.re/4pOLIlC

Building Modern Databases with the FDAP Stack • Andrew Lamb & Olimpiu Pop • GOTO 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-m...

Qiwei Huang explains how we use Late Materialization (LM) in the Apache Rust Parquet reader to accelerate filtering. LM can describe several techniques, but this is a core one (also applies to joins, Top-K, etc) arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/12...

à propos nothing: cargo-nextest's "wrapper-scripts" feature is amazing if you find yourself having to run tests through valgrind, heaptrack, strace, perf... for uhhh reasons. nexte.st/docs/configu...

but seriously: $ systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryMax=4G cargo nextest run woops is preetty cool. I thought I'd have to mess with docker or something.

just for fun, with apptron you can jump into linux in the browser, boot up stock apache, get a public endpoint, and browse to the default page... served from the apache running in the other tab!

Sometimes I look at the code suggested by Copilot and think of the developer who originally wrote it. Who are you? What happened in your life? Where are you now?

I've just realised that reading more fiction books for fun has really helped with me being able to focus properly on reading other stuff. I was just reading something that usually I would skim. Instead I noticed I was taking time to understand it, sometimes, re-reading sentences. Read fiction.

Durable Executions, defined Every durable execution framework: write normal code, get fault tolerance. Yet nobody defines what normal code or fault tolerance are The alternative: a rigorous definition, grounded in first principles, and a minimal implementation Dropping today

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TERM wizardzines.com/comics/term/ (from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/terminal)

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet. 📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/... 📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Today is the new semester for @db.cs.cmu.edu's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than before. More challenging projects but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025

The positive thing about AI tooling going mainstream and setting expectations high (e.g. "anyone can build software with AI") is that a large group will learn what us devs know already: Creating good software is hard and it's hard to explain to outsiders in a way they understand

Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability

SD25 online starts next week! systemsdistributed.com/#agenda

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD.... Loved the tooling.

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

I have a friend looking for people using Clickhouse in production. They have some questions about usage/use cases. Mind shooting me a DM? (please 🔃 for reach)

LLM is the new OS. English is the new programming language

This is a great interview. Kent Beck talks to @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com about how he's having more fun programming now with AI genies than he's had in ages. Also: the birth of Extreme Programming. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...

www.diabrowser.com Is the future of browsing internet. This is so well executed. Kudos to the Browser Company

A tale of two Claudes steveklabnik.com/writing/a-ta...

We're thrilled to announce the first stable release of Oxlint - version 1.0! Our Rust-powered JavaScript/TypeScript linter delivers 50~100x faster performance than ESLint with 500+ rules and zero configuration required. Time to give it a try! voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

📰 LLMs are mirrors of operator skill

I’m a little worried that AI will lock in whatever best practices are most popular at this moment and we won’t evolve as easily from here

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Progressive JSON

me: hey claude i want better error handling in my code claude: very cool have you tried writing rust in typescript

If you find an OSS issue that calls your attention, go for it. You don't need to ask permission to start working or have it assigned to you. If someone else sends a PR before you, that's great. You can use your knowledge of the issue to help review the PR, add tests, and validate the approach.

So.. is there a @zed.dev "Max Plan" in the works? Using Zed is a much nicer (and more graphical) experience than using Claude Code in the terminal, but.. those prompts sure go fast, I'd love a Claude Max kind of deal where it's capped to <200EUR/month and I don't have to monitor usage.

I genuinely like untangling legacy codebases to make them better (building a feature, upgrading, etc); it feels good in my brain. ...which is an oddly fun part of the whole "vibe coding" thing, because after I have a tool prototype a project for me, I get to go in and fix all of the weird code 😆

I can't believe this is real www.thewayofcode.com

All the LLM advancements are making me feel like I'm a superhero. It's like real life Iron Man - Just that my Jarvis is still a Work in Progress. 🤖

One of the most important skills (as always) is going to be - Asking questions. Asking really good (dumb) questions. The ones who asks really good questions can steer the LLMs in a proper direction. The ones who can't will blame LLMs for not being upto the task

🎉 Rust turns 10! What a decade for us all 🥳 To celebrate, we’ve curated 10 must-watch talks from EuroRust. Let’s kick things off 👇 🧵 1/11

“Everyone's software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel emilkowal.ski/ui/good-vs-g...

@devongovett.bsky.social Is ParcelRSC client designed to work with any RSC payload (like NextJS RSC) or only works with ParcelRSC? Not sure if RSC integrations are implemented based on any spec or if any deviations.

I've often said that if I could have a super power, I'd want the power of persuasion. One of the ways I'd use that power is to convince people to use composition more. Stop overloading components with responsibilities. Please, I'm begging you.

such a good talk!

Everything is magic till you understand it. "Serde" is magical. (At least as of today).

my first "youtube video". enjoy

I'm enjoying writing these narrative type stories. Wrote the second short one www.prasanthkarri.dev/the-nth-enco.... Do read the first one before if you haven't www.prasanthkarri.dev/the-first-en... Blogging almost after 15 years (old coding blog is dead long back). Appreciate feedback if any.