This week has been about an alternative to semantic versioning, a Postgres extension for background jobs, an ADBC-driven command-line query tool and an alternative to mermaid.js without the need for a web browser. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about how a mechanical pencil works, the implications of UUID primary keys, query hints in Postgres and a game of mini golf. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a directory of Europe-based companies, a terminal-based reader for Epub and PDF, a website monitoring AI profitability and a Rust image processing library. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a tool to display chess positions in the terminal, a visualisation SQL grammar, an article about the internals of Aurora DSQL and an article solving Sudoku through graph theory. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a man-in-the-middle proxy, a game engine in Rust, a collection of compatible databases and an article on the new DuckDB client-server protocol. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a classless CSS framework, a federation of Git forges, how prompt injection works and the economic incentives of databases. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a strategy board game, a tool to manage self-contained virtual machines, an AWS-stack emulator and an article assessing whether relational joins are expensive. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week it has been about a tool to analyse disk usage, a tool to manage environment variables, a drop-in replacement for Apache Spark and an article on predictable versus deterministic software. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a language server for Typst, a Unicode visual explorer, a model for Earth observation and a local DynamoDB emulator backed by SQLite. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about an open alternative to Google maps, a one dimension chess variant, a dynamodb emulator test suite and the spec comeback. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a puzzle game, a CSS game, a Tauri-based VS Code-based editor and a guide on split keyboards. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a collection of SVG icons, Postgres concurrency isolation, WebAssembly holdbacks and a tool for managing markdown notes. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about AI fatigue, a type-safe language that compiles to Bash, a SQL transpiler across 30 dialects and an MCP criticism. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a Python library to use S3-compatible stores, the Connections puzzle on top of DuckDB, a Zed fork without AI and an article on the impact of AI on learning to code. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a runtime manager, an embedded graph database, an article on LLM quality and expectations and a tutorial on git and email. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a GPU-based SQL engine, a data format for database operations, a database diagramming editor and recommendations on how to harness LLMs down for a more effective coding experience. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a tool to compose SQL queries visually, a EU based hosting service, a tool to visualise SQLite file structure and an article on schema migrations. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about open table formats, tree-structured concurrency, RAG with DuckDB and correlated subqueries in SQLite. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about controling coding agents, agent protocols, the CSS highlights API and streaming patterns with DuckDB. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a terminal-based tool to inspect Parquet, an open specification for interacting with language models, a tool for solving constraiened optimisation problems and a book on web accessibility. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a terminal-based application for PostgreSQL, PDF forensics, a rant on overly complex frontend components and a reflection on the state of WebAssembly. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about the specification for providing context to coding agents, a rant on SOLID from Clean Code, a criticism to using Git for package manager storage and an exploit leveraging Claude Cowork. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a Rust web framework, a SQL-based social network, an article on Podman with Kubernetes and an article on measuring engineering ROI. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about the Git reftable format, a markup language for recipes, a Parquet-based embedded database and a single-node geospatial database. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

One thing that seems very obvious about ai but isn’t discussed much is that it is going to cost a lot more in the near future. These companies need to make incredible money from this, and much like streaming and uber, we’re at the investor-subsidised, loss leader stage

This week has been about a web application with typing exercises, a toolset for maths, a registry for reseach organisations and a markdown navigator. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a WebAssembly version of Ghostty, KPI trees, data warehouse modelling and team goal setting. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about caching data in DuckDB, a DuckDB extension for caching, an article on the Linux boot process and an article on browser fingerprinting. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a library for exposing JSON schema to the Typescript runtime checker, a report diving into mass surveillance, a tool to compose data pipelines from APIs and an article looking into Cloudflare's incident time to resolution. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a criticism to the Iceberg format, a colour palette web application, a puzzle game based on tle flipping and an article on engineering management skills. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a tool for viewing PDFs, a terminal-based application of utilities, a data format for LLMs and an article on open source, licensing and power structures. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a terminal-based note-taking application, design anti-patterns, a bibliography manager and structural regular expressions. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a new algorithm to estimate distinct elements, Merkle trees for TLS, a markdown linter and putting a movie into DuckDB. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about Python in Node.js, modern CSS colour functions, graph queries in DuckDB and an article on LLMs explicitly ignoring ethical constraints. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about the traps in Amazon Kindle, an alternative way to implement MCP services, AI wellfare and UUIDv7 shortcomings. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

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This week has been about handling CSV with DuckDB, the 2025 Lovelace report, a talk on DuckLake and the lakehouse challenges and the knowledge collapse amplified by GenAI. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a tool for analysing Git repos, an alternative to Docker compatible with Kubernetes, the chemistry of Cyanotypes and an image rendering engine. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about self-contained Ruby applications, GitHub codeowners validation, a Ruby version manager and a reverse proxy with load balancing and WAF built-in. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a proxy for intercepting and replaying traffic, a terminal-based network monitor, a text editor in Zig and a visualisation alternative to Venn diagrams. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about asynchronous Rust, probabilistic linkage, an adventure game and tweaking rate limits. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

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This week has been about standalone Python applications, event-driven applications in Kubernetes, a Lean introduction and a CSS Engine. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a tool for validating GitHub actions, a CLI for viewing docx, a good introduction to the big O notation and an article on legibility in software organisatons. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a Rust HTTP server for Python, a quiz on email addresses, a retry library for Python and an article on cross-site request forgery in 2025. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a turning maching language simulator, an conspiracy thriller game, a tool to convert raster to vector and maps with continents display true relative sizes. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about a SVG optimiser, a markdown linter, an introduction to Jujutsu and a collection of AI product vulnerabilities. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about f-strings, mcp, webassembly in mcp and the issues with AI agents. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

This week has been about the OpenCLI specification, a tree-sitter diff tool, the DBML specification and the SQLite WAL behaviour. www.seachess.net/bulletins/20...

Just a reminder: age verification is a *bad* idea, not a good idea with implementation problems. The trouble with it is inherent, not practical.