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  1. Library dependency version specifiers aren't for fixing vulnerabilities
    | sethmlarson.dev

  2. New Logic for Programmers (and the future of this newsletter)
    | buttondown.com

  3. Weekly Update 502
    | troyhunt.com

  4. Slices, Maps, and Channels
    | internals-for-interns.com

  5. Links to CSS colour palettes
    | jvns.ca

  6. Testing Vue components in the browser
    | jvns.ca

  7. Hoisting wire plumbing out of your Go handlers
    | rednafi.com

  8. Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  9. Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  10. April 2026
    | petemillspaugh.com

  11. It's time to be right.
    | brooker.co.za

  12. The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
    | sethmlarson.dev

  13. The Bombadil Terminal Experiment
    | wickstrom.tech

  14. When Sites Need to Walk Away
    | chriscoyier.net

  15. Illegal vs Unwanted States
    | buttondown.com

  16. What’s up Python? Frame pointers, sentinel values, venv discovery, more rust in Python...
    | bitecode.dev

  17. Weekly Update 501
    | troyhunt.com

  18. ZFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

  19. Not All Telemetry Requires Premium Pricing
    | victoriametrics.com

  20. pip v26.1 adds support for relative dependency cooldowns
    | sethmlarson.dev

  21. Bette Midler sings Woodie Guthrie
    | chriscoyier.net

  22. Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  23. AI & Alignment
    | chriscoyier.net

  24. Go quirks: function closures capturing mutable references
    | rednafi.com

  25. It’s an assumed truth that Safari is better for battery life — without data to support it.
    | chriscoyier.net

  26. VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon Amsterdam: Community Highlights
    | victoriametrics.com

  27. What's new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (Q1 2026)
    | victoriametrics.com

  28. Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention
    | blog.janestreet.com

  29. Borrow-checking without type-checking
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  30. Rediscovering the Handcart
    | solar.lowtechmagazine.com

  31. Weekly Update 500
    | troyhunt.com

  32. People get confused when language implementations break language guarantees
    | buttondown.com

  33. Antithesis report: Tigris Data
    | antithesis.com

  34. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q1 2026? Logs, MCP Server, Better Alerting, and... a Secret Project
    | victoriametrics.com

  35. Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
    | words.filippo.io

  36. Stories from Alaska Folk Fest 2026
    | chriscoyier.net

  37. The Network Poller
    | internals-for-interns.com

  38. Untitled
    | chriscoyier.net

  39. Accepted proposal: UUID in the Go standard library
    | rednafi.com

  40. Announcing: NT/OT Bible quotation database
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  41. Peeking into Go struct tags
    | rednafi.com

  42. More thoughts on Nintendo Switch 2 storage prices
    | sethmlarson.dev

  43. Here's What Agentic AI Can Do With Have I Been Pwned's APIs
    | troyhunt.com

  44. What are skiplists good for?
    | antithesis.com

  45. VictoriaMetrics at KubeCon: Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling
    | victoriametrics.com

  46. Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  47. A sufficiently comprehensive spec is not (necessarily) code
    | buttondown.com

  48. Weekly Update 499
    | troyhunt.com

  49. Add Animal Crossing events to your digital calendar
    | sethmlarson.dev

  50. Saying Goodbye to Agile
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  51. Btrfs
    | internals-for-interns.com

  52. Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
    | petemillspaugh.com

  53. Error translation in Go services
    | rednafi.com

  54. Dynamo: Amazon's highly available key-value store
    | rednafi.com

  55. Spec Driven Development isn't Waterfall
    | brooker.co.za

  56. The Real Cost of Model Migration - What Swapping LLMs Actually Requires
    | safjan.com

  57. Under the hood of MDN's new frontend
    | developer.mozilla.org

  58. How jobs, events, and funding work on The Consensus
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  59. Weekly Update 498
    | troyhunt.com

  60. 0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  61. Borrow-checking surprises
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  62. Stacked log lines considered harmful
    | rednafi.com

  63. A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
    | words.filippo.io

  64. The System Monitor
    | internals-for-interns.com

  65. Help Me Understand How To Get Jetpack Search to Search a Custom Post Type
    | chriscoyier.net

  66. VictoriaMetrics March 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

  67. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
    | petemillspaugh.com

  68. Who contributed to DataFusion 53
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  69. April Cools Post: New York vs Chicago Pizza
    | buttondown.com

  70. I want an alarm clock
    | bell.bz

  71. He thinks AI code may break everything
    | antithesis.comfalse

  72. What’s up Python? New record type, new JIT perfs, new Python rest lib...
    | bitecode.dev

  73. Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto
    | jakelazaroff.com

  74. Weekly Update 497
    | troyhunt.com

  75. What's the ideal dispatch mechanism?
    | rednafi.com

  76. HIBP Mega Update: Passkeys, k-Anonymity Searches, Massive Speed Enhancements and a Bulk Domain Verification API
    | troyhunt.com

  77. XFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

  78. Low-tech Magazine: The Uncompressed Book Series
    | solar.lowtechmagazine.com

  79. Taking multi-master MariaDB for a spin, reproducing a Jepsen report
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  80. Background jobs and inherited file descriptors
    | rednafi.com

  81. Hawai’i
    | chriscoyier.net

  82. Antithesis skills for agents
    | antithesis.com

  83. What about juniors?
    | brooker.co.za

  84. Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices
    | buttondown.com

  85. Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
    | antithesis.com

  86. Weekly Update 496
    | troyhunt.com

  87. OpenAI bought Astral, will I keep using uv?
    | bitecode.dev

  88. Wait it out
    | bell.bz

  89. The Garbage Collector
    | internals-for-interns.com

  90. Observability Lessons From OpenAI
    | victoriametrics.com

  91. Testing unary gRPC services in Go
    | rednafi.com

  92. Announcing: Parrot.garden
    | btao.org

  93. Repositories, transactions, and unit of work in Go
    | rednafi.com

  94. Benchmarking Kubernetes Log Collectors: vlagent, Vector, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry Collector, and more
    | victoriametrics.com

  95. My heuristics are wrong. What now?
    | brooker.co.za

  96. How do you handle transactions with the repository pattern?
    | rednafi.com

  97. Developer Spotlight: Somtochi Onyekwere from Fly.io
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  98. A static site generator and website transferring under 20kB
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  99. Meets Style Sheets
    | chriscoyier.net

  100. A declarative restoration
    | antithesis.com

  101. Hypermedia Friendly Model Context Protocol App Architecture
    | htmx.org

  102. Music To Build Agents By
    | brooker.co.za

  103. Just one more prompt
    | btao.org

  104. Is passing user ID through context an antipattern?
    | rednafi.com

  105. Weekly Update 495
    | troyhunt.com

  106. My favorite thing to do with AI doesn't really have a label
    | daniel.do

  107. What belongs in Go's context values?
    | rednafi.com

  108. When perfection is table stakes
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  109. NTFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

  110. Do you need a repository layer on top of sqlc?
    | rednafi.com

  111. Wrapping a gRPC client in Go
    | rednafi.com

  112. Kermit Roosevelt
    | chriscoyier.net

  113. tree-style invite systems reduce AI slop
    | abyss.fish

  114. In praise of the etcd codebase
    | rednafi.com

  115. AI is my CMS
    | chriscoyier.net

  116. New Notes RSS feed
    | btao.org

  117. Dear HTTP service, how can I trust you not to break my heart?
    | willem.dev

  118. Mojo's not (yet) Python
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  119. Untitled
    | chriscoyier.net

  120. The Normie Loop
    | btao.org

  121. LLMs are bad at vibing specifications
    | buttondown.com

  122. Announcing fluent-codegen
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  123. What’s up Python? d-strings, SSE in Pydantic and... a new Python?
    | bitecode.dev

  124. Weekly Update 494
    | troyhunt.com

  125. Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
    | jvns.ca

  126. The Scheduler
    | internals-for-interns.com

  127. Go errors: to wrap or not to wrap?
    | rednafi.com

  128. A fighting retreat
    | antithesis.com

  129. Mutate your locked state inside a closure
    | rednafi.com

  130. Free Books
    | buttondown.com

  131. Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native
    | tonsky.me

  132. Man Cereal
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  133. The illusion of control in AI-assisted engineering
    | safjan.com

  134. Weekly Update 493
    | troyhunt.com

  135. Ext4
    | internals-for-interns.com

  136. External import maps, today!
    | lea.verou.me

  137. Source-available projects and their AI contribution policies
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  138. Everything changes, and nothing changes
    | btao.org

  139. Yes, and...
    | htmx.org

  140. Formal methods for the unsafe side of the Force
    | antithesis.com

  141. Navigating git diffs in VSCode with VSCodeVim
    | raphaelkabo.com

  142. Open Source Contributor Spotlight: Kosta Tarasov and DataFusion
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  143. Version Your Vectors - Index Versioning as the Missing Layer in RAG Observability and Compliance
    | safjan.com

  144. I’m unsubscribing from the AI discourse
    | bell.bz

  145. VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

  146. SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness
    | brooker.co.za

  147. Introducing RSS-O-Matic
    | btao.org

  148. Self-hosting Matrix Synapse with Docker Compose and Caddy
    | raphaelkabo.com

  149. I started a software research company
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  150. Weekly Update 492
    | troyhunt.com

  151. Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
    | blog.janestreet.com

  152. What canceled my Go context?
    | rednafi.com

  153. New Blog Post: Some Silly Z3 Scripts I Wrote
    | buttondown.com

  154. The Picture They Paint of You
    | ferd.ca

  155. Reading English from 1000 AD
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  156. The Memory Allocator
    | internals-for-interns.com

  157. We have pgvector at home
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  158. Editorial rigor
    | petemillspaugh.com

  159. Take It From Me by Alia Hanna Habib
    | petemillspaugh.com

  160. The Design of Books by Debbie Berne
    | petemillspaugh.com

  161. Unhurried ambition
    | petemillspaugh.com

  162. Structured concurrency & Go
    | rednafi.com

  163. Turn Dependabot Off
    | words.filippo.io

  164. Catching a caching bug at Readyset
    | antithesis.com

  165. Stream of Consciousness Driven Development
    | buttondown.com

  166. Notes on clarifying man pages
    | jvns.ca

  167. exe.dev: a new hosting solution for your prototypes
    | bitecode.dev

  168. Weekly Update 491
    | troyhunt.com

  169. Home-cooked software
    | hamvocke.com

  170. 0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  171. 2025
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  172. FAT32
    | internals-for-interns.com

  173. Generating vector embeddings for semantic search locally
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  174. Inspecting the Source of Go Modules
    | words.filippo.io

  175. Proving What's Possible
    | buttondown.com

  176. Results from the Advent of FPGA Challenge
    | blog.janestreet.com

  177. VictoriaMetrics at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France, and CfgMgmtCamp Ghent
    | victoriametrics.com

  178. VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Fast, Cost-Effective Log Management is Here
    | victoriametrics.com

  179. The Bootstrap
    | internals-for-interns.com

  180. Weekly Update 490
    | troyhunt.com

  181. Every Man a Microservice
    | grantslatton.com

  182. Paths of MySQL, vector search edition
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  183. You Are Here
    | brooker.co.za

  184. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
    | petemillspaugh.com

  185. What's up Python? Astral's new service, pandas 3 and a new ORM...


    | bitecode.dev

  186. I design with Claude more than Figma now
    | blog.janestreet.com

  187. Publishing a Python CLI Tool to Homebrew
    | safjan.com

  188. Logic for Programmers New Release and Next Steps
    | buttondown.com

  189. I listen to a lot of I Prevail
    | bell.bz

  190. Rust is Just a Tool
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  191. What’s new in VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (2025)
    | victoriametrics.com

  192. Introduction
    | internals-for-interns.com

  193. Companies behind Postgres 18 development
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  194. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
    | petemillspaugh.com

  195. Manufacturing as Maintenance
    | grantslatton.com

  196. all eyes on minneapolis
    | j3s.sh

  197. Fun shadow coding challenge
    | bell.bz

  198. TAG Bulletin: Q4 2025
    | blog.google

  199. It really is the year of the website
    | bell.bz

  200. How we interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust
    | antithesis.com

  201. There and Back Again: From Quickstrom to Bombadil
    | wickstrom.tech

  202. The limiting factor at work isn't writing code anymore
    | safjan.com

  203. Some notes on starting to use Django
    | jvns.ca

  204. The Linker
    | internals-for-interns.com

  205. VictoriaMetrics January 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

  206. Your Go tests probably don't need a mocking library
    | rednafi.com

  207. Pass@k is Mostly Bunk
    | brooker.co.za

  208. Refinement without Specification
    | buttondown.com

  209. Fast Unrounded Scaling: Proof by Ivy
    | research.swtch.com

  210. Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast
    | research.swtch.com

  211. The Indexes
    | internals-for-interns.com

  212. LLMs and your career
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  213. Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics
    | htmx.org

  214. On Burnout
    | btao.org

  215. My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  216. Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше
    | tonsky.me

  217. My Gripes with Prolog
    | buttondown.com

  218. VictoriaLogs Basics: What You Need to Know, with Examples & Visuals
    | victoriametrics.com

  219. The Insecure Evangelism of LLM Maximalists
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  220. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q4 2025? New tiers, more deployment options, IaC and alerting rules.
    | victoriametrics.com

  221. From SSA to Machine Code
    | internals-for-interns.com

  222. Agent Safety is a Box
    | brooker.co.za

  223. Using MLflow-RAGAS Integration Without Tracing
    | safjan.com

  224. Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer
    | research.swtch.com

  225. Floating Point Formatting
    | research.swtch.com

  226. Vibe coding tools observability with VictoriaMetrics Stack and OpenTelemetry
    | victoriametrics.com

  227. A data model for Git (and other docs updates)
    | jvns.ca

  228. RAG Evaluation with RAGAS and MLflow - A Practical Guide
    | safjan.com

  229. Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?
    | lea.verou.me

  230. The Liskov Substitution Principle does more than you think
    | buttondown.com

  231. Fun with Algebraic Effects - from Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations
    | blog.janestreet.com

  232. go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
    | words.filippo.io

  233. Software Acceleration and Desynchronization
    | ferd.ca

  234. The Execution Engine
    | internals-for-interns.com

  235. It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
    | tonsky.me

  236. Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  237. Writing for Developers by Cynthia Dunlop and Piotr Sarna
    | petemillspaugh.com

  238. Looking Back at 2025
    | hamvocke.com

  239. December 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

  240. Leaving Twitter
    | petemillspaugh.com

  241. Year in community
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  242. What’s up Python? Astral's new type checker, McGugan's new tool and Django new CSRF protection
    | bitecode.dev

  243. 2025 Year in Review
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  244. The SSA Phase
    | internals-for-interns.com

  245. Write your book like you’d run a startup
    | petemillspaugh.com

  246. The couch problem
    | petemillspaugh.com

  247. HTML Input Validation is (maybe) Good
    | htmhell.dev

  248. Bibliotech by John Palfrey
    | petemillspaugh.com

  249. Replacing JS with just HTML
    | htmhell.dev

  250. Class names for content not design
    | htmhell.dev

  251. Abbreviations done right: The <abbr> element and why not use it
    | htmhell.dev

  252. How a US Software Provider Improved Traffic Alerting with VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection
    | victoriametrics.com

  253. The three semantics of HTML
    | htmhell.dev

  254. Year in books
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  255. For the Love of <details>
    | htmhell.dev

  256. mprocs: start all your project's commands at once
    | bitecode.dev