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  1. Looking for work
    | tonsky.me

  2. Learning a few things about running SQLite
    | jvns.ca

  3. EuroPython 2026: Learning from the “not-so-secret” Python security cabal
    | sethmlarson.dev

  4. Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail
    | troyhunt.com

  5. I'm still alive
    | buttondown.com

  6. Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus
    | victoriametrics.com

  7. Choosing Movies
    | chriscoyier.net

  8. The VFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

  9. VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup
    | victoriametrics.com

  10. In defense of polyfills
    | lea.verou.me

  11. A Guide to Agile for English Speakers
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  12. Short Reflection on being Offline for 24 hours
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  13. GC shape stenciling in Go generics
    | rednafi.com

  14. Weekly Update 511: Live from my Riad in Marrakech
    | troyhunt.com

  15. Why I think Rust is Object Oriented
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  16. Playing the “Second Quest” of Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
    | sethmlarson.dev

  17. mmap vs pread in a real Go storage engine
    | internals-for-interns.com

  18. Mario Kart World and “seamless” media
    | sethmlarson.dev

  19. Modernizers & go fix
    | rednafi.com

  20. You’ll miss the soul when it’s gone
    | bell.bz

  21. Swimming Pools, Pee, and Trying to Delete Your Data From the Internet
    | troyhunt.com

  22. Observability for LLM Apps and Agents: OpenLIT SDK + VictoriaMetrics observability stack
    | victoriametrics.com

  23. My quest to see all of Tetris
    | antithesis.com

  24. What’s up Python? Wheels in the browser, astral still moves fast, and my new favorite @
    | bitecode.dev

  25. I’m playing the Zelda games in timeline order
    | bell.bz

  26. Artificial adventures
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  27. June 2026
    | petemillspaugh.com

  28. Weekly Update 510: Live From Mallorca with Scott Helme
    | troyhunt.com

  29. Profiling
    | internals-for-interns.com

  30. The first half of 2026
    | rhodesmill.org

  31. United Nations Open Source Week 2026
    | sethmlarson.dev

  32. Working With AI: A Concrete Example
    | htmx.org

  33. Request coalescing with Go singleflight
    | rednafi.com

  34. The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  35. How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout
    | victoriametrics.com

  36. We can just do things
    | bell.bz

  37. Weekly Update 509
    | troyhunt.com

  38. I'm not a cat
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  39. Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore
    | words.filippo.io

  40. How Big Is a Physical Address?
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

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

  42. Scripting good practices in Python
    | bitecode.dev

  43. What Does a Page Table Entry Actually Store?
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  44. Reject Agility, Embrace Specification
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  45. 0060: SF
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  46. Channel iteration and goroutine leak
    | rednafi.com

  47. The logical destination of LLMs
    | bell.bz

  48. Meet Alice. Alice is impatient.
    | brooker.co.za

  49. Observing Go's garbage collector, old and new
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  50. Simulating Airband AM Radios
    | bitbashing.io

  51. Is this blog written by AI?
    | brooker.co.za

  52. TIL “@here” only notifies online users on Discord and Slack
    | sethmlarson.dev

  53. How to use Confidential Computing to prove what code is on your server
    | willem.dev

  54. Accepted proposal: a goroutine leak profile in the Go standard library
    | rednafi.com

  55. Logic for Programmers v0.15, Livecoding
    | buttondown.com

  56. How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke
    | chriscoyier.net

  57. Untitled
    | chriscoyier.net

  58. Page Tables from First Principles
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  59. The Reflect Package
    | internals-for-interns.com

  60. Weekly Update 508
    | troyhunt.com

  61. Introducing the MDN MCP server
    | developer.mozilla.org

  62. Using OxCaml to implement type-safe reference counting between OCaml and Python
    | blog.janestreet.com

  63. Doing the rounds
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  64. Every Frame Perfect
    | tonsky.me

  65. Reading your own writes with WAIT FOR LSN in Postgres 19
    | rednafi.com

  66. The Raven Tattoo
    | chriscoyier.net

  67. Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi
    | rednafi.com

  68. The University In The AI Era
    | htmx.org

  69. This week in infrastructure
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  70. Of forks and clones and package management
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  71. Nontrailing separators do not spark joy
    | buttondown.com

  72. Weekly Update 507
    | troyhunt.com

  73. The Decline of Search Engines is an Opportunity
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  74. What’s up Python? Pip supports locking, .pth files deprecated
    | bitecode.dev

  75. Memory Manager
    | internals-for-interns.com

  76. Formal methods and the future of programming
    | blog.janestreet.com

  77. Putting this blog on ATProto with standard.site
    | rednafi.com

  78. Understanding a Process’s Address Space Layout
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  79. The User Doesn't Care - But you should
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  80. Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  81. Sprinter Van Phone Mount + Better CarPlay-Compatible Cable Situation
    | chriscoyier.net

  82. I did the Standard.site thing
    | bell.bz

  83. LLMs and performative productivity
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  84. 0059: NYC and SF?
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  85. The New Van
    | chriscoyier.net

  86. Code is Cheap(er)
    | htmx.org

  87. Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  88. Welcoming the Philippine Government to Have I Been Pwned
    | troyhunt.com

  89. Compliance as a runtime problem
    | willem.dev

  90. Logic for Programmers extra credits
    | buttondown.com

  91. Social RSS (?)
    | chriscoyier.net

  92. 1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever
    | troyhunt.com

  93. Stacktraces
    | internals-for-interns.com

  94. Weekly Update 506
    | troyhunt.com

  95. VictoriaMetrics May 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

  96. How Large Is the Virtual Address Space?
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  97. If you won't carry the pager, maybe don't push to mainline
    | rednafi.com

  98. Knowing about things is cheaper than knowing things
    | buttondown.com

  99. Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0?
    | chriscoyier.net

  100. abottom
    | petemillspaugh.com

  101. strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
    | blog.janestreet.com

  102. Operator now has Long-Term Support (LTS) version
    | victoriametrics.com

  103. Welcoming the Bhutanese Government to Have I Been Pwned
    | troyhunt.com

  104. Solving the board game Quoridor
    | grantslatton.com

  105. System Calls
    | internals-for-interns.com

  106. Why do we need virtual memory?
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  107. Weekly Update 505
    | troyhunt.com

  108. omarchy is not a distro
    | abyss.fish

  109. On AI
    | openmymind.net

  110. Dickens was a blogger
    | petemillspaugh.com

  111. Assumptions weaken properties
    | buttondown.com

  112. Agentic software development hypothesis
    | brooker.co.za

  113. Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  114. How Airbnb Built a High-Volume Metrics Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent
    | victoriametrics.com

  115. The select Statement
    | internals-for-interns.com

  116. Weekly Update 504
    | troyhunt.com

  117. What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now?
    | brooker.co.za

  118. Testing Go CLIs with testscript
    | rednafi.com

  119. Serving files over HTTP three ways: synchronous, epoll, and io_uring
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  120. Coding on Paper
    | wickstrom.tech

  121. Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
    | jvns.ca

  122. Welcoming the Bahamian Government to Have I Been Pwned
    | troyhunt.com

  123. Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
    | buttondown.com

  124. Catching Typos on My Website with Browser Testing
    | wickstrom.tech

  125. Welcoming the Bangladesh Government to Have I Been Pwned
    | troyhunt.com

  126. When did the bug start?
    | antithesis.com

  127. The Linux Kernel Startup
    | internals-for-interns.com

  128. Virtual Memory From First Principles
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  129. A tour of txtar
    | rednafi.com

  130. The forge we deserve
    | btao.org

  131. Type-safe slogging
    | rednafi.com

  132. Multi-tiered Observability: A Practical Way to Handle Diverse Workloads
    | victoriametrics.com

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

  134. VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

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

  136. Links to CSS colour palettes
    | jvns.ca

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

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

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

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

  141. April 2026
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

  143. The Bombadil Terminal Experiment
    | wickstrom.tech

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

  145. Illegal vs Unwanted States
    | buttondown.com

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

  147. ZFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

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

  149. Bette Midler sings Woodie Guthrie
    | chriscoyier.net

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

  151. AI & Alignment
    | chriscoyier.net

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

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

  154. Epistemic vigilance
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

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

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

  159. Rediscovering the Handcart
    | solar.lowtechmagazine.com

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

  161. Antithesis report: Tigris Data
    | antithesis.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  171. Saying Goodbye to Agile
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  172. Btrfs
    | internals-for-interns.com

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

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

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

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

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

  178. 0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links
    | scattered-thoughts.net

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

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

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

  182. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
    | petemillspaugh.com

  183. VictoriaMetrics March 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

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

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

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

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

  188. XFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

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

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

  191. Antithesis skills for agents
    | antithesis.com

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

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

  194. Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
    | antithesis.com

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

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

  197. Observability Lessons From OpenAI
    | victoriametrics.com

  198. Announcing: Parrot.garden
    | btao.org

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

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

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

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

  203. A declarative restoration
    | antithesis.com

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

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

  206. Just one more prompt
    | btao.org

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

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

  209. NTFS
    | internals-for-interns.com

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

  211. New Notes RSS feed
    | btao.org

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

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

  214. The Normie Loop
    | btao.org

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

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

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

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

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

  220. A fighting retreat
    | antithesis.com

  221. Free Books
    | buttondown.com

  222. Man Cereal
    | joshcollinsworth.com

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

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

  225. Ext4
    | internals-for-interns.com

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

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

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

  229. Yes, and...
    | htmx.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  237. VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates
    | victoriametrics.com

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

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

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

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

  242. Reading English from 1000 AD
    | lewiscampbell.tech

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

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

  245. Editorial rigor
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

  248. Unhurried ambition
    | petemillspaugh.com

  249. Turn Dependabot Off
    | words.filippo.io

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

  251. Stream of Consciousness Driven Development
    | buttondown.com

  252. Notes on clarifying man pages
    | jvns.ca

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

  254. Home-cooked software
    | hamvocke.com

  255. 0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  256. 2025
    | scattered-thoughts.net