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From Garage Tinkers To Signal Jammers: How Hardware Became Radical Again
The Return Of The Screwdriver Age
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Platform Engineering Labs
KubeCon: A Terraform Killer Built on Apple's Pkl
Formae, from Platform Engineering Labs, addresses the brittleness of Day 2 operations by using Apple's robust Pkl configuration language.
Why the Frontend Should Run AI Models Locally With ONNX
A full-stack developer and Angular consultant explains how AI models can be treated as local assets, enabling better performance and privacy.
Keynote: The Power of Queues - David Ware | MQ Summit 2025 - Learning Resources / Talks - Erlang Forums
Keynote: The Power of Queues - David Ware | MQ Summit 2025 Comments welcome! View the span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"/spancode-sync/span tag for more Code Sync talks!
AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
:AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to ferret out what the other guy…
How I Fell in Love with Erlang · Bora Gönül
XSLT.RIP - Google are killing XSLT!
Fixing Enterprise Apps with AI: The T+n Problem
We've been watching enterprises struggle with the same customer service paradox for years: They have all the technology in the world, yet a simple address
Target The Best AA, And Take No Flak
In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are enough valid reasons to do so, however, and enough legacy hardware that …
Mr.Popov :: Elixir LiveView Single Binary
We had two repos of Elixir, seventy-five LiveView components, five sheets of high-powered Phoenix channels, a saltshaker half-full of SQLite databases, and a whole multicolored collection of Burrito deployables, Tauri binaries, WebView wrappers, hot-reloaders… Also, a quart of WebSockets, a quart of GenServers, a case of Ecto queries, a pint of raw BEAM bytecode, and two dozen supervisors.
The only thing that really worried me was the WebView. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a developer in the depths of a cross-platform binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
Scale Tiny Projects into a Resilient Data Culture
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ultimate goal of any data effort is to enable better decisions and drive meaningful organizational outcomes.
Who’s your agent?
M.G. Siegler says AI is Breaking the Browser's Back. His problem starts with OpenAI's GPT Atlas, which some publishers won't let view their contents on the Web. For example, if you a…
The internet wants to be fragmented
A repost, with some updates.
Why Code Execution is Eating Tool Registries
Six months on, the industry is converging: code-execution over tool registries. Anthropic’s data and Cloudflare’s Code Mode show the path…
The First Agentic Internet Workshop
The first Agentic Internet Workshop (AIW1) took place on October 24, 2025, the day after IIW 41, bringing together a global group to explore how agents, identity, and infrastructure intersect. With 40+ sessions and participants from 10 countries, AIW I marked the beginning of a focused conversation on building an internet that acts on our behalf—securely, transparently, and with human agency at its core.
Japan’s Forgotten Analog HDTV Standard Was Well Ahead Of Its Time
When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made the paradigm switch from analog to digital transmission. At the dawn of the n…
Introducing pg_lake: Integrate Your Data Lakehouse with Postgres
Introducing pg_lake, a set of open-source PostgreSQL extensions from Snowflake that allow you to query, manage, and write to Iceberg tables in your data lakehouse.
By the power of grayscale!
A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.
Autark: Rethinking build systems – Integrate, Don’t Outsource
From user to implementer: My journey understanding coding agents : r/programming
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A Short Survey of Compiler Targets
A short survey of compiler targets like assembly, LLVM, C, JVM and Brainfuck.
4 Ways AI Agents Redefine Incident Command
Using AI agents, the incident commander isn’t a micromanager but more of a strategist, offloading context gathering and synthesis to focus on high-stakes decisions.
AIoT and A-IoT
Our industry loves acronyms. In fact, sometimes it feels as if half our job is simply keeping up with them, while the other half is explaini...
Symbolic Strength More Important Than Facts When It Comes To Misinformation
Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. Our new research, p…
Words we love: Pebbling – a new love language | Blog | Red Setter
It’s a word I admit I’ve not really thought of, until in recent weeks it became news that ‘Pebbling’ is the new term for when people share memes and gifs to...
On the AWS Outage
Everybody notices when something big fails—like AWS’s US-EAST-1 region. And fail it did. All sorts of services and sites became inaccessible, and we all knew