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the rate limiting stuff in the Go stdlib is my nemesis.
it's just providing a normal token bucket rate limiter, but with the most confusing naming imaginable (a Limit type that actually defines a frequency, and single letter variable names everywhere) pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...
it's just providing a normal token bucket rate limiter, but with the most confusing naming imaginable (a Limit type that actually defines a frequency, and single letter variable names everywhere) pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
the rate limiting stuff in the Go stdlib is my nemesis.
it's just providing a normal token bucket rate limiter, but with the most confusing naming imaginable (a Limit type that actually defines a frequency, and single letter variable names everywhere) pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...
it's just providing a normal token bucket rate limiter, but with the most confusing naming imaginable (a Limit type that actually defines a frequency, and single letter variable names everywhere) pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...
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Yeah basically, software is boring once its in a container not called “my terminal”
October 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Yeah basically, software is boring once its in a container not called “my terminal”
Polyglot Conference was quite good today. Nice to meet people from a wide variety of backgrounds doing cool stuff in Vancouver www.polyglotsoftware.com
Polyglot Vancouver Conference
www.polyglotsoftware.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Polyglot Conference was quite good today. Nice to meet people from a wide variety of backgrounds doing cool stuff in Vancouver www.polyglotsoftware.com
LinkedIn, man. I do not think it is "poor form" to try to recruit software developers from your company www.linkedin.com/posts/dennis...
October 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
LinkedIn, man. I do not think it is "poor form" to try to recruit software developers from your company www.linkedin.com/posts/dennis...
every single time I do Python stuff
September 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every single time I do Python stuff
Figma hired Krazam to promote their MCP server, lol (it's pretty good) www.instagram.com/reel/DO86iR4...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Figma hired Krazam to promote their MCP server, lol (it's pretty good) www.instagram.com/reel/DO86iR4...
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Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
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I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"
Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"
Some observations concerning large programming efforts | Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference
dl.acm.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"
Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"
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Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time
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shipping software on macOS vs shipping software on Linux, sigh
September 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
shipping software on macOS vs shipping software on Linux, sigh
I do the West Coast “wake up, catch up on what coworkers in Europe and the East Coast have been doing, work work work in the morning and then things are relatively quiet in the afternoon” thing and mostly always have. Curious whether it’s better or worse than the reverse situation
September 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I do the West Coast “wake up, catch up on what coworkers in Europe and the East Coast have been doing, work work work in the morning and then things are relatively quiet in the afternoon” thing and mostly always have. Curious whether it’s better or worse than the reverse situation
new blog post from the agent trenches: www.reillywood.com/blog/tool-ca...
Tool Calls Are Expensive And Finite
Design your agents accordingly
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September 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
new blog post from the agent trenches: www.reillywood.com/blog/tool-ca...
@taylor.town catching up on my RSS feed and I thought this was great! taylor.town/type-of-person
"I'm the type of person who..."
Nobody accidentally runs triathalons.
taylor.town
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
@taylor.town catching up on my RSS feed and I thought this was great! taylor.town/type-of-person
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Gemini CLI weekly update for v0.5.0:
🎉 FastMCP integration, a "Three-Day Drop" incoming [█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 0%, positional prompts, custom witty loading messages, and major Edit Tool improvements.
Deets: github.com/google-gemin...
#GeminiCLI #Gemini #AI #OSS #FastMCP
🎉 FastMCP integration, a "Three-Day Drop" incoming [█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 0%, positional prompts, custom witty loading messages, and major Edit Tool improvements.
Deets: github.com/google-gemin...
#GeminiCLI #Gemini #AI #OSS #FastMCP
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Gemini CLI weekly update for v0.5.0:
🎉 FastMCP integration, a "Three-Day Drop" incoming [█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 0%, positional prompts, custom witty loading messages, and major Edit Tool improvements.
Deets: github.com/google-gemin...
#GeminiCLI #Gemini #AI #OSS #FastMCP
🎉 FastMCP integration, a "Three-Day Drop" incoming [█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 0%, positional prompts, custom witty loading messages, and major Edit Tool improvements.
Deets: github.com/google-gemin...
#GeminiCLI #Gemini #AI #OSS #FastMCP
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my only goal as a programmer is to someday be as cool as Nir, who is still writing new Win32 GUI utilities in 2025 blog.nirsoft.net/2025/09/15/n...
September 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
my only goal as a programmer is to someday be as cool as Nir, who is still writing new Win32 GUI utilities in 2025 blog.nirsoft.net/2025/09/15/n...
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if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys
been thinking a lot about MCP lately (which is kinda my job) and IMO:
- there is real value in having a standard for giving tools to agents
- MCP servers are usually not granular enough, most uses only need 1 or 2 tools and we need better UX for picking+choosing them
- there is real value in having a standard for giving tools to agents
- MCP servers are usually not granular enough, most uses only need 1 or 2 tools and we need better UX for picking+choosing them
September 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
been thinking a lot about MCP lately (which is kinda my job) and IMO:
- there is real value in having a standard for giving tools to agents
- MCP servers are usually not granular enough, most uses only need 1 or 2 tools and we need better UX for picking+choosing them
- there is real value in having a standard for giving tools to agents
- MCP servers are usually not granular enough, most uses only need 1 or 2 tools and we need better UX for picking+choosing them
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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.
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.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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.
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.
unwrap/expect is essentially a lesson in how defaults matter a lot; it's good that you can do the dangerous thing easily with a *little* bit of ceremony to make sure you don't do it unintentionally
September 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
unwrap/expect is essentially a lesson in how defaults matter a lot; it's good that you can do the dangerous thing easily with a *little* bit of ceremony to make sure you don't do it unintentionally
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Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
September 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
fun fact: they rent out their lovely Canadian HQ in Vancouver for events like weddings
i want to marry the internet archive
September 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
fun fact: they rent out their lovely Canadian HQ in Vancouver for events like weddings