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The article explains Solana's data storage model by comparing it to a Web2 file system, where every piece of data—from user wallets to smart contracts—is stored as an "account" (like a file) in a giant key-value store. I…
The article details the technical challenges encountered while developing a TV broadcast schedule website, which initially seemed simple but required significant optimization for mobile traffic, performance, and SEO. Key…
The article announces a $500 prize draw for participants in the 100 Days of Solana program who complete the Day 36 or 37 challenge. The program, created by MLH and Solana, is a daily hands-on learning series for Web2 dev…
Superset (YC P26) is a desktop application that orchestrates multiple CLI-based coding agents, such as Claude Code and Codex, across isolated git worktrees to enable parallel task execution without context switching. It …
The article explains how the author uses GEMBA-MQM v2, an LLM-based system, to automate translation quality evaluation by classifying errors by type and severity according to the MQM industry standard. The author notes t…
This article compares scheduling and calendar APIs for developers in 2026, categorizing options from pure infrastructure platforms to full-featured scheduling software with API access. It evaluates tools based on core te…
This article explains the concept of a "god file"—a single, excessively large file in a codebase that has grown incrementally over time by accumulating unrelated functions and concepts. It argues that such files are part…
In early May, Unity released its built-in Unity Agent to all users, offering both a chat mode for suggesting game improvements and an autonomous agent mode that generates and edits code from text prompts. The PVS-Studio …
The article describes the problem of "architectural drift" in AI-assisted coding, where AI agents forget past project decisions (like database choices or rejected libraries) with each new session, forcing developers to r…
The article describes the creation of a pay-per-call crypto signal API called Kiro Crypto Signals, which uses Coinbase's x402 protocol to charge $0.01 in USDC per request on Base mainnet without requiring subscriptions o…
The article revisits Matt Austern's 2000 paper on segmented iterators, which proposed a two-level iterator abstraction to improve performance on data structures like `std::deque` by allowing algorithms to operate efficie…
The article announces the release of Glyph v0.1, a collection of 16 MIT-licensed Bubble Tea components for terminal UIs that uses a copy-paste model rather than a traditional package dependency. Instead of importing a li…
The article argues that autonomous agents require a reliable operational infrastructure beyond just the AI model itself, as failures in underlying layers like cron jobs, authentication, and file systems can cause agents …
The article introduces NVEN, a command-line tool designed to simplify environment variable management for developers by centralizing secrets across different environments (dev, staging, prod) directly within the terminal…
The article describes a production pattern for implementing multi-tenant row-level security (RLS) in PostgreSQL, arguing that application-layer tenant isolation is unreliable because bugs like missing authorization check…
The article describes a problem where the Haskell language extension `OverloadedLists` automatically transforms list literals like `[]` into `fromList []`, interfering with a rewrite rule for the `++` operator. The autho…
The article argues that the hardest part of being a developer is not coding, but understanding what to build, as most bugs stem from communication failures rather than technical errors. It highlights a case where a devel…
This article, the first in a series on agentic engineering, argues that neither the hype claiming AI will make software engineers obsolete nor the reassurance that AI is just another tool is honest. The author observes t…
The article provides configuration snippets for Unix shells (`.zshrc`, `.bashrc`) and PowerShell profiles to wrap package manager commands (`npm`, `pnpm`, `bun`, `yarn`) with the Socket Firewall (`sfw`) tool for supply c…
Google's Antigravity 2.0 introduces an agent-first architecture that replaces traditional code editors with an advanced agent manager, enabling concurrent AI-driven development across multiple projects. Key features incl…