2026 Archive
3212.
Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go
(tbray.org)
3213.
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
(quantamagazine.org)
3214.
Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say
(bloomberg.com)
3217.
Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay
(philippdubach.com)
3218.
Technical Excellence Is Not Enough
(raccoon.land)
3219.
Fossil versus Git
(fossil-scm.org)
3220.
Common misunderstandings about large software companies
(philipotoole.com)
3221.
Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless
(lesswrong.com)
3222.
American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"
(americandialect.org)
3223.
How Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain
(theguardian.com)
3224.
3225.
Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG
(markgascoyne.co.uk)
3226.
3227.
ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis
(theverge.com)
3228.
Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles
(kyledunbar.dev)
3229.
Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs
(github.com)
3230.
3231.
Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
(ahmedeldin.substack.com)
3233.
The AI Vampire
(steve-yegge.medium.com)
3234.
3235.
Software Survival 3.0
(steve-yegge.medium.com)
3236.
Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents
(stripe.dev)
3237.
Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
(historytoday.com)
3238.
Data has weight but only on SSDs
(cubiclenate.com)
3239.
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
(arstechnica.com)
3240.