What happened to microservices
The pendulum swung back and the useful part is the specific reasons, not the vibe.
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older dispatches from the README archive.
Prompt injection is SQL injection without the fix
The analogy is exact except for the part that matters: there is no parameterized query for natural language.
SQLite in the browser and the end of the API round trip
A real relational database in WebAssembly with durable storage. What it makes possible and what it breaks.
Streaming an Olympics: the hardest scaling problem nobody discusses
Synchronized global demand, hard latency requirements, and no option to shed load. A look at how it actually works.
Go and the case for boring
A language that ships small releases, breaks nothing, and refuses features. Its detractors and its users are describing the same thing.
The dependency budget
Treat added dependencies like added latency: a number you spend deliberately, with a ceiling nobody may exceed quietly.
How to read a benchmark
A short guide to the specific ways performance numbers lie, from someone who has published misleading ones.
Virtual threads, two years on
Java's concurrency change looked incremental and turned out to reshape how services get written. A field report.
Your monitoring is measuring the wrong nines
Availability percentages are a compliance artifact. Here's what to measure if you want to know whether users are having a bad time.
The component model and the plugin problem
WebAssembly's most important feature isn't running fast in a browser. It's letting you run someone else's code safely.
Local-first is finally practical
CRDTs got good, sync engines got boring, and the offline-capable app stopped being a research project.
Rust's eleventh year and the shape of a finished language
Six-week releases, no breakage, and a backlog that is finally shorter than it was. What's left is the hard part.
The electricity bill arrives
Datacenter power demand is showing up in residential rates, and the regulatory fight is now the main constraint on compute supply.
Postgres 18's async I/O, four months in
The biggest storage-layer change in years is in production now. Here's what it actually did to real workloads.
Reading code is a skill and nobody teaches it
We spend years learning to write and approximately zero hours learning to read. Then we spend our careers reading.
Post-quantum migration is a 2026 project
Harvest-now-decrypt-later makes this urgent for anything with a long confidentiality horizon. The tooling is finally ready.
Verification is the whole job now
Producing code got cheap. Knowing whether it's right did not. Everything downstream follows from that asymmetry.
CES 2026: the power supply is the product
Another year of AI in appliances, and one genuine trend hiding underneath: everything is now thermally constrained.
AGENTS.md and the repository that explains itself
A convention nobody standardized became standard anyway. Here's what belongs in it and what doesn't.
Five things that will actually change in 2026
Not predictions about model capability. Predictions about what your Tuesday looks like.