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.
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older dispatches from the README archive.
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.
2025, in order
The year in one page: what happened, what mattered, and the three things that will still matter in 2030.
What I got wrong in 2025
Six predictions from twelve months of writing, graded honestly. Three were wrong.
The open weights year
Twelve months that took open models from interesting to unavoidable, and where the gap actually sits.
The postmortem that changes something
Most incident reviews produce a document and a ticket that never gets done. Here's the difference.
Rust 1.92 closes the year
More const, more stable APIs, and a language whose release notes have become pleasantly dull.
Log4Shell, four years on
The industry built SBOM tooling, VEX, and a lot of dashboards. Here's what actually changed and what didn't.
Advent of Code and what a puzzle is for
The leaderboard broke years ago. The value was never the leaderboard.
re:Invent and the year of the boring cloud announcement
Silicon, agents, and a keynote that mostly described things that already existed. That's a healthy sign.
The technical interview is measuring the wrong thing, again
Every hiring process eventually optimizes for the wrong signal. The current one has a new failure mode.
Claude Opus 4.5 and the compaction problem
A frontier release with a large price cut, plus effort controls and context compaction as a first-class feature.
Nvidia's quarter and the question nobody can answer
Another enormous beat, another set of concerns about circular financing. Both facts are real.
Cloudflare falls over because of a config file
A permissions change doubles the size of a generated feature file, which overflows a fixed-size buffer, which 500s a fifth of the web.
Gemini 3 arrives with an IDE attached
Google ships a frontier model and Antigravity, an agent-first development environment. The bundling is the strategy.