Shell scripts that outlive you
Six lines at the top of a bash script are the difference between a tool and a trap.
#tooling
22 pieces tagged tooling,
from January 17, 2025 to August 22, 2026.
Why your container image is 1.4 gigabytes
It should be forty megabytes. Here is where the rest of it came from and how to get it back.
Static analysis is finally worth the false positives
The tools got dramatically better while everyone was ignoring them because of a bad experience in 2015.
Platform teams that don't get resented
Internal platforms fail for predictable reasons. The successful ones share four properties.
I/O 2026 and the assistant that lives in everything
More model, more surfaces, and a search product that keeps changing what the web is for.
Build 2026 and the platform that keeps absorbing
Agent infrastructure at the OS layer, more of the developer stack open-sourced, and a strategy that has not changed in a decade.
Search is hard and you should probably not build it
Relevance ranking is a specialist discipline. Here's the decision tree, and what to do at each level.
Why your build is slow
Six causes, in order of how often they're the actual problem, with the fix for each.
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.
Gemini 3 arrives with an IDE attached
Google ships a frontier model and Antigravity, an agent-first development environment. The bundling is the strategy.
Rust 1.90 and the linker nobody talks about
LLD becomes the default linker on x86-64 Linux. Link times drop and nobody notices, which is the point.
The monorepo question has a boring answer
It's not about repository count. It's about whether you can make an atomic change across your system.
everything else tagged #tooling 10
- Gemini CLI puts a free agent in your terminalnews
- Cursor at $9 billion and the coding-tool land grabnews
- I/O 2025: Google puts AI in the search box and means itnews
- Build 2025: Microsoft open-sources WSL and puts MCP in Windowsnews
- Codex, and the agent that opens pull requestsnews
- OpenAI adopts MCP, and a protocol becomes a standardnews
- The eight git commands worth actually learningessay
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet ships, and so does a terminalnews
- Your CI is the slowest developer on the teamessay
- Bun 1.2 stops being a runtime and starts being a platformnews