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Reading
Things I've read that stuck with me: articles, posts, and talks worth sharing, along with a thought or two of my own.
Weight-Space Programming HackerTube HackerTubethis reminds me for some reason of those early youtube clones
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems 404media.coAI is really good at making things, and even better at making work for other people to deal with.
diamond transistor df.com!!!
Hyperoptimized Engineer 2026 (Kai Lentit) YouTubeThis guy is documenting reality in real time lol
Super Mario 64 native port for PS5 (GhostShip 4K) r/PS5_JailbreakThis shit is bananas. A decompiled N64 classic running natively on PS5 at 4K.
The Self-Driving Codebase: Background Agents and the Next Era of Software Delivery background-agents.comDirectly relevant to the fleet I run every day.
Crank: Effortless macOS automation, no manual required lowtechguys.comI love these types of well-focused, low-friction apps.
tokens too cheap to meter jyn.devOn where token pricing lands as inference costs keep falling. Worth sitting with alongside everything we are building on per-token billing.
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast with OpenAI CerebrasI keep thinking about how little of today's software UI survives if inference becomes practically instant. Loading states, waiting screens, even the search box all assume the answer takes a second to arrive, and once it doesn't, core flows feel closer to direct manipulation.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering florianherrengt.comThis is going to be a real problem. I've already watched smart engineers get trapped in an AI-slop feedback loop.
Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard Kubernetes BlogGlad to see this finally reach GA. I first ran into Gateway API years ago while implementing an early alpha version in our Kubernetes cluster.