Today
- We're excited to ship Durable Agents. Durable Agents can survive client disconnects, browser refreshes, or network blips. Run multiple requests in parallel, wat......
- Stating the obvious is surprisingly useful. Most of your knowledge lives below the threshold of conscious awareness, so it’s possible for a piece of writing to remind you of what you already know. It’s common to know you don’t like something without being quite sure why, and...
- I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO specification) to a bunch of conferences. Unfortunately all of them were rejected, so it's blog posting time. A controversial opinion Pretty...
Yesterday
- Solod (So) is a system-level language with Go syntax, zero runtime, and a familiar standard library. It's designed for two main audiences:Go developers who want low-level control and zero-cost C interop without having to learn Zig or Odin.C developers who like Go's style.The...
- Many people claim that AI inference is unprofitable to serve, and thus must be subsidized by an ocean of dumb money from investors who believe that some future AI model will come to dominate the world economy. When that dumb money goes away, so will AI products. According to...
- If you have’t heard, Om Malik passed away. People are sharing stories of their graceful encounters with him. This one is mine. Back at the beginning of 2021, I set a goal to write 72 blog posts. I was puttering along, publishing whatever came to mind, mostly figuring that nobody...
- In my work at Clay I recently wrote an internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers, and I’m sharing it here. It’s my hope that one day better AI tools might be able to help us think, but until then I fear that using AI to write does the exact opposite.
This week
- A lot of fast code starts as a boring loop.Modern hardware can perform the same operation on multiple values at once (e.g. SIMD and SIMT), and sometimes we write code directly for those execution models but other times, a compiler starts with regular-looking code and rewrites it...
- Control an Android emulator using Gemini 3.5 Flash Computer Use. Connect the Google GenAI SDK interactions loop with ADB to control a virtual device from your terminal....
- You can connect external sources like GitHub, Slack, Sentry, Datadog, and have your agent act on emitted events using Mastra's signal system. These events are d......
- Mastra apps now have a built-in event system to publish and subscribe to messages. You can listen for events like workflow step completion, pause, or completion......
- Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. I try to avoid indiscriminately...
- John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this meta commentary on blogging. Here’s John: If you...
- Since 2024 the role of the CMO or marketer in a startup has really changed. Mostly, everyone has the same tools so everyone is producing the same slop at the same time. I can no longer remember times that I’ve read content that looks and sounds exactly the same. They organize...
- A developer guide to the Gemini Interactions API, text generation, streaming, multi-turn chat, multimodal inputs, structured output, tool use, managed agents, and background execution from a single endpoint....
- You can’t be model agnostic if you’re hand-tuning prompts Thanks to natural language interfaces, AI applications can be prototyped quickly. You write what you want in English, hand it to a frontier model, and a working prototype appears in an afternoon. This is extraordinarily...
- Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from this past The Pulse issue. Full subscribers...
- Technology businesses are heavily influenced by waves of technology change, like the rise of the internet or AI. Knowing how to adjust strategy for these changes is one of the most important skills to develop. As technology has advanced, technology waves have become larger, more...
- This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance, describing a small but effective inpainting model—a model where you can mark regions of …
- A TaskSignalProvider gives your agent a plan to follow. It creates a list and provides tools for marking items as pending, in_progress, or completed — keeping t......
- My family is pledging another $400,0001 to the Zig Software Foundation (ZSF). This brings our total pledged support for ZSF to $700,000, after our initial donation in 2024.
- Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design. Look no further than these evolutions of macOS icons (image courtesy of BasicAppleGuy): The Creator Studio icons are undeniably consistent visually: rounded...
- Here's a reproduction of the infamous "Waterfall Diagram", from the landmark paper Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (Royce, 1970): SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS PROGRAM DESIGN CODING TESTING OPERATIONS Behold, the enemy of Agile! Although,...
- sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python’s default sqlite3 package, including …
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