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Week of Sep 14, 2026

the senior engineer death spiral • Solving the decision problem sunilpai.dev Sep 20

Week of Sep 7, 2026

llm-wiki · GitHub gist.github.com Sep 11
Why UK bins are smashed up at the factory youtube.com Sep 8
The cupcake incident michaelnotebook.com Sep 7

Week of Aug 24, 2026

Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in monzo.com Aug 30
LLM cliché highlighter tools.simonwillison.net Aug 28
The Story of Suica, Japan’s First IC Transit Card | TokyoDev tokyodev.com Aug 28

Week of Aug 17, 2026

Git at any scale cursor.com Aug 20
How to think in writing henrikkarlsson.xyz Aug 20

Week of Aug 10, 2026

How to ship a database every day turbopuffer.com Aug 14
How Compaction Works in Pi | EARENDIL earendil.com Aug 14

Week of Aug 3, 2026

Linux VM sockets in Go · Matt Layher mdlayher.com Aug 8

Using Linux VM sockets from Go to talk between host and guest.

Elevators john.fun Aug 6

How elevator scheduling algorithms decide who to pick up next.

An ode to houseplant programming 🪴 hannahilea.com Aug 3

In praise of small, personal software you build just for yourself.

Week of Jul 6, 2026

Zalando Engineering Blog - Client-Side Load Balancing at a Million Requests Per Second engineering.zalando.com Jul 6

Week of Jun 22, 2026

I Built a Fake Netflix to Prank My Friends (part 2) youtube.com Jun 23

Building a convincing fake Netflix to prank his friends.

Week of Jun 15, 2026

Telescope Ranchers kottke.org Jun 19
The feedback loops behind Kubernetes — PlanetScale planetscale.com Jun 17

Kubernetes seen as a set of feedback control loops.

Week of Jun 8, 2026

Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993 staniks.github.io Jun 9

Making retro '90s graphics for a first-person shooter.

Week of Mar 9, 2026

LLM Architecture Gallery sebastianraschka.com Mar 15

Week of Mar 2, 2026

Tracing Discord's Elixir Systems (Without Melting Everything) discord.com Mar 6
The Brand Age paulgraham.com Mar 6
BM25 arpitbhayani.me Mar 5
How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage turbopuffer.com Mar 2

Week of Jan 26, 2026

Build Your Own Pico Balloon and Explore the Stratosphere spectrum.ieee.org Jan 31

Week of Nov 17, 2025

Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production skoredin.pro Nov 23

Week of Nov 10, 2025

Personality Basins | near.blog near.blog Nov 16

Week of Oct 27, 2025

Inverted File Product Quantization (IVF_PQ): Accelerate Vector Search by Creating Indices lancedb.com Nov 1
CPU Cache-Friendly Data Structures in Go: 10x Speed with Same Algorithm skoredin.pro Oct 28

Week of Oct 20, 2025

When is better to think without words? henrikkarlsson.xyz Oct 26

Week of Oct 6, 2025

Sharif Shameem sharif.io Oct 12

A short piece on inviting people even when they'll say no.

Week of Sep 22, 2025

how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv dgerrells.com Sep 28

Week of Sep 1, 2025

Memory is slow, Disk is fast bitflux.ai Sep 5

Week of Aug 25, 2025

Why German Strings are Everywhere cedardb.com Aug 31
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work seangoedecke.com Aug 31

Why you should build the simplest thing that could work first.

Developer's block underlap.org Aug 29

On developer's block and getting unstuck when starting work.

How to Build an Agent ampcode.com Aug 29