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241. I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion
I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And yet I hate GitHub Actions. With Passion2. Road to Hell Day before writing these words I was implementing build.rs for my tmplr project. To save you a click - it is a file/project scaffold tool with human readable (and craftable) template files. I (personally) use it very often, given how easy it is to craft new templates, by hand or with aid of the tool, so check it out if you need a similar tool.
242. The relentless rule of my fitness tracker
243. Use of Bayesian methodology in clinical trials of drug and biological products [pdf]
244. First impressions of Claude Cowork
Plus Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
245. GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month
Listen to me.
246. Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME
247. Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in addition to the equivalent 26 TOPS INT4 machine vision performance on the earlier AI HAT with Hailo 8.
248. pf: Make af-to less magical
249. Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks
250. The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly - soegaard/webracket
251. Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that project will go anywhere, they’re solving the wrong problem.” I used to wonder, “But you are very senior, why don’t you just go and speak to them about your concerns?” It felt like a waste of his influence to not say anything. So it’s quite ironic that I found myself last week explaining to a mentee why I thought a sister team’s project would have to pivot because they’d made a poor early design choice. And he rightfully asked me the same question I had years ago: “why don’t you just tell them your opinion?” It’s been on my mind ever since because I realized I’d changed my stance on it a lot over the years.
252. AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0
AVIF v1.2.0 includes support for sample transforms
253. A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight or guidance. You, who unloaded the weight of docs on your devs’ shoulders, as if it was a trivial chore. You are making a big mistake. But you can still undo the damage.
254. Launching the Handmade Software Foundation
255. Data is the only moat
How different adoption models drive better applications
256. When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth
257. Ask HN: How to bullet proof yourself from AI?
258. Building a Quake PC
259. JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3. - juicedata/juicefs
260. We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse
Record once, automate forever. 100X Bot transforms screen recordings into powerful automations for hiring, SEO, sales, and marketing teams.
261. Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
We presented MayaNAS at OpenZFS Developer Summit 2025, introducing objbacker.io—a native ZFS VDEV for object storage. No FUSE, direct kernel-to-SDK integration achieving 3.7 GB/s throughput.
262. An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)
263. The Harvesting of Lettuce
Reflections from my recent trip to Yuma, Arizona
264. Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format
Contribute to microsoft/igvm development by creating an account on GitHub.
265. Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (NeurIPS 2025)
266. Artisanal Code
> Our single-origin, small-batch code is traceable through its commit history to artisanal programmers and traditional foundries. Incorporating a confluence of different cultures and languages, our code is hand-crafted, wrought through pull requests, processed on baremetal and roasted to perfection in a cast-iron CI/CD pipeline - giving you a bold, full-bodied, rich shot of open-source goodness. The perfect start to your day.
267. Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines
268. Scaling long-running autonomous coding
We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.
269. The File System API is so underrated
The File System API is so underrated, why isn’t anyone building stuff with it? There’s a whole bunch of small utility apps, the kind of freeware you’d normally download and install just to use once or twice, that could just live in your browser instead. Claude and I threw together a couple examples this afternoon: a bulk file renamer and a swipe-to-delete photo curator (the usual Tinder like photo organizer). You can find both on smoltools, my collection of quick utilities I build for myself and throw online.
270. Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?