October 17, 2026
What I self-host
viceconsole.fyi
Why We're Banning AI
currentaffairs.org
Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
blogs.gnome.org
Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
codon.org.uk
My C23 Conventions
abner.page
Falsehoods programmers believe about time
infiniteundo.com
October 16, 2026
Things to know when you get cancer
jjmaxwell4.com
ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
prospect.org
Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
dataforprogress.org
Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
alexwennerberg.com
JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases
jakearchibald.com
Fixing C Strings With String Views
eliasebner.com
How Complex Systems Fail
how.complexsystems.fail
Computer latency: 1977-2017
danluu.com
Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter
builder.aws.com
October 15, 2026
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
anthropic.com
How Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
not-ship.com
The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
ourworldindata.org
A plea not to use uv-build
blogs.gentoo.org
The reverts will continue until morale improves
peter.eisentraut.org
A UAF turned RCE
daniel.haxx.se
Inside Linux Namespaces
martinuke0.github.io
Inside Bazel 7: Remote Build Execution and Distributed Caching
martinuke0.github.io
Building a Linearizable Log on READ COMMITTED Isolation
materialize.com
October 14, 2026
A Modern Web App in C
prophitt.me
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
arstechnica.com
Thinking will become a hobby
spinellis.gr
Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
purplesyringa.moe
How to do distributed locking
martin.kleppmann.com
Consistency Models (Jepsen)
jepsen.io
October 13, 2026
Passkeys are a trap
nonfunctional.substack.com
Fingerprints are the new cookies
royfish.dev
I'm sorry, but you still have to think
itsallaboutthebit.com
Cartographers of North Korea (2019)
cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so
Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
verdagon.dev
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
words.filippo.io
Arena Allocators in C
eliasebner.com
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
somethingsimilar.com