Pick hardware and a model, and feel the real speed of a local LLM before you buy. Simulates tokens/sec and time-to-first-token from verified benchmarks for GPUs, Macs, and more.
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#ai.
Week Notes 26#44 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-10-26?
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#week-notes.
Elliot Page as Neo for Halloween
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Trying to figure out how to dress as an unpatched "remote, zero click, unauthenticated" (that has only been demonstrated exploitable under lab conditions) Linux kernel vulnerability for Halloween. 🎃 #InfoSec #CVE #Linux #OpenSource #RCE
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Halloween candy quality control report for 2026: Peanut m&ms. Still good. As expected Reeses Peanut butter cups: taste very weird. Some Hints of previous flavor. Was my old favorite. Not anymore. Butterfingers: still good. Dry, flakey. Hints of “chocolate” #halloween #candy
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The UK is unironically one of the stupidest places on this earth lol [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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I’d like to thank Binance for teaching a load of crypto bros why banking regulations that make it possible to reverse fraudulent transactions exist.
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Star Trek Online’s Galaxy line up for Sir Patrick Stewart has absolutely ended me this morning 😭
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#grief
#star-trek.
Valuable lesson this week that outside of package management, another place that the computing ecosystem needs a cooldown window is the tool-addons space. Browser and developer-environment extensions carry the same risks and need the same mitigations.
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Thirteen backlogs in a trenchcoat: Analysing Renovate's many requests (24 mins read).
What we've found by investigating the different sources of work the Renovate project has, and how we're hoping to improve prioritisation going forwards.
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(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#renovate
#open-source
#ai
#llm
#product.
I love it when people leave solutions in long-open GitHub issues. Thanks *checks notes* me from two years ago! https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2186#issuecomment-2584654152
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“Darmok” gets a lot of shit now for being an unrealistic portrayal of how language would develop, but it’s really an accidental parable about becoming too online and forgetting how to communicate with people who haven’t memorized 12,000+ posts
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Learned an ASL sign for “open source” today at @github.com Universe by watching the interpreter at the main stage. yay!
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Maybe @github.com turn off auto-complete here?
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Attached: 1 image An Anthropic engineering manager argues coding interviews are poor predictors of engineering impact, which I strongly agree with. His advice to junior engineers? Work where the company makes money, challenge established assumptions, and build prototypes instead of waiting for permission. That’s been good advice for decades. AI just makes execution cheaper. https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/
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Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg into the mix. We dig into the pain of ETL, what Craig is watching in Postgres 19, the impact of AI on open source maintainers, and why the datab...
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It being #GitHubUniverse means it's officially a year on from the worst incident I've ever caused, where all of #Elastic's public repos - Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc - were made private 🫣
I learned a lot during that incident and have internalised a lot of the very important learnings!
My favourite thing I heard second hand was "we don't have any incidents caused by AI, because we don't count them as AI - if a human vibe coded a PR, that's on them" which I partially agree with but also enjoy you can avoid blaming an AI mandate if you don't measure it 🙃
Sylvain Kalache, who runs the AI lab at Rootly, walks Matty through what AI SREs can and can't do during an incident. They get into why handing every small…
Hmm not sure it's exactly that, but it is possible it's something locale-based!
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Have you seen this? If you haven't, you should. I think everyone needs to. Wealth inequality on a scale this extreme is almost impossible to explain. You have to experience it to understand. Go ahead. Try it out. Where is the top of this graph? Good question. Keep scrolling
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#ethics
#capitalism.
Does anyone know why the #Slack Halloween themes have subtly different naming based on whether you're an Enterprise or not? Does Big Candy Corn require such high dues Slack can only pay with beefy Enterprise contracts?
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#halloween
#slack.
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Can you trust software written without AI? We examine the risks of manual coding versus automated vulnerability exploits.At Rails World 2026, a show of hands revealed that writing material amounts of code by hand is becoming a rarity. We discuss whether that human-written code is actually safer, especially after reviewing the eMudhra certificate authority compromise where private keys were recovered in under a second. Between open-weight models demonstrating Mythos-class exploit skills and the ongoing debate over AI consciousness, the security landscape has shifted significantly.This conversation is for engineers navigating the reality of AI mandates at work and the impact of agents that continue running after you log off. We also cover the practical side of professional development, from Bethany building a holiday gift-list app to Brittany replacing cloud subscriptions with local transcription tools. By analyzing these technical shifts, we aim to help you maintain a grounded perspective on your career trajectory.Subscribe for weekly software engineering breakdowns, and comment on which professional challenge you want us to tackle next.HostsOvercommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://www.trustyduck.devBrittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
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Creating a Typescript union, while also having runtime access to the values (1 mins read).
Creating a type and const for known constant values in Typescript.
Episode 13 of AI Frontiers with Sean Escriva. Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are…
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Thread on the cost of AI [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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#ai.
Adding date-based pagination to my site (1 mins read).
Announcing support for date-based pagination on my site, and the end of very long paginated lists of content.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#www.jvt.me
#hugo.
I was going to write something flowery and post a bunch of photos but I just don't fucking have it in me. I had to put Espresso to sleep. She was just a couple weeks shy of her 23rd birthday and she was perfect. I am not ok and am taking some time for myself. If you need something, no you don't.
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#grief.
Recorded as part of GoSF. Thanks Bill for co-hosting, and Antithesis for hosting! 🇯🇵 GopherCon Japan 🪝 Guest Posts: Hooking into the Go Toolchain 🦙 go-llama
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Blogged! Sort git branches by date https://akrabat.com/sort-git-branches-by-date/
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#git.
Attached: 1 image This isn’t what you want to see in release notes
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I missed my blog's 20th birthday 😭 . Guess ill wait for 25 to celebrate
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How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity? · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/02/ai-maintainer/
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Week Notes 26#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-10-19?
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#week-notes.
I'm not sure claiming "everything is on fire" is the correct takeaway here There is a pile of flammable materials we've been ignoring for decades. It catches on fire sometimes. It caught on fire a lot this week And the people who put out the fires, for free, put the fire out again The current plan is to just keep throwing more oily rags on the pile. We could try to help the volunteers, but that costs more than adding oily rags to the pile
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#open-source.
Positive comments from The Real Reviewers Lance Ulanoff at TechRadar: 'Satisfying' is the best way to describe the feeling of repeatedly opening and…
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Lukewarm recommendations for improving AI agents' interactions with your projects (7 mins read).
A few small recommendations we've found with Renovate to improve how AI agents contribute to the codebase.
On this week's episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Fred Hebert and Reid Savage from Honeycomb to talk discuss building products with tiny teams, why code reviews are a useful bottleneck that we…
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OpenCode Security Breach vLLM 0.32.0 released Flint Goose v1.55.0 released Apple announces Foundation Models framework NVIDIA insists RTX 5090 is not discontinued Linux Foundation Estimates 25% of New Pull Requests to be Low-Quality AI Slop CatwalkQwen3.6 27B price drop DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017...
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