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ORVAL

Orval is a development tool that converts OpenAPI specifications into type-safe TypeScript clients, mocks, and validators, eliminating boilerplate for efficient API integration. It natively supports major modern frameworks like React Query and Axios, and generates mock data handlers for testing without an active backend.

BROWNIES

Brownies is a lightweight JavaScript library designed to simplify the management of cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB. It provides an interface that allows devs to interact with browser storage using standard object property accessors for getting, setting, and deleting data. It has the ability to preserve original data types for stored values while supporting standard iteration methods like Object.keys and for-of loops.

NOBODY CRACKS OPEN A PROGRAMMING BOOK ANYMORE

Physical programming book sales are declining because generative AI tools and automated coding assistants have replaced printed manuals by offering instant solutions. Although traditional learning from books fostered a deep understanding, this shift toward AI represents a fundamental change in software engineering, moving developers to higher abstraction levels.

C CONSTRUCTS THAT STILL DON'T WORK IN C++ — AND A FEW THAT CHANGED

C and C++ maintain distinct object models, requiring developers to focus on specific standards (C23 or C++20) for code validity, and while some features align, memory management using C functions like malloc remains risky in C++. Effective cross-language development demands isolating C-specific features and translating them into robust C++ types to guarantee safety and clear ownership.

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THE BOOTSTRAPPER'S EU STACK FOR UNDER €10 PER MONTH

Building a complete, privacy-conscious technology stack using European-based services for hosting, email, analytics, and payments is achievable for less than €10 per month by using various free and low-cost tiers, like with Simple Analytics and Tally.

3 TOP TAKEAWAYS FROM DROPBOX'S FORMER MOST SENIOR ENGINEER

Former Dropbox senior engineer James Cowling advises focusing on conceptual problem-solving, aligning team incentives with business goals rather than specific systems, and prioritizing simplicity over complexity.

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AXIOS TO WHATWG FETCH

The `@nodejs/axios-to-whatwg-fetch` codemod automates the migration of HTTP request code from the Axios library to the native Fetch API in Node.js to improve performance and adhere to modern web standards.

NORWAY'S 2 PETABYTES OF HUAWEI FLASH STORAGE AND LLM TRAINING

Norway's National Library is using two petabytes of Huawei flash storage to develop a sovereign LLM dedicated to preserving and understanding the country's unique language, history, and culture through a massive digitized data pipeline.

ON THE DL

The `dl` HTML element, along with `dt` for terms and `dd` for details, provides a semantic way to mark up lists of name-value pairs in HTML. This structure allows for one term to have multiple values or for pairs to be wrapped in a `div` for easier styling. Using these semantic tags instead of generic containers helps assistive technologies like screen readers provide more context and navigation options to users.

YOUR DOCKER IMAGE IS 1.2GB. HERE IS HOW TO GET IT UNDER 80MB

This dev reduced their Node.js Docker images from over 1GB to under 80MB. They started by replacing heavy base images with slim or Alpine versions. Then, they added a proper .dockerignore file and used multi-stage builds to make sure that only essential production files and compiled artifacts are included in the final container.

HOW NETFLIX IS USING MULTIMODAL AI TO POWER VIDEO SEARCH

Netflix lets editors search thousands of hours of raw footage by running multiple specialized AI models: character recognition, scene classification, dialogue, and object detection. A decoupled three-stage pipeline handles it: raw annotations land in Cassandra untransformed, an offline job uses temporal bucketing to merge all model outputs into aligned one-second intervals, and those fused buckets get indexed in Elasticsearch as nested documents.

DANGEROUSLY-SKIP-READING-CODE

As LLMs speed up code generation, software engineering should treat source code as machine code and shift from manual line-by-line inspection to autonomous workflows. In this model, technical rigor is maintained through high-level specifications and automated tests rather than human-in-the-loop reviews.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

AI models now serve as a powerful skill multiplier that rewards developers with deep technical expertise and domain knowledge. While these tools boost productivity, a strong foundation in core principles is still necessary to effectively direct coding agents through complex software architecture.

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DENO 2.8

Deno 2.8 is a JavaScript runtime that introduces several new subcommands for tasks such as automated vulnerability patching, version management, and creating npm-publishable packages. New developer features include support for lazy module evaluation via `import defer`, integrated CPU profiling, and the ability to inspect network traffic using Chrome DevTools.

AUDIOMASS

AudioMass is a free, open-source, web-based audio and waveform editing platform that has multitrack capabilities for layering, recording, and processing sound files directly in a browser.

CLAW PATROL

Claw Patrol is a security firewall for monitoring and controlling traffic between AI agents and production environments. The tool parses network data at the wire level and evaluates specific actions against user-defined rules written in HCL. By extracting protocol-specific facts such as SQL verbs or Kubernetes resources, it can block destructive commands or pause sensitive operations for manual human approval.

PROJECT GLASSWING: AN INITIAL UPDATE

Project Glasswing, an AI initiative for identifying and securing software vulnerabilities, successfully surfaced over ten thousand critical flaws in its first weeks. This success shifted the cybersecurity bottleneck from finding bugs to the human-intensive task of verifying and patching them, encouraging defenders to adopt AI-driven tools and shorten patch cycles.

AI CHIP COMPONENT COSTS: MEMORY AT 63%

High-bandwidth memory (HBM) has become the dominant expense in AI chip production, rising from 52% to 63% of total component spending between early 2024 and late 2025. Tech companies are already raising their capital expenditure forecasts by billions of dollars to manage these increasing costs and tight supply chains.

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MODERN WEB GUIDANCE

Modern Web Guidance, by Google Chrome, provides a set of expert-vetted skills and plugins for AI coding agents to help devs build accessible, performant, and secure web apps using modern standards.

MICROSOFT STARTS CANCELING CLAUDE CODE LICENSES

Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses for its employees to transition them to GitHub Copilot CLI as part of an effort to consolidate internal tools and reduce operating expenses.

DON'T ROLL YOUR OWN ...

Developers should use native browser features for core interface elements like scrolling and form controls rather than building custom implementations that often reduce accessibility, performance, and user familiarity.

AX

AX is a distributed agent runtime that coordinates agentic loops, manages execution state through event logging, and enables reliable failure recovery and portability for autonomous workers.

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THE PULSE: FORWARD-DEPLOYED ENGINEERING HEATS UP AGAIN

Demand for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) is growing at major firms, but while Google hires them internally, OpenAI and Anthropic are creating separate deployment entities, meaning those FDEs might not share in the AI labs' core upside. The role itself now acts more like a solutions architect, focused largely on integration and client management, which appeals strongly to new graduates but less so to experienced developers preferring product building over consulting work.

MAKING USER-SEQUENCE DATA MORE COST-EFFICIENT, FASTER, AND EASIER TO USE

Pinterest redesigned its machine learning data platform to use a single configuration-as-code definition that standardizes user-sequence data across real-time indexing, batch processing, and online serving. This lambda-style architecture and columnar, time-partitioned storage model reduced infrastructure costs while speeding up the onboarding of new events and enrichments.

INTRODUCING NOVA, OUR INTERNAL PLATFORM FOR CODING AGENTS

Nova is an internal cloud platform at Dropbox designed to run AI-powered coding agents across their software development lifecycle. Instead of relying on fragmented, single-purpose tools, this system standardizes how agents handle tasks like fixing flaky tests, managing migrations, and validating code within Dropbox's specific infrastructure.

GOOGLE IS SHATTERING UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT (THE IBM-IFICATION OF GOOGLE?)

Google's tight control over its technology is shifting from an asset to a liability, largely because of automated mismanagement, reliability issues, and a persistent trend of killing products and changing user interfaces. Furthermore, the core search experience is made worse by AI-driven content scraping that exploits creators.

WAS MY $48K GPU SERVER WORTH IT?

Moving into independent research, this dev built a custom $48,000 GPU server that paid for itself in just fifteen months by avoiding expensive cloud rentals. This investment not only streamlined their workflow for heavy reinforcement learning tasks but also directly enabled a major breakthrough in LLMs for them.

UV IS FANTASTIC, BUT ITS PACKAGE MANAGEMENT UX IS A MESS

While `uv` is celebrated for its speed and ability to replace multiple Python tools, its package management experience becomes difficult during the project maintenance phase. Finding outdated dependencies currently requires memorizing complex commands that produce cluttered results rather than a concise list of available updates.

RUNTIME

Runtime provides sandboxed, collaborative coding agents equipped with company-specific context, integrations, and guardrails to automate workflows across various departments.

AGENTMAIL

AgentMail provides dedicated email inboxes and integration tools designed specifically for AI agents to communicate and manage tasks.

15 UPDATES FROM GOOGLE I/O 2026: POWERING THE AGENTIC WEB WITH NEW CAPABILITIES, TOOLS, AND FEATURES IN CHROME

The Chrome team unveiled its "agentic web" vision at Google I/O 2026, presenting 15 updates focused on three core areas: giving AI agents more capabilities, improving web performance, and integrating Gemini to make the browser a proactive assistant. The main announcements included the new WebMCP standard, dedicated DevTools for agents, on-device AI capabilities like Gemma 197M, and upcoming consumer features like image editing and Gemini integration on Android in late June.

CODING AGENTS ARE GIVING EVERYONE DECISION FATIGUE

AI coding agents have shifted software engineering from manual writing to intensive decision-making and review, resulting in increased work density and decision fatigue that requires a redesign of the development lifecycle.

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GOOGLE'S ANTIGRAVITY BAIT AND SWITCH

Google's recent Antigravity 2.0 update at I/O 2026 automatically replaced this dev's preferred IDE workflow with a standalone chatbot interface and required a complete system purge to restore the legacy version.

STOP WAITING ON JSON: STREAM STRUCTURED OUTPUT WITH ONE SCHEMA

TanStack AI now allows developers to stream structured LLM outputs using a single schema, automatically handling type safety and partial JSON parsing to remove manual boilerplate code on the client.

THIS BLOG RAN ON UBUNTU 16.04 FOR 10 YEARS. I MIGRATED IT TO FREEBSD

After ten years on an outdated Ubuntu VPS, this blog was migrated to a more cost-effective and powerful FreeBSD infrastructure using Jails and Caddy, resulting in higher performance and better handling of concurrent requests.

A NEW LOOK FOR EXPRESS

Express launched a fully redesigned website rebuilt from Jekyll to Astro, along with a brand-new logo and visual identity.