Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer
There’s one in every engineering org: the person who picked up a coding agent first and started leaving everyone else in the dust. Once one or two engineers are operating…
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Google’s four AI departures: “We wanted to build something differently”
At the start of 2025, investors wondered whether Google could keep pace with OpenAI. By December, Alphabet was completing its best year on the stock market since 2009, helped by…
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A review of my time at Remix
TL;DR, I’m undertaking a new adventure requiring all of my time, so I’m leaving the Remix team to focus on that new endeavor. I’m not leaving the Remix community though!…
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Gemini Robotics ER 2
For robots to assist humans in everyday environments, accurate spatial reasoning is not enough. Robots must also think fast, timing their decisions and reasoning with the real-time speed of the…
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Stop Adding Indexes Like a Junior Dev: 5 Indexing Patterns That Turned a 12-sec Query into 8ms
Rewriting Java gets approval. Reading the execution plan earns ownership — 5 Postgres indexing patterns that separate juniors from seniors Press enter or click to view image in full size…
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Empty sandboxes break developer experience
I work on Docker Sandboxes, so I spend a lot of time talking about isolation, microVMs, disposable filesystems, blast radii, all the good infrastructure things. But the Docker Sandboxes feature…
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Laravel vs React.js: Which Framework Is Right for Your Business?
New-age businesses rely on web applications that are fast, secure, and capable of supporting scalability. Choosing the right development technology plays a crucial role in achieving greatness. Among the most…
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How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new epoch in computing. Hardware is changing…
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) 31st July 2026 Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification…
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Terraform Stacks, explained
Terraform Stacks are a feature intended to simplify infrastructure provisioning and management at scale, providing a built-in way to scale without complexity. This blog covers the challenges Terraform Stacks solve,…
