Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math”
Hi, this is Gergely with the monthly, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…
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Terraform introduces workspaces and Stacks restore, and more
Over the past quarter, the HashiCorp Terraform engineering team has introduced new capabilities that make infrastructure management more resilient, scalable, and easier to operate. These updates help platform teams reduce…
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Deserialization Sinks In RSCs — Smashing Magazine
While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that attackers can exploit. Durgesh Pawar breaks down the…
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Tabular LLMs: An Introduction to the Foundation Models That Predict Your Spreadsheet
model predicts the missing column of any table, zero-shot, the way a language model completes text. On the main community benchmark, every single-model entry above the best tuned gradient-boosted tree…
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The Labor Market Is Tilting Toward Seniority
Senior-level job postings have been rising over the past few months, while entry-level job postings have largely been trending downwards since 2022. Key points: As of May 2026, senior-level job…
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I let React Compiler handle memoization: Here’s what actually broke
In October 2025, the React compiler v1.0 was released as a stable version with the promise that we would no longer need to litter our codebases with useMemo, or useCallback….
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Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
Large diffusion transformers can create stunning images (or even videos, audio snippets, and now text), but loading a modern text-to-image model in BF16 precision often requires 20-30 GB of VRAM,…
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Running OpenClaw on a Synology NAS
10 min read · 15 hours ago Containers, certificates, and uid 1000 — everything DSM’s docs don’t tell you Press enter or click to view image in full size I…
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OpenAI’s Codex Context Cut Puts Enterprise AI Coding Workflows on Notice
OpenAI quietly trimmed the default input context window for GPT-5.6 inside its Codex CLI, dropping it from 372,000 tokens to 272,000 tokens. That’s a 27% cut, and developers noticed fast….
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React Conf 2021 Recap – React
December 17, 2021 by Jesslyn Tannady and Rick Hanlon Last week we hosted our 6th React Conf. In previous years, we’ve used the React Conf stage to deliver industry changing…
