Misc

Bending Spoons has announced buying Airtable for $1.285B in cash this week – which is less than the $1.4B in total funding Airtable has raised in the past, and well…

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…

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…

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…

Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple and Spotify. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Antithesis —…

As part of getting to grips with the new world of agentic engineering, I built an application to support my work. It’s a sophisticated app: high-quality web UI with dynamic…

Press enter or click to view image in full size You push your code. A few minutes later, it is live for real users. Between those two moments runs a…

Kubernetes ships with controllers that manage a fixed set of built-in resources: Deployments, Services, Nodes, and so on. An operator extends the same pattern to resources Kubernetes doesn’t know about…

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