August 2025

blog.jse.li

Approve merge requests with your eyes closed

github.com

table: A Periodic Table of System Design Principles

fluxus.io

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble

xkcd.com

The comic that put "correct horse battery staple" into the language.

dbos.dev

Postgres as a backend for async tasks.

github.com

runtime: desktop tool designed to automate browser tasks using small, reusable "skills"

rfc.stonecharioteer.com

Read the RFCs That Built the Internet: A developer has created a web-based platform that allows users to progressively explore Request for Comments (RFCs) documents that were fundamental in building the internet's infrastructure.

etsd.tech

Even if you're vibe-coding (and especially if), don't forget to read your code!

github.com

React-is-Awful – learn react in a trollesque tone

python-common-expression-language.readthedocs.io

A Python CEL implementation (written in Rust)

llm-fighter.com

A versus fighting game in which models play each other, as a way of comparing them.

github.com

KittenTTS-rust: rust based lightweight text-to-speech model

martinfowler.com

How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?

instantdb.com

Both models build a working full-stack chiptune app; GPT-5 gets sharing done faster, Opus produces the better interface.

thenewstack.io

Should we let AI review its own code for security?

aldenhallak.com

A postmortem for drawafish was published (if you missed it, you can find it in last week's newsletter), highlighting technical and operational challenges encountered.

cs.stanford.edu

Knuth on ChatGPT (2023).

github.com

document-mcp: MCP server to access local documents

jvns.ca

CSS supports nested selectors now!.

chbs.kripy.com

A gallery of images generated from four random words, after the xkcd comic on password strength.