July 2026
74 links saved this month.
raymyers.org
Reads the Bun rewrite announcements against each other and argues the Zig-to-Rust move was told as a story rather than justified as engineering.
simonwillison.net
Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way - short and immediately applicable CI tip.
scrapfly.dev
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is fingerprintable - one floating point edge case is enough to name your OS.
rfc-editor.org
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method - a real HTTP method for search, safe and idempotent, with a request body. No more choosing between a GET with a body that nothing guarantees and a POST that lies about what it does.
bun.com
Bun's own account of a mechanical port from Zig to Rust over eleven days, reporting better stability and fewer leaks.
maurycyz.com
Regressive JPEGs - later scans in a progressive JPEG can overwrite what was already drawn, so a single file can show a different image while it loads, and animate if you push it. The format taken apart byte by byte.
lore.kernel.org
"Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects" - Torvalds settles kernel LLM policy on the mailing list: it is a tool, and anyone who disagrees can fork or walk away.
purplesyringa.moe
Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if - branch prediction, aliasing and autovectorisation, taken apart with benchmarks.
tris.sherliker.net
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt - a real, self-evaluating, obfuscated Akamai script, sold as clothing, taken apart line by line.
fazamhd.com
Networking and the Internet, from First Principles - what actually happens when a message crosses a continent, built up from nothing.
andrewkelley.me
Andrew Kelley's response to the Bun rewrite - and the Zig side of that same argument, from the creator of the language.
theregister.com
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming - Bruce Davie on the middle ground between WebRTC and DASH, with the IETF drafts.
mathstodon.xyz
LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys - a security regression that shipped in Linux 6.9 and went unnoticed.
simonwillison.net
LLM cliche highlighter - highlights ten writing tics that give away a language model. Willison had Fable 5 build it after one article too many, so the slop detector was written by the slop machine.
kimi.com
The release announcement for a 2.8 trillion parameter open model with native vision and a one-million-token context.
webkit.org
The Safari MCP server for web developers - the web platform meeting agents, straight from WebKit.
blog.podman.io
Podman v6.0.0 - rootless containers, still no daemon.
rtfeldman.com
The Roc compiler's 487-day port of 300,000 lines from Rust to Zig, now at feature parity, with hot code loading and faster incremental builds as the payoff.
simonwillison.net
A honeypot site with nested links turned the web_fetch tool into an exfiltration path for data already in the conversation.
