August 2026
25 links saved this month.
earendil.com
inference APIs make session state non-portable, and that is lock-in.
fermisense.com
A reinforcement-learning fine-tune of a 9B open model beats every frontier configuration tested on a catalog-review workflow, at 40x less cost than the cheapest.
martinfowler.com
Fowler puts numbers on why cleaning up code pays for itself.
blog.modelcontextprotocol.io
the new spec drops required session state from the transport.
openai.com
research.jfrog.com
Six SQLite CVEs published on GitHub turn out to be fabricated: the code they cite does not exist and the proofs of concept do not run.
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Matthew Green weighs the key-recovery attack on HAWK and the reduced-round AES result against what each actually implies for deployed cryptography.
gregoryszorc.com
self-contained, portable Python builds, the brick under uv and pyenv.
brandur.org
clone a template database per test for fast, isolated Postgres tests.
en.andros.dev
assemble a mail stack from protocols that already exist.
sf.isopolis.city
An interactive map of San Francisco neighbourhoods drawn from OpenStreetMap and DataSF boundaries.
quantamagazine.org
Quanta on models reaching answers by odd paths.
github.com
one of Rust's 2026 language-design goals, from the source.
lockwood.dev
a measured progress report on an AI-assisted port.
arxiv.org
writing more rules does not make an agent follow them.
victoriametrics.com
run the new features right in the page.
john.fun
How elevator dispatch algorithms work, from the simple LOOK approach to the destination-dispatch systems that cut waiting.
