Links tagged “article”

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.

purplesyringa.moe

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if - branch prediction, aliasing and autovectorisation, taken apart with benchmarks.

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.

bun.com

Bun's own account of a mechanical port from Zig to Rust over eleven days, reporting better stability and fewer leaks.

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.

techcrunch.com

Ford brings back 350 veteran engineers, its CEO saying the company mistakenly assumed introducing AI would by itself produce a high-quality product.

danunparsed.com

HackerRank open-sourced its ATS, then scored one resume 90, then 74, then 88 - the instability of AI hiring, demonstrated on itself.

jchri.st

In praise of memcached - an unkillable cache, and a quiet case against chasing the new thing.

oreilly.com

Stop Getting Good at Protocols. Get Good at Agent Experience - design for the agents that will consume your service, not for the protocol of the month.

newsletter.kentbeck.com

Kent Beck: the point was never the typing, it was keeping options open and moving cost later in time.

nega.tv

The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring - how a AAA fakes its enemy "AI" with simple tricks and no ML in sight.

techcrunch.com

GPT-5.6 goes to selected partners rather than the public, reportedly at the administration's request.

fernandoi.cl

What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant - prompt injection and jailbreaks, from the field.

fergusfinn.com

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? - the whole journey from launch to silicon, one layer at a time.

steveharrison.dev

window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world - the File System Access API, used in anger.

htmx.org

Working With AI: A concrete example - where it helps and where it derails, on real code, from the author of htmx.

queue.acm.org

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification - formal methods from a practitioner, minus the folklore.

jayfreestone.com

You might not need a service worker - the browser APIs that often make it redundant.

martinfowler.com

Building reliable agentic AI systems: a production write-up of making LLM agents dependable, on Fowler's site.

wheresyoured.at

And to keep the enthusiasm honest: OpenAI's losses grew nearly 8x in 2025, on more than 34 billion dollars of spending. Someone is paying for the party.