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260 posts
2026
DevRel This Week, 28 September: Hacktoberfest Drops the Pull RequestOriginalDevRel this week, 28 September: Meta and Cloudflare pay prize money, DevDay is tomorrow, Hacktoberfest drops pull requests, Microsoft cuts developer accounts.Developer Relations
Eleven v4 Turbo Gets Voice Agents to Full DuplexOriginalElevenLabs shipped Eleven v4 Turbo today: 150ms to first speech, streaming both ways, a turn-taking model around it. The full duplex setup I wrote about in August.Voice AI
The Frontier AI Standards Agency Has a Shortlist and No Rules YetOriginalThe Frontier AI Standards Agency got a name and a CEO shortlist this week, two more agent break-ins surfaced months late, and Zuckerberg said no to slowing down.AI
Moving Off WordPress: 500 Posts and a Nuxt RebuildOriginalIn 2020 I led moving off WordPress for a developer blog: 500 posts, a plugin that stored code in tables, two prototypes, and 30 minute builds cut to one.Career
TIL: git rerere Remembers Your Conflict ResolutionsOriginalTurn on git rerere once and git records how you resolved a merge conflict, then replays that resolution when the same conflict comes back in a rebase or merge.TIL
Jev: The ChatGPT Co-Creator's System One Model Can't TalkOriginalTypeSafe AI's Jev is a System One model that decides instead of talking: 70-500ms, $0.042/MTok, output free. Diogo Almeida's RLHF led to ChatGPT.AI
Developer Relations in the Era of AIOriginalHow developer relations and AI are reshaping documentation, community management, and the metrics that prove DevRel's impact.Developer Relations
TIL: Fixing Opus 5 Jargon With One System Prompt LineOriginalOpus 5 defaults to jargon-heavy consultant-speak. One line in your system prompt fixes it.TIL
The AI Standards Body Is the Ladder, Pulled UpOriginalThree labs have been meeting since July about an AI standards body. The public call for restraint arrived two months after the plumbing was laid.Opinion
Everyone Should Slow Down AI. Except Them.OriginalThe case for slowing down AI always seems to exempt the people making it. When the same labs racing hardest ask everyone else to brake, read the incentive.Opinion