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260 posts
2026
TIL: Finding Files Fast With fdOriginalfd is a gitignore-aware, colourful replacement for find. One command locates files by name, type, or extension, and it runs fast out of the box.TIL
Claude Code Quality Got Worse, and Anthropic Admitted ItOriginalThe Claude Code quality drop in early 2026 wasn't in your head. Anthropic's own postmortem confirmed three overlapping regressions, and the numbers were ugly.Opinion
uv Is the Python Packaging Tool That Finally ClickedOriginalAstral's uv turned Python packaging into one fast tool. The uv sync, uv run and uv python install workflows I now reach for every day.Engineering
Why Claude's Token Cost Is Higher Than Ever, by DesignOriginalThe Claude token cost per task keeps climbing while the rate card barely moves. Default thinking, tokenizer changes and quiet cache cuts explain the bill.Opinion
This Last Week in AI: 6 moves from August 22, 2026OriginalThis last week in AI: August 22, 2026 brought MIT-licensed open frontier weights, sovereign inference, and live US and EU AI rules.AI
Friday fun: the AI agent that deleted the database in 9sOriginalA Cursor agent hit a credential error, grabbed an unrelated token, and deleted a production database and all backups in 9 seconds. Then it confessed.AI
The Rust CLI Tools That Replaced My CoreutilsOriginalAn honest audit of ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, zoxide and delta as rust cli replacements for grep, find, cat, ls, cd and diff, and which ones actually stuck.TIL
Please Stop Pasting AI Code Into My Pull RequestsOriginalTeam etiquette for AI-assisted work: what to paste, what to synthesize, and why pasting AI code into a pull request unread makes your review my problem.Opinion
When AI agents started reading your docsOriginalDocs-as-code served one reader for a decade: developers. Then AI agents started reading first. How llms.txt and MCP rewrote the rulebook, and what survived.Developer Experience
Go 1.27's Generic Methods Change How I Write HelpersOriginalGo 1.27 shipped generic methods, so a method can declare its own type parameters. Here is how that changed my helper code, plus the one real gotcha.Engineering