12 Jan 26

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving …

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05 Dec 25

i built kaneo.app - an open source, self-hosted kanban board. turns out shipping code is the easy part. here’s what maintaining it actually looks like.

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24 Nov 25

Note: This is a personal essay by Matt Ranger, Kagi’s head of ML In 1986, Harry Frankfurt wrote On Bullshit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit ).

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21 Nov 25

Astral is an operating system written in C.

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19 Nov 25

A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.

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16 Oct 25

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15 Oct 25

AI hasn’t replaced programmers, it’s replaced our authority. From arguments at home to boardroom debates, we’re deferring to machine confidence. Here’s why that shift has me questioning the future of programming.

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30 Sep 25

My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C

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23 Sep 25

“In evolution, a maladaptation is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful.” I went to Wikipedia to look that up, not a large language model.

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