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Brian Tarricone reflects on the ethical trade-offs of using LLMs in open-source development, then explains how he uses Claude for research and planning while building xfwl4.

Floci is a free, open-source local AWS emulator that runs via Docker and provides 69 AWS services like S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, and RDS without requiring an AWS account or auth tokens, ideal for dev, testing, and CI.

Explores ways to use git blame over time within GNU Emacs, offering practical techniques for navigating commit history.

A developer shares a comprehensive Agents.md template with core principles for building and maintaining trading systems using AI agents, covering strategy development, engineering standards, and scope discipline.

Kiro Crew is an open-source agentic development workspace that helps developers build with AI agents.

A tweet joking about the excessive RAM needed for Electron development with Codex, sarcastically suggesting 96GB should suffice.

The author discusses a talk given at a Python meetup about projects they would no longer use Python for in 2026, outlining its limitations and alternatives while acknowledging Python still shines in certain areas.

A senior developer's deep-dive critique of SwiftUI seven years after its release, arguing that it remains a perpetual beta with performance issues, layout unpredictability, and poor backward compatibility, comparing it unfavorably to UIKit.

A blog post detailing the ongoing revival and modernization of OpenBSD's relayd(8) and httpd(8) daemons, including efforts to modernize the imsg message system and address pending diffs, with the author citing LLMs as motivation to return to C programming.

Jetpack Compose celebrates 5 years since its 1.0 release, highlighting its evolution from experimental idea to the primary UI framework for Android, used by 68% of top apps and expanding to TV, WearOS, and more.

A blog post discussing the reasons and considerations for building a custom game engine, sparked by Unity's pricing controversy.

Tcl/Tk is a toolkit for developing cross-platform command-line and graphical user interface tools.

A developer shares their experience of accidentally discovering 'loop engineering' while submitting 108 pull requests in eight days, highlighting a new approach to software development.

Advises that AI agents should have completion contracts defined before starting work, specifying required outcomes, forbidden outcomes, evidence, and a completion rule, to separate convincing answers from completed tasks.

A critique of the AI-powered software factory movement, arguing that no amount of loop engineering can overcome fundamental model-training issues, and citing evidence of declining code quality and increased incidents.

Explores the concept of technical debt specifically arising from the deployment and maintenance of AI agents, suggesting new challenges for software engineering.

Skills are highlighted as the most important AI development in recent months, with Bolt being the latest tool to support them, allowing teammates to share and stack skills automatically.

Discusses building an open MCP memory server to address real issues with agent memory, identifying what is broken and how to fix it.

A detailed guide on setting up Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin development, offering a lightweight alternative to IntelliJ IDEA with custom LSP configurations.

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