Linear.app's new Reviews feature is quite nice. Devin.ai also has a great review tool that helps deal with the mess of comments LLM review tools make on PRs. GitHub is being relegated to being a (poor) infrastructure host.
I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026.
ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...
I do sympathise with Google in having to do this: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Don't underestimate how people can easily be socially-engineered! Phones are people's lives now.
I think this is much better than what was previously proposed (submitting all apps to Google for signing/verification).
I got curious about the difference in elevation and downloaded the kmz files from the consultation to have a look
Blackfriars - always the best station to arrive at.
this article explains how working with (legacy) banking technology gave me a comprehensive education on the history of computing. very worth your time - computer.rip/2026-02-27-i...
ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
I tried my best to find a reasonably priced train journey to Munich for KotlinConf, but the Eurostar pricing just makes things so much harder. Ended up booking flights. Competition can't come soon enough.
nobody asked for this
worth every penny
what the...
I've really enjoyed using jujutsu (docs.jj-vcs.dev) - the main strength being that I don't need to mentally box a piece of work to a (git) branch ahead of time. being able to undo basically anything is also such a superpower. give it a go if you have some time!
the beginning of 2026 marks six months since I quit my job to build something myself.
it's been going pretty well and I look forward to sharing more details soon, stay tuned!
My top 40 games of 2025, Ranked, on @backloggd.com
Full list and reviews here: backloggd.com/u/leafeator/...
But let's 🧵a few of the indies you might not know about!
The regional trains in Italy have power sockets next to the bike racks, so you can charge your ebikes 🥹
*frankenstein's monster
they made frankenstein hot??
all aboard!
Learned the hard way today that 1Password CLI seemingly requires a server request to succeed in order to access stored secrets (that should already be cached). Don't rely on it to sign things locally, etc.
Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation. Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens. While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.
Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins
October 15, 2025
www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
A lot more exciting than any of the Apple announcements this morning.
even if you give them the exact minute your bike was taken, they still won't help. I don't think binary search is the only problem unfortunately.
post stamps
New Monopoly-themed postage stamps released by the Royal Mail - missing the "go straight to jail" option for the post office managers.
New from me: Last week I noticed a feature on TikTok that used AI to scan videos and identify products. It turns out the feature is being applied even to videos from Gaza. In one, a mother cries out for her family. TikTok tagged dresses, head coverings, and handbags.
www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...
The Verge has a really great policy on dealing with efforts by tech comms teams to obstruct reporting www.theverge.com/press-room/2...
Your inner perfectionist is why that 3-week project is now at month 3. Ship the embarrassingly simple version. Get real feedback. Iterate. Every day your code isn't in users' hands is a day you're not learning if you're building the right thing.
jola.dev/posts/ruthle...
today marks 9 years in London for me. it was originally an impulsive decision to move, but now I can't imagine being anywhere else.
I was so confused because the same setup works when connect to my desktop (through a USB KVM switch). But I didn't know there was a limit nor about the extra hub in the macbook :(
