millennials are now reaching the stage of life where mortality, entropy, and cultural shift are causing them to develop strong feelings about the past and an urge to return to “simpler times” the same way it came for boomers and everyone before them…

you are not immune to conservatism

so trump just publicly layed out his plans to do war crimes over the next 2 weeks ... now what ?

Imo the ideal workflows for using AI for programming and writing are flipped from each other.

For programming, you review text that the LLM writes; for writing, you write text and the LLM reviews it

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

blog.raed.dev/posts/motocy...

Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6

⛷️ 🏂 I built an open dataset of real-time French ski resorts

Lifts, snow, temperatures, wind, avalanche risk, season dates - all structured, all free !

2 Cloudflare workers on the free tier - infra cost $0

open-piste.raed.workers.dev

I'm looking for some new/upcoming Metal inspiration ... some stuff that is less than 10 years old and genuinely innovative !

Any recommendations ?

as much as i understand this kind of rhetoric it's always irritated me that we can only ever focus on "American" lives. why isn't there any messaging focusing on the immorality of what we're doing to everyone else?

LangGraph's HITL Has a Double Execution Problem LangGraph's interrupt/resume primitives are genuinely clean. But the checkpoint model has a side effect that silently double-executes tools, and approval binding is positional rather than explicit. He...

LangGraph's human-in-the-loop has a double execution
problem!

The checkpoint model silently double-executes tools in mixed nodes, a known issue that's still unresolved

Here's what it looks like in practice blog.raed.dev/posts/langgr...

learning snowboarding in your 30s rules ! 🏂

Stop Using Chat History As Your Agent's State Store The chat interface is fine for users. The flat message model behind it erases the semantics that agentic systems actually need to operate correctly.

Stop using chat history as your agent's state store

blog.raed.dev/posts/agenti...

Security vulnerabilities I found in high school A collection of hacking stories from my high-school days in Tunisia. Some involve computers, most don't.

a collection of "hacking" stories from my school days in Tunisia

blog.raed.dev/posts/hackin...

assuming prompting, reviewing, iterating, holding context in the head of a non junior developer is free

Raed Chammam — Staff Engineer, Frontend & AI · Algolia Staff Engineer at Algolia. I build frontend systems at scale and ship AI products that work in the real world.

Just updated my website since ages ago, would love some feedback !

raed.dev

i have been using a browser extension + gpt-4o-mini-tts to listen to long form articles and it works wonders for my ADHD brain

Hey peeps i'm looking into getting back into talks/meetups/CFPs etc ..

It has been a while and I miss it ... would love to chat if you have been involved recently and pick your brain

Do i still need my VGA to Mini DisplayPort cable? No.

Will I ever throw it out? Also No.

Google Wave was peak social networks and nothing has ever come close since #ChangeMyMind

i hit this wall recently and concluded that it takes more effort to prompt my way into a viable diagram than to actually manually produce it.

The issue is that the input is still text, so you're going from uncompressed to compressed data anyway

Anatomically accurate cookie

EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP CURLING IS HAPPENING

come on become a world power [EU]

i bought a limited item in high demand. i sold it for a much hgher price without ever using or modifying it. i am a... [there are 6 images] concert tickets: "scalper" playstation: "scalper" pair of jordans: "scalper" labubu: "scalper" star wars legos: "scalper" house: "investor"

Help I can't stop buying backpacks

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

The US is a preview of what will happen in France in ~24 months

Hey america how is that 2nd amendment working out for you?

just selected 167 emails and marked all as read #yolo

I would have loved the meta rayban glasses if they were made by literally any other company

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year