Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.

Stop Using Ollama | Discussion

Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem | Discussion

Shipped `GlickoRatingSystem`, a pure #Elixir implementation of the Glicko-2 rating system. Zero dependencies, fractional scores, plain tuples.

A rating system that won't deviate from the spec.

hex.pm/packages/glicko_rating_system

Just published AcceptLanguage, a zero-dependency Elixir library for parsing Accept-Language HTTP headers. RFC 4647 Basic Filtering, BCP 47 tags, wildcards, exclusions — one function.
elixirforum.com/t/acceptlanguage-lightweight-accept-language-header-parser-with-rfc-4647-basic-filtering/74651

New post to celebrate accept_language gem v2.2.0 🎉
Behind a single Accept-Language header hides a story: where you've lived, what you've studied, and what you refuse to read.
blog.cyril.email/posts/2026-0...

Free SVG Assets for Abstract Strategy Board Games Free, public domain SVG assets for abstract strategy board games—pieces and boards for chess, ogi, and xiongqi traditions.

Spent a while getting these right: SVG assets for abstract strategy board games, now in the public domain. Hope they save someone else the trouble.
blog.cyril.email/posts/2026-0...

Zigbook – Learn the Zig Programming Language Zigbook is a comprehensive, open-source guide to the Zig programming language, packed with hands-on chapters, projects, and real-world examples.

62 chapter open-source Zig book | Discussion

The Gentle Threat: Check as the Language of Inevitability An exploration of check as the fundamental language of inevitability across chess-family games. From checkmate to resignation, how terminal piece threats shape the game's narrative.

Elegant players resign rather than force opponents to capture the King.

blog.cyril.email/posts/2025-1...

Async/Await is finally back in Zig What changed, why it matters, and how to use the new API.

Async/Await is finally back in Zig | Discussion

GitHub - fleximus/pfjson: A CLI tool to convert OpenBSD Packet Filter configuration files (`pf.conf`) to JSON and vice versa. A CLI tool to convert OpenBSD Packet Filter configuration files (`pf.conf`) to JSON and vice versa. - fleximus/pfjson

CLI tool to convert OpenBSD Packet Filter config files to JSON and vice versa | Discussion

Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust | Discussion

GitHub - barddoo/zedis: Redis in Zig Redis in Zig. Contribute to barddoo/zedis development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig | Discussion

Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions, by Simon Holthausen YouTube video by Svelte Society

We've just published a video about SvelteKit's new Remote Functions by @dummdidumm.bsky.social. Watch it on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hy7...

Introduction to AT Protocol Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits together

Introduction to Bluesky's AT Protocol | Discussion

OAuth Improvements | Bluesky We've been making improvements to the end-user and developer experiences with atproto OAuth, and wanted to share some updates.

OAuth updates for app devs!

Over the past few weeks we've been chatting with devs and doing a pass over our SDKs and docs to address issues. This blog post summarizes the main changes we've made, some tweaks still in flight, and links to longer form writing about security and design trade-offs

Working on chess game systems at @sashite.com — we needed a strict, minimal #RubyLang protocol to keep things clean and predictable.
So we wrote one: sashite.github.io/ruby-develop...
Still a work in progress, but might be useful to others too.

Many board games — chess, shogi, xiangqi — have their own formats to describe positions (FEN, SFEN, etc).

I've tried to design a single, rule-independent format that could cover them all: FEEN.

It’s simple, and maybe it’ll be useful to others.

📝 blog.cyril.email/posts/2025-0...

GitHub - magnitudedev/magnitude: Open source, AI-native testing framework for web apps Open source, AI-native testing framework for web apps - magnitudedev/magnitude

Show HN: Magnitude – open-source, AI-native test framework for web apps | Discussion

Introducing clean, a formal verification DSL for zk circuits in Lean4 - ZKSECURITY We are really excited to share our initial steps towards building clean, an embedded DSL and formal verification framework for ZK circuits in Lean4. As we recently shared, Zero Knowledge circuits are full of bugs, but fortunately, techniques like formal verification can provide a huge confidence boost in the correctness of ZK circuits. Clean enables us to define circuits in Lean4, specify their desired properties, and – most importantly – formally prove them!

Clean, a formal verification DSL for ZK circuits in Lean4 Discussion

Contemplating the elegant simplicity of cryptographic URL signatures with practical implementation insights. A scholarly exploration of secure, tamper-proof links for modern web applications.
blog.cyril.email/posts/2025-0...

I put together an experimental Go OAuth client. Works well, though definitely _experimental_ so there are bound to be bugs or things I missed. It's not official, but should be a starting point! Will be enlisting the help of @bnewbold.net to clean it up and get our client SDK working with OAuth.

You first.

Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? Discussion

How can a one-way function (cryptographic hash) be used to ensure message confidentiality? I wrote an article explaining a simple symmetric encryption protocol that demonstrates this interesting concept. blog.cyril.email/posts/2025-0...

NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games (pubby.games)

Main Link | Discussion

In the next version of Bun

`bun ./index.html` starts a frontend dev server

hello world computer

Bun is a complete JavaScript toolkit Everything you need to ship & maintain your app, built-in Builtin Core Features Essential runtime capabilities Node.js compatibility Bun aims to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js apps View Docs Web Standard APIs powered by WebCore (from WebKit/Safari) Support for web standard APIs like fetch, URL, EventTarget, Headers, etc. View Docs TypeScript First-class support, including "paths" enum namespace View Docs JSX First-class support without configuration View Docs Module loader plugins Works in browsers & Bun Plugin API for importing/requiring custom file types View Docs Builtin APIs Built-in performance and native APIs designed for production PostgresSQL driver Bun.sql Fastest available to JavaScript High-performance cloud database access View Docs SQLite driver bun:sqlite Fastest available to JavaScript High-performance local database access View Docs S3 Cloud Storage driver Bun.s3 Fastest available to JavaScript High-performance S3-compatible

you probably didn't know Bun has all this builtin

What will you #RSpec for 2025? To all Rubyists, we wish you pure specifications, crystal-clear tests, and happy testing! Happy New Year! ✨