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Mendral describes a GitHub App AI agent that diagnoses CI failures, quarantines flaky tests, and opens PRs with fixes, based on scale lessons from PostHog. In a single week, PostHog ran 575,894 CI jobs across 94,574 workflows, processed 1.18B log lines, and executed 33.4M tests with 98 contributors and 65 daily main commits. Even at 99.98% pass rate, flaky tests create costly noise. Mendral ingests logs, traces flakes to code changes, automatically opens fixes, notifies the right teammates via Slack, and continuously analyzes repo health—maintaining transparency on a public repo and inviting early access.
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Andrew Healey describes building a toy UNIX shell, 'andsh'. He starts with a REPL: print prompt, read line, eval, loop, and handle exit. He tokenizes input, forks to run commands with execvp, and waits for the child. Features include simple env var expansion ($NAME, $?), and basic pipelines via pipe and dup2. Builtin cd changes directory; HOME used as default. He adds Readline for history and basic tab completion by scanning the current dir and PATH. Missing are quoting, redirection, and full shell syntax; aims to reveal underlying process APIs. Code at healeycodes/andsh.
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Robopenguins details his educational murder mystery Fatal Core Dump Game, which teaches debugging a core dump as evidence. Set in a sci‑fi company town, the puzzle centers on a faulty airlock controller; clues split between the core dump and external sources, with inspirations from Obra Dinn and Golden Idol. The project includes a minimal C library, a custom Station Device Network, and a deliberately crafted heap/buffer overflow exploit to trigger the murder. He also built a pixel-art RPG Maker demo, explored browser-based GDB via webvm, and wrapped everything in Docker; source code and play links are provided.
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The piece argues that language design matters more than data size for AI-assisted coding. AutoCodeBench shows Elixir, Racket, and Kotlin leading, while Python and JavaScript lag; models favor languages with locality and explicit semantics. Software’s load-bearing interface is human language—requirements, specs, bug reports—not code itself. Grace Hopper imagined translating English to machine code; now we should write programs for humans to verify, not only machines to execute. LLMs will write and debug, humans will specify and audit via clear contracts, tests, and auditable logic. Functional, immutable languages like Elixir best suit this new era.
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Kagi Small Web is an open-source effort to humanize the internet by surfacing posts from real people in the “small web.” It shows fresh content (last seven days), highlights sources, and invites you to read the next post. It curates topics from Tech and Science to Arts, Society, and Travel to amplify genuine voices and connect neighbors online.
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Droeftoeter is a GitHub-hosted terminal toy and experimental coding agent that renders a 64x32 character grid responding to prompts; each prompt builds on the running code, with the model extending itself. It’s described as a playful, harmless experiment, not a serious tool. On first run you choose a provider (Groq, Google Gemini, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Claude, Ollama/local). Built in Go and configurable via /config, environment variables, or a config.toml. Demo video and releases are available.
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Voxagon's Dennis Gustafsson recounts Teardown's long road to multiplayer. After early experiments and a fan-mod, the team settled on a hybrid model: deterministic destruction (via fixed-point commands) combined with state-synchronization for other changes, with no dedicated server—the host acts as server—and a mix of reliable channels for scene changes and unreliable streams for object state. They kept scripting compatible, handled terminals via server-drawn UI deltas, and merged multiplayer into the single game. Join-in-progress uses a deterministic command stream. It was hard but achieved.
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Gitana 18, unveiled in Lorient eight years after Gitana 17, is a 32-meter, 100% flying Ultim trimaran—more a technological demonstrator than a production boat. It reinvents offshore design with three-axis, adjustable Y-shaped foils (>5 m wingspan each) for variable flight, rudders and a central daggerboard to combat cavitation, and a redesigned monocoque combining cockpit and deckhouse for rigidity via autoclave-cured materials. Movable spreaders and forty-four hydraulic cylinders enable on-the-fly rig tuning. A 200-expert, 200,000-hour project aims for stable, high-speed flight, ~40 knots in three-metre waves.
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A YouTube footer listing site links (About, Press, Copyright, Contact us, Creators, Advertise, Developers, Terms, Privacy Policy & Safety, How YouTube works, Test new features) and NFL Sunday Ticket, © 2026 Google LLC.
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Claude is useful for coding but weak at 3D spatial sense. Dave Snider shows how to use Claude in 3D web apps by building a context loop with visual markers and automated checks. The Geometry Iteration Workflow guides iterating geometry without user input: edit code, regenerate STLs, render from multiple angles, read layout data, verify positions, zoom into problem areas, and repeat until correct. He provides concrete commands (e.g., npx tsx scripts/generate-geometry.ts, npx tsx scripts/capture-view.ts) and uses red spheres to test itself. The lesson: create tooling first to establish a shared language and validation loop.
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Jepsen's independent testing of MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2 finds no true “no lost transactions” guarantee. With default recommended settings, coordinated node crashes can lose committed writes; process crashes and network partitions can also cause commit losses. Even in healthy operation, Lost Update and Stale Read occur, and the claimed isolation level (between Serializable and Repeatable Read) is not achieved. Setting innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 reduces loss but does not fully prevent it. MariaDB docs misstate guarantees; issues MDEV-38974/38976/38977/38999 were reported, signaling the need for documentation revision and further study.
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Zenclora OS is a Debian Stable-based, lightweight Linux distribution designed for peace and productivity. It promises zero bloat, 100% Open Source, a clean GNOME interface, and high performance with an optimized kernel. It ships ready for gaming and includes one-command installs via Zen Package Manager (ZPM) for apps like Steam, Docker, or VSCode. System utilities cover optimization and USB formatting, with a suite of essential tools. Available as a 2.5 GB x86_64 ISO; slogan: Find your peace in the terminal.
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Every layer of approval adds roughly 10x wall-clock delay; reviews, not coding, slow progress and create bottlenecks as teams grow. AI helps initial work but can’t bypass the review cycle, and more QA often backfires due to incentives and trust issues. Deming’s lesson: quality must be engineered into the system, not QA’d into it. The sustainable fix is to eliminate or obsolete review stages by building a total quality system bottom-up, with small, trusted teams and clear interfaces. Startups may thrive; large firms struggle to shed entrenched review layers.
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Pixeldust AB is converting The Secret of Monkey Island for the Commodore 64, bringing all graphics to screen. The project involves hand-drawing every background, animation, and character. It’s unfinished and planned for a future release; the artist will continue posting new artwork. The game is coded by Andreas Larsson. The team shares gameplay from scenes and a gallery of backgrounds.
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Pyodide is a port of CPython to WebAssembly that runs Python in browsers and Node.js. It lets you install Python packages (pure Python via micropip and many with C/C++/Rust extensions like NumPy, SciPy, pandas) and mix Python with JavaScript through a robust JS–Python FFI, with full error handling and async support. In a browser, Python can access Web APIs. You can use a hosted distribution or host Pyodide yourself. It comprises CPython with patches, a JS/Python interface, and a cross-compiling toolchain; started in 2018 at Mozilla for Iodide; MPL-2.0 license.
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Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown says “it’s just not the moment for plant-based meat” after rebranding to Beyond The Plant Protein Company. He frames the move as an opportunity to pivot toward whole-plant foods amid industry confusion about plant-based proteins. Beyond still makes plant proteins, including Beyond Ground, and has expanded the Immerse high-protein sparkling drinks with four new flavors. Brown believes plant-based meat could become more dominant in the future but warns about ongoing scrutiny of ultra-processed foods and consumer confusion about protein sources.
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Argues that Amazon's warehouse workers are the vanguard of bossware and abusive tech, showing the "shitty tech adoption curve" where oppressive tools are tested on powerless workers before spreading to others. Describes how algorithmic management, surveillance, heatmaps, and forced anti-union messaging punish blue-collar workers (injury rates, time-off penalties). Cites Northwestern/Wiggin research cataloging union-busting tactics and "twiddling"—adjusting metrics to suppress votes and slow-work just ahead of organizing. Contrasts with tech workers who enjoy perks but face mass layoffs; predicts AI could replace coders. Calls for tech and labor solidarity to resist.
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Meta AI and the World Resources Institute unveil Canopy Height Maps v2 (CHMv2), an open-source model and global canopy-height maps to measure forest structure for conservation, restoration, and land management. CHMv2 uses DINOv3 trained on SAT-493M imagery, delivering sharper, bias-reduced canopy maps and an R² of 0.86 (up from 0.53). It expands lidar data, adds automated satellite-lidar matching, and a specialized loss for canopy height estimation. The maps support UK, European, and US applications, with ongoing work on data sparsity, viewing geometry, and temporal change detection.
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