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2026

Agent memory as a file formatoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rideroriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
"Disregard that!" attacksoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026

2024

Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant businessoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2024
Is Tesla really more valuable than Toyota?original ↗
17 Mar 2024
S3 is files, but not a filesystemoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024

2023

Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the toolsoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2023

2022

There aren't that many uses for blockchainsoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2022

2021

An oral history of Bank Pythonoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2021
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscriptionoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2021
No general method to detect fraudoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2021
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysisoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2021
Staying out of TTL helloriginal ↗
9 Mar 2021
Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter?original ↗
3 Feb 2021

2020

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%original ↗
22 Sept 2020
Threat modelling case study: bicyclesoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2020
Async Python is not fasteroriginal ↗
11 Jun 2020
The argument against clearing the database between testsoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2020
The troublesome "Active Record" patternoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2020
Applying mypy to real world projectsoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2020

2019

The Amazon premiumoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2019
How a SQL database worksoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2019
Non-relational bear-trapsoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2019
The Lycurgus cuporiginal ↗
3 Nov 2019

2015

Not wasting time with version controloriginal ↗
11 Apr 2015
How to configure pip for fast installs of C code librariesoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2015

2014

My preferred agile heuristicoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2014

2012

Bookmarkingoriginal ↗
6 May 2012