Top picks — 2026 January
A developer shares personal struggles, job search, and monthly tech picks including articles on web decentralization, Google career lessons, macOS icons, and Go 1.26.
A developer shares personal struggles, job search, and monthly tech picks including articles on web decentralization, Google career lessons, macOS icons, and Go 1.26.
Explores using F# FSX scripts for flexible program configuration, comparing it to static formats like YAML or TOML.
Explains Azure availability zone mapping risks and how to use the azqr tool to verify physical datacenter mappings for HA/DR.
A software engineer argues that learning to code remains essential despite AI's ability to generate code, as coding skills are needed to evaluate and work with AI-generated output.
Explores the unpredictable second-order effects of AI evolution, focusing on how AI coding tools may reshape developer choices and business models.
A developer shares his experience using an Elgato Prompter for video content and creating a custom 3D-printed iPhone 17 Pro backplate for it.
Andrej Karpathy notes a 600x cost reduction in training a GPT-2 level model over 7 years, highlighting rapid efficiency gains in AI.
Explains a greedy algorithm to convert dense tile-based collision maps into optimized axis-aligned rectangles for efficient runtime collision detection.
A developer explains the practical benefits of implementing a --dry-run option in a reporting application for safe testing and validation.
GExperts 64-bit update enables the Explicit Filter expert, which suppresses unnecessary layout properties in Delphi .dfm files to clean up version control diffs.
An experiment using AI to build a working IndexedDB browser API implementation from scratch, aiming to pass Web Platform Tests.
Monthly update on Azure hybrid and multicloud management & security, covering new features in Defender for Cloud, CIEM, and AI-driven operations.
A developer's comparison of 1Password vs. iCloud Passwords, detailing the small usability issues that led them back to the paid tool.
Explains the core concepts of AI coding agents (rules, commands, skills, etc.) and provides a unified mental model for understanding them.
Explores Pi, a minimal coding agent within the OpenClaw project, highlighting its design, tools, and why the author prefers it for agentic programming.
Explores how AI-generated code overwhelms traditional peer review processes, highlighting existing flaws and proposing deeper evaluation methods.
Steve Yegge discusses evolving the Beads CLI for AI agents by implementing their 'hallucinations' to create a natural interface.
Steve Yegge discusses evolving the Beads CLI for AI agents by implementing their 'hallucinations' to create a natural interface.
Leading AI researchers debate whether current scaling and innovations are sufficient to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Analysis of Microsoft's 2026 Global ML Building Footprints dataset, including technical setup and data exploration using DuckDB and QGIS.