Interesting links - January 2026
A monthly tech newsletter featuring curated links on data engineering, AI, Kafka, and industry trends for 2025/2026.
A monthly tech newsletter featuring curated links on data engineering, AI, Kafka, and industry trends for 2025/2026.
A guide to creating a PowerShell function that mimics the Linux 'touch' command for creating and updating files.
A developer shares insights and design considerations for building a distributed actor framework, based on experience with Dapr, Orleans, and a custom Go project.
Exploring how to create a generic, testable unit test runner in Fortran by extracting logic from the main program into reusable procedures.
Explores the AI-driven evolution of software engineering from autocomplete to autonomous agents, shifting the developer's role from coder to orchestrator.
Critique of Apple and Google's failure to enforce their own policies against abusive content on Twitter/X, questioning the legitimacy of their app store monopolies.
A guide to screen sharing on Linux using the niri compositor, covering full monitor, window, and dynamic casting, plus region capture with OBS.
A tutorial on using Notehub Smart Fleets and watchdog events to automatically detect and group inactive IoT devices.
A glossary explaining key AI agent and coding assistant terms like 'skills' and 'subagents' in the context of Claude Code.
Explores NanoLang, a new programming language designed for LLMs, and tests AI's ability to generate working code in it.
Explores NanoLang, a new programming language designed for LLMs, and tests AI's ability to generate working code in it.
Discusses the critical need for secure account recovery workflows when implementing passkeys, highlighting Microsoft Entra's new preview solution.
Explores creative PostgreSQL optimization techniques beyond standard indexing and query rewriting, focusing on constraint exclusion and function-based indexes.
Explores creating a single binary that behaves as a native Windows program or a Linux program under Wine by detecting the runtime environment and using direct syscalls.
A technical proof and algorithm for fast unrounded scaling in floating-point formatting, part of a series on floating-point printing and parsing.
A technical deep dive into simple, fast algorithms for converting floating-point numbers to and from decimal text, with a Go implementation.
Explores strategies for implementing and testing complex data filtering logic, balancing correctness and performance between in-memory and database queries.
Argues that ugly, legacy code can hold valuable domain knowledge and be more practical to refactor than to rewrite from scratch.
A daily roundup of links covering .NET, web development, AI tools, Windows updates, and various software engineering topics and tutorials.
An overview of the GitHub Copilot SDK, showing how to embed AI coding assistance into custom applications using .NET, Python, Go, and JavaScript.