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Completed my first reading of Designing Data-Intensive Applications by @martin.kleppmann.com just in time before 2024 wraps up! Wrote about my experience here: aksh.dev/book-review-... #ddia

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Couldn't agree more, I've shared this opinion (and practiced it in my day-to-day) for some time now. Excellent framing about abstractions being *both* cheaper and more valuable with agents. 🙌🏼🙌🏼 (Pictured: from my idea board from when 'vibe coding' was the preferred term)

Happy Claude Modding! github.com/aksh1618/cla...

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PSA: If you're an Android user, "Android Developer Verifier" might already have shown up on your device. It's Google making progress on restricting sideloading on Android devices. www.androidauthority.com/android-deve... keepandroidopen.org c.org/MNy9y9FPFh

I wrote a thing. This is not a love letter to Emacs, which is one of my more toxic and codependent relationships. sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05...

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It has been a WILD couple of weeks in AI -- it's clear the open weight revolution is truly upon us -- and I am thrilled to announce that @simonwillison.net will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me to help us make sense of it all! Join us today, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

New blog post describing an idea I’ve been kicking around called battery packs. Battery packs are a curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. Battery packs are meant to address one of the most common things I hear from new Rust adopters. smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

I just sponsored ogulcancelik. Herdr has quickly become an indispensable part of my workflow and is easily one of the best-designed dev tools I’ve ever used. Do yourselves a favour and give it a try! 🐑 herdr.dev github.com/sponsors/ogu...

PSA! Here's an unmissable one to get you started: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLA...

Video and transcript from my talk at QCon London are now online. Thanks @qconferences.com! www.infoq.com/presentation...

ICYMI, @sunshowers.io had a terrific blog entry last week -- and today, she joins @ahl.bsky.social and me on Oxide and Friends to discuss the blog entry, the work behind it, and the reaction to it. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

I had been itching to build something that improves discovery for the "authentic"/"old-school" web. Having spent a few minutes with Kagi's small web, it seems to match the ~shape of what I had in mind! Give it a go: blog.kagi.com/small-web-up...

I think I'm beginning to get @exe.dev Your ideas can go into shelley instead of into the bottomless "some day" idea pit. And tailor-made software for a userbase of you and/or your friends is a reality now. Supported by what feels like the best UX for VMs in the world. Beautiful! 🤌🏼🤌🏼

A report from this retreat is now available. It's a good, thoughtful summary of how AI is changing software engineering. It avoids breathless hype, but it doesn't bury the head in the sand either. www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/...

Been thinking about this more and more lately, very well formulated by Marc

ya, if you're using LLMs and not using their force multiplier to raise the bar in terms of specifying/testing/verifying software you're doing it turbowrong

The OSTEP book club reading is starting in a week! A few updates. 1) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is in the book club! May not be super active because he's got a lot going on but he'll be there.

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

First of many blog posts about the Rust vision doc process: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/03/l...

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

Video of the One Billion Row Challenge stream is now up at youtu.be/tCY7p6dVAGE! We got down to 1.2s without any external dependencies, and it was a fun journey down lots of performance rabbit holes (only some of which panned out 😅). It is over 10h, but hopefully the chapters in the video help!

Sometimes an interface is so ubiquitous that performance limitations inherent to its design are just accepted. This has been our experience with Parquet. We switched to Vortex which aligned much better with our needs and saw a 70% performance improvement across the board. Read more below 👇

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself definitely a form of self-care

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At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.