Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged by AI. annievella.com/posts/the-soft…

Once I started with my first few major #rustlang projects, I found Clippy could be a great tutor/reviewer! So I spent an entire weekend going through *every* Clippy lint, curating the greatest-hits! 💿🦀 Feel free to drop them in your own Cargo.toml: gist.github.com/aksh1618/f4579…

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

JetBrains and Spring are starting a strategic partnership to make the Kotlin developer experience with Spring even better! Read here for more: blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/05…

I am Dark theme Duke. Unleash your inner Duke and win a limited-edition T-shirt! #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA jetbrains.com/lp/java-30/dar…

Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen!) tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-06-0…

New blog post, with some career advice: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06/2…

📢 The Kotlin 2.2.0 release is out! This version includes both new and stable language features, tooling updates, performance improvements for different platforms, and important fixes. Here are some additional highlights from this release: ✅ Language: New language features in

This is the secret sauce.

whisper.cpp is coming to ffmpeg github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/…

In era of pretraining, what mattered was internet text. You'd primarily want a large, diverse, high quality collection of internet documents to learn from. In era of supervised finetuning, it was conversations. Contract workers are hired to create answers for questions, a bit

"if the agent ingests anything, then it's permissions should be dropped to the level of the author of that information" I like that lot, it's a very succinct way of explaining the problem here Anyone who can author text that gets into your agent can control what that agent does

Python 3.14 came out a few days ago. I wrote about my top 5 favorite features. Here's a quick summary.

DDIA, the MIT distributed systems course reading list, and CMU lecture videos are good starting points for backend developers wanting to learn databases / distributed systems.

Staying up to date with database / distributed systems research, unordered: - CMU database seminar - Aleksey Charapko paper reading group - Software Internals discord - DatabaseDevelopment subreddit - Database Internals discord (databass . dev) - PVLDB twitter - Murat Demirbas

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