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Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

PgDog ditched Protobuf for raw C-to-Rust integration inpg_query.rs. The new setup usesbindgenand recursive FFI wrappers - no serialization, no handoffs. The payoff? Query parsing is 5× faster. Deparsing hit 10×. Evenpgbenchsaw a 25% bump across major ops... read more  

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
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A Social Filesystem

The AT Protocol flips social apps inside out. Instead of locking posts and profiles inside platform silos, it treats them as files -JSON-based records, stored in your own decentralized, app-neutral repo. Everything you do - posts, follows, likes - gets logged as a signed, timestampedrecordin your pe.. read more  

A Social Filesystem
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YOLO Mode: Hidden Risks in Claude Code Permissions

A scrape of 18,470 Claude Code configs on GitHub shows a pattern: developers are handing their AI agents the keys to the castle. Unrestricted file, shell, and network accessis common. Among them: - 21.3% let Claude runcurl - 14.5% allowarbitrary Python execution - 19.7% give itgit pushprivileges Tha.. read more  

YOLO Mode: Hidden Risks in Claude Code Permissions
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

A fresh take on programmatic ASCII rendering brings inhigh-dimensional shape vectors,supersampling, andcontrast tricksto keep edges crisp and animations clean. Under the hood:k-d tree nearest-neighbor lookups,vector quantization, andGPU-powered samplinghelp push sharp ASCII frames without tanking pe.. read more  

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
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If you're a Zoomer, this one's for you: Everything Gen Z needs to know about the 2025 tech landscape

AI investment hit $1.5T in 2025. Think dot-com energy: bloated valuations, feverish M&A. Startup acquisitions shot up 13%. Deal volume? Up 115%. Hype’s worn thin. Enterprises are done lighting money on fire with flashy tools. Focus is shifting to agents - LLMs thatdothings, not justsaythings. System.. read more  

If you're a Zoomer, this one's for you: Everything Gen Z needs to know about the 2025 tech landscape
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Go Developer Survey Is Out: What 5,379 Go Developers Actually Want Next

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The 2025 Go Developer Survey reveals developers' desire for better best practices, enhanced standard library usage, and modernized tooling. AI-powered development tools are common, yet satisfaction is moderate due to quality concerns. Most respondents are experienced developers in the tech industry, highlighting challenges like ensuring code quality and finding reliable modules.

Go Developer Survey Is Out: What 5,379 Go Developers Actually Want Next
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How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

Out of 238 student open source contributions over seven years, 237 landed onGitHub- even though they were told to look elsewhere. One short-lived GitHub IP block brought everything to a standstill. No commits. No reviews. Just silence. Turns out, a single platform holds the keys to a whole ecosystem.. read more  

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
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A better way to limit Claude Code (and other coding agents!) access to Secrets

A new workflow dropsClaude Codeinto aBubblewrap-based sandbox, cutting Anthropic's client-side code out of the trust loop. Compared to spinning up Docker or juggling user accounts, Bubblewrap locks things down tighter - with less setup and cleaner OS-level walls around files, network access, and sec.. read more  

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An Honest Review of Go

Go gets big props for its built-in concurrency model withgoroutinesandchannels, which make lightweight, scalable parallelism easy and ergonomic. The author criticizes Go's type system for lacking things likeenums, closed type sets, and tuples, making certain patterns awkward compared with Rust's ric.. read more  

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Reversing YouTube's "Most Replayed" Graph

An engineer cracked open YouTube’s “most replayed” heatmap. Turns out it runs onsampled view frequency arrays, client-sidenormalization, andSVG renderingstitched together withCubic Bézier splinesfor that smooth, snappy curve. Behind the scenes, playback gets logged with adifference array + prefix su.. read more  

Reversing YouTube's "Most Replayed" Graph