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The unexpected productivity boost of Rust

Lubeno's backend is100% Rust, providing strong safety guarantees for refactoring confidence. Rust's type checker catches async bugs, unlikeTypeScript. Rust excels in tracking lifetimes and borrowing rules.Zig, on the other hand, can be alarming with its compiler choices, such as overlooking typos in..

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Everything I know about good API design

This guide lays out the playbook for running tough, user-first APIs: no breaking changes, stick to familiar patterns, honor long-lived API keys, and make every write idempotent. It pushes cursor-based pagination for heavy data, rate limits that come with context, and optional fields to keep things ..

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Open Source is one person

New data from ecosyste.ms drops a hard truth:almost 60% of 11.8M open source projects are solo acts. Even among NPM packages topping 1M monthly downloads, about half still rest on one pair of hands. The world runs on open source. But the scaffolding seems shakier than anyone wants to admit—millions..

Open Source is one person
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Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite

A dev ditched Electric + PGlite for a lean, browser-native sync setup built aroundWASM SQLite,JSON polling, andBroadcastChannel reactivity. It’s running inside a local-first notes app. Changes get logged with DB triggers. Sync state? Tracked by hand. Svelte stores update via lightweight polling, wi..

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite
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Bash Explained: How the Most Popular Linux Shell Works

Bash isn't going anywhere. It's still the glue for CI/CD, cron jobs, and whatever janky monitoring stack someone duct-taped together at 2am. If automation runs the show, Bash is probably in the pit orchestra. It keeps things moving on Linux, old-school macOS (think pre-Catalina), and even WSL. Stil..

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Developer's block

Overdoing “best practices” can kill momentum. Think endless tests, wall-to-wall docs, airtight CI, and coding rules rigid enough to snap. Sounds responsible—until it slows dev to a crawl. The piece argues for flipping that script. Start scrappy. Build fast. Save the polish for later. It’s how you d..

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Go is still not good

Go’s been catching flak for years, and the hits keep coming: stiff variable scoping, no destructor patterns, clunky error handling, and brittle build directives. Critics point out how Go’s design often blocks best practices like RAII and makes devs contort logic just to clean up resources or manage ..

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From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances

OpenAI Returns to Openness. The company droppedgpt-oss-20Bandgpt-oss-120B—its first open-weight LLMs since GPT-2. The models pack a modern stack:Mixture-of-Experts,Grouped Query Attention,Sliding Window Attention, andSwiGLU. They're also lean. Thanks toMXFP4 quantization, 20B runs on a 16GB consume..

From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
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I set up an email triage system using Home Assistant and a local LLM, here's how you can too

A DIY email triage rig usingHome Assistant, IMAP, andOllamawires up local LLM smarts with YAML-fueled automation. At the core: an8B dolphin-llamamodel running on GPU, chewing through messy HTML emails, tagging them, and firing off priority-sorted summaries via notifications. Why it matters:A signal..

I set up an email triage system using Home Assistant and a local LLM, here's how you can too
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37 Things I Learned About Information Retrieval in Two Years at a Vector Database Company

A Weaviate engineer pulls back the curtain on two years of hard-earned lessons in vector search—breaking downBM25,embedding models,ANN algorithms, andRAG pipelines. The real story? Retrieval workflows keep moving—from keyword-heavy (sparse) toward embedding-driven (dense). Across IR use cases, the ..