Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers
About Proliferate Proliferate is building the operating system for modern engineering: a workspace where engineers and coding agents work side by side. Our mission is to automate software engineering in a way that makes engineering more human, not less. We believe the best future is not “agents replacing engineers,” but engineers with dramatically better leverage: […]
Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
Imagine you don’t know anything about programming, and you want learn how to do it. You take a look at Amazon.com, and there’s a highly recommended set of books by Knute or something with a promising title, The Art of Computer Programming, so you buy them. Now imagine that it’s more than just a poor […]
Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
I’m fed up with generic looking apps. Today, all Windows desktop apps look the same as they are the same; they are all built on crap React, Electron, electronbun, and Tauri browser wrappers that mimic the real Desktop apps. They run slow, take a shit load of memory, basically bloatware. Notepad is a freaking basic […]
Peter Steinberger – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send
WhatsApp CLI built on top of whatsmeow, focused on: Best-effort local sync of message history + continuous capture Fast offline search Sending messages Contact + group management This is a third-party tool that uses the WhatsApp Web protocol via whatsmeow and is not affiliated with WhatsApp. Core implementation is in place. See docs/spec.md for the […]
MDalgorithms (AI Healthcare) – Hiring Growth Marketer – Remote – $80K-$140K
A rare opportunity to be a Creative Strategist at MDalgorithms, a fast-growing AI consumer technology company ✨ About the company & mission Today 90% of people can’t afford to visit a Dermatologist. Our brands, MDhair, MDacne and Nuvane automatically analyze the skin or hair using our AI technology and then deliver a customized treatment kit […]
Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, Enlightenment E16, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has roots in a faulty implementation of Newton’s algorithm. Some may […]
Saying Goodbye to Agile
14 Apr 2026 RIP Agile, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that literally – because no one was ever clear on what it was. Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whenever it was questioned, a voice (perhaps emanating from a gap in the clouds?) would invariably tell us ”ah, but that […]
Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
April 2026 Against dependency cooldowns as a response to supply chain attacks Dependency cooldowns are suddenly in vogue. They have quite quickly become widely recommended and it looks like they’re going to get fast-tracked into the basket of ”industry standard best practices”. The hope is that by just waiting N days after release before adopting […]
Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log
By Robert Smith All Elementary Functions from a Single Operator is a paper by Andrzej Odrzywołek that has been making rounds on the internet lately, being called everything from a “breakthrough” to “groundbreaking”. Some are going as far as to suggest that the entire foundations of computer engineering and machine learning should be re-built as […]
Stop Flock
TL;DR (Summary) Flock Safety markets AI surveillance that goes far beyond reading license plates; color, bumper stickers, dents, and other features are used to build databases and identify movement patterns. These systems are spreading rapidly, often without oversight, and are accessible to police without a warrant. They raise serious privacy and legal concerns, and contribute […]