“Good engineering management” is a fad
As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization? Confusingly, in my […]
780k Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks
Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available for testing today. We’re thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous records. The response from users, tech reviewers, and creators around the world has been incredible: “Zorin OS […]
Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
Written by EMILY SNEDDONPublished on 6TH NOVEMBER 2025 Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.SFMTA Photo DepartmentI say some because destination displays aren’t consistently used across the city’s […]
G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what “Apple corners” are
G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what ＂Apple corners＂ are by dangroshev | Download free STL model | Printables.com G0, G1, G2, and G3 continuous surfaces 5 7 0 1874 updated November 23, 2025 You might have seen this image before (it’s hard to attribute, my best guess is among the links below): The two corners look […]
Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
It turns out that MacOS Tahoe can generate and use secure-enclave backed SSH keys! This replaces projects like https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive There is a shared library /usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib that traditionally has been used to add smartcard support to ssh by implementing PKCS11Provider interface. However since recently it also implements SecurityKeyProivder which supports loading keys directly from the secure […]
JOPA: Java compiler in C++, Jikes modernized to Java 6 with Claude
A totally Claude’d effort in modernizing jikes, the historical independent javac implementation in C++. Could be useful for bootstrap purposes. Java 5 & 6 Support This fork adds comprehensive Java 5 (J2SE 5.0) and Java 6 (Java SE 6) language features: Java 5 Features ✅ Generics – Type erasure with generic classes, methods, and bounded […]
Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?
I’m not saying this will definitely happen, but I think we could be on the cusp of a significant shift in Windows market share for consumer computers. It is not going to drop to 2% in a year or anything, but I feel like a few pieces are coming together that could move the needle […]
HumanLayer (YC F24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers
At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to change how teams build software with AI. If we had a motto it would be “no vibes allowed” – we believe that AI agent-enabled coding is a deeply technical engineering craft, and we’re building CodeLayer to unlock it at scale. A Stanford study from June 2025 said AI […]
Dark Mode Sucks
The fetish modern Internet users have with “dark mode” has to stop, as does the rhetoric they typically use to advance their arguments, stuff like: blasts my eyeballs with full-beam daylight. or Every time I open it, I physically recoil like a Victorian child seeing electricity for the first time. or My retinas and I […]
Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
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