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different terminal emulators use different escape codes terminal emulator 1: if you print out ESC[2J I’ll clear the screen! terminal emulator 2: for me it’s ESC[HESC[J! your system has a database called “terminfo” with escape codes in it how if plays out when you press Ctrl+L to clear the screen: program, with a little heart over it, thinking: ah, she wants fo clear the screen! I’ll look up how to do that in the terminfo database… (on my machine, the database is in /usr/share/terminfo) program: ESC[HESC[J terminal emulator, thinking: ok, clearing the screen! how programs know what terminal you’re using: TERM your terminal emulator sets the TERM environment variable when it starts fun fact: terminal emulators often say they’re “xterm-256color” even if they’re not this can break when SSHing into an old system with a new terminal emulator (in a VERY annoying way) happy little stick fiture: I am using ghostty program, with a little heart over it: NOPE never heard of it some ways to fix TERM install the terminfo file for your terminal emulator on the system use a different terminal emulator just set TERM=xterm-256color, it’ll often sort of work

TERM

wizardzines.com/comics/term/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/terminal)

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future SIGMOD 2025

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet.
📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...
📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers. Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.

readwise.io/read

CMU 15-445/645 :: Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2025) You want to know whether this is the premier course at Carnegie Mellon University on the design and implementation of database management systems? Well, it is. This course rips through data models (re...

Today is the new semester for @db.cs.cmu.edu's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than before. More challenging projects but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025

The positive thing about AI tooling going mainstream and setting expectations high (e.g. "anyone can build software with AI") is that a large group will learn what us devs know already:

Creating good software is hard and it's hard to explain to outsiders in a way they understand

Engineering is the intersection of Curiosity and Capability

When your curiosity outstrips your capability, you expand your capability and grow

When your capability expands, it allows you to see farther and grows your curiosity

Don't allow your tools take away both your Curiosity and Capability

Good luck. Soon you’ll have a Lamborghini 🎉

Forget about others. But damn! Turbopuffer. It felt like they will be killed just when they started rising.

SD25 online starts next week!

systemsdistributed.com/#agenda

YouTube video by LambdaConf Jonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - Updated

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD.... Loved the tooling.

I think We should probably reply asking what exactly they liked about a particular project or experience and why and how they think it'll actually contribute to the new workplace/role/problems..etc.

Probably helps in identifying if genuine research or AI generated. I'll start doing this :D

Not surprised at all. AI’s default choice is React most of the times.

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

I have a friend looking for people using Clickhouse in production. They have some questions about usage/use cases. Mind shooting me a DM?

(please 🔃 for reach)

I'm glad I saw this tweet. I have it opened in one of my tabs. (I was half way through book and life happened, so paused it. Looks like need to wrap it up before the movie releases)

YouTube video by Y Combinator Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

LLM is the new OS. English is the new programming language

must be an AI related one 🤖

Kent Beck Kent Beck—creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto—reflects on decades of coding, from the birth of TDD to his experiments with AI tools shaping software’s future.

This is a great interview. Kent Beck talks to @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com about how he's having more fun programming now with AI genies than he's had in ages. Also: the birth of Extreme Programming.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/tdd-ai-age...

Meet Dia – the AI Browser Where You Can Chat with Your Tabs Dia is the AI browser from The Browser Company. Chat with your tabs, write in your own voice, learn and plan faster, shop, and more — all with privacy that you control.

www.diabrowser.com Is the future of browsing internet. This is so well executed. Kudos to the Browser Company

Agree. 4 Opus is already way powerful compared to 3.7 Sonnet IMO.

The scale and the pace at which this is happening. It’s like gentle singularity post mentioned by Sam.

A tale of two Claudes

steveklabnik.com/writing/a-ta...

Announcing Oxlint 1.0 The first stable version of Oxlint, a fast & easy-to-use Rust-powered linter for JavaScript and TypeScript, is out. Learn about its 50~100x speed advantage over ESLint, support for 500+ rules, real-wo...

We're thrilled to announce the first stable release of Oxlint - version 1.0!

Our Rust-powered JavaScript/TypeScript linter delivers 50~100x faster performance than ESLint with 500+ rules and zero configuration required.

Time to give it a try!

voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

LLMs are mirrors of operator skill This is a follow-up from my previous blog post: deliberate, intentional play. I didn't want to get into the distinction between skilled and unskilled work because people take offence to it, but AI is a matter of skill. Someone can be highly experienced as a software engineer in 2024, but that does not mean they're skilled as a software engineer in 2025, now that AI is here. In my view, LLMs are essentially mirrors. They mirror the skill of the operator. how do identify skill One of the most

📰 LLMs are mirrors of operator skill

I’m a little worried that AI will lock in whatever best practices are most popular at this moment and we won’t evolve as easily from here

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

Progressive JSON — overreacted Why streaming isn't enough.

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Progressive JSON

me: hey claude i want better error handling in my code

claude: very cool have you tried writing rust in typescript

If you find an OSS issue that calls your attention, go for it. You don't need to ask permission to start working or have it assigned to you. If someone else sends a PR before you, that's great. You can use your knowledge of the issue to help review the PR, add tests, and validate the approach.

I use Claude Code -> I miss Zed agentic AI interface
I use Zed agentic AI interface -> I miss Claude Max (Claude Code)