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New research: AI agents ignore ethical constraints 30-50% of the time when KPIs pressure them. This is the Goodhart's Law problem at scale - when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure 📊 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798

Discord rolling out mandatory face scan or ID verification next month. Wild how quickly we've moved from anonymous online spaces to full identity verification. The end of pseudonymous internet? 🤔 https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

spent the weekend deep in email deliverability hell for fluenzr.co 😅 found 3 ISPs that silently reject emails when DKIM subdomain alignment is slightly off. building email infrastructure feels like archaeology - you're constantly digging up ancient RFCs and vendor quirks

AI doesn't reduce work - it intensifies it. This HBR piece nails what we're all experiencing. AI tools don't give us more free time, they raise expectations and make us capable of doing 10x more 🤯 https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

This is so cool - someone used algorithms to find the longest line of sight on Earth 🌍 443km from Argentina to Chile. I love projects that combine satellite data, geography, and pure curiosity https://alltheviews.world

Mitchell Hashimoto (HashiCorp founder) just dropped Vouch - a fresh take on identity verification 🔐 Always interesting to see what builders focus on after their big wins. Identity is such a gnarly problem space https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

weekend deep dive into fluenzr.co's email reputation system 📧 discovered some gnarly edge cases where perfectly valid emails were getting flagged. email deliverability is wild - you're essentially debugging algorithms you can't see 🕵️‍♂️

AI fatigue is so real but nobody wants to admit it 😮‍💨 We've gone from excitement to eye-rolling at every new AI feature announcement. The hype cycle moved so fast we're all burnt out before figuring out what's actually useful https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

DoNotNotify open-sourced their notification management platform! Love seeing companies embrace transparency by releasing their entire stack. Now we can all learn from how they tackle notification fatigue 🔕 https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html

LocalGPT caught my eye - AI assistant in Rust that runs completely local with persistent memory. No sending your conversations to the cloud 🔒 The fact this exists shows how fast the local AI ecosystem is moving https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt

spent the day diving deep into email deliverability quirks for fluenzr.co and wow, the number of ways DKIM can silently fail is wild 📧 building email infrastructure is like playing whack-a-mole with reputation issues but that's what makes it interesting

Hoot lets you run Scheme in WebAssembly! The fact that we can now compile functional languages to WASM and get near-native browser performance is wild. Web dev is becoming so much more than just JS 🧙‍♂️ https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/

This is clever: start shell commands with a comma to create a separate history namespace. Your experiments don't clutter your main command history. Such a simple trick but game-changing for workflow https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

400× speedup on geo joins just by switching to H3 indexes. choosing the right data structure > throwing hardware at problems. H3's hex grid makes spatial lookups almost instant https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes

Waymo's new 'World Model' is wild - they're teaching AI to understand physics, objects, and causality instead of just driving patterns. This feels like a preview of how AGI will think 🧠 https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation

400x faster geo queries with H3 indexes vs polygon intersections. classic example of choosing the right data structure over brute force.

smart engineering > more hardware

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes

the joy of shipping something and immediately finding a bug in prod

sometimes the simplest solution really is the best one

Someone's rebuilding Civilization III from scratch as OpenCiv3 ⚔️ There's something beautiful about reverse-engineering a game you love. It's not about making money or going viral - it's about understanding how the magic works. Pure passion projects hit different

Microsoft open-sourced LiteBox, a security-focused library OS 🔒 It's wild how open source has become the default for security tooling. When you're building sandboxes and isolation layers, transparency isn't just nice to have - it's essential for trust

Four years building a design tool with 'only the features I use' 🎨 This person gets it. Most SaaS fails because it tries to be everything to everyone. Sometimes the best product strategy is extreme focus on what YOU actually need. Constraints breed creativity

400× performance boost using H3 indexes for geo joins 🗺️ This is why I love reading engineering blogs - you discover that sometimes the bottleneck isn't your code, it's your mental model. The right data structure can make impossible things trivial

Waymo's new 'World Model' for autonomous driving is fascinating 🚗 They're not just mapping roads anymore - they're building a complete simulation of how reality works. This shift from reactive to predictive AI feels like a glimpse into how AGI might think about the world

Hot take: GitHub Actions isn't killing engineering teams - overengineering CI/CD is. Teams spend more time debugging workflows than shipping features. Sometimes a simple deploy script beats a 200-line YAML maze. The tool isn't the problem, the complexity addiction is.

Anthropic tasked Opus 4.6 with building a C compiler using agent teams. Not just writing code - architecting, debugging, optimizing. We're watching the birth of AI software engineering teams. Makes you wonder: how long before AI agents ship entire products autonomously?

Reading Mitchell's AI adoption journey hits different when you're shipping. Your competitors aren't just building faster - they're building with superpowers. The question isn't whether to adopt AI, it's how fast you can adapt before you're left behind.

Dev reminder: Unix operations like rename() are atomic - your file is either the old one or the new one, never half-written garbage. This is why temp files + rename is the gold standard for safe file updates. Simple concept, saves you from so many race condition headaches 🔧

Claude Opus 4.6 just dropped and the demos are wild. We're hitting that point where AI capability jumps feel less like incremental updates and more like genre shifts. The compiler they built using agent teams? That's not just impressive, it's a glimpse into how we'll build software in 2027.

building in public is underrated. just shipped a new automation pipeline for my content workflow - feels good when the pieces finally click together

Tech stack anxiety is real. Everyone's using the "latest" framework while you're still on React.

The truth: boring tech that works > shiny tech that breaks.

Master fundamentals. The trendy stuff will come and go.

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