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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 13/08/2026

Not currently but this has really tempted me to, especially given the ChatGPT sub support. But I'm mainly impressed with the whole workflow, I might try to recreate some of it with exe/celld standing in for orbs, but more tailored to the things I work on, let's see 🤞🏼

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 13/08/2026

Takes excellent taste and paved roads ampcode.com/notes/pave-t...

At Amp, we like to think we've made it to the other side. We're agent-native in our actual practice, not merely in our marketing. We push straight to main (here's Quinn shipping 23 changes during a 3-hour livestream), our Cl/CD pipeline is shaped around this fact, and our agents work in Orbs, our parallelized, isolated, and ephemeral cloud sandboxes.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 12/05/2026

I wrote a thing. This is not a love letter to Emacs, which is one of my more toxic and codependent relationships. sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05...

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The Emacsification of Software

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It has been a WILD couple of weeks in AI -- it's clear the open weight revolution is truly upon us -- and I am thrilled to announce that @simonwillison.net will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me to help us make sense of it all! Join us today, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

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nikomatsakis @nikomatsakis.com · 16/07/2026

New blog post describing an idea I’ve been kicking around called battery packs. Battery packs are a curated set of crates arranged around a common theme. Battery packs are meant to address one of the most common things I hear from new Rust adopters. smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

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Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby · baby steps

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 07/07/2026

I just sponsored ogulcancelik. Herdr has quickly become an indispensable part of my workflow and is easily one of the best-designed dev tools I’ve ever used. Do yourselves a favour and give it a try! 🐑 herdr.dev github.com/sponsors/ogu...

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Herdr: one terminal for the whole herd

To coding agents what tmux is to terminals. Runs where your agents run: close the laptop, ssh from anywhere, nothing dies.

aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 21/06/2026

PSA! Here's an unmissable one to get you started: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLA...

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Completion-based IO (Alice Ryhl at RustWeek)

YouTube video by RustNL

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

ICYMI, @sunshowers.io had a terrific blog entry last week -- and today, she joins @ahl.bsky.social and me on Oxide and Friends to discuss the blog entry, the work behind it, and the reaction to it. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 26/04/2026

I had been itching to build something that improves discovery for the "authentic"/"old-school" web. Having spent a few minutes with Kagi's small web, it seems to match the ~shape of what I had in mind! Give it a go: blog.kagi.com/small-web-up...

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Kagi Blog - Small Web Just Got Bigger

Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 26/04/2026

This is ingenious, while also being exactly what I want for a completely satisfying blur effect (instead of other windows coming in the way of my curated beautiful-when-blurred walls)! I've got to try Niri now!

aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 23/04/2026

Yay congrats! Rooting for you!

aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 15/02/2026

I think I'm beginning to get @exe.dev Your ideas can go into shelley instead of into the bottomless "some day" idea pit. And tailor-made software for a userbase of you and/or your friends is a reality now. Supported by what feels like the best UX for VMs in the world. Beautiful! 🤌🏼🤌🏼

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 13/02/2026

A report from this retreat is now available. It's a good, thoughtful summary of how AI is changing software engineering. It avoids breathless hype, but it doesn't bury the head in the sand either. www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/...

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 07/02/2026

Been thinking about this more and more lately, very well formulated by Marc

amos @fasterthanli.me · 23/01/2026

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ya, if you're using LLMs and not using their force multiplier to raise the bar in terms of specifying/testing/verifying software you're doing it turbowrong

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 23/01/2026

Looking forward to it! Has he been keeping up with Kotlin language design since he left, and if so, what are his views on how Kotlin has evolved, and is there something he would have done differently? What are his plans with CodeSpeak, and where does he see it fit in as agentic coding evolves?

Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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The OSTEP book club reading is starting in a week! A few updates. 1) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is in the book club! May not be super active because he's got a lot going on but he'll be there.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

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Jon Gjengset @jonhoo.eu · 30/11/2025

Video of the One Billion Row Challenge stream is now up at youtu.be/tCY7p6dVAGE! We got down to 1.2s without any external dependencies, and it was a fun journey down lots of performance rabbit holes (only some of which panned out 😅). It is over 10h, but hopefully the chapters in the video help!

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Alfonso Subiotto @asubiotto.com · 25/11/2025

Sometimes an interface is so ubiquitous that performance limitations inherent to its design are just accepted. This has been our experience with Parquet. We switched to Vortex which aligned much better with our needs and saw a 70% performance improvement across the board. Read more below 👇

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Do more with less. | Polar Signals

Polar Signals Cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling for CPU, GPU, and Memory that helps improve performance, understand incidents, and lower infrastructure costs.

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 19/11/2025

The best day! Here's mine (Can probably do a better job of documenting the "why" 😅) bsky.app/profile/aksh...

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 30/10/2025

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself definitely a form of self-care

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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 20/10/2025

That's great to hear, congrats to the both of you, looking forward to the release!

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 20/10/2025

At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.

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And that's all for #eurorust25, thanks @eurorust.eu for organizing a great conference, and having an option to attend online for folks like me, it was a lot of fun!! ❤️🦀

And we wrap up with a great look into the journey of @meilisearch.com by Clément Renault (@kerollmops.com) , covering how they tackled the initial challenges, integrating semantic search, and then getting better at it with the magic of OSS (cc Nate Nethercott)!! 💫⚡🦀

Followed by Jonas Kruckenberg (@jonaskruckenberg.de) taking us into the rabbit hole of how stack unwinding works under the hood, where we cross over from the comfort of rust into asm and elf!! 🦀🐰🐉🔄

Next up we have Jana Dönszelmann showing us how not all rust attributes are made the same! An interesting dive into the different types, how they are currently handled in the compiler, some interesting bugs, and the impressive work being done to improve it! 🙌🏼👏🏼🦀

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And then we have none other than Tristram Oaten (No Boilerplate!!) (@noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy) taking us through a fun ride through const and macros with some very entertaining asides, what a joy to watch!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Next up we have the one and only Nora Trieb (@noratrieb.dev) giving us a look behind the curtains on how Rust compiles, touching upon generics, inlining, lto and much more! A definite must-watch!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Slides: noratrieb.dev/slides/2025-...

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Starting the second half we have Ohad Ravid taking us on a deep dive into Serde deserializers by using it for "reflection", a very interesting journey resulting in a very user-friendly API! 💫🦀 The code, if you fancy a look: github.com/ohadravid/wm...

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Took advantage of the lunch break to replay this great talk by Alfonso Subiotto (@asubiotto.com) making the case for a State Machines based approach to Deterministic Simulation Testing, being used at @polarsignals.com, very interesting! Their inspiration for this: sled.rs/simulation

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And a masterclass by Kiril Karaatanasov on modeling a large OO domain involving deep type hierarchies in Rust, tackling trait narrowing, serde etc. with custom codegen, enabling ergonomic usage for end users! ✨🙌🏼🦀 And guess what, all this black magic is open source!! github.com/noclue/vim_rs

Followed by a great talk by Michele Vigilante showing us what creating an ETL pipeline in Rust looks like today! Other than being a great look into the state of Rust in Data Engineering, it was also a great introduction to DE in general, so check it out if you're new to DE! 🐼🦀🙌🏼

Day 2 is is off to a bangin' start with Luca Palmieri (@lpalmieri.com) giving us a glimpse into the intricacies of migrating a production codebase from C to Rust with the example of a TrieMap in the redis codebase, with some very solid takeaways! 🦀🙌🏼👏🏼