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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A lot of posts lately about Anthropic starting to watermark text and people worrying about it. Google has been doing that with Gemini since 2024 deepmind.google/blog/waterma...

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Watermarking AI-generated text and video with SynthID

Announcing our novel watermarking method for AI-generated text and video, and how we’re bringing SynthID to key Google products

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patak @patak.cat · 16/05/2026

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

2ality blog: temporarily offline

Dear visitor! Two things happened recently:

- The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026).
- The traffic to my blog and my books (which were free to read online) increased beyond what I can currently afford. Virtually all of it comes from AI crawlers, so there is no ad income.

Therefore, I’m taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next – especially w.r.t. AI companies stealing my work. This may take a while (think months): I don’t have any energy to deal with this right now.

I apologize for this (hopefully temporary) inconvenience to my human readers! You can still buy my books at Payhip.

Axel Rauschmayer

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patak @patak.cat · 30/04/2026

We need everyone to wake up to how fragile our shared commons are. We can't wait until we drown in security incidents and more projects close down, using them as excuses. If you're in a position to help (every company is), check who you depend on and need support (everyone), and fund them.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I just saw the mention of the HTTP/S proxy agent and had to pause for a moment.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

jj workspaces feel much nicer for parallel work than Git worktrees, and the important part is not the shared repo. In jj I can just start working in a workspace, and the work becomes part of history through @ without first creating a branch or deciding to commit.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Do you ever clean up your old GitHub repos and forks? 🧹 Wondering if anyone actually bothers or just lets them pile up.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oh, the luxury of just finding a calm place and reading a book. Like a lotion for an irritated mind.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Rewrote my agent coding skills from checklists to thinking instructions. Specific rules like "use X not Y" ground the agent and go stale as the language evolves. Guiding it to ask "is there a simpler way?" and self-research before deciding lets it go much further. Cognitive quality instructions?

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

One thing I'm realizing with code agents: the speed gain shouldn't become pressure to ship more. I want to use that time for quality. Better tests, thoughtful design, simplification. Boring is the goal.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Reflecting on a pattern: each time we adopt new tools, we discover they weren't built for the new intermediary — search engines, app stores, algorithms — and rush to optimize. The product drifts a little further from the person it was meant to serve. "AI-first" codebases feel next in line.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I've gotten more from practical experience than from memorizing "best practices" — and that goes for prompting AI too. Concrete examples show you the tradeoffs. Best practices usually skip that part. In practice, "when does this apply?" gets me further than arguing about whether it's the right way.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The era of mayfly software has begun.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Raw skill and knowledge are more important than ever before.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What if MCP had the same kind of progressive disclosure as skills? 🤔

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 18/08/2025

Have you ever considered that your PM is “vibe coding” you

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

One useful addition to agents.md I made to better align CLI agents with the “reality” is: “use `date` command to get my current date and time when you need to work with dates.”

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Andy exemplifies effective web practices and design. Highly recommend the courses offered by Andy and his team.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Really digging the workflows the Wispr Flow provides. Added their blog to the list of favourites. Their approach reminded me a lot of this blog post wattenberger.com/thoughts/our... by @wattenberger.com

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

What are the good starting points to start hacking with atproto? 🤔

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Noticed that amp became much more expensive (MCP might be contributing here, not sure 🧐). Tried their race mode for a change (haiku 4.5) - super fast, results are very close to what I need most of the time, and it is cheaper.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

`amp --ide` + neovim amp plugin + custom commands—just enough AI code assistance for me 👌 Excellent, pragmatic solution from @sourcegraph.com

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James @43081j.com · 02/10/2025

we now have some new @e18e.dev docs on best practice of publishing npm packages this documents the recommended basics for a secure publish workflow and gives some pointers for further security/tools/etc this is a _very_ opinionated subject, so do ping me if you have feedback!

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e18e (Ecosystem Performance) - Publishing Packages

Best practices on publishing npm packages securely using GitHub Actions.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Dynamic Worker Loading is super intriguing. I can see how this can be used for something like “morphing” APIs, kinda GraphQL on steroids. I wonder about the potential of this in workflows… Thanks for sharing and working on this @kentonvarda.com and @threepointone.bsky.social 🙌🏻

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is a piece of art from @wattenberger.com. I stayed there for more than 30 mins, carefully scrolling and checking the details of each image. I practice something similar with sound and LLMs, but that example takes multi-modal system interaction to the next level. wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...

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Our interfaces have lost their senses

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is what peak performance looks like.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Oooh, I totally love this! In iOS 26, they've added some cool new background sounds.

The list of the new background sounds in iOS 26.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

“Fifty is one more than seven squared.”

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 19/08/2025

“When you help someone you help everyone” — Aunt May from Spiderman

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Imagine having something similar to `@media print`, but for AI agents. I guess it would no longer be UX, but rather AX - Agent Experience.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Scott delivered an absolutely magnificent talk! It's definitely one of my all-time favorites and ranks right at the top.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Also, I find bare git repos + worktrees to be a powerful combo for running experiments in the codebase with agentic workflows. Cool stuff.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Started using Jujutsu with a Git backend for my Neovim configs repo. A decade of muscle memory using Git aliases is like using editors without Vim motions. I find the workflow appealing so far.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Is it harder to manage high performers? YES. They will give you hard feedback. They will demand excellence. You will spend more time in coaching. Take it as an opportunity, not an attack, and your org will be better for it. YOU will be better.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

First Coda, now Superhuman. Way to go Grammarly 🙌🏻🇺🇦

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I didn’t change the color scheme of the editor or terminal or anything for more than a month. Should I worry?

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

One last one for the morning: your organization is only as strong as the shittiest behavior you allow

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

That feeling when you remove 17k files and things still work as they were. (￣^￣)

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Who knew that web rings were still a thing 🤯 I imagined some local networks with the trusted recommendations to join would make a comeback, but web rings.. 2000x vibes 🙌🏻

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

One of my favourite commands lately: `any_command_with_long_output | tee >(nvim)`

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Is it really that twisted to use GitHub Actions with monorepos or do I overthink? I want to run the workflow only when specific paths change ✅, and then run the job per path with the sparse checkout of that path ❓

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Migrating some frontends from the cluster to the edge (Cloudflare) this week. Feels surreal.

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I was going through the dev tools today to clean things up and noticed that I have had the Helix editor lingering since last century. Started the tutorial. Super easy for Neovim user to start with. The search-in-selection feature, which allows editing all occurrences at once, is very nice!

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Oleh Aleinyk @oaleinyk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

While migrating project to @biomejs.dev, I caught myself thinking that it would be nice to see the number of errors per rule. It turns out that Biomejs has it already. Ha! Just needed to add the `--reporter=summary` to the linter call. Super helpful!

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