News

1. New year reflections (www.moderndescartes.com)
2. On the slow death of scaling (papers.ssrn.com)
3. Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (jasoneckert.github.io)
4. We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program (blog.adafruit.com)
5. Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
6. Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI (github.com)
7. Vibe Coding a Stats Page for my Website - Here's what I learned (hamy.xyz)
8. CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)
9. Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing (arxiv.org)
10. An offline-friendly Elfeed web UI (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
11. Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics (blog.booleanbiotech.com)
12. A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time (byteshape.com)
13. Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (phrack.org)
14. Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone (github.com)
15. High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it (arxiv.org)
16. Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy (geospy.ai)
17. Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery (news.ycombinator.com)
18. Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far (burkeholland.github.io)
19. Vietnam bans unskippable ads (saigoneer.com)
20. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/source-sea-together-we-can-turn-tide-nature-and-climate-crisis" hreflang="en">From source to sea, together we can turn the tide on the nature and climate crisis</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
21. feral minks' brains are regrowing & paleontologists are feral too (todaythings.substack.com)
22. Why I won’t be “AI-First” in 2026 (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
23. 2026 Roadmap (kenny.wtf)
24. go.sum Is Not a Lockfile (words.filippo.io)
25. Show HN: Make audio loops online (makeloops.online)
26. emitting light (toground.link)
27. Interview with yayimhere (esoteric.codes)
28. Scope and Experience (blog.veitheller.de)
29. Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
30. Reflecting on 2025, preparing for 2026 (ntietz.com)
31. Unbridled Enthusiasm (podviaznikov.com)
32. What I Plan to Build at Recurse Center - A 12 Week Programmer's Retreat (hamy.xyz)
33. Running Miniflux in k3s and Narrating it in Org for Questionable Reasons (silly.business)
34. It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons (tonsky.me)
35. I wrote a full optimizing compiler in a week with AI (blog.paulbiggar.com)
36. Recurse Center (figbert.com)
37. The Fall of a Great Product (figbert.com)
38. Oat, Pecan and Cranberry Cookies (gochugarugirl.com)
39. Vector graphics on GPU (gasiulis.name)
40. So you want to write on the internet – where should you go? (www.henryfellerhoff.com)
41. Books I read in 2025 (blog.jonnew.com)
42. Board games of 2025 (blog.jonnew.com)
43. Video games of 2025 (blog.jonnew.com)
44. The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup (twitter.com)
45. index (podviaznikov.com)
46. 2025 in Review · Starting Up · Natecation (www.natecation.com)
47. I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it (medium.com)
48. MCP-first (podviaznikov.com)
49. The Many Meals of Christmas 2025: Side Dishes and Desserts (gochugarugirl.com)
50. genidi: a dumb midi generator (writing.natwelch.com)
51. The Many Meals of Christmas 2025: The Mains (gochugarugirl.com)
52. Genuary 2026 (www.fractalkitty.com)
53. etu: my current cli journal (writing.natwelch.com)
54. artgrabber: a small little discord bot (writing.natwelch.com)
55. Made in 2025 (www.bryanbraun.com)
56. Making an automated comment-moderation system for this blog (liquidbrain.net)
57. Predictions About Software Engineering in the Age of AI - II (debamitro.github.io)
58. Goodbye 2025 and Hello 2026 (blog.danielsosebee.com)
59. 2025 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
60. Montreal On My Mind: Part 2 (gochugarugirl.com)
61. 2025/2026 (sawyer.dev)
62. 26 hopes for 2026 (olu.online)
63. Scour Year End Update 2025 (emschwartz.me)