Hi 👋, I'm Evan Schwartz. I'm an ideas person, inventor, and software engineer (Rust/Typescript). Currently, I'm working on a personalized content feed called 🐿️ Scour.
Like many other software engineers, my coding workflow has changed dramatically since the start of 2026. And like many others, I've felt some mix of awe, grief, frenetic productivity, atrophying skills, and understanding less while shipping more. In this moment where the field is undergoing this rapid shift, I've found it helpful to read others' takes on their processes, what they're doing to keep…
Links between articles, easily grow your feed after reading one, a UI makeover, and more.
Hi friends, In May, Scour scoured 865,266 posts from 28,671 feeds (1,766 of which were newly added), and 260 new users signed up to bring it across the 3,000 user mark! Here's what's new in the product: 🔎 Smarter Interest Matching Scour is now better at finding posts that match your interests. You should see more relevant content and far fewer off-topic articles in your feed. (This sounds simple,…
Hi friends, In April, Scour scoured 778,059 posts from 25,790 feeds . This month, my focus was on ranking improvements and adding a number of new features: 🔃 Ranking Improvements Scour is designed to find hidden gems that interest you, while trying to avoid using popularity signals or pigeonholing you into a narrow slice of content simply because you clicked on one thing (you can read the ranking…
“If it compiles, it works.” This feeling is one of the main things Rust engineers love most about Rust, and a reason why using it with coding agents is especially nice. After debugging some code that compiled but mysteriously stopped in production, I realized that it’s useful to enable more Clippy lints to catch bugs that the compiler won't prevent by itself. It's especially useful as guardrails…
Feed diversity overhaul, domain and topic affinity, inline reactions, and exact keyword matching.
I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with Superpowers is so much more productive and the features it builds are so much more correct than with stock Claude Code. I cannot recommend it enough. Earlier, my main issue with Claude Code (and other models + harnesses I’ve tried) was that it…
Hi friends, In February, Scour scoured 647,139 posts from 17,766 feeds (1,211 were newly added). Also, 917 new users signed up, so welcome everyone who just joined! Here's what's new in the product: 🔮 Inferring Interests from RSS Feeds If you subscribe to specific feeds (as opposed to scouring all of them), Scour can now infer topics you might be interested in from them. You can click the link…
Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you could possibly read, while missing the hidden gems. I built Scour specifically because I wanted to find the great articles I was missing in noisy feeds like these, without feeling like I was drowning in unread posts. If you want to try it, you…
Originally published as "Write Transactions are a Footgun with SQLx and SQLite"