# coding (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 828 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover coding. Page: Feed: --- ## [June 7th: Bonneville to Flumet](https://blog.piaw.net/2026/08/june-7th-bonneville-to-flumet.html) _2026-08-21 · Piaw Na · Piaw's Blog_ Waking up to a generous breakfast, we loaded up the car only to discover that the tandem had a rear flat tire. An inspection of the tire carcass on both inside and outside, I found no foreign matter, and so replaced the inner tube, which turned out to have a leaking patch. I replaced that with a brand new TPU tube, which held this time. This used up all the battery on my electric pump, but there’s… ## [Claude Design for UX: How to Design Complete User Flows, Not Just UI Screens](https://uxplanet.org/claude-design-for-ux-how-to-design-complete-user-flows-not-just-ui-screens-094d6b8a7855?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4) _2026-08-21 · Nick Babich · UX Planet - Medium_ Claude Design is a very nice tool for quick prototyping. It helps you turn your idea into an interactive prototype in no time. But you can… Continue reading on UX Planet » ## [GitHub social preview is broken](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/21/github-social-preview-is-broken.html) _2026-08-21 · davep_ Earlier today, now that Rogallo has matured a fair bit, I thought I'd update the banner image and, in doing so, refresh the "social preview" for the repository . This is easy enough, and something I've done plenty of times with plenty of projects. You just go into the general settings and upload a new image. So, I faffed in Pixelmator Pro for a short while, got the new banner going, and then… ## [Book Review: An Immense World - How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ★★★☆☆](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/book-review-an-immense-world-how-animal-senses-reveal-the-hidden-realms-around-us-by-ed-yong/) _2026-08-21 · @edent · Terence Eden’s Blog_ This is a detailed examination of the various senses possessed by animals. Some will be intimately familiar to you - like sight and sound - whereas some will seem strange and uncanny - like magnetic detection and electro-sensing. Some straddle an almost understandable space like echolocation or tetra-chromatic vision. This isn't a game of Top Trumps where all the animals are ranked by power.… ## [Google notice of content restriction](https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/google-notice-of-content-restriction/) _2026-08-21 · serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) · ¬ just serendipity 🍀_ ♠ From: removals@google.com To: me Subject: Google notice of content restriction Hello, Your review isn't posted. What happened We received a complaint that your review is defamatory under German law. Your review is removed for now, because German courts have set a low threshold for businesses to challenge reviews as defamatory. For example, businesses can simply claim that they cannot verify that… ## [Skill Recorder Review: Record a Task, Get a SKILL.md](https://andrewdotooo.substack.com/p/skill-recorder-review-record-a-task) _2026-08-21 · Andrew · andrew.ooo_ Microsoft's Skill Recorder records your screen once and uses the Copilot CLI to write a generalized SKILL.md. Architecture, install, evals, and honest limits. ## [Friday Links: Coding rules, weekends redefined, and digital etiquette](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/21/FridayLinks/) _2026-08-21 · Just Some Code_ Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. LLMs have changed how coding looks. Here are 10 rules for agentic coding (5min). #2. Before it was TLDR. Now it is AIDR: AI;Didn’t read (3min). #3. Glasses, earplugs, smartwatches… Now that everything and everyone is connected, we should embrace new rules of etiquette (11min). #4. The weekend is 100 years old (16min). Working… ## [The best company engineering blogs to follow in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-company-engineering-blogs-to-follow/) _2026-08-21 · Daniela Torres · daily.dev Blog_ 15 company engineering blogs mapped to use cases—distributed systems, security, payments, data, ML, and dev tools for 2026. ## [The best system design resources in 2026 (from beginner to staff level)](https://daily.dev/blog/best-system-design-resources-beginner-to-staff-level/) _2026-08-21 · Carlos Mendoza · daily.dev Blog_ Pick one roadmap, one deep book, one interview resource, and one daily feed to level up system design from junior to staff. ## [intent files, runtime logs, and agent plugins](https://self.md/signals/2026-08-21-intent-files-runtime-logs-agent-plugins/) _2026-08-21 · Ray Svitla · Personal AI OS guides and tools on self.md_ self.md radar — 2026-08-21 three projects are trying to move the agent relationship out of the chat transcript. one keeps a human-readable sketch beside the code. one treats the run log as the runtime. one turns the agent into a plugin surface with access to the boring systems where work actually gets stuck. 1. Huzzah keeps the human spec in the repository Huzzah starts from a familiar irritation:… ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UDAHHY3StRGE) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Note to self: you took your evening antihistamines early in an effort to un-stuff your ears (which…](https://snarp.tumblr.com/post/825509889716699136) _2026-08-20 · I Am Completely Serious_ Note to self: you took your evening antihistamines early in an effort to un-stuff your ears (which does seem to have worked) ## [I Created a Complete Visual Identity for My Product With Claude Design](https://uxplanet.org/i-created-a-complete-visual-identity-for-my-product-with-claude-design-ab9c0d095e8e?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4) _2026-08-20 · Nick Babich · UX Planet - Medium_ Claude Design is an extremely valuable tool for quick design exploration. While many product teams use it to prototype web or mobile… Continue reading on UX Planet » ## [Terminals](https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/terminals/) _2026-08-20 · serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) · ¬ just serendipity 🍀_ ♠ Today I found myself with 13 open terminals, more than half of them running Pi or Claude Code , the rest with various projects and explorations split amongst work and personal affairs. 13!! This is not a matter of pride. I need to take a break . ∎ — § — Reply via email #ai #dev #serenity ## [Ask, Plan, Confirm: Making Agents Stop Before They Start](https://compositecode.blog/2026/08/20/plan-then-build/) _2026-08-20 · Adron · Adron's Composite Code_ The text emphasizes the importance of a structured workflow for coding agents to prevent unintended changes. By introducing a three-step gating process—Ask, Plan, and Confirm—developers can ensure that agents check for ambiguities, outline necessary changes, and obtain explicit approval before implementation. This approach mitigates risks and enhances code quality. ## [Review: Eight Billion Genies](https://blog.piaw.net/2026/08/review-eight-billion-genies.html) _2026-08-20 · Piaw Na · Piaw's Blog_ Eight Billion Genies explores a fun concept, which is that if everyone on earth had one wish, what would people do with it, and what would the resultant world be like? The book starts out in a bar where the bartender in a fit of inspiration immediately wishes that nobody else's wishes can affect the bar and whatever and whoever is inside it. Turns out the guy's a prepper and was prepared for… ## [🏗️ Can Vibe Coding Build Complex Software? The 2026 Reality Check](https://www.app9.co/can-vibe-coding-be-used-for-complex-software-projects/) _2026-08-20 · Jacob · App9_ Video: Vibe Coding is a Trap (What Senior Devs See That You Don’t). The hard truth is that vibe coding cannot build complex software projects on its own; it requires a human architect to prevent total system collapse. While you can generate a working prototype in hours, the moment you attempt to scale, secure, or \[…\] The post 🏗️ Can Vibe Coding Build Complex Software? The 2026 Reality Check… ## [How to Upgrade to Go 1.27 in Production \[Week-1 Checklist\]](https://www.kunalganglani.com/blog/go-1-27-upgrade-guide-production) _2026-08-20 · kunalganglani@gmail.com (Kunal Ganglani) · Kunal Ganglani Blog_ A pragmatic Go 1.27 upgrade playbook: toolchain pinning, CI matrix changes, perf validation (p99/allocs/GC), migration traps, and what to do with json/v2. ## [🔥 Many of you sent feedback about your experiences…](https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-08-20-21h20m48s/) _2026-08-20 · Justin Searls · justin․searls․co_ Many of you sent feedback about your experiences with agents at work—but it was all too positive! I want to hear about some goddamn disasters of team & organizational dysfunction, too! Send in your (anonymous) horror stories, please! https://justin.searls.co/feedback ## [Some of the nonstandard stuff I learned in high school was not useful and probably does not belong…](https://snarp.tumblr.com/post/825467220168769536) _2026-08-20 · I Am Completely Serious_ Some of the nonstandard stuff I learned in high school was not useful and probably does not belong in a normal curriculum, but local conditions tell me that not enough Appalachian adults know the geological concept of Angle Of Repose. Because too many of the local fucking structures in our notably-angular fucking region are fucking Reposing. Erosion-related concepts should actually probably even… ## [ThoughtWorks Technology Radar](https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/thoughtworks-technology-radar/) _2026-08-20 · serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) · ¬ just serendipity 🍀_ ♠ TIL : The ThoughtWorks Technology Radar publishes an yearly 1 opinionated report about the technology landscape today. It is a rich source of inspiration to identify techniques, tools, platforms and languages & frameworks to assess and/or adopt. They also publish PDFs and keep historical editions available. Too bad there isn't a RSS feed though, not that I could find. That's what we have Kill… ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1By9NPexw5TN) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [🔥 Demoed a component of my unreleased memorization…](https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-08-20-19h39m17s/) _2026-08-20 · Justin Searls · justin․searls․co_ Demoed a component of my unreleased memorization app today. Reactions included: • "Scary!" • "I kinda want the opposite actually" • "Do you want me to NOT use your app?" Things are going great. ## [Claude Watermark Explained: What Product Designers Need to Know](https://uxplanet.org/claude-watermark-explained-what-product-designers-need-to-know-3d14049ca76b?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4) _2026-08-20 · Nick Babich · UX Planet - Medium_ On August 14, 2026, Anthropic announced that Claude AI models will produce text containing an invisible statistical watermark. This… Continue reading on UX Planet » ## [oMLX Review: SSD KV Cache Fixes Local Coding Agents](https://andrewdotooo.substack.com/p/omlx-review-ssd-kv-cache-fixes-local) _2026-08-20 · Andrew · andrew.ooo_ oMLX is an Apple Silicon LLM server whose tiered hot/cold KV cache cuts agent TTFT from 30-90s to seconds. Setup, architecture, benchmarks, and honest limits. ## [BagOfStuff v2.0.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/20/bagofstuff-v2-0-0.html) _2026-08-20 · davep_ I've just made a small update to BagOfStuff , my little support library for my personal Python-based FOSS projects. This release makes some more changes to the history classes, adding an add\_or\_replace method, and also making some improvements to the type hinting by basing the classes on MutableSequence rather than Sequence . While the history classes were originally intended to feel immutable,… ## [Small Models for Agentic Systems](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_20_small-models-agentic-systems) _2026-08-20 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ Last night I spent some time trying to make my MCP server work with a smaller local model , one that is just 1.2 billion parameters and 696 MB on disk. This is LiquidAI's LFM 2.5 1.2B, with file name LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-QAD-Q4\_0.gguf . LFM 1.2B Most small models I test fail too badly and I just delete them right away. However this model seemed to have some potential to work for my agentic system.… ## [Robots Learning and Improvising in the Real World](https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/robots-learning-and-improvising-in-the-real-world/) _2026-08-20 · sajal@sajalchoudhary.net (Sajal Choudhary) · Sajal Choudhary_ I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot by Will Knight Generalist and some other robotics startups are investing heavily in a general robotic model trained by humans. The company builds special gloves resembling robot pincers that have cameras attached to them, which people then use to perform different chores. I saw a crate piled high with several hundred of these grippers… ## [ChatGPT Down? 8 Fallback Patterns for API Outages \[2026\]](https://www.kunalganglani.com/blog/chatgpt-down-api-outage-fallback) _2026-08-20 · kunalganglani@gmail.com (Kunal Ganglani) · Kunal Ganglani Blog_ When ChatGPT goes down, your app shouldn’t. A production playbook for detection, retries with jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads, throttling, and multi-provider failover. ## [AI makes code cheap to create, not cheap to own](https://bencane.com/posts/2026-08-19-ai-code-cheap-to-create-not-cheap-to-own/) _2026-08-20 · Benjamin Cane · Benjamin Cane — #Bengineering_ AI has made code cheap to create, but more code means more overhead. Before coding agents, creating more code cost time and effort because engineers had to write it. That naturally encouraged us to reuse code as much as possible: libraries, frameworks, keeping implementations concise, and thinking twice before rebuilding functionality that already existed. Coding agents have dramatically reduced… ## [Bad Weather Almost Ruined a Perfect Day](https://canro91.github.io/2026/08/20/BadWeather/) _2026-08-20 · Just Some Code_ After days of planning, I finally visited a friend’s cafe this week. It was cloudy, with a 55% chance of rain. When it rains, the city stops. Transit slows, some stores close, and everybody is late. Yes, even when there are umbrellas. It’s a coastal city. The safe bet was to stay at home and plan for the next day. But I packed an umbrella and took the risk. Guess what? It didn’t rain. It became a… ## [The best Discord servers for developers in 2026](https://daily.dev/blog/best-discord-servers-for-developers/) _2026-08-20 · Alex Carter · daily.dev Blog_ Choose a stack-specific server, a broad dev hub, and an AI/tooling community to get faster help, build skills, and ship code. ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hFo2x8z1Jg2r) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [🔥 Do you work on a team or at a company where most…](https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-08-20-08h13m38s/) _2026-08-19 · Justin Searls · justin․searls․co_ Do you work on a team or at a company where most people are actually using agents in earnest? I'd love to hear your experience for a piece. Quick e-mail, call, whatever. Hit me up with my fancy new feedback form: https://justin.searls.co/feedback ## [7 Critical Mistakes You’re Likely Making with Claude Code](https://uxplanet.org/7-critical-mistakes-claude-code-users-make-bb8fe76b32ad?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4) _2026-08-19 · Nick Babich · UX Planet - Medium_ I’ve been using Claude Code for a while now across dozens of projects, both alone and with teams, and I want to summarise 7 common… Continue reading on UX Planet » ## [Coding Terms Explained for Kids: Reusability](https://www.codemonkey.com/blog/coding-terms-explained-for-kids-reusability/) _2026-08-19 · Vitaly Tev · CodeMonkey_ Discover reusability in coding with fun examples and easy explanations for kids aged 7-12. ## [Giving Every Agent Its Own Branch: Git Worktrees for Parallel AI Work](https://compositecode.blog/2026/08/19/worktrees/) _2026-08-19 · Adron · Adron's Composite Code_ The text discusses challenges faced when using multiple coding agents on a single Git working tree, leading to merge conflicts and lost edits. It emphasizes the need for independent work environments through Git worktrees, which allow each agent to operate in its own directory while sharing an object store. The author details a structured solution to managing these worktrees, outlining scripts for… ## [Rogallo v1.11.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/19/rogallo-v1-11-0.html) _2026-08-19 · davep_ A quick little update to Rogallo , bumping to v1.11.0 . This release is mainly in support of people who like to use the mouse as much as, if not more than, the keyboard; and also in support of people who might wish to reclaim a couple of lines of display for actual content. The main change in this release is that I've swapped out the header line that Rogallo used to have (which used the stock… ## [★ human voice](https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/human-voice/) _2026-08-19 · serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) · ¬ just serendipity 🍀_ ♠ More and more I've been resorting to LLMs / Gen AI to file feature requests or issues/bugs in upstream repositories. Sometimes I get completely ignored, even when I follow the project guidelines. For example, last week I filed this issue in Pi . It got auto-closed. I know why it was auto-closed, but it's lame, because I followed their guidelines. In spite of writing it in my own voice, it got… ## [June 6th: Geneva to Bonneville](https://blog.piaw.net/2026/08/june-6th-geneva-to-bonneville.html) _2026-08-19 · Piaw Na · Piaw's Blog_ Waking up at 5:30am in the morning due to jet lag, I went down to the front desk and started assembling the bikes. Xiaoqin’s road logic came together easily and well, and I was as finished as I could be within an hour. The tandem came together less easily, but by 7:30am I had it all together. Despite my best efforts, however, I could not get the bike to shift into the lowest gear. This would be a… ## [🔥 The Opposite of Brooks's Law: \> Removing…](https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-08-19-21h56m36s/) _2026-08-19 · Justin Searls · justin․searls․co_ The Opposite of Brooks's Law: Removing manpower from a late software project makes it less late. ## [How AI Is Transforming Global Hiring in 2026](https://uxplanet.org/how-ai-is-transforming-global-hiring-in-2026-b8b959ffc4ce?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4) _2026-08-19 · uxplanet.org · UX Planet - Medium_ and why infrastructure matters more than ever Since the very beginning of the internet era, hiring was constrained by two things: human bandwidth and geography . A recruiter could only review so many candidates, a hiring manager could only conduct so many interviews. And when the perfect candidate lived halfway around the world, employing that person could require understanding region-specific… ## [Mojo Language Open Source \[2026\]: What Python Devs Get Now](https://www.kunalganglani.com/blog/mojo-language-open-source) _2026-08-19 · kunalganglani@gmail.com (Kunal Ganglani) · Kunal Ganglani Blog_ Mojo going Apache 2.0 changes the trust story. Here’s what’s actually open, how to install it, and where Mojo beats NumPy/Rust for real kernels in 2026. ## [Asymmetric Agents](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/asymmetric-agents/) _2026-08-19 · @edent · Terence Eden’s Blog_ One of the promises of the AI-filled future is that we'll all have highly capable autonomous servants "agents" to work for us. Even back in the 1990s, it was a common trope in future-gazing to insist that a person's personal slave agent would negotiate on their behalf. Ask your meek digital pal agent to find you a restuarant in town, tonight, for a hot date, catering to your dietary preferences, … ## [Asymmetric Agents](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/asymmetric-agents/) _2026-08-19 · @edent · Terence Eden’s Blog_ One of the promises of the AI-filled future is that we'll all have highly capable autonomous servants "agents" to work for us. Even back in the 1990s, it was a common trope in future-gazing to insist that a person's personal slave agent would negotiate on their behalf. Ask your meek digital pal agent to find you a restuarant in town, tonight, for a hot date, catering to your dietary preferences, … ## [There May Be Nobody There](https://yusufaytas.com/there-may-be-nobody-there) _2026-08-19 · Yusuf Aytas_ Why AI;DR immediately makes sense: readers are looking for a human mind behind the words, not just useful information without effort, personality, or authenticity. ## [anydoc Review: 14 Document Formats to Markdown in 4ms](https://andrewdotooo.substack.com/p/anydoc-review-14-document-formats) _2026-08-19 · Andrew · andrew.ooo_ Hands-on review of Firecrawl's anydoc, the MIT Rust library converting Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB and PDF to clean Markdown in ~4ms. Benchmarks and limits. ## [★ /ship-and-burn a pull request](https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/ship-and-burn-a-pull-request/) _2026-08-19 · serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) · ¬ just serendipity 🍀_ ♠ Problem statement : ship a simple change (or commit, or pull request: you name it), then wait for green CI, then remove its local branch and worktree (=clean up). It's 2026, so we'll codify this workflow in the form of an agent skill . I created /ship-and-burn for that. /ship-and-burn \[reviewer\] It's very important that you picture this movie whenever you invoke this skill. The structure is the… ## [★ kubernetes: force-refresh a cached multi-architecture image](https://perrotta.dev/2026/08/kubernetes-force-refresh-a-cached-multi-architecture-image/) _2026-08-19 · serendipity@perrotta.dev (Thiago Perrotta) · ¬ just serendipity 🍀_ ♠ Previously . Problem statement : a Kubernetes ARM64 node kept running an AMD64 image after I replaced the registry tag with a multi-architecture image via skopeo , due to image caching. I first mirrored only the AMD64 variant into AWS ECR (note: no --all ): % skopeo sync \\ --dest-creds "AWS:$(aws ecr get-login-password --region cn-north-1)" \\ --src docker --dest docker \\ --override-os linux… ## [Militant Democracy and Fundamental Rights - Karl Loewenstein, 1937](https://webrocker.de/2026/08/19/militant-democracy-and-fundamental-rights-karl-loewenstein-1937/) _2026-08-19 · Webrocker · Webrocker_ Ich habe bis vor kurzem auch noch nie von diesem Essay gehört und es durch die ZDF-Sendung "Die Anstalt" neulich präsentiert bekommen. Jetzt habe ich diese online-Version und Übersetzung gefunden, die Chris Heilmann ins Netz gestellt hat. Sehr interessant, und leider aktueller denn je. Faschismus verbreitet sich, weil die Technik funktioniert, nicht weil die Umstände… ## [Combining MCP Server Tool Calls](https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_8_19_combining-mcp-server-tool-calls) _2026-08-19 · Dot Net Perls Blog_ Should tool calls be combined in a MCP (Model Context Protocol) server? It is sometimes possible to have 10 functions, or 1 function that receives a separate argument like command . I wanted to test both approaches in my Rust code. Combining Tool Calls After getting an LLM to do some of the initial work, I changed 7 functions into 1 function that receives a command argument. Then I tested the new… ## [“World-class German craftsmanship,” huh](https://snarp.tumblr.com/post/825337667899342849) _2026-08-19 · I Am Completely Serious_ ALT "World-class German craftsmanship," huh ## [Does anyone know where to find an unpleasant man who fetishizes the “superior engineering” of Merkur…](https://snarp.tumblr.com/post/825336290273804288) _2026-08-19 · I Am Completely Serious_ Does anyone know where to find an unpleasant man who fetishizes the "superior engineering" of Merkur safety razors above other brands? Can be gay or straight, doesn't matter.