# github (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1019 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover github. Page: Feed: --- ## [Glorious Rain](https://thega.me.uk/2026/08/glorious-rain/) _2026-08-19 · Phillip Whittlesea-Clark · thega.me.uk_ It finally rained! Praise whatever god you fancy, or just praise Jibbers, but today is the day I remembered that water can fall from the sky. ## [A Format Can Sink Below The Waterline](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/19/a-format-can-sink-below-the-waterline/) _2026-08-19 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ There is a specific way that important infrastructure disappears, and it does not look like a project getting archived. It looks like success. ## [Slack Can Actually Mint App Credentials From a Script, If You Survive the Bootstrap](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/19/slack-app-manifest-api-creates-the-app/) _2026-08-19 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that the machines are coming to do the work. And then the moment I want to wire up an actual integration, they hand me a web form, a CAPTCHA, and a button I have to click with a human finger. The contradiction never gets old. You cannot build an agentic future on top of an onboarding flow… ## [There Is Finally an OpenAPI for MCP Servers, and It Is Called mcpdesc](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/19/there-is-finally-an-openapi-for-mcp-servers/) _2026-08-19 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I have spent a lot of this year watching everyone ship Model Context Protocol servers and almost no one describe them. We went straight from “MCP is interesting” to “here is our MCP server” without stopping at the part where you write down, in a machine-readable way, what the thing actually exposes. That gap has been bugging me, because it is exactly the gap OpenAPI filled for HTTP APIs and… ## [Claude Memory Admin](https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/b26c70f8-c11e-4b2b-81ad-54088ed674cf) _2026-08-18 · Steven Giesel_ I vibe-coded a small tool to get a grasp on your projects MEMORY.md that is in ~/.claude . ## [Macro Level Agentic Storytelling](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/18/macro-level-agentic-storytelling/) _2026-08-18 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I am a systems thinker. I see things at a macro level. I shape things best at that level, and I struggle with the day-to-day micro level. API Evangelist has long been successful at convincing people I know about APIs at a mythical macro level, and it did that through a consistent drip, drip, drip of micro level API, standards, and storytelling work since 2010. I was successful because I found and… ## [Seventy-One APIs Will Let You Try A Call Without Committing To It](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/18/seventy-one-apis-will-let-you-try-a-call-without-committing-it/) _2026-08-18 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I scored 26,568 API providers against the Agent Readiness layer of the Kin Score, and one of the fourteen dimensions came back at a number I had to go and check twice. Seventy-one providers publish a dry-run mode. Not seventy-one percent. Seventy-one providers, out of 26,568. That is 0.27%. ## [The Six Quality Bands of the API Evangelist Rating System](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/18/the-six-quality-bands-of-the-api-evangelist-rating-system/) _2026-08-18 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ Every provider in the API Evangelist Rating System carries a composite quality score from zero to one hundred, but the number by itself is not the useful part. A 61 and a 68 are both “pretty good,” and nobody makes a decision on the third significant digit of somebody else’s API. What people actually reason about are the bands–the six labeled tiers the score falls into–because a band is a… ## [The Throwaway API and the Foundational API](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/18/the-throwaway-and-the-foundational-api/) _2026-08-18 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I keep running into a new kind of company, and I want to name the pattern before it becomes the default. It is a company that ships an MCP server and a couple of SDKs, and calls that its API strategy. There is no real REST or GraphQL API underneath. There is no durable, documented, versioned contract that a human or a machine could build against without an agent in the loop. There is a server… ## [Steve Yegge Deleted the Wrong Thing](https://julien.danjou.info/blog/steve-yegge-deleted-the-wrong-thing/) _2026-08-18 · jd:/dev/blog_ Yegge's agents write 250 commits a day, so he stopped gating main. The math is right. But he didn't delete the merge queue, he deleted the one thing that makes a fix cheap. ## [World's cheapest GPUs, deployed fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/T15fFwxGb3i7) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy a live GPU-backed API in minutes for under $10 ## [Announcing some improvements to \`renovate-pretty-log-tui\`](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/renovate-pretty-log/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-17 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ As I've blogged about before, I've written a tool for improving the experience of working with Renovate's debug logs , providing a more targeted experience for viewing the logs. While there are a few options out there at the moment, including part of our products at Mend, it's also nice having an agnostic tool I can use across different products, or where a customer or a user has provided logs to… ## [From Azure Policy to APIM: Implementing Azure AI Guardrails](https://thomasthornton.cloud/from-azure-policy-to-apim-implementing-azure-ai-guardrails/) _2026-08-17 · Thomas Thornton · Thomas Thornton Blog_ Azure Policy and API Management solve different parts of AI governance in Azure. This post goes into the actual policies and APIM XML behind that two-layer model, covering network controls, approved models, token quotas, content safety and observability. ## [Why I still hand write my commit messages](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-17 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ For over a decade, I've been a proponent of writing detailed Git commit messages. I find it a valuable use of my time, and continue to double down on it, even in a world where you can get a Large Language Model (LLM) to write it for you. In the past, I've written about at least 89 strong feelings I have about Git commits , so I'm naturally biased to the benefit of commit messages, but why does… ## [Better defaults for CSS](https://rossabaker.com/configs/website/style/reset/) _2026-08-17 · Ross A. Baker · Old man yells at Internet on Ross A. Baker (English)_ Default browser presentations have converged to mostly obsolete the venerable resets of yore . That does not mean they converged to an ideal place. Like my beloved Emacs, several defaults that are popular to change, but persist for backward compatibility. This layer is for fixing those. I want this layer to be unopinionated, but what's unopinionated tends to be a matter of opinion. It should at… ## [xUnit.v3 4.0.0 released](https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/b0e1aadf-8e88-4553-9636-19df43b1b068) _2026-08-17 · Steven Giesel_ xUnit.v3 got a new major release. This blog post is more about the consequences of that for your local build and CI/CD pipelines than about the new features. ## [GitHub's Recent Crisis Has a Simple Fix](https://www.birkey.co/2026-08-17-githubs-recent-crisis-has-a-simple-fix.html) _2026-08-17 · BirkeyCo_ Introduction: The Outages Aren't Bugs; They're Symptoms GitHub is down again? Oh boy, it has a scalability issue, you might say. I say your coding agent may be to blame, and thus may be you should take responsibility? The platform is buckling under a weight it wasn't designed to carry. We've seen downtime, API timeouts, and "maintenance mode" messages since its inception, but we have not seen them… ## [Building My Second Brain on OpenClaw (Part 9)](https://lo-victoria.com/building-my-second-brain-on-openclaw-part-9) _2026-08-17 · Victoria Lo · Victoria Lo - Tech Blog_ Three practical automation tools that compound together. Schedule multi-platform social posts via Buffer's GraphQL API, generate Techybara comics in a font cloned from my own handwriting, and add consistent blog callouts without touching an image model. ## [GitHub Quietly Built the Onboarding Flow Everyone Else Is Missing](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/17/github-app-manifest-browser-to-credentials/) _2026-08-17 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that they want machines talking to their platform around the clock. And then they hand me a registration flow that assumes a human with a mouse, a corporate email, and an afternoon to spare. You cannot have it both ways. If you want agents, you have to let software register itself. That… ## [OpenAPI Overlays for Compliance and Redaction Profiles](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/17/openapi-overlays-for-compliance-and-redaction-profiles/) _2026-08-17 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ Somewhere in every regulated company there is a document, or a wiki page, or a Slack message pinned to a channel, that says something like “before we publish the EU version of the API, remember to take out the SSN field and turn off the cancellation endpoint.” It is a checklist. A human reads it, or forgets to read it, and then edits the spec by hand until it looks compliant. When the auditor… ## [Your Internal Docs Need the Same Scoring Discipline as Your Public APIs](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/17/your-internal-docs-need-the-same-scoring-discipline-as-your-public-apis/) _2026-08-17 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ Joyce Stack has published a set of Claude Code skills that do information-architecture analysis on a Markdown documentation corpus, and it is the most directly useful enterprise work I have seen come out of the skills format so far. The plugin is markdown-ia-skills. It is three skills meant to run in sequence against a git repo or a folder of .md and .mdx files. The first one does reconnaissance… ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cJ5j4tr0ZGtJ) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [What the Trend Reports Found in the Regulatory Layer](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/17/what-the-trend-reports-found-in-the-regulatory-layer/) _2026-08-17 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ The same fourteen trend reports that carry a standards layer also carry a regulatory one. Each records which regimes apply to that market, how many companies in the cohort name them, and what the reports measure alongside them. I read all fourteen regulatory sections together this week. This is what is in them. ## [Bazel all the way down: how I build programmable hardware](https://www.hdlfactory.com/post/2026/08/17/bazel-all-the-way-down-how-i-build-programmable-hardware/) _2026-08-17 · Home on HDL Factory Home_ This is a description of how I build programmable hardware. Everything that goes into Cocoapuffs, my RISC-V system-on-chip on an Artix-7 FPGA: the RTL, the firmware, the simulations, the synthesis, the bitstream, and the programming of the board, comes out of a single bazel build, from a machine that has nothing installed on it but bazel. The build is hermetic, ephemeral, and reproducible, and it… ## [Week Notes 26#33](https://www.jvt.me/week-notes/2026/33/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-16 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ The main thing this week has been GopherCon UK - an expensive week, and unfortunately not as good as previous years - but you can see my writeup for more info On Tuesday night when I got in, I went over to Monohon Ramen which was nice Met some nice folks and had some good chats Went up to Smithfields Market to get a view of the eclipse, but as we didn't have glasses, didn't try and actually see… ## [.NET Toolbox August Update](https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/5adbbd4f-8979-4e97-9797-2e1f05ad19b2) _2026-08-16 · Steven Giesel_ Quite some time passed since I posted a changelog to the .NET Toolbox . And there are big news: The Toolbox is running dotnet native in the browser thanks to wasm and Mono! ## [Parameterized Types and MSVC Complex Portability](https://rgoswami.me/posts/f2py-parameterized-types/) _2026-08-16 · Rohit Goswami_ Precision is not a number. It is a contract between the programmer and the hardware. Fortran encodes this contract in the type system. C and Python do not. Bridging both gaps at once is what this post covers. Background # Previous posts covered the three-layer architecture for wrapping non- bind(c) Fortran types. That pipeline assumed fixed types. So what happens when the Fortran type itself… ## [APIs Are 100x More Important Than Five Years Ago, and Still Uncool](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/16/apis-are-100x-more-important-and-still-uncool/) _2026-08-16 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ Nobody wants to talk about APIs at a dinner party, and they never will. APIs are plumbing, and plumbing is invisible right up until the moment it fails. I have made peace with this after a long time doing this work–the API will never be the cool thing in the room. But I want to say something that sounds like a contradiction and is not: APIs are roughly a hundred times more important today than… ## [MCP Wrote Itself the Deprecation Policy It Has Not Written for You](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/16/mcp-wrote-itself-the-deprecation-policy/) _2026-08-16 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ Nathan Booker asked me a good question on LinkedIn a couple of weeks back, and it has been sitting in my notebook since. He wondered whether changes to MCP APIs are really breaking changes at all — that when your API is agent-facing you can evolve much more quickly, because there is reasoning on the other end that can deal with the change, the way a person deals with a redesigned interface.… ## [Introducing Lewp](https://scottw.com/introducing-lewp/) _2026-08-16 · Scott Watermasysk's Development Blog_ For anyone who has worked locally on multiple applications, you quickly learn that port conflicts become a nuisance. Rails, as an example, defaults to port 3000. This means every time you run bin/dev or rails server , you need to remember or configure a different port. On teams, you then need to distribute and standardize those overrides. Then what happens when your application needs more than one… ## [Latest PHP version: current release and support status](https://benjamincrozat.com/latest-php-version) _2026-08-15 · Benjamin Crozat · Benjamin Crozat's blog posts_ See the latest stable PHP release, the current PHP 8.6 testing build, and the active and security support dates for PHP 8.2 through 8.5. Read more → If you like my feed, follow me on X , LinkedIn , and GitHub . ## [As the wildfires burned](https://thega.me.uk/2026/08/as-the-wildfires-burned/) _2026-08-15 · Phillip Whittlesea-Clark · thega.me.uk_ A short poem about the recent heatwave and subsequent fires in the UK ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fJaeN4vBjRZ3) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Agent Skills as a Bridge Between Engineering and Product](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/15/agent-skills-as-a-bridge-between-engineering-and-product/) _2026-08-15 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ The oldest fight in the enterprise is the one between business and IT, and it never really got settled–it just changed costumes. It was business versus IT, then it was product versus engineering, then it was the design team versus the platform team, and every few years someone sells us a new ceremony to paper over the gap. Requirements documents. Two-week sprints. A backlog. A Jira workflow with… ## [Twilio Is What Programmatic Onboarding Looks Like When a Company Means It](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/15/twilio-programmatic-onboarding-means-it/) _2026-08-15 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I have spent this whole series banging my head against the same wall. Company after company tells me they are all in on AI, all in on agents, all in on automation, and then they hand me an onboarding flow that assumes a human with a mouse, a marketing email I have to confirm, and a dashboard I have to click through to get a single credential. The contradiction never gets old to me. You cannot… ## [Old man goes to a Jiu Jitsu tournament](https://carlosbecker.com/posts/bjj-comp/) _2026-08-15 · Carlos Becker_ Seven months of training, 118kg, 2 bad knees, and 2 weeks of notice. Here’s how my first Jiu Jitsu tournament went. ## [Scott Watermasysk - August 15, 2026](https://scottw.com/streams/i-wonder-if-shared-prompting-could/) _2026-08-15 · Scott Watermasysk's Development Blog_ I wonder if “shared prompting” could help counter the deep code understanding that AI coding has eroded: two or more people working together with a single prompt/workflow. ## [GopherCon UK 2026](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/14/gophercon-uk-2026/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss) _2026-08-14 · articles on Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer_ For the 3rd year running, I've been at GopherCon UK and am surprised to have survived the heat in London - highs of 36 degrees yesterday - but thankfully The Brewery is a lovely and cool event space. I'm writing this on the train home, with a slightly tired voice, and a little tired after a good time - thanks again to the organisers for putting it on! How to Stay Passionate in the Age of AI… ## [South Korea Round-up](https://thega.me.uk/2026/08/south-korea-round-up/) _2026-08-14 · Phillip Whittlesea-Clark · thega.me.uk_ In case you missed it, I have been writing day-by-day accounts of my holiday in South Korea. This is a ‘round up’ of my observations, and my best places to go. ## [OpenAPI Overlays for Deprecation and Migration Choreography](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/14/openapi-overlays-for-deprecation-and-migration-choreography/) _2026-08-14 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ Deprecation is where most API programs quietly fall apart. Not because teams don’t know how to sunset an operation, but because they do it by hand, one operation at a time, across a dozen specs, on whatever day someone finally gets to it. Somebody sets deprecated: true in one place, forgets the Sunset header in another, writes “please migrate soon” in a description here and “this endpoint is going… ## [The Tools That Actually Execute Your Arazzo Workflows](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/14/the-tools-that-actually-execute-your-arazzo-workflows/) _2026-08-14 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ I have spent a good chunk of this year authoring Arazzo across my network — more than 5,000 workflow files spanning 543 API providers, plus another 255 that deliberately cross provider boundaries, because the interesting workflows almost never live inside one company’s API. Every one of them validates. Every step points at a real operationId in a real OpenAPI document. And somewhere in the middle… ## [Why Isn’t the Surface Area of a VC Portfolio Programmable?](https://apievangelist.com/2026/08/14/why-isnt-the-surface-area-of-a-vc-portfolio-programmable/) _2026-08-14 · Kin Lane · API Evangelist_ As I continue to profile the portfolio companies of venture capital firms, as well as the services and tooling those companies use, I am left thinking about the reasons why more of these companies aren’t programmable — not just for their core offerings, but for their operational surface area. I know if I was a VC who was all in on the agentic hustle, I’d be like, “MAKE IT ALL PROGRAMMABLE!” ## [Saner conda-forge interactions with a custom forge](https://rgoswami.me/posts/sane-custom-forge/) _2026-08-14 · Rohit Goswami_ conda-forge is the destination. The docker loop is not how I get there. Background # Last year I had a pile of packages that needed to exist as conda packages before they were allowed to exist on conda-forge . The Atomistic Cookbook recipe for eOn + PET-MAD is the one I still quote: I announced a conda build of eOn on July 26 2025 because the cookbook needed it that day. The eon-feedstock did not… ## [Ensim5](https://glouw.com//2026/08/14/Ensim5.html) _2026-08-14 · (untitled)_ Github Source Ensim5 explores compiler friendly SIMD expressions and cache locality for isentropic flow and kinematic equations. One can model a piston flow lane from plenum intake to exhaust as nine chambers (atmosphere, plenum, throttle, runner, piston, runner, exhaust, exhaust, atmosphere) and with eight nozzles, mapping parallel computation perfectly to floating point AVX256 or doubling point… ## [Prototype More](https://scottw.com/prototype-more/) _2026-08-14 · Scott Watermasysk's Development Blog_ My typical workflow for larger tasks: research → interview me (grilling session) → generate a spec → tickets → implementation There is some iteration and review along the way. Once implementation is completed, there is a final deep review, testing, cleanup, etc. But recently, I have started to work in an early prototype or two. Prototypes used to be expensive. You would build something that just… ## [Scott Watermasysk - August 14, 2026](https://scottw.com/streams/my-model-breakdown-fable-the-only/) _2026-08-14 · Scott Watermasysk's Development Blog_ My model breakdown: Fable - the only reason I use Anthropic models for anything. I typically use it for planning. Sol/Luna - the workhorses. Luna is underrated, especially on cost. Various one-offs with OpenCode Go (which is likely the best $10 you can spend). ## [Compression is prediction | ngrok blog](https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction) _2026-08-13 · lucas.computer - Random Bookmarks_ Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. Learn the fundamentals of compression and how better prediction leads to better shrinkage. ## [Codex Tray: Monitor OpenAI Codex Usage on Windows](https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2026/08/codex-tray-monitor-openai-codex-usage-windows.html) _2026-08-13 · Carlo Costanzo · vCloudInfo_ Codex Tray puts weekly Codex usage, reset timing, reset credits, token totals, and reset alerts in the Windows notification area. ## [Every Software Engineer Is About to Lose Their Job. Again.](https://www.seeleycoder.com/blog/every-software-engineer-is-about-to-lose-their-job-again/) _2026-08-13 · Jon Seeley · The Seeley Coder_ Twenty years in software has taught me one thing: every generation swears the current abstraction will be the one that finally eliminates programmers. Compilers, COBOL, 4GLs, no-code — none of them did. So when people say AI will end software engineering, I think about what actually happened last time. The post Every Software Engineer Is About to Lose Their Job. Again. appeared first on The Seeley… ## [How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug](https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug) _2026-08-13 · lucas.computer - Random Bookmarks_ Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug. ## [The Agentic Web Index: AI Bot Traffic Statistics | Known Agents](https://knownagents.com/insights) _2026-08-13 · lucas.computer - Random Bookmarks_ A continuously updating analysis of bot vs. human traffic, AI scraping, fetching, search indexing, browsing, robots.txt compliance, and AI chat referrals across 5,000+ websites. ## [Guillaume Técher](https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/) _2026-08-13 · lucas.computer - Random Bookmarks_ Guillaume Técher ## [Cloudflare redirect ruleset auth error: the permission I couldn't find](https://www.simonpainter.com/cloudflare-redirect-permissions) _2026-08-13 · Simon Painter · Simon Painter Blog_ I hit a Cloudflare authorisation error while creating a redirect ruleset in Terraform. The error was correct: the token did not have enough rights.