# implementation (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 125 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover implementation. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Specification Is Not a Document](https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mtgs36dnq22o) _2026-08-19 · The Phoenix Architecture_ Imagine joining a software project a few years from now. It is a large, mature system. It has thousands of business rules, years of operational experience, regulatory obligations, performance constraints, strange edge cases, customer commitments, and architectural decisions made by people who no longer work there. You ask the obvious question. "Where's the specification?" Someone gives you access… ## [Ultima Ratio Regum 0.11 Update #65: Playable Tutorial Quest!!](https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/08/18/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-65-playable-tutorial-quest/) _2026-08-18 · Mark R Johnson · Dr Mark R Johnson_ Housekeeping Notice: I’ve just finally found a way to stop WordPress resizing my images! But, this might break something without me anticipating it, so please let me know if anything looks odd on this entry. Hello everyone! Great news this week – I have now implemented, and played, the entire tutorial quest from start to \[…\] ## [Mini-Arrow: A Minimal Arrow Rust Implementation](https://www.codedump.info/en/post/20260815-mini-arrow/) _2026-08-15 · Home on codedump notes_ This article introduces the mini-arrow project, a minimal Apache Arrow implementation written in Rust. With just 1600 lines of Rust code, it demonstrates the design and solutions to several of Arrow's most core problems. The project is inspired by Type Exercise in Rust . Before diving into the details, let's first understand the Arrow project: What Problems Does Arrow Solve # Arrow is a columnar… ## [RHTP’s Easy Part Is Over](https://par4san.substack.com/p/rhtps-easy-part-is-over) _2026-08-15 · San · San’s Substack_ The plans are approved. The money is moving. Now rural health transformation has to work in the real world. ## [Digitizing super 8 film yourself](https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/08/digitizing-super-8-film-yourself.html) _2026-08-12 · Jussi · Nibble Stew_ In our previous post we looked at fixing a super 8 film projector. While watching film with a real projector has its own charm, it is inconvenient to say the least. First of all you make the entire room properly dark or you can't see anything. This is regardless of the fact that the projector bulb is consuming 100 watts of power to show the image. Even if you manage not to burn the film, merely… ## [Remember RoomTunes?](https://www.catch22.net/blog/2026-08-11-roomtunes/) _2026-08-11 · Catch22_ RoomTunes is a native Sonos controller that I originally developed for BB10, back in 2012. It went on to become one of the most successful music apps on the platform for a while, and did considerably better than I ever expected. Up until now though, I don't think anyone knows that I wrote it ## [Remember RoomTunes?](https://www.catch22.net/blog/2026-08-11-roomtunes/) _2026-08-11 · Catch22_ RoomTunes is a native Sonos controller that I originally developed for BB10, back in 2012. It went on to become one of the most successful music apps on the platform for a while, and did considerably better than I ever expected. Up until now though, I don't think anyone knows that I wrote it ## [When Does a Specification Become a Program?](https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3msssevtkqc2c) _2026-08-11 · The Phoenix Architecture_ A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one? ## [Let Them Write RFCs](https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-08-let-them-write-rfcs/) _2026-08-11 · Tea and Bits_ Or: why I spent hundreds of millions of tokens to write four versions of the same markdown file. I’m working on a complex project that’s just beyond what I know how to build, which is pretty fun! But also hard, especially when I try to speed things up by using LLMs. 1 As a result: Sometimes I don’t understand the problem well enough. Sometimes I don’t know that . Sometimes… ## [The Turn: RHTP Is Closing Year 1 — and Quietly Preparing for Year 2](https://par4san.substack.com/p/the-turn-rhtp-is-closing-year-1-and) _2026-08-08 · San · San’s Substack_ The first national funding wave peaked in July. Now the real transition begins: closeout, implementation, CMS re-approval, and the next procurement cycle. ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GVKPLyW07NzS) _2026-08-08 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Top-down mergesort with sorted check has mergecost (H+3)n](https://www.wild-inter.net/posts/mergesort-sorted-check) _2026-08-04 · Sebastian Wild's Site_ Simple proof that standard mergesort with a single extra comparison is run-adaptive in a rather strong sense. We consider standard top-down recursive mergesort, where we do a single comparison before calling merge, to check whether the two recursively sorted subproblems happen to already be correctly ordered. (If so, we can skip the merging step.) We show that for any input $A\[0..n)$ consisting of… ## [Ultima Ratio Regum 0.11 Update #64: Total Speech and Conversation Rework 1/2](https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/08/04/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-64-total-speech-and-conversation-rework-1-2/) _2026-08-04 · Mark R Johnson · Dr Mark R Johnson_ Friends, welcome back! Today I begin something very exciting. Only a very small portion of this is going to appear in the 0.11 release, but as we find ourselves only weeks away from playtesting and I need to actually design the beginning of the game, i.e. where the curator of the museum you begin the \[ \] ## [Making hexdump 23 times faster (and what I've learned)](https://paolobietolini.com/blog/making-hexdump-faster) _2026-08-03 · Paolo Bietolini_ Last month I wrote hexdump from scratch and admitted I didn't know a good alternative to printf per row. I found it: one fwrite per 64 KiB chunk instead of 128 million calls into stdio, and a 23× speedup, most of it from the part I thought was boring. ## [Practical Memory Safety](https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-08-unsafe-water/) _2026-08-03 · Tea and Bits_ Recently: Zig is considering a safe, Fil-C -like compilation target. Fil-C is a “memory safe implementation of C”, and the Zig issue claims this will be “truly memory safe”. This is presented as “unlike Rust” because Rust has escape hatches a.k.a. Unsafe Rust . But it turns out Fil-C’s definition of memory safety is different from Rust’s. So maybe… ## [From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves - Merkle’s Authentication Tree](https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html) _2026-08-03 · Math behind Security_ An implementation of a small Merkle Tree can be found in my GitHub Repository . The Great Seal of Realm - the sign of a royal approval. For centuries, Kings and Queens, Emperors and Empresses, Ladies and Lords used seals to leave their family names on the important documents. But what was left for us, ordinary commoners? Simple autographs were our low budget seals. Their uniqueness comes from a… ## [DevLog 9: Flow 2](https://vladris.com/blog/2026/08/02/devlog-9-flow-2.html) _2026-08-02 · Vlad's Tech Blog_ DevLog 9: Flow 2 In the previous post I talked about replatforming my editors on a custom stack, including a custom incremental Markdown parser and a custom HTML editor, which I open sourced as markoffset and scribeframe . Since then, I released Flow 2 , the next major release, which ditches Electron for Tauri and ProseMirror for scribeframe. Flow 2 is now available on both the MacOS App Store and… ## [Updates on the Board game logging app](https://www.krayorn.com/posts/new-bg-log/) _2026-08-02 · Krayorn | Blog_ A full tour of my board game logging app, redesign, UX improvements and fun new features. ## [Michigan Is Showing Its Hand](https://par4san.substack.com/p/michigan-is-showing-its-hand) _2026-08-01 · San · San’s Substack_ The state’s $173 million rural health plan reveals where applicants should place their bets ## [Fixing a super 8 projector from the 70s](https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/07/fixing-super-8-projector-from-70s.html) _2026-07-30 · Jussi · Nibble Stew_ Warning! Do not try any of this at home! Messing with internals of electrical devices is dangerous and can lead to fires, serious injury and even loss of life. My dad started using a super 8 film camera as early as 1967 (the system was launched in 1965). He stopped doing it in the 1980s as it became pretty much impossible to buy film. Ever since then the films have been stored in multiple… ## [C++ libraries linking](https://www.red-lang.org/2026/07/c-libraries-linking.html) _2026-07-29 · Nenad Rakocevic · Red Programming Language_ When we introduced static linking of C libraries, the promise was simple: name a .lib or .a archive in your #import , compile with -s , and ship one self-contained executable, no DLLs riding along, nothing to install on the target machine. There was one big frontier left, and everyone saw it coming: the libraries people want most (vision, GUI, audio, machine learning) are written in C++. A C++… ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OTHf235eHdZp) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [How Profitable is LLM Inference? Doing the Math on Kimi K3](https://cefboud.com/posts/ai-inference-costs-profit/) _2026-07-29 · cef · Moncef Abboud_ A look at LLM inference economics (batch size, GPU count, and the Pareto frontier that sets token prices) applied to Kimi K3 with back-of-the-envelope math. ## [Grav-Torque Pad (v1.17.5)](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.17.5) _2026-07-27 · rjl493456442 · Release notes from go-ethereum_ This is a maintenance release with accumulated bug fixes and improvements, and is recommended for all users. It continues the implementation work for the upcoming Amsterdam hardfork. A few things worth highlighting: The default GOGC has changed from 20 to 50, trading a higher memory peak for less GC overhead. Set --gogc=20 to keep the old behavior. Pebble v2 is now supported as a key-value store… ## [Voronoi Fragmentation of a Mesh](https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2026/07/27/voronoi-fracture) _2026-07-26 · 4rknova.com_ A guide on how to shatter a convex mesh into Voronoi shards by clipping it against perpendicular bisector planes, with a demo implementation included. ## [The Most Transformative Rural Health Programs of 2026 Don’t Look Like Healthcare](https://par4san.substack.com/p/the-most-transformative-rural-health) _2026-07-25 · San · San’s Substack_ A walking group. A school kitchen. A ride to a clinic. A paramedic who treats you at home instead of hauling you to an ER 40 miles away. ## [Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC](https://essenceia.github.io/projects/ethernet_switch_asic/) _2026-07-23 · Tales on the wire_ Designing the world’s first open source Ethernet switch ASIC. An unmanaged cut-through 3-port 100Mbps switch fabbed on Global Foundries 180 nm. ## [Pin a list of tables into memory with DBCC PINTABLE.](https://novicksoftware.com/pin-list-tables-memory-dbcc-pintable/) _2026-07-22 · Ian Bachman-Sanders · Novick Software_ Last issue did a comparison of two implementations of the Rot13 algorithm. As part of the experimental design the data that they worked with was pinned into memory with the DBCC PINTABLE command. Once the table was pinned and the contents forced into memory by a select that covered the whole table, all the table s \[ \] The post Pin a list of tables into memory with DBCC PINTABLE. appeared first on… ## [FCC has sudo rights: new regulation on consumer grade routers.](https://essenceia.github.io/thoughts/fcc_has_sudo_rights/) _2026-07-20 · Tales on the wire_ Discussion on the new regulations imposed by the FCC on consumer grade routers ## [A field guide to rendering: from triangles to Gaussians](https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2026/07/19/a-field-guide-to-rendering) _2026-07-18 · 4rknova.com_ A tour of how 3D scenes become pixels: rasterization, voxels, the ray casting to path tracing lineage, ray marching, point clouds, and the captured turn from NeRF to Gaussian splatting. ## [Interlude: Thoughts On Some Cryptic Riddle Quests](https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/07/19/interlude-thoughts-on-some-cryptic-riddle-quests/) _2026-07-18 · Mark R Johnson · Dr Mark R Johnson_ Hello everyone! I m taking a short mid-year break right now to recharge, not do much work / game dev, and focus on leisure and relaxation for a little while, as well as catching up some larger but less urgent life admin / life jobs that need doing but can be hard to find the time \[ \] ## [Late—but Not Slow: Fourteen States Join the RHTP Implementation Race](https://par4san.substack.com/p/latebut-not-slow-fourteen-states) _2026-07-18 · San · San’s Substack_ Texas has moved into a category of its own, while the latest state activity reveals a second divide: who can participate in the next phase of rural health transformation? ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7BkNp5qrIDf4) _2026-07-18 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [Remigriamoli tutti](https://paolobietolini.com/blog/remigriamoli-tutti) _2026-07-18 · Paolo Bietolini_ Sì, dico di remigrarli. Anzi, deportarli tutti. Tutti, dal primo all'ultimo. Stanno qui nel nostro paese, dove noi abbiamo avuto il privilegio di nascere, e con ingra titudine sfruttano le nostre risorse, ci tolgono il lavoro e fanno alzare i prezzi. ## [Remigrate them all](https://paolobietolini.com/blog/remigrate-them-all) _2026-07-18 · Paolo Bietolini_ Yes, I'm saying we should remigrate them. No — deport them. All of them, down to the last one. They live here, in our country, the one we had the privilege of being born in, and with sheer ingratitude they drain our resources, take our jobs, and drive prices up. ## [My AI coding workflow: Making specs, implementation and review](https://kostja.me/posts/5) _2026-07-18 · Blog_ ## [Why Multi-Site FSSC 22000 Version 7 Implementation Stalls](https://www.foodsafety-experts.com/fssc-22000-version-7-implementation-stalls/) _2026-07-16 · Kitty Appels · Food Safety Experts_ The post Why Multi-Site FSSC 22000 Version 7 Implementation Stalls appeared first on Food Safety Experts . ## [Multi Site FSSC 22000 Version 7 Implementation](https://www.foodsafety-experts.com/multi-site-fssc-22000-version-7-implementation/) _2026-07-15 · Kitty Appels · Food Safety Experts_ The post Multi Site FSSC 22000 Version 7 Implementation appeared first on Food Safety Experts . ## [I’ve retired – again](https://chrisgreendevelopmentblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/ive-retired-from-valve-again/) _2026-07-14 · aachrisg · Casual Numerics_ Here is a semi-organized list of things I have worked on:https://chrisgreendevelopmentblog.wordpress.com/about/ Here is a link to an AMA i started if anyone has questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1uyk4wf/ama\_retired\_from\_game\_and\_tech\_industry\_after\_45/. I recently came around to thinking that not working full time at age 60 after a 45 year career didn t make me a slacker and that I… ## [Introducing Parkographer: Track (and Prove) Every U.S. National Park You've Visited](https://tmsvr.com/introducing-parkographer-track-and-prove-every-u-s-national-park-youve-visited/) _2026-07-13 · Imre Tomosvari · TMSVR - Dev Blog_ Parkographer is a free tracker for all 63 U.S. National Parks - check off your visits, fill in your map, earn ranks, and GPS-verify you were really there. ## [Administrator General’s Department Wins 2026 Public Sector Debate Competition](https://publicsectortransformation.gov.jm/administrator-generals-department-wins-2026-public-sector-debate-competition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=administrator-generals-department-wins-2026-public-sector-debate-competition) _2026-07-13 · Paula-She Hastings · Transformation Implementation Unit (TIU)_ The Administrator General’s Department emerged winner of this year’s fifth staging of the Public Sector Debate Competition, outperforming a record field of public-sector teams. The Accountant General’s Department secured second place, followed by the Teaching Service in third, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade placed fourth. Speaking at the grand finale, held on Thursday… ## [Automate typescript refactors with dosido](https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/dosido-release/) _2026-07-13 · "Jared Forsyth" · All posts | JaredForsyth.com_ I don’t know about you, but my personal projects often metastasize. I start going in one direction, and after a while I’ve learned a lot about what I really want so I start a fresh implementation in a new subfolder, and along the way I’m building tools and libraries as I discover I need them. After a while it’s a tangled mess, where the production app uses maybe 30% of the code, and there are at… ## [Why React Compiler Can Render Stale Data in MobX observer Components](https://littlepotato.me/posts/react-compiler-mobx-memoization/) _2026-07-13 · Beyond Coordinates_ A minimal reproduction of React Compiler caching stale JSX around MobX observer, why interior mutability conflicts with memoization, and the practical fixes available today. ## [Just Let Me Write Digits](https://gendignoux.com/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html) _2026-07-13 · Guillaume Endignoux_ Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years. They have also brought many controversies: age verification laws and what they mean for online anonymity, Wikipedia potentially having to verify the identify of its users in the UK, the reliance on official iOS and Android operating systems as mandatory form factors for digital identity… ## [Engineering with AI agents II](https://steffenhaeussler.github.io/posts/2026-06-28-engineering_ai_2/engineering/) _2026-07-12 · About me_ Hi, Four weeks ago , I looked into Temporal.io as a platform for building and orchestration reliable workflows. I looked at it through the lens of distributed systems, combining it with concepts from Martin Kleppmann’s Designing Data-Intensive Applications (for reference, DDIA) . In this post, I team up with Claude Code and Codex to rebuild these core architectural ideas using LangGraph and… ## [Corso Google Tag Manager, Episodio 1: lo script e il Data Layer](https://paolobietolini.com/blog/corso-gtm-episodio-1-script-e-datalayer) _2026-07-11 · Paolo Bietolini_ Questo è il primo episodio di una serie dedicata a Google Tag Manager. L'obiettivo non è il solito tutorial 'clicca qui, poi qui': voglio spiegare come funziona GTM davvero, sotto l'interfaccia, e demistificare alcune convinzioni che negli anni si sono sedimentate attorno allo strumento. Si parte dal client-side, la modalità più semplice e più usata, per arrivare, più avanti nella serie, al… ## [The Rural Technology Frontier Is No Longer Far Away](https://par4san.substack.com/p/the-rural-technology-frontier-is) _2026-07-11 · San · San’s Substack_ AI scribes, remote monitoring, robotic ultrasound, surgical robots, and virtual reality are entering rural healthcare. The real test is whether they can become dependable care infrastructure... ## [Strata](https://www.catch22.net/blog/2026-07-10-strata/) _2026-07-10 · Catch22_ Introducing Strata After a long period of inactivity, one of the older parts of Catch22 HexEdit has recently come back to life. The original HexEdit (does anyone remember this still!?) had a feature called TypeLib for describing structured binary data. The language and parser I built predates HexEdit’s 2012-era implementation by several years, and I haven’t touched the code in a long… ## [Strata](https://www.catch22.net/blog/2026-07-10-strata/) _2026-07-10 · Catch22_ Introducing Strata After a long period of inactivity, one of the older parts of Catch22 HexEdit has recently come back to life. The original HexEdit (does anyone remember this still!?) had a feature called TypeLib for describing structured binary data. The language and parser I built predates HexEdit’s 2012-era implementation by several years, and I haven’t touched the code in a long… ## [Excuse me while I kiss the sky 🌅🍄‍🟫](https://vignatti.com/posts/excuse-me-while-i-kiss-the-sky/) _2026-07-09 · Tiago Vignatti_ My brother’s award-winning book. ## [FTAs: Reforms coming to Australia's approach to trade negotiations](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/ftas-reforms-coming-to-australias) _2026-07-09 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ Last week, the Trade and Investment Agreements (Consultation) Bill 2026 (the Bill) was introduced to the Australian Parliament. The Bill is meant to “improve transparency and community input into FTA negotiations”, and contains requirements for the government to announce when negotiations start, publish negotiating objectives, obtain independent analysis of agreements, and review agreements after… ## [Using embedded etcd as distributed local store.](https://blog.mnguyen.fr/blog/2026-07-09-embedded-etcd) _2026-07-09 · Marc Nguyen's Blog_ Easy high availability for stateful services. ## [Indigenous Economic Participation Assessment of Implementation](https://www.oag.ab.ca/reports/indigenous-economic-participation-assessment-of-implementation-2/) _2026-07-08 · Tim Hanson · Reports Archive - Office of the Auditor General, Alberta_ We assessed the implementation of the recommendation from our May 2022 audit of Indigenous Economic Participation. The Department of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration has implemented our recommendation.