# Bookmarks

*2026-10-23*

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These are articles and links that I've saved from around the web using [Raindrop.io](https://raindrop.io)

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{{< bookmark-card image="1819924045.png" title="Explorers, exploiters, and the myth of the 100x engineer - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/08/05/the-myth-of-the-100x-engineer/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2026-08-14" tags="tech, programming, productivity" excerpt="The “find the special ones and promote their traits” approach isn’t the best or only way to drive AI adoption and productivity on an engineering team." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1819919422.png" title="“Gravity is worth asking about.” – Unsung" link="https://unsung.aresluna.org/gravity-is-worth-asking-about/" domain="unsung.aresluna.org" date="2026-08-14" tags="tech, history" excerpt="A blog about software craft and quality" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1815828431.webp" title="Don't be a meat proxy" link="https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/" domain="gruhn.me" date="2026-08-10" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1815825314.webp" title="I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park" link="https://taylor.town/leaving-openai" domain="taylor.town" date="2026-08-10" tags="ai, tech" excerpt="Gonna send you back to the stone age." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1805189385.jpg" title="Long Presumed Dead, a West African Reef Is Found Thriving" link="https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef" domain="e360.yale.edu" date="2026-07-30" tags="science, history" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1805189314.png" title="Claude Is Not a Compiler - exe.dev blog" link="https://blog.exe.dev/claude-is-not-a-compiler" domain="blog.exe.dev" date="2026-07-30" tags="tech, ai, programming, code" excerpt="Claude Is Not a Compiler" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1799979914.png" title="Meet the Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data Into a Video Game - exe.dev blog" link="https://blog.exe.dev/meet-the-conservationist-who-turned-40-terabytes-of-government-data-into-a-video-game" domain="blog.exe.dev" date="2026-07-24" tags="tech, programming, games" excerpt="Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail" link="https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html" domain="fabiensanglard.net" date="2026-07-24" tags="tech, history" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1797726968.jpg" title="The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion" link="https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/" domain="research.google" date="2026-07-22" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1797726518.webp" title="Control the ideas, not the code - antirez" link="https://antirez.com/news/169" domain="antirez.com" date="2026-07-22" tags="programming, code, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1797726375.png" title="AI Model Token Cost Benchmark | Playcode Blog" link="https://playcode.io/blog/real-price-of-frontier-models" domain="playcode.io" date="2026-07-22" tags="ai, tech, programming, code, javascript" excerpt="If you build with an AI coding agent, your workload is basically TypeScript - and that's exactly where the model tokenizer gap is widest. The same TypeScript file becomes 1,178 tokens on Claude's newest tokenizer versus 681 on GPT-5.x's o200k: 1.73x more, before a cent of price d" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1797726255.png" title="The truth about being a manager" link="https://sofiakodar.github.io/posts/becomingmanager/" domain="sofiakodar.github.io" date="2026-07-22" tags="leadership, management, business" excerpt="I vividly remember most of my own journey into engineering management over the years. Throughout my career, I’ve also mentored several people taking the step from engineer to engineering manager. It’s a challenging and often lonely journey, and here are a few truths most new mana" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1797726131.jpg" title="Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web" link="https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/" domain="tedium.co" date="2026-07-22" tags="programming, tech, code, security" excerpt="The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1797725998.png" title="You can't unit test for taste" link="https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/" domain="dev.karltryggvason.com" date="2026-07-22" tags="tech, programming, testing" excerpt="I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world. The app tallies up your Strava mileage and plots your total distance as progress against country- or continent-spanning routes. The intention is to provide long-term inspiration and moti" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1786950529.webp" title="Why I Stopped Arguing With People" link="https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html" domain="wangcong.org" date="2026-07-10" tags="tech, programming" excerpt="I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1786950350.png" title="Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36 | Blog | HeyOnCall" link="https://heyoncall.com/blog/fixing-kubernetes-kubelet-memory-leak" domain="heyoncall.com" date="2026-07-10" tags="tech, code" excerpt="How I tracked down a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet which leaked a context on every startPodSync." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1786950213.webp" title="/Wakamoleguy - home of the wakamoleguy" link="https://wakamoleguy.com/p/flexible-gates" domain="wakamoleguy.com" date="2026-07-10" tags="tech, programming" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1772284325.webp" title="I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub" link="https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/" domain="orchidfiles.com" date="2026-06-25" tags="tech, security" excerpt="This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to f" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1772284271.webp" title="I hate compilers" link="https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-wasm-vendor-binary/" domain="xeiaso.net" date="2026-06-25" tags="tech, code, programming" excerpt="You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1767832984.jpg" title="Loop Engineering" link="https://addyosmani.com/blog/loop-engineering/" domain="addyosmani.com" date="2026-06-21" tags="ai, productivity, programming, tech" excerpt="You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus s..." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1766180062.webp" title="Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work" link="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/" domain="simonwillison.net" date="2026-06-20" tags="programming, tech, ai, productivity" excerpt="In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1766178033.png" title="I Didn't Become a Developer to Review AI Slop" link="https://www.builder.io/blog/developers-drowning-in-ai-prs" domain="builder.io" date="2026-06-20" tags="programming, tech, ai, productivity" excerpt="AI makes PRs cheap, but trust is still expensive. Why developers are stuck reviewing endless AI slop and how automated code review can fix the bottleneck." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1763869724.jpg" title="Agentic Code Review" link="https://addyosmani.com/blog/agentic-code-review/" domain="addyosmani.com" date="2026-06-19" tags="programming, tech, ai, productivity" excerpt="Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code..." >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1762200915.jpg" title="Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overflow-for-agents/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2026-06-18" tags="tech, ai, product" excerpt="" >}}
{{< bookmark-card image="1762200407.jpg" title="What can 500 years of journalism teach developers about AI trustworthiness? - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/08/what-can-500-years-of-journalism-teach-developers-about-ai-trustworthiness/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2026-06-18" tags="tech, ai, history" excerpt="" >}}

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