Cycles of disruption in the tech industry: with software pioneers Kent Beck & Martin Fowler
Parallels between technology shifts in the past decades and what we’re seeing with AI. Also: ways to avoid burnout when working with AI agents, TDD back in style, and more.
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing—restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers—sounds necessary to me
Anthropic didn’t release their latest model, Claude Mythos (system card PDF), today. They have instead made it available to a very restricted set of preview partners under their newly announced …
Terminal cockpit for your servers. Search, connect, transfer files, manage containers and run commands across hosts. Syncs from 16 cloud providers. Edits ~/.ssh/config directly. - erickochen/purple
pg_column_size(): What you see is not what you get | My DBA Notebook
Thanks to my colleague Ozair, who sent me a JIRA ticket saying “I need to drop that huge column, what are the consequences?” My first question was: how huge? That’s when the rabbit hole opened.
It looks simple. It is simple. Just use the administrative function pg_column_size(). Until you have toasted attributes. Then it gets interesting.
A bit of history 🔗pg_column_size() was added in PostgreSQL 8.1 by Mark Kirkwood (commit a9236028).
Our Rails Upgrade Methodology as Claude Code Skills - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service
An Open Source Claude Code skill based on our 60,000+ hours of Rails upgrade experience. Learn how our opinionated methodology teaches Claude Code to upgrade Rails, fast.
AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy
An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions
Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise Date: March 31, 2026 Author: Jason Saayman Status: Remediation in progress On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were...
Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again
With Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. At The Pragmatic Summit: www.pragmaticsummit.com. See a writeup of the talk: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cyc...
There’s a lot not to like about the new “every menu item needs an icon” feature in macOS Tahoe. They add visual noise to the menus. They make menus more inefficient to scan. They often result in an inconsistent alignment of menu item titles.…