BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), fighting on Ukraine's side, on what surprises captured Russian soldiers the most: "What strikes them the most is how they are treated - with humanity rather than with the cruelty they have grown accustomed to in civilian life& in war

Haha! bsky.app/profile/mela...

Melanie Crissey@melaniecrissey.com · 2w ago

Maybe try recording a casual walking down the street selfie video reading the PRD to the camera

So many interesting details. Here's one: "One thing I’ve heard from some people is “we have two humans and a bunch of agents.” I reply that this isn’t where we’re at: we still have teams with 6-8 people on average." - Katelyn Lesse, Head of Engineering, Claude Platform, Anthropic

The Pragmatic Engineer.@pragmaticengineer.com · last wk.

How is building software changing inside of one of most "AI-pilled" companies, Anthropic? We talked with engineers inside the AI lab to get more details. Spoiler: two-pizza teams have not gone anywhere! Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-ant...

Langenscheidt kickt „Mehrzweckeier“ aus den Top 10 für das Jugendwort des Jahres. Denkt der Verlag, Jugendsprache ist nicht politisch? Peinlich.

Jugendwort des Jahres: Langenscheidt, leck Eier!

Langenscheidt kickt „Mehrzweckeier“ aus den Top 10 für das Jugendwort des Jahres. Denkt der Verlag, Jugendsprache ist nicht politisch? Peinlich.

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If only the Query verb existed in http years ago

A Ukrainian gunner shoots down Russian drones from a Yak-52 in the skies over Odesa region. Yak-52 doesn't have machine guns so drones are shot down by a Defender in the pilot instructor seat.

Best Glovo and KFC ad ever, I believe. Delivering fast food to positions by Warriors of the 3rd Regiment of the Special Operations Forces via a drone.

I promise I will shut up about Codeberg after this :) lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/24/co...

Codeberg Divides

Codeberg drew a democratic, but suboptimal line.

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We've recently made Pi's cache behavior more visible. This site has been debating whether agent harnesses are helping or quietly torching their caches. That seemed like a good excuse to explain how KV caches actually work and how Pi helps (or doesn't). earendil.com/posts/prompt...

Prompt Caching In Agents | EARENDIL

How prompt caching shapes the cost, latency, tools, and architecture of coding agents, and what Pi does to keep cache behavior visible.

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"I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software." - A Eulogy For Vim drewdevault.com/blog/Forking...

“Loopers”: people who believe that loops actually work

I seem to get less spam on weekends than on weekdays. I wonder if spam is actually a business like any other… one with office hours

A full Gleam takeover 🤯

Gleam mirror on tangled!!!!

Gleam Programming Language@gleam.run · 3w ago

Hi @tangled.org ! tangled.org/gleam.run

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

this is fun! Is The Economist always wrong? www.economist.com/interactive/...

Using an Intel Mac for the first time in years.

seems like every other package published to hex these days has been vibe coded,, are there any discussions in the BEAM community about the long-term effects this is gonna have on our package ecosystem?

A groundhog named Chunk has been stealing a Delaware farmer's crops for four years and eating them in front of a camera

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

Elixir Radar issue 514 is out! 📣 You can read it here: buff.ly/p1A7wi1 #ElixirLang

Elixir Radar Newsletter

Curated content from the Elixir community

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I cannot tell why it was exactly

MDN's Web Security documentation overhaul by @openwebdocs.org is complete! The entire MDN security content tree has been reworked and now features in-depth information on: - Attacks - Defenses - Authentication - Threat Modeling ↪️ Blog post openwebdocs.org/content/post...

Open Web Docs - Blog

Open Web Docs supports web platform documentation for the benefit of web developers & designers worldwide. We are a community of web developers, standards makers, and technology companies that rely on...

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Draußen 30 Grad, drin im Berliner Haus der Kulturen der Welt ist der Saal voll: für Dipesh Chakrabarty und die zweite seiner drei Walter Benjamin Lectures (eine Art Historisierung von postcolonial studies). Ein Radiogespräch mit ihm unterm Link unten 👇🏾

René Aguigah@aguigah.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hab mich sehr über die Gelegenheit gefreut, Dipesh Chakrabarty ein paar Fragen zu stellen: zu ‚Provincialising Europe’ und zum ‚Klima der Geschichte’ — ein Gespräch vom Globus zum Planeten 🙏🏾🎧 share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

🚀 Zed v1.8 is out! The new `agent.terminal_init_command` setting runs a command automatically whenever you open a new terminal thread in the agent panel.

Juan Manuel Azambuja introduces Elixir Observer - a beautifully designed tool built to help developers easily discover everything Elixir has to offer: youtu.be/sPVmCS-yTho 🚨 LAST CHANCE to grab ElixirConf US 2026 Early Bird tickets: elixirconf.com