Coding has changed so much since the start of this year. I've appreciated reading other software engineers' takes on their workflows with AI and genuinely mixed feelings. I read back through my favorite posts and pulled excerpts from them into one place. emschwartz.me/notes-from-t...

Notes from the AI Coding Transition

Like many other software engineers, my coding workflow has changed dramatically since the start of 2026. And like many others, I've felt some mix of awe, gri...

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The June product update for Scour is up! There were lots of features added this month, including one of my new favorites: discovering links between articles. For any article, you can see what other stories it links to and what sources are covering it. emschwartz.me/scour-june-u...

Scour - June Update

Links between articles, easily grow your feed after reading one, a UI makeover, and more.

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Scour's May product update is up! The main change was smarter topic matching, based on a custom lexical scoring system. You should see more relevant content and fewer off-topic items in your feed. emschwartz.me/scour-may-up...

Scour - May Update

Hi friends, In May, Scour scoured 865,266 posts from 28,671 feeds (1,766 of which were newly added), and 260 new users signed up to bring it across the 3,...

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Scour now supports @standard.site publications ... I think 😅 I couldn't actually find example blogs to test it with that don't also support RSS. Does anyone have examples?

For those in NYC: I'll be speaking at the Rust NYC meetup next week about some fun Rust optimizations I've done on scour.ing. Hope you can make it! www.meetup.com/rust-nyc/eve... #rust

Rust NYC: "Boring File Storage" & "Indie News Feed Optimization", Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Join us on **Thursday, May 21** at **Datadog Times Square**. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:1

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For everyone writing #rustlang, make your Clippy config stricter! I ran into a bug that the compiler didn't catch but a Clippy lint would have, and then went through the lints to figure out which to enable that would catch these types of errors in the future. emschwartz.me/your-clippy-...

Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter

“If it compiles, it works.” This feeling is one of the main things Rust engineers love most about Rust, and a reason why using it with coding agents is espec...

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The April product update for Scour is up! Ranking improvements, save for later, UI improvements, browsing popular topics by category, and more. Plus 5 of my favorite posts I found on Scour this month. Enjoy! emschwartz.me/scour-april-...

Scour - April Update

Hi friends, In April, Scour scoured 778,059 posts from 25,790 feeds. This month, my focus was on ranking improvements and adding a number of new features:...

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The March product update for Scour is up! It includes changes to the ranking algorithm, inline reactions, exact keyword matching, and a way to check why a certain article didn't appear in your feed. Plus, 6 of my favorite posts that I found on Scour last month. Enjoy! emschwartz.me/scour-march-...

Scour - March Update

Feed diversity overhaul, domain and topic affinity, inline reactions, and exact keyword matching.

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For anyone using Claude Code, I cannot recommend the Superpowers plugin by @s.ly enough. I've been raving about it to enough people that I just wrote up my thoughts as a quick blog post emschwartz.me/a-rave-revie...

A Rave Review of Superpowers (for Claude Code)

I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with ...

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https://scour.ing/ has gotten pretty good at surfacing what new stuff I actually want to read on the internet, better than following subreddits. You can see my feed of mostly database things at scour.ing/@linearizable. It surfaces small personal blogs particularly well.

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Scour interesting reads from noisy feeds you can't keep up with and smaller sites you didn't know to check.

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Here's a little post I wrote up with some RSS feeds I think are great but that are generally too noisy to read manually emschwartz.me/great-rss-fe...

Great RSS Feeds That Are Too Noisy to Read Manually

Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you cou...

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Read about all the new features added to Scour in January in the latest product update! New website, docs, app, and logo. Also, hiding seen items, making it easier to discover feeds from great articles, penalizing listicles, and more. emschwartz.me/scour-update...

Scour - January Update

New homepage, logo, app, docs, and more!

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Scour has a brand new homepage. Check it out! scour.ing/about

Stripe is known for having some of the best product docs because they include loads of working examples. I took this as inspiration and spent the last few days building out the docs for Scour. I'm quite proud of the result. emschwartz.me/building-doc...

Building Docs Like a Product

Stripe is famous for having some of the best product docs, largely because they are . I spent much of the last week building and writing the docs for Scour, ...

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Scour.ing's first full year of existence is a wrap! Here's Scour's 2025 by the numbers: • Scour scoured 9,940,460 posts from 15,608 feeds • 1,013 new users signed up • 12,620 interests were added • 26,702 posts were read, 3,023 were liked, and 383 were loved emschwartz.me/scour-year-e...

Scour Year End Update 2025

Happy New Year and thanks for your support in 2025!

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New blog post about a small SQL optimization I came across recently emschwartz.me/short-circui...

Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite

Skipping expensive per-row subqueries to speed up my average query ~17%.

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New blog post about some subtleties of the SQLite query planner and how it uses indexes that I learned while trying to speed up the ranking query for Scour: emschwartz.me/subtleties-o...

Subtleties of SQLite Indexes

Understanding query planner quirks yielded a ~35% speedup.

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@fly.io deployments are hanging waiting for a depot builder but the status page shows no issues with remote builds. Any idea what's up?

I’m a fan of Feedle’s outbound RSS feeds! That made it a nice source to add to scour.ing @preslav.me: preslav.me/2025/07/02/i...

From Outbound to Inbound and Back Again: The Hidden Power of RSS Feeds

Or how we accidentally built a content train station where stories find their way to people who never knew they needed them

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The May update for Scour is out! It includes ∞ infinite scroll, 🎯 inline interest recommendations, 😊 emoji tags, 📨 email updates, and more. 🧵Also, in this thread I'll share some of my favorite posts that I found on Scour last month. emschwartz.me/scour-may-up... scour.ing

Scour - May Update

Infinite scroll, emoji tags, email digests, and more!

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TFW you announce a content recommendation system on Reddit and that same recommendation system puts the announcement post at the top of your feed 😊 scour.ing

The April update for Scour is out: emschwartz.me/scour-april-... Added: 🔥 Hot Mode 🌰 Extra-Liking Posts 🔍 Single-Interest View 💅 Design Update scour.ing

Scour - April Update

Hot Mode, Extra-Liking Posts, Single-Interest View, and a Design Update.

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I wrote a quick blog post about trying out the MASH stack in #rustlang after seeing @8hantanu.net and @emschwartz.me write about it - it was a good time! www.stevexciv.com/blog/zero-to... #rust #webdev #fullstack #mashstack #buildinpublic

I started using the MASH stack as the simplest way to experiment with web apps being a dev with no web background. Seeing @emschwartz use it for a production site validates that experiment—grateful he gave it a try! Now, I’m more confident in building future web apps with MASH. yree.io/mash

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I wrote a blog post about building a website using the "MASH" Stack in #rustlang. Enjoy -- and let me know what you think! emschwartz.me/building-a-f...

I wrote a blog post about building a website using the "MASH" Stack in #rustlang. Enjoy -- and let me know what you think! emschwartz.me/building-a-f...

Building a fast website with the MASH stack in Rust

Maud, Axum, SQLx, and HTMX make for a snappy UX and pleasant DX.

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@radar.cloudflare.com please approve the verified bot application for scour.ing 🙏 (it would be nice if you could give some feedback after submitting that form — confirmation that it’s been received, timeline, next steps, etc)

I appreciate that @umami.is is _actually_ easy to self-host, and has guides for lots of common hosting providers. Feels like plenty of self-hostable software is pretty cumbersome to get up and running.

I gave my first presentation about Scour at the Rust NYC meetup last week! The talk went through the motivations and 3 parts of the architecture that make it fast. Video and slides are here: emschwartz.me/scour-presen... #rustlang

[Video] Scour Presentation @ Rust NYC

Here’s the recording of my presentation about at the Rust NYC Meetup (). The presentation goes through the motivation for Scour and aspects of the archit...

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Scour now uses @htmx.org, so it’s officially built with the “MASH stack” yree.io/mash/ scour.ing

Scour now provides personalized topic recommendations for you! Give it a try and let me know what you think scour.ing/interests