“Every 6mo delete your CLAUDE.md, delete your skills, delete your hooks. See what the model does, it might surprise you”
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt
YouTube video by Y Combinator
youtu.be
Pires
@pires.dev
Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
cool job(s) alert! A few jobs I've heard about that may interest folks — if any of the below sound like you, drop me a line. PLEASE, no recruiters! * Security / Applied-Cryptography Engineer (Senior/Staff): Experience building with hardware enclaves (AWS Nitro), remote attestation, and key mgmnt.
Sweet baby jesus, this is an incredible read. Kudos to HF for transparency.
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
TIL - immediate concern is how to benchmark this (their abstraction plus any underlying storage layer) vs Kafka w/ built-in storage layer. However, the simplification of the broker seems very appealing to anyone who has operated Kafka "at scale".
GitHub - tansu-io/tansu: Apache Kafka® compatible broker with S3, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake
Apache Kafka® compatible broker with S3, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake - tansu-io/tansu
github.com
🚨🚨 Beware, breaking changes and lots of improvements ahead 🚨🚨
Release v0.15.0 · pires/go-proxyproto
v0.15.0 This release aligns the library with PROXY protocol spec 3.4 (2026/04/27). It tightens parsing and trust behavior to match the spec's requirements — which makes some previously accepted inp...
github.com
Fable5 is absolutely useless for working on any existing project regardless of whether it's OSS. Asked it to critique a reported issue: blocked! Asked it to review my changes based on said reported issue: blocked! Asked for any code review w/ focus on security and reliability aspects: blocked!
Terence Kims Flips Puzzle Table
ALT: Terence Kims Flips Puzzle Table
static.klipy.com
The gap between hype and reality for AI is vast. karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-...
The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
karlbode.com
For a project CNCF considers dead, not a bad second minor release for 2026 - thank you so very much to all contributors
Release v1.13.0 · virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet
What's Changed fix: resolve memory leak in deletedPods map for sync providers by @jasperdotsh in #1397 avoid panic when node controller shutting down by @xuzhenglun in #1396 fix: cancel exec/attac...
github.com
TIL git-ratchet as a way to ensure Git repos you depend on haven't been tampered with based on data available to a witness network that records said repos changes in a cryptographic-proven way. Also, github.com/gittuf/gittuf
GitHub - project-oak/git-ratchet
Contribute to project-oak/git-ratchet development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Interested in HAProxy's PROXY protocol support for Go apps & are (considering) using the lib I created years ago? Please, take a look at a set of breaking changes I am proposing to align better w/ the current spec, all while improving test coverage, docs/examples, and default security posture.
BREAKING: from spec 2.3 to 3.4 by pires · Pull Request #178 · pires/go-proxyproto
@emersion would be great to get your eyes on this massive PR 😅 as it will become a breaking change minor release - I really don't want to do a v2 Go module 😓 Summary Aligns the library with PRO...
github.com
Lots of testing and docs love, including many example tests and runnables to make it easier to adopt.
Release v0.14.0 · pires/go-proxyproto
What's Changed tls: revisit tests and docs by @pires in #174 Several improvements by @pires in #175 build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.39.0 to 0.55.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #176 docs: READM...
github.com
There is a clear acceleration in the path from Vibe Science to Agentic Science and ultimately Autonomous Science. Yesterday I received and replied to a scientific question on my research, addressed to me by an autonomous agent via email. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
When Science Goes Agentic | Communications of the ACM
dl.acm.org
Portugal, de que estamos à espera? Capacete obrigatório e proibição do uso de telemóvel são o mínimo.
Euronews@euronews.com · last mo.The government has approved a reform to the General Traffic Regulations making helmets compulsory for e-scooter users nationwide and setting a minimum age of 15. The measure forms part of a road safety package. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Y3Un
AI is an amplifier including for problems you may or may not (yet!) have run into. Great talk, lots of gems in it. Food for thought at its finest and very timely.
Software engineering at the tipping point
YouTube video by Google for Developers
youtube.com
@iroh.computer session would be enough for me to attend but life decided differently app-2026.localfirstconf.com/schedule/day...
Iroh: syncing terabytes of data, peer-to-peer – Day 2 – Local-First Conf 2026
The world's first and best event dedicated to local-first software.
app-2026.localfirstconf.com
Martin Kleppmann@martin.kleppmann.com · 2mo agoLocal-First Conf @localfirstconf.com is now sold out, and the schedule looks excellent – lots of great people speaking! app-2026.localfirstconf.com/schedule
The data includes some sensitive stuff, like employees giving feedback on their employer. The data confirms: Nintendo employees are happy at work. End of story, everybody loves a happy ending.
Today we're launching the missing piece for GPU profiling in open source. The team has really outdone themselves in this one!
Polar Signals@polarsignals.com · 2mo ago🚀 Launching today: GPU PC sampling in production. Instruction-level profiling telling you why and where warps stall. Whether it is memory latency, scoreboard waits, or barriers. 🧊 Previously NSight-only territory. Now running in prod with low overhead. www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...
This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...
Can’t wait for the UCI to be retired. What a bunch of parasites.
DC Rainmaker@dcrainmaker.com · 2mo agoThe UCI has announced a new set of rules targeting the maximum size of cycling GPS units (for real). I dig into why, why it's (mostly) dumb, and what it means for today's units: www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/06/maxi...
I just want to purchase something from your store. I do not want to make an account first nor do I want to do a survey afterwards. Take my money, give me the merchandise, and disappear. That is all you need to do and all I want you to do.
Now that I have a shiny new blog, I want to post something I put up on LinkedIn recently. This is a better way to publish vs. that dystopian address book. It has been 10 years since I kicked off SPIFFE. Thank you to the folks that made it actually happen. joe.dev/posts/10-yea...
10 Years of SPIFFE
A decade ago I wrote the design doc for SPIFFE. Workload identity is finally having its moment.
joe.dev
Is it just me or @firefox.com on iOS has been misbehaving since a couple releases ago? Increasing ads and videos auto-starting when I explicitly set “block audio/video autoplay”, and now the search bar randomly shows up in the middle of the screen.
Wow! SPIFFE is becoming mainstream, finally. Well done, @anthropic.com. @h.olysh.it is proud.
Use WIF with SPIFFE
Authenticate SPIRE-issued workloads to the Claude API using JWT-SVIDs and the SPIFFE OIDC Discovery Provider.
platform.claude.com