"The technical improvements were ultimately a side benefit of this agentic rewrite. The real business function was publicity. It helped Anthropic tell the story it needs to tell, the story that “AI is enough”." Brilliant piece by @raymyers.bsky.social raymyers.org/post/zed-cre...

Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.

raymyers.org

If you really need to visit an x/twitter URL without having an x account and without giving that site your data, replace `x.com` by `twiiit.com`. More info: twiiit.com - thanks to @chr15m.bsky.social for this tool which finds an available nitter instance.

I'm porting Quake to 3D CSS, so it runs in the browser without WebGL. It's open source 👹 Play it! cssquake.com Repo: github.com/LayoutitStud...

Something awesome about Bluesky: 1. I see a post I'd like to load in my agent. 2. "wouldn't it be nice if I could give it the atproto link?" 3. Wait, markdown would be better, let's try renaming the domain to bsky.md on the off-chance… 4. It works 🤯

bsky.md — Bluesky as Markdown

Fetch any public Bluesky content as clean, portable Markdown. No auth, no API key.

bsky.md

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

Journal of Open Source Software

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.

joss.theoj.org

Last week, I gave a keynote at appliedml.us/2026/ on machine learning and engineering. Like a lot of us, I've had questions and anxiety around software development today. The talk covers why good engineering is still important (and 🌷). vickiboykis.com/2026/04/20/b...

Build yourself flowers

Living and working in a world of generated code.

vickiboykis.com

This week on Counting Stuff, how I approach reviewing other people's code and work! tl;dr the point is to make stuff that's already going out be slightly better as it leaves the door, not be a gatekeeping jerk #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/code-review-...

Code review for data (and non-SWE) folks

TL;DR is, your job as a reviewer is to help the reviewee come up with better code than they initially did.

counting-stuff.com

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

alright tanglers, it's back to shipping 🛳️ 🌐 Tangled Sites is here: serve websites straight from your repo. grab your `tngl.io` domain at tangled.org/settings/sites. already have a `tngl.sh` handle? that's your domain—ready to go! 📄 docs.tangled.org/hosting-webs...

Few days before @coderefinery.org workshop, Spring 2026! This year, on top of the usual hands-on teaching of git, GitHub, reproducibility, good coding practices we have something new: "Responsible Use of Generative AI in Assisted Coding"! The workshop is 100% free and happens entirely via TwitchTV

CodeRefinery workshop March 17-19 and 24-26, 2026

Free workshop on git, testing, documentation, and more in a workshop - for researchers and scientists.

coderefinery.github.io

I enjoyed reading "An introduction to Kubernetes" by @jeremyjordan.me. The blog post is not new but it is still excellent. The intro gave me just the right level of detail and overview.

As a connoisseur of online color tools, it’s such a delight to discover a new funky take on the palette generator experience. I love the Teenage Engineering / Dieter Rams aesthetic here colorpalette.pro

Color Palette Pro — A Synthesizer for Color Palettes

Generate customizable color palettes in advanced color spaces that can be easily shared, downloaded, or exported.

colorpalette.pro

I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/...

The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement

As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …

simonwillison.net

TIL that SQLite has R-trees: www.sqlite.org/rtree.html This means that I can have a lightweight and portable "mini-PostGIS" database all in one file for super fast range queries that I can take with me to any other computer.

Here is what I've been doing this past week: git.olaren.dev/Olaren/mapto... A little python program that generates poster for cities! You might have seen stuff like this around lately, but I modified it to put an emphasis on rail infrastructure :3

formats over apps

A Social Filesystem — overreacted

Formats over apps.

overreacted.io

My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU

so pumped for the ty beta to finally be here, we did so much great work it rules! astral.sh/blog/ty

ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server

ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.

astral.sh

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Diátaxis is an amazing resource that I recommend to everyone writing documentation or tutorials: diataxis.fr I find myself returning to it every few weeks, and each time I learn something new. #documentation

A bug in my code produced a psychedelic map. This was supposed to look very different but I liked the result. #dataviz

1st episode of 2025 winter season of #code4thought: radovan.xyz, Richard & samumantha.bsky.social explain how the coderefinery.org helps researchers get up to speed with the digital/software skills they all need. Out not on your podcast app, YouTube podcast and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Code for Thought

Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it.  Languages: English, German, French

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Today I watched "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake" [C. Muratori] - amazing presentation and a carefully researched history lesson about OOP, about where the core ideas came from and where some really good ideas got lost: www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oo...

The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake

My presentation from the inaugural Better Software Conference, with notes.

computerenhance.com

Looking back at years of doing web development with a tiny browser console log window and complaining about it until I learned that I can configure it to use a separate window.

It is such a joy to browse the amazing interactive articles by Bartosz Ciechanowski - like this one (but there is so much more!): ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.

ciechanow.ski

💡 TIL that G. Voronyi (of Voronoi diagrams) was the doctoral advisor of B. N. Delaunay (Delaunay triangulation) and W. Sierpiński (Sierpiński fractals).

Trying out my first Windows installation in this century - what did I miss?

We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

unidata.ucar.edu

US-RSE is here! 🎉 @us-rse.bsky.social