I'll be too busy updating my SPAs to Vite 8 to have time updating my static sites to Astro-whatever-the-number-is-now.
12.03.2026 23:46
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I'll be too busy updating my SPAs to Vite 8 to have time updating my static sites to Astro-whatever-the-number-is-now.
Sigh. I stopped loving Astro when I realized they shipped major versions more often than I update the sites I build with it.
The worst part is I got interested in Astro after realizing Hugo would always break my sites because they couldn't bring themselves to release 1.0. 🙄😖
Pawel Huryn @PawelHuryn .6h The real story is worse. X November 2025: Amazon mandates Kiro as their only Al coding tool. Sets an 80% weekly usage target. 1,500 engineers protest internally, saying Claude Code outperforms it. Leadership pushes through anyway. December: Kiro autonomously deletes a production AWS environment. 13-hour outage. Amazon's response: "user error, not Al autonomy." March 5: Amazon[.Jcom goes down for 6 hours. Checkout, pricing, accounts — all gone. Now the same SVP who co-signed the Kiro mandate is running an emergency meeting about "high blast radius" incidents from "Gen-Al assisted changes." The agent inherited a senior engineer's permissions and acted like one — except it doesn't hesitate. 1,500 engineers said the tool wasn't ready. Leadership made adoption a KPI. Amazon told Wall Street it's spending $200B on Al this year. They can't walk it back. This isn't an Al failure. It's what happens when adoption becomes a corporate OKR before the review process catches up. + The tools work. The org chart didn't.
this Amazon ops issues thing is craaaaazy
The decentralized nature of the internet is going to become very obviously important again.
Maybe but if everybody runs their "decentralized" whatever in a major data center, it makes no difference. P2P and people hosting from home would fare well. Except of course for any dependence on a cloud thing to initiate a connection. I'd struggle outside my home if tailscale was taken out.
OH: “And that’s why rules based plans reviews are better than AI ones.”
I am now eavesdropping intensely to hear what went wrong.
Panel 1: Man at his computer, his phone vibrates Panel 2: Man looking at a headline on his phone that says “Endless hell grows again!” Panel 3 & 4: Man puts his phone down and continues working, looking perturbed
Morning all
"Reusing battle tested primitives" i how things are going to get built. Everybody's needs are different, but there are some things that are the same for everyone. If they're at all important you'd be crazy not to use a battle tested library or service for that part, even as you cook up your own app.
I think this gap is EXTREMELY real in a business sense and yet there is also the revealed other thing here which is a great deal of people in the world will never be remotely of interest to SaaS, and we know it, and those people still have needs suited to software
“The Women’s Issue” of Bakersfield Life magazine with two cover models who are old white dudes in suites.
Happy International Women’s Day!
Speech-to-text apps are one of the categories that have proliferated in this new era. They’re easy to Claude into existence
There’s still a big gap between “app works” and “something I can rely on” that I think the vibe coding conversation frequently skips over
So much truth here. Except in the most trivial cases it’s still hard to make sorftware that works well for you even if all the code is written for you. If anything I think AI is going to force people to realize that writing software was never primarily about writing code. It was all the other stuff.
Dropserver progress update for February: I talk about how I handle the conflicts inherent to allowing users to have multiple ways of identifying themselves.
olivierforget.net/blog/2026/dr...
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Did C see this same level of resistance? Did people insist on programs written in assembler?
Thanks.
What were the issues in a nutshell? Have you tried Netbird?
(I'm happy with ts but curious.)
Looks like that "army commander says war is to make Armageddon happen" thing didn't happen. My bad for sharing
Is there a preferred approach for SSR'd web components that the team has settled on?
I was in Quebec last week when someone pointed out the rule change and poof just like that my daughters can be Canadian. It’s very comforting to know they have that. Options are good in this day and age.
Having to guess or manually hunt for these situations myself is so last century.
Nice explanations, thank you. Here's hoping the dev tools detect these situations and surface the explanation in the CSS panel. 🤞
This has been the trajectory for over a decade. "Organising the world's information" means that Google does the organising, and they treat independent information as a threat that they then work to eliminate.
My read on it is that you can hosy your own git repos but accept contributions via AT protocol. Decentralized GitHub.
I'm building on atproto because I think that a single social network has essentially no shot of dethroning the current tech monopolies. But an open ecosystem of interoperating apps is so infinitely more interesting than legacy social that it seems almost inevitable it will win
When I talk about reality and truth getting fundamentally corrupted, it goes beyond how you retouch your photo and it goes beyond how much spam you get. This is the kind of attack that is now trivial against society itself.
You see, I'm ok with AI usage in many ways. Yet I can't understand why people that don't have deficiencies in written expression use it for writing. Emails. Blog posts. Comments. Why? We only lose something in this way. We want your voice.
Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.
The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅
(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
