Latest / June 25, 2026
9 posts from engineering leaders published June 25, 2026, by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Kent Beck, Daniel Stenberg and 4 more.
Several recommendations for LLM usage in the context of open source. “The long term goal of software freedom is to eliminate the harm of proprietary technology. While we work toward that greater goal, we should seek to mitigate the harms that we cannot immediately eliminate.…
If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.
Trailing dots after hostnames in URLs remain my worst enemies. I wrote about several problems with them in the past that involved those nasty things. They are still painful. When we shipped curl 8.21.0 on June 24 2026 we fixed at least three brand new problems that involved…
Table of Contents Why Hardwood What’s in Hardwood 1.0 Performance The Hardwood CLI Building Open-Source With AI A Big Thank You What’s Ahead Hardwood is a new Parquet library for the JVM, written from scratch to do one thing well: read (and soon, write) Apache Parquet files…
Learning mult-agent and subagent architectures in Google Antigravity by building a Ping-Pong Pairing agent skill.
Learning mult-agent and subagent architectures in Google Antigravity by building a Ping-Pong Pairing agent skill.
Learning mult-agent and subagent architectures in Google Antigravity by building a Ping-Pong Pairing agent skill.
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In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-8461 for the project FFmpeg , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in the MagicYUV decoder (libavcodec/magicyuv.c) caused by…