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9 posts from engineering leaders published August 3, 2026, by Aja Hammerly, Simon Willison, Daniel Stenberg and 1 more.
I got to spend my Saturday at my first true builder event in Chicago, hosted by GDG Chicago. We helped 50 folks build all kinds of apps using Google technology. I learned a lot from their questions and I loved the diversity in the apps built. There were several I will personally…
I got to spend my Saturday at my first true builder event in Chicago, hosted by GDG Chicago. We helped 50 folks build all kinds of apps using Google technology. I learned a lot from their questions and I loved the diversity in the apps built. There were several I will personally…
I got to spend my Saturday at my first true builder event in Chicago, hosted by GDG Chicago. We helped 50 folks build all kinds of apps using Google technology. I learned a lot from their questions and I loved the diversity in the apps built. There were several I will personally…
Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response…
Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version. — David Crawshaw's prompt , Devtools must be open source Tags:…
My comment on Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) — Hacker News. One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works. The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the…
At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel like skipping the wordy blab below, the single word answer is:…
Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify exposure across…
Apparently, Aussies are so obsessed with coffee that it's referred to as the coffee capital of the world down here (some bits, at least). "But what about Italy?" people ask. Having spent a lot of time in a lot of Italy, no, it's just