Latest / August 25, 2026
9 posts from engineering leaders published August 25, 2026, by Simon Willison, Troy Hunt, Jeff Geerling and 5 more.
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at scale for over twenty years now. They've been running on Stackless Python since their launch in 2003, and their last major upgrade was 16 years ago, to Stackless…
You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here: 🚨Cyber
For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the mobile rack I'm building in a fixed location. I'll have more on that project soon,…
Chris Oliver asked on LinkedIn: I left a comment there, but I wanted to preserve it here as well: There is no “global variable for nil”. $, is the “output field separator”. Known as OFS in AWK, it is known shorthand-mnemonically as $, in both Perl and Ruby – the mnemonic being…
I spend a fair bit of my life reviewing code. Even if you discount the increase in code review that comes from increased usage of the output from Large Language Models, I'm still doing a lot of code review. Not only am I doing internal code review at work, but as a maintainer on…
I'm regularly rewriting my history, often with the lens of improving my commit messages . On the Renovate project, we use a Merge Queue with Squash Merge, which means that if I do want to have atomic commits, I need to split them across PRs, which adds a bit of noise to manage…
I’ve been skeptical in general about sharing workflow skills. I have a bunch I share with direct collaborators, but there are a lot of “AI skills” repos out there and I’ve only found 2 of them really useful to me (#1, #2). I thought working out what you wanted and making your…
The good old debate about whether Engineering Managers should code.
Context: Placemark is a tool that lets you view, create, and edit geospatial (map) data. I ran it as a company for a while and open sourced it when I shut down that company. Yesterday Placemark got a pretty big PR from Birk Skyum , replacing its dependency on Mapbox GL JS with…