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12 posts from engineering leaders published October 14, 2026, by Geoffrey Huntley, Simon Willison, Martin Fowler and 6 more.
All right, I'm going to open up a history lesson because it's been a couple of generations of software engineers since this essay, and I have to assume not everyone knows what a cathedral is. Everyone knows what a bazaar is because they're using
Tool: Tree Appreciator Another game experiment with Claude. This one used the default Claude iPhone app (chat mode, not Claude Code mode), where I prompted Claude Opus 5.5 Max with: Build a three js game called "Tree appreciator" - it shows you two algorithmically generated…
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to get old games…
Building a slide template starts with three foundational choices — colours, fonts and layouts. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe covers the basics of color theory and how to build a reusable palette, the essentials of typography, including serif, sans-serif, handwritten and monospace fonts,…
Formlabs sent me a Form Studio 1 resin 3D printer to test after years of back-and-forth about their Form 4 printer. Like the Form 4, it's an SLA (stereolithography) printer, but unlike the Form 4 (which starts at $2,600), it's affordable for a hobbyist. It's not cheap , coming…
CrUX adds experimental Core Web Vitals for SPA soft navigations, while Firefox and Safari improve cache evidence, image delivery, and rendering.
Over the last year or so, multiple engineers at Aisle have spent a lot of time and energy while pointing their AI powered tooling at the curl source code. This has resulted in no less than thirty-five published curl vulnerabilities and CVE Ids. Today, we make Aisle’s audit…
In the curl 8.23.0 release we shipped a fix for one of the worst vulnerabilities in curl in a long time. We grade it severity HIGH. It is known as CVE-2026-92392 with the title HTTP/2 upload Use-After-Free. This post explains the bug, what the problem can lead to, and something…
Release presentation Numbers the 277th release4 changes42 days (total: 10,929)281 bugfixes (total: 14,770)476 commits (total: 40,084)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 312)0 new curl command line option (total: 278)84 contributors,…
Get in sync with your agents on what you're really building. Fabulous tool included
Management is becoming more important as AI changes how businesses work, and the job itself is shifting faster than most managers have noticed. Let's talk about what's changing and how to deal with it.
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-92392 for the project curl , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-free in HTTP/2 upload retries where cleanup turns leftover upload data…