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- Planet Appoints Chief Technologist and Chief Engineer to Drive Spacecraft Innovation Dr. Kiruthika Devaraj is our new Chief Technologist, and Brian Lewis is our new Chief Engineer. These two roles will be central both to advancing our core technology roadmap and to defining the next generation of remote…
- ☁️ Main Branch: The One Where Your Runners Go Multi-Cloud - Issue #47 Dependabot reachability, GitHub Actions on AWS, and the IP allowlists to update.
- Custom Voices With Qwen3-TTS With my kids I’m currently building a little dungeron crawler and we’re trying to learn a bit about game development along the way. However given that we live in the modern times of increasing capabilities we wanted to g…
- Making agents fast - what I've learnt over the last 12 months Practical lessons on speeding up AI agents: inference speed (TTFT vs tok/s), tool call traces, building the tooling agents want, and hardware and sandboxing.
- Seeing Crop Activity Across Fields, Every Season Researchers built a machine learning framework using five years of near-daily PlanetScope imagery to classify ten crop types across farmland in Arizona.
- 🔐 Main Branch: The One Where Your gh Token Expires on Purpose - Issue #46 GitHub CLI expiring, auto-refreshing OAuth tokens in public preview, bulk migrating branch protection rules to rulesets, and Jakub Krehel on knowing what not to build.
- OCP 2026 - Co-Designing an AI Cluster Standardize where you can, tightly integrate where you must — how power, cooling, and networking shape compute density, performance, and supplier differentiation
- Interesting systemd features you may not know about Memory caps, run time limits, sleep inhibitors, better cron and path units - systemd features that turn out to be handy for running throwaway agent-written code.
- Why Dense Satellite Time Series Deliver More Trustworthy Insight Planet Account Executive Cassidy Rankine outlines the often unintended risks of using low-frequency data in geospatial analysis.
- Bun v1.4.4 Fixes 271 issues, addressing 544 👍. bun fmt, a Prettier-compatible formatter built into Bun that is 3x to 6x faster than oxfmt, bun check is 1.4x to 7.8x faster on large projects, bun install migrates Yarn Berry lockfil…
- patch the planet I don't know if you've seen this, but a CA just got popped. Their keys got leaked, which means the industry as a whole now has some pretty major problems. It was revealed two hours ago.eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromisee…
- 🐛 Main Branch: The One Where the Agent's First Guess Was Wrong - Issue #45 GitHub Actions workflow lockfiles in public preview, new GitHub App permissions like repository_creation:write, and a debugging skill for agents.
- How the AI boom might really end: 5 scenarios With chip stocks on their longest losing streak since 2008 and Anthropic heading for IPO, five ways the AI boom could end - and why I think the value is real but may not flow to the people putting the money in.
- pooling OpenAI subscriptions and bypassing regional inference capacity limits by now, most people should be aware that we're in a cost of compute crisis. The cost of CPU and memory is through the roof. There just isn't enough. Meanwhile, there definitely aren't enough GPUs in the world. If you've…
- state of agentic coding #11: the curiosity test, lisp, and labs that can't fail Armin Ronacher and Ben Vinegar had me on State of Agentic Coding to talk about the curiosity test, DHH coming around, durable agents, a Lisp you program by talking to it, and why the labs cannot afford to fail.
- Scammers, exit nodes, and my part-time job fighting abuse Keeping the bad ones out.
- Why Hybrid Bonding Is Very Difficult to Manufacture at Scale Why submicron interconnects require extreme precision in CMP, alignment, and surface preparation, and how defects determine yield
- original thoughts have terrible UX thinking for yourself is a terrible business model.
- Bun v1.4.3 Fixes 166 issues, addressing 122 👍. bun check, a TypeScript type checker built into Bun that is 3x to 6.4x faster than tsc 7, --check for bun run, bun build and bun test, 67–89% less idle CPU, Bun.FetchSession, experime…
- Humans Are Just Stochastic Parrots Ryan Dahl turns familiar criticisms of language models back on humans: pattern matching, confident mistakes, and borrowed ideas. Published 10 October 2025.
- Ryan Dahl — Tiny Clouds Ryan Dahl's personal essays on AI, software, JavaScript, and the way people think.
- If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.
- Collecting favours Notes on reputation; A thing I learnt from dad
- Why Optical Testing Could Become the Biggest Bottleneck in CPO Manufacturing How wafer-level probing, optical alignment, known-good engines, and automated test equipment constrain high-volume production.
- Talk of the Town - October 2026 Playing with Jev & home-cooked transit dev
- Do you actually like hard problems? I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for different reasons.
- What is Codemode More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wr…
- GitButler A Git client for working on multiple branches at once, organizing commits, and keeping changes easy to review.
- Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but ac…
- The Spec Can Come Later When I say things like "delete the code, keep the spec," many people seem to interpret that as a rule: write the specification first, and only then are you allowed to program. That's not what I mean. It's also not how an…
- Fool's Expertise I listened to the recent Ezra Klein interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, which seems to be something of a Rorschach test for AI doomerism: if you are inclined to see doom, Jensen sounds dismissive, but if you (like me…
- Where do AI norms come from? A dialogue with Dr Cat Hicks on ethics, learning, and what we owe each other. Part one: start by listening.
- What Sun got wrong We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxi…
- Saving Jet Fuel I'll walk through Scikit-decide's optimal flight planning examples.
- Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
- The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill, The Observation Deck — a confession he says he has never spoken of, even to those closest to him.
- An Advanced System Architecture Breakdown of OpenAI's Jalapeno Inference Accelerator Chad Wallace on how OpenAI's Jalapeno chip traded peak performance for latency and efficiency — system-level co-design, with AI in the design loop.
- Changelog – September 10, 2026 Val Town Access, Deno 2.9, Business & Pro trials, YouTube series, and more
- Planet Labs' Open Satellite Feed I'll walk through Planet Labs' new open satellite imagery feed.
- Bun v1.4.2 This release fixes two regressions impacting Elysia and AsyncLocalStorage, a hang in @discordjs/ws, CMYK JPEG decoding in Bun.Image, a rare JIT crash, and a GC crash on musl.
- ICEYE's Open Satellite Feed I'll walk through ICEYE's new open SAR imagery feed.
- SaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is. Everyone suddenly wants to tell you SaaS is dead. The Klarna-replaced-Salesforce story spread because it fit the mood, whatever the exact boundary between “replaced the CRM” and “consolidated the data underneath it” turn…
- Most of Your Architecture Was Just Expensive Code For decades, architectural knowledge lived inside the implementation, because the implementation was expensive to reproduce. That expense is disappearing. And as it goes, we're going to find out how much of what we calle…
- Q&A from the slop trenches This post is published on geospatialml.com, the blog I write with Isaac Corley. Read the full post →
- The real AI risk is inside the labs Amodei in his latest blog post wrote a mix of agreeable things and things that I believe misrepresent where the real risk of AI is located. I want to focus my attention on why, among all the risks, open weight models con…
- Being Linux Torvalds (This blog post was adapted from the transcription obtained from my YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lxgYeVZqs) When Linus Torvalds developed the first Linux kernel, he had studied the Minix sources, he…
- Not just development, distribution of software may change as well Even if you are as averse to semver as I used to be in the course of my programming activity, you can still think of open source software distribution as something that used to follow a fixed number of steps. There is a…
- Sentinel-2 Paint: Recreate Any Image from Real Satellite Imagery This post is published on geospatialml.com, the blog I write with Isaac Corley. Read the full post →
- Claude Code Anthropic's running collection of Claude Code ideas, workflows, announcements, and field notes.
- Control the ideas, not the code Antirez argues that AI-era engineering shifts attention from line-by-line code review to design, testing, QA, and control of the underlying ideas.
- Prompting A practical guide to writing useful prompts for ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex.
- Tech Blog — Mark Litwintschik Benchmarks and field notes on big data, cloud infrastructure, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python, and more.
- Ponytail — the lazy senior dev for your AI agent A deliberately minimal ruleset that teaches coding agents to stop at the smallest solution that works.
- Rewriting Bun in Rust Why and how the Bun team rewrote its runtime from Zig to Rust with agents, adversarial review, and a lot of testing.
- Similar but Different: A Benchmark for Measuring Whether Models Actually Use Multispectral Bands This post is published on geospatialml.com, the blog I write with Isaac Corley. Read the full post →
- GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse (part 1) Why open-weight models could crush inference margins and reorder frontier AI economics.
- Built to a Class, Not a Number Why design classes beat exact figures when the real world refuses to hold still.
- Seismic Double Stress What happens when a structure has to survive two shocks stacked on top of each other.
- A Letter from the Orchestra Pit The work of the musician is not the work of the machine — a letter about craft in the age of agents.
- The Coming Loop Armin Ronacher on harness-level loops, human judgment, and software that increasingly behaves like an organism.
- Why 80-metre wind blades fail Kenyan road geometry The blade fits the physics but not the roads — logistics as the real constraint.
- Turbine or Windmill? The Vertical-Axis Design That Breaks Every Rule A vertical-axis turbine that ignores the textbook and somehow still spins.
- AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less Why nondeterministic software raises the bar for production discipline instead of lowering it.
- Realtime prompting guide Shows how to prompt realtime voice agents, including Realtime 2 reasoning, preambles, tools, and exact entity capture.
- OpenAI Developers plugin Install and use the OpenAI Developers plugin in Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor to set up API access, use current OpenAI docs, and troubleshoot OpenAI API issues.
- API deployment checklist Review Responses API settings for production quality, latency, cost, reliability, and data handling.
- The Generative Stack — The Phoenix Architecture Why choosing one generative platform too early could become a decades-long architectural trap.
- The Claude Certified Architect Is Here — And It's Unlike Any AI Certification Before It A close look at Anthropic's architecture-focused certification, what it tests, and who it is for.
- Cognitive Security Geoffrey Huntley on the security boundary moving from systems and data into human cognition.
- The “Night Shift” Agentic Workflow Jamon Holmgren's day-and-night agent workflow for turning a scoped plan into reviewed code while keeping human judgment in the loop.
- Don't Waste Your Back Pressure Why useful constraints and feedback should shape an agent loop instead of merely slowing it down.
- Everything Is a Ralph Loop A compact explanation of the persistent agent loop pattern behind autonomous coding work.
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