Articles by birdculture
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To Every Developer Close to Burnout, Read This · TheSeniorDev (theseniordev.com)

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32-Year-Old Programmer in China Allegedly Dies from Overwork While in Hospital (asiaone.com)

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The State of Garnet, 2026 (alopex.li)

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Real engineering failures instead of success stories (failhub.substack.com)

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The Hardest Bugs Exist Only in Organizational Charts (techyall.com)

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FOSDEM 2026 – Live Streaming (fosdem.org)

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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding – Addy Osmani (addyo.substack.com)

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Ingress Nginx: Statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Committees (kubernetes.io)

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I still don't understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily (conman.org)

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The Dumbest Performance Fix (computergoblin.com)

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The Most Important Code Is the Code No One Owns (techyall.com)

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AI code review prompts initiative making progress for the Linux kernel (phoronix.com)

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State of C++ 2026 (devnewsletter.com)

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Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters (nns.ee)

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Challenge to compress 1M rows to the smallest possible size (github.com/agavra)

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Bootstrap Chain for NixOS: Building the System from a Hand-Auditable Binary Seed (chaos.social)

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AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it (jpcaparas.medium.com)

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You can code only 4 hours per day. Here's why (techworld-with-milan.com)

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The dev who asks too many questions is the one you need in your team (leadthroughmistakes.substack.com)

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Goodhart's Law: When a Measure Becomes a Target, It Loses Its Value (perspectiveship.com)

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TypeScript's Anders Hejlsberg on AI as a "regurgitator" reshaping software (devclass.com)

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It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)

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Agentic Memory Poisoning: How Long-Term AI Context Can Be Weaponized (instatunnel.my)

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Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 (markmcb.com)

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T: A Concise Language for Text Manipulation Replacing Unix Utilities (github.com/alecthomas)

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Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026) (gist.github.com)

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State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates (reddit.com)

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I got 14.84x GPU speedup by studying how octopus arms coordinate (github.com/matthewlam721)

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Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs (arcan-fe.com)

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Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision (alilleybrinker.com)

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Clawdbot and Vibe Coding Share a Flaw: Others Decide When You Get Hacked (webmatrices.com)

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AI Generated Tests as Ceremony (ploeh.dk)

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Two empty chairs: why "obvious" decisions keep breaking production (perspectiveship.com)

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In humble defense of the .zip TLD (luke.zip)

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The IndieWeb and Small Web (christiano.dev)

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Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity (pfad.fr)

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Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts? (reddit.com)

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Study: Many Developers Face Ethical Pressure to Ship Products Conflicting With (tandfonline.com)

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Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" Initiative (zerocarbon.email)

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E9p – pure Erlang 9p implementation (tangled.org)

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Tired of Manual Priority Weights in Proxies? I Used a Reverse Radix Tree (getlode.app)

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Agent is building things you'll never use (mahdiyusuf.com)

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Agents need good developer experience too (modal.com)

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Considering Strictly Monotonic Time (matklad.github.io)

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Agents.md as a Dark Signal (joshmock.com)

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GNU C Library 2.43 released with more C23 features, mseal and openat2 functions (phoronix.com)

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Rethinking Helix (boserup.eu)

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The Challenges of Developing for Microsoft SharePoint (medium.com/jordansrowles)

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Curl Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program over AI Slop Overrun (itsfoss.com)

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Malicious PyPI Packages Spellcheckpy and Spellcheckerpy Deliver Python Rat (aikido.dev)

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Why I'm ignoring the "Death of the Programmer" hype (codingismycraft.blog)

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SSH has no Host header (exe.dev)

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Rust 1.93.0 (rust-lang.org)

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So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? (blister.zip)

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I Still Write Code as an Engineering Manager (terriblesoftware.org)

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An Adversarial Coding Test (runjak.codes)

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Microservices Architecture Fails Due to Poor Product Topology (hyperact.co.uk)

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FSNotes 7 – Remarkable fast plain text notes (fsnot.es)

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A clear visual explanation of what HTTPS protects (howhttps.works)

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FOSS for Digital Sovereignty in the EU (more-magic.net)

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Essay: Performance Reviews in Big Tech: Why "Fair" Systems Still Fail (medium.com/dmitrytrifonov)

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Debating CBR/CBZ Inefficiency on Discord Inspired Me to Create a New File Format (reddit.com)

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I built a new type of erasure code using Bloom filters (lumramabaja.com)

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Little Sound Dj (littlesounddj.com)

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Personal Infrastructure Setup 2026 (linderud.dev)

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Why ALTER TABLE is such a problem for SQLite (sqlite.org)

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Accidentally making $1000 for finding Security Bugs as a Back end Developer (not-afraid.medium.com)

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Hacker Lists Vibecoded Apps: 198 Scanned, 196 Found Vulnerable (covertlabs.io)

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What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical? (rust-lang.org)

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The Only Two Markup Languages (gingerbill.org)

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My thoughts on Gas Town after 10k hours of Claude Code (simonhartcher.com)

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Everything Wrong with Material 3 Expressive (xylight.dev)

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AI Is Not Ready to Replace Junior Devs Says Ruby on Rails Creator (finalroundai.com)

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Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14) (debian.org)

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How Many Pixels Do You Need? (rldane.space)

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UTF-8 why specify length in the first byte? (youtu.be)

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Deadly sins of software engineers productivity (strategizeyourcareer.com)

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Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains (popey.com)

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The Gnome Village (happihacking.com)

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Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision (alilleybrinker.com)

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I hotreload Rust and so can you (kampffrosch94.github.io)

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Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 – 2026 (emojipedia.org)

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Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis (yogthos.net)

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Smalloc: A Simple Memory Allocator (github.com/zooko)

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Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them (hongminhee.org)

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Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)

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Docker Releases Hardened Images for Free – What Does It Do Differently? (i-programmer.info)

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Floss and Training LLMs (mad-scientist.club)

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MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes (binaryigor.com)

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SelfCI – a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI (radicle.xyz)

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Codeless Code – Fables and Koans for the Software Engineer (thecodelesscode.com)

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Why forcing a developer to take time off helped (leadthroughmistakes.substack.com)

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Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable (hackaday.com)

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The Discoveries of Continuations [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)

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The Cost of PostgreSQL Arrays (boringsql.com)

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Scrollbars in Scrollbars (matoseb.com)

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My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-Time vs. Runtime (bobrubbens.nl)

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Zero-Copy SIMD Parsing for Unaligned Reads in Binary Protocols (github.com/lunyn-hft)

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Ken Thompson's Real-Time Code Rewrite: Why No One Knows James D. Johnston? (substack.com)