TechPicks 15/07/2026

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/13/http-gets-a-query-method-so-complex-searches-can-stop-pretending-to-be-post/5270192

git rebase -i is not that scary
https://cachebag.sh/journal/interactive-rebasing/

How to stop Claude from saying "load-bearing"
https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-ai

Punch yourself in the face with reality
https://adi.bio/reality

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TechPicks 16/07/2026

Your AI Is Not a Tool
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/your-ai-is-not-a-tool

Ban commits/transactions using AST analysis and linters
https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/db-commits/?utm_source=reddit&utm_content=r_programming

End-to-end encrypted secret sharing with the Web Crypto API
https://notnotp.com/notes/end-to-end-encrypted-secret-sharing-with-the-web-crypto-api/

The Tower Keeps Rising
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/

A bunch of stuff I used to not know about K&R C
https://sebsite.pw/w/20260712-kandr.html

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TechPicks 19/07/2026 -

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?
https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/

Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument
https://softwaremaxims.com/blog/reviewing-ai-code

Regressive JPEGs
https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

Things you didn't know about indexes
https://jon.chrt.dev/2026/04/15/things-you-didnt-know-about-indexes.html

I stopped destructuring everything
https://allthingssmitty.com/2026/07/13/i-stopped-destructuring-everything/

On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/

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TechPicks 20/07/2026

Software and AI - Plotting vs. Pantsing
https://pyjarrett.github.io/2026/07/18/software-and-ai-plotting-versus-pantsing.html

The Zen of Parallel Programming
https://smolnero.com/posts/the-zen-of-parallel-programming

wp2shell: Pre Authentication RCE in WordPress Core
https://wp2shell.com/

transcribe.cpp
https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp

Beyond Happy Path Engineering: Time
https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-07-19-Beyond-Happy-Path-Engineering-Time/

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TechPicks 21/07/2026

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning
https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks
https://unslop.run/blog/measuring-ai-writing-on-arxiv

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering
https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
https://jelly-ui.com/

I wrote an API client for my water-cooled bed
https://tinkering.xyz/bedctl/

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TechPicks 22/07/2026

OpenAI model breaks out of security sandbox, hacks Hugging Face for data to pass test
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

AI makes programming differently difficult
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-didnt-make-programming-easier-it-just-made-it-differently-difficult/

"No AI" Statements Are Much More Than Mere Statements
https://journal.james-zhan.com/no-ai-statements/

GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?!)
https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html

git --end-of-options
https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html

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TechPicks 23/07/2026

The startup's Postgres survival guide
https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/

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TechPicks 26/07/2026

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon

Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
https://unsung.aresluna.org/chromes-breaking-and-entering/

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/

microcharts - Word-sized charts for React
https://github.com/ganapativs/microcharts

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TechPicks 28/07/2026

Kimi-K3 weights are now released
https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

Kimi-K3 Technical Report (pdf)
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3/blob/main/k3_tech_report.pdf

Cerious Scroll - High-Performance Virtual Scrolling Engine for Web Applications
https://github.com/ceriousdevtech/cerious-scroll

Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-sites-use-javascript-to-build-malware-in-browser-memory/

Most Googlebots are fake
https://digitalseams.com/blog/most-googlebots-are-fake

Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-must-be-fun-or-it-will-die/

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TechPicks 30/07/2026

Some notes about Anthropic's new results
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice

PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's
https://boringsql.com/posts/mvcc-bad-bad/

Mousecrack - Bypass agent cursor detection with deep learning
https://github.com/puffinsoft/mousecrack

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

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TechPicks 02/08/2026

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/

Accepting a messy git history
https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/git_two_users.html

The Bedrock of Software Design
https://alex.draftist.io/blog/the-bedrock-of-software-design-ycqvcedsj

morphicons: any stroke icon morphs into any other, no from/to pairs, no AnimatePresence
https://www.morphicons.com

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TechPicks 03/08/2026

Diátaxis - A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
https://diataxis.fr/

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html

Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
https://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/

I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence
https://martinalderson.com/posts/speed-vs-intelligence/

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TechPicks 04/08/2026

Don't be a meat proxy
https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

Devtools must be open source
https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm

Help wanted
https://lake.computer/blog/help-wanted/

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TechPicks 05/08/2026

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack

Security is Hard, Y'all
https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/

Soppo - Go, with the features it's missing
https://soppolang.dev/

Tests for a PDF
https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/tests-for-a-pdf/

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TechPicks 06/08/2026

Offensive Internet Posture
https://bruceediger.com/posts/offensive-machine/

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/

rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
https://data4sci.com/blog/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency

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TechPicks 09/08/2026

Make your agents talk human. ADHD-friendly (and token-friendly) output styles for Claude Code
https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
https://dbushell.com/2026/08/07/sublime-text/

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TechPicks 10/08/2026

Who Should Pay For Source Code Availability?
https://kristoff.it/blog/source-code-availability/

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/

Dithered QR codes
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/

my server is a phone now
https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

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TechPicks 11/08/2026

Docker Sandboxes: Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model

Beyond Senior - Creating Hope
https://baweaver.com/writing/2026/08/09/beyond-senior-creating-hope/

On comments
https://blog.helsing.ai/posts/on-comments/

Firefox Containers Preview
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/

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