Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/
Lalit Maganti
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2.
A couple of weeks…
A couple of weeks…
System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf
Veracrypt project update https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
Git commands I run before reading any code https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
piechowski.io
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
They're made out of meat (1991) http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
TERRY BISSON of the UNIVERSE - Science Fiction Writer
They’re Made Out of Meat - TERRY BISSON of the UNIVERSE
Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not…
Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/mysteriesofdropbox.pdf
You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-trust-privacy-security/
The Eclectic Light Company
Why you can’t trust Privacy & Security
How to gain access to the contents of privacy-protected folders even though Privacy & Security settings say that access is denied.
Helium is hard to replace https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace
Construction-Physics
Helium Is Hard to Replace
The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.
WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009561.html
Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design
GitHub
GitHub - Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design: Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice. 100+ models with…
Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice. 100+ models with CAD assets in STEP, DXF, DWG, and PDF. Source-available, with commercial use allowed for original compatible accessories wi...
Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2
Jim's Pckt
April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's Pckt
Hey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go...
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-compelling-title-that-is-cryptic-enough-to-get-you-to-take-action-on-it/
Eric Bailey
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
An enticing social media preview summary.
Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures https://andreyor.st/posts/2026-04-07-clojure-on-fennel-part-one-persistent-data-structures/
andreyor.st
Clojure on Fennel part one: Persistent Data Structures
Somewhere in 2019 I started a project that aimed to bring some of Clojure features to Lua runtime - fennel-cljlib. It was a library for Fennel that implemented a basic subset of clojure.core namespace functions and macros. My goal was simple - I enjoy working…
Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po
Bbc
Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers
The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.