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Someone spent actual engineering hours making macOS window resize zones follow rounded corners instead of being rectangles. The result? A pixel-perfect nightmare that makes resizing windows feel like playing Operation with a trackpad. This is your periodic reminder that Apple's UI decisions exist in their own reality.
Three months in, moss-kernel is running real Linux binaries through an async Rust kernel. It's joining projects like Asterinas in the 'maybe we can do this better' space, though drivers remain the eternal plot twist nobody wants to write.
The systems language that's "simple and robust" just added two decidedly un-simple features. Hare 0.26.0 lets you explicitly leave memory uninitialized and ignore errors with syntax that looks suspiciously like ignoring any other return value. Is this the beginning of feature creep, or smart pragmatism?
The Git maintainers laid out their roadmap at FOSDEM 2026, and it's honestly more pragmatic than you'd expect. SHA-256 migration is still happening (slowly), partial clones are getting better, and they're finally addressing the "why is my repo 10GB" problem that's been plaguing ML devs.
Ship a dumb CLI, write a markdown file, let Claude map natural language to flags. That's it. That's the pattern. Built an Android QA agent this way and honestly it feels like cheating.
Turns out the real liquidity gap for students isn't pizza money—it's the $100/month you're not spending on IDE licenses and cloud credits. One MBA student decided to fix that with studentdiscount.tech, aggregating verified deals for the Indian dev community.
Locks are the bottleneck. MVCC said "what if we just... didn't lock?" By versioning everything and letting transactions see their own snapshots, databases handle concurrency without the blocking. Here's why this matters for your Next.js app.
One dev got tired of Notion's loading spinners and Obsidian's plugin rabbit holes, so they built PaperLab—a local-first markdown editor that does three things well and nothing else. IndexedDB-backed, E2E encrypted, zero AI. Sometimes less is based.
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