I’m giving a talk about Crystal at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels: Crystal: A language for humans and computers. It’s in the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing track, on Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 09:00 in room UB4.136. The talk is going to be an introduction into some concepts of Crystals. If you are ...

Together, Metronome and Stripe are building the most flexible and complete billing solution on the market—one that works for everyone, from engineers in a garage figuring out their business model to public companies monetizing at global scale.

Scott Hanselman, the Microsoft VP for developer community outreach and general all around good guy was kind enough to ask me to be on his podcast, HanselMinutes, to talk about my upcoming book. I was delighted to spend a few … Continue reading →

2026 is starting off hot, and skills are suddenly everywhere. The Agent Skills spec is now supported across all major coding agents and increasingly adopted by developer tools, including Neon. But let’s start from the beginning. The origins of agent skills The concept of agent skills didn’t arrive f...

TL;DR Established in 2022 as a way to help support the great open source ecosystem projects that Spotify... The post Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Security controls can be a bit of a cat and mouse game—you block one attack, new ones spring up.

I don't often post personal things here, however last weekend my dad died peacefully in his sleep and it feels important to acknowledge this. I have no words.

Have you ever known that you probably should have gone to bed hours ago, but you were doing something so fun, you didn't want to stop? I am like that with my toy React Native application, DetoxDemo, which I created as part of my presentation to the AutomationGuild in April 2026.DetoxDemo: https://gi...

Servers can sometimes appear idle yet still perform sluggishly. This scenario is common across web hosting servers, database servers, VPS or cloud instances, or even containerized workloads.Continue reading...

My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™, a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is currently intended to support Thoughtworks consultants in their client work. I’m looking forward to sharing what we learn from using a...

If you’ve ever tried to debug a request that touched five services, a queue, and a database you don’t own, you already know why monitoring distributed systems i...

The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.93.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.93.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, yo...

“Fimo lets teams experiment without fear because you can always roll back. Neon’s branches and snapshots are what make that possible” Pierre Burgy, CEO at Strapi The good folks at Strapi just launched something exciting: Fimo.ai, an AI-native CMS built specifically for real websites. This team has e...

Learn how to protect MCP servers from unauthorized access and how authentication of MCP clients to MCP servers works.

A conversation between Unmesh Joshi, Rebecca Parsons, and Martin Fowler on how LLMs help us shape the abstractions in our software. We view our challenge as building systems that survive change, requiring us to manage our cognitive load. We can do this by mapping the “what” of we want our software t...

Posted by Georgia Doyle, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, and Kanu Tibrewal, Software EngineerWe’ve launched a new Save for later feature on Google Play Console’s Publishing overview to give you more control over when you send changes for review. In the past, changes to your app were bundled t...

Introduction At Grab, we’ve been exploring ways to dramatically reduce container startup times for our data platforms. Large container images for services like Airflow and Spark Connect were taking minutes to download, causing slow cold starts and poor auto-scaling performance. This blog post shares...

We are releasing Agent Skills for Postgres Best Practices to help AI coding agents write high quality, correct Postgres code.

When you work on B2B SaaS apps used by large customer organizations, synchronizing those customers’ users within your software system is tricky! You must synchronize user profile information and the user attributes required for access control management. Customers with large workforces may have thou...

Here's how to install picom 12 on Ubuntu 12 from source.Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't have a picom 12 package in apt. It's stuck on picom 10. Upgrade to Ubuntu 25, or build from source.picom 12 is cool because you have animations built in now.Let's build from source.Install prereqsThere are a few. Check em o...

Author: Andrey Sitnik, Author of PostCSS and Autoprefixer, Principal Frontend EngineerTopic: CSSPrefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.It's time to rethink how we coo...