cartero Monday, August 10, 2026 · No. 25881
Compilers

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

NSF’s strategy of funding early-stage research with unknowable outcomes was essential to making the LLVM academic research project and infrastructure possible.

Package Management

Podman v6.0.0

Software Engineering

But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side!

It is better to approach debugging with humility rather than defensiveness, because sometimes the culprit is difficult to spot.

Artificial Intelligence

Achieving operational excellence with AI

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Lean Six Sigma emphasized statistical rigor and quality control; BPM created end-to-end maps of how work should flow across departments. Both offered a repeatable way to…

Database Administration and Tooling

Co-locating our hypermedia backend inside the database process for a 9x SSR throughput win (Zig/WASM + Datastar/HTMX)

Hello Everyone, If you are building Hypermedia-Driven Architectures (using htmx/alpine or datastar), you quickly realise that server-side rendering (SSR) performance and database latency are your primary bottlenecks. Since we are shifting state and HTML generation back to the server, nearly every user interaction requires a database query and an HTML slice response. To optimise this, I have been experimenting with a concept called Zero-Distance Architecture that co-locates data and applicatio...

Artificial Intelligence

Teaching AI to run with the turbines

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfolding far from consumer-facing tools. In industries where physical infrastructure, operational continuity, and safety are paramount, AI is becoming a core operating layer. With its sprawling industrial systems and constant stream of operational…

Google DeepMind

The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1…

Frontend Frameworks

Vite+ Beta