2026 / Week 30

The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.

A codebase wiki for AI coding agents. Captures what the code can't say: decisions, flows, invariants, gotchas. - AlmanacCode/codealmanac

Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.

Project management that lives in your repo. Contribute to lovelace-co/lovelace development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Substack witch hunt begins

As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them. Models keep getting better, programmers are being laid off left and right. We’ve been repeatedly told that AI will write 100% of the code by the end of the year. Whether that’s true or not, this may not be the best time to sit back.

Recently, I encountered this problem while collaborating with a smart, senior engineer who couldn't make logical decisions if it meant deprecating the system he and his team had worked on for a number of years. Even though the best thing would have been to help another team create the replacement system, they didn't want to entertain the idea because it would mean putting an end to something they had invested so much in.

The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.

How prompt caching shapes the cost, latency, tools, and architecture of coding agents, and what Pi does to keep cache behavior visible.

Reviewing code is a separate skill from writing it. How to find the issue that matters, especially when an AI produced the change.

Does "rtk" reduce Claude Code token usage? Part 2 of a series where we take public “token saving” add-ons for coding agents and run the same paired A/B benchmark against each of them. Part 1 was th

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If you've deployed VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, you've met the VCF Service Runtime — the Kubernetes cluster quietly running the entire management plane. Broadcom calls the platform underneath it VMSP…

The post explains how to enhance the availability of metric and log collection in VMware Cloud Foundation by deploying additional Cloud Proxies and creating a Cloud Proxy Group. It details the step…

IntroductionVNA Stateful Services SeriesArchitectural Dependencies Checklist Supported NAT Capabilities Matrix in VCF 9.1 VNADeep Dive: Default Auto SNAT vs. User-Defined SNATThe Default SNAT Verif…

IntroductionFeature Progression: VCF 9.0 vs. VCF 9.1Architectural Typologies: The Three Log Management ModelsDeep-Dive: Design Boundaries of the Simple ModelProduction Implementation Constraints &a…

IntroductionFeature Progression: VCF 9.0 vs. VCF 9.1 EVPN ArchitectureControl Plane Mechanics: The Interface-less IP-VRF ProcessingPhysical Interoperability & Platform Deployment PrerequisitesD…

Mass hypervisor migration using Veeam backups as the source, instant and cold migration of VMs to Proxmox VE, oVirt, and HPE VM Essentials, without touching vSphere. - VeeamHub/moov

The Core Pain Point: Centralized Bridging BottlenecksThe Architectural ChallengeThe VCF 9.1 Solution: Out-of-Path Distributed BridgingPerformance & Resource DividendsThe Modern Fix: VNA-Driven …

I tested Orca, a new Agent Development Environment that tries to combine AI terminal agents, code editing, Git worktrees, browser previews, mobile control, and multi-agent orchestration into one workflow.

Quand on développe une API autrement qu'en TypeScript, on se retrouve souvent avec un problème de synchronisation : les types existent côté serveur, mais il faut les recopier ou les maintenir à la mai

Simple, reliable, interoperable: Protobuf RPC that works.

Note (2026-07) This article was not completed and stayed as a draft for more than 10 years. As I think it is still useful today, even incomplete,...

Ghostty shipped a partial fix for its SSH terminfo problem back in version 1.2.0, and a proper one is coming in 1.4.0. I went looking for why I was still running into trouble, and found the real story is more complicated than either release note lets on.

Proceed at your own risk! (... it's worth it)

A UniFi restore that reports no errors, restarts cleanly, and lets you log in with your admin account, but somehow leaves you with an empty configuration, is a special kind of frustrating. That's the short version of what it took to move from a HostiFi-hosted controller to a local UniFi Express 7 (UX7). It should have been a cable swap and a restore. Instead it turned into a two-attempt debugging exercise, followed by a workaround involving a throwaway Docker controller and some direct MongoDB open-heart surgery.

The VCF Download Tool (VCFDT) is the recommended utility for downloading binaries for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments and upgrades. However, because Express Patches (EPs) are versioned an…

And a lot of it works in other languages too

In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1, users can configure scheduled backups for all VCF Management components, including the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS), through the Fleet LCM capability in…

Since the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 back in May, customer excitement has been tremendous, with many deploying the latest release in their labs for evaluation and some even using …

TheVCF Infrastructure Services (VIS) Applianceis an Ubuntu-based virtual appliance that provides key infrastructure services for accelerating VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 lab and proof-of-concept

In this guide, we set up the Hermes AI agent on a Linux server and access it securely from anywhere with NetBird, including the built-in dashboard, the community web UI, and a private HTTPS domain through the NetBird reverse proxy. All the commands and a more detailed walkthrough are in the knowledge hub article linked below.