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First GNU Automake in 15 Months Adds New 'Make Dist' Feature
8+ hour, 10+ min ago (254+ words) The 32-year-old GNU Automake tool to help with the drudgery of endless strings of./configure, make, make install hell, yesterday announced its first new release in 15 months. The announcement came as an email from the project’s co-maintainer Kamila Szewczyk to…...
Xiaohongshu share links have two domains, and one of them will fail silently
18+ min ago (634+ words) Originally published at linkdigest.dev, where I build this. Every number here came from a live link on 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-10. The failure described is one this service shipped to a real user. If you have a host table that maps domains…...
Context engineering is mostly deciding what to leave out
13+ min ago (380+ words) Most advice about context windows is about fitting more in. Bigger windows, more retrieved documents, the whole file instead of the function. In practice the thing that has improved my results the most is the opposite move: getting the junk…...
LinkDigest: turn Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, YouTube and X links into text your agent can read
18+ min ago (235+ words) I build LinkDigest. Every number below is from a measured run recorded in the project log; nothing is projected. LinkDigest does the reading on its own servers and hands back text. One call: returns the post's transcript with timecodes, every…...
The Last Non-Neural Candidate, and It Did Not Clear the Bar
17+ min ago (719+ words) The question this whole series exists to answer is whether language-model-like behaviour can come from something other than a large number of trained parameters. An early set of experiments turned that into a bar that a non-neural method has to…...
What it actually takes to read a Xiaohongshu post from a server
15+ min ago (556+ words) Originally published at linkdigest.dev, where I build this. What it does not do, stated up front: Bilibili refuses our server's address (HTTP 412), Instagram is wired but not verified, Facebook is out of scope. A digest that could not read…...
Why Next.js Middleware is the Wrong Place for Auth
15+ min ago (455+ words) In the modern Next.js ecosystem, the allure of "Edge Everything" is strong. It promises lightning-fast global latency and a seamless developer experience. However, this architectural shift has introduced a common, silent performance killer: running database-backed authentication checks directly inside…...
How pdlc-skills Makes Progress, Change Impact, and Quality Trends Visible
11+ min ago (81+ words) The last post covered the quality chain. This one is about visibility. An AI can push three features... Tagged with ai, claudecode, testing, softwareengineering....
Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot: An Honest Review After 40 Production Automations
26+ min ago (975+ words) ₹40,000 to ₹70,000 — that's the extra monthly capacity my consulting practice has picked up since switching my primary dev loop to Claude Code six months ago. Forty production automations shipped in that window: bank reconciliation pipelines, stock screeners, ITR-prep bots, expense categorizers,…...
Wikipedia down, shows ‘Too many requests’ error: How to fix as thousands of users complain of outage - latest update
28+ min ago (464+ words) Wikipedia appeared to be down for thousands of customers on September 11. Users flocked to social media to express outrage. At the time of writing, Downdetector, which tracks live site outages across the internet, noted over 1,000 people were facing problems. As…...