The failure mode I hit most often when I started with AI (mostly with Cursor) was being too "local".
I would '@' a file, then another file, then tell the AI exactly what change I wanted.
This appears to stop the agent from being curious about the rest of the codebase. No 'Explore' agents, no searching for prior art. Just make the easiest possible change.
Why does this suck? Because the agent hasn't seen the rest of your codebase, so it makes changes that aren't consistent with it.
It's like flying in a contractor for the day, but only letting them read the files they're changing.
Now, I push my agent to explore the codebase aggressively. Sessions feel incomplete without it.
highlights:
- with changes to libuv, node.js gets 25x faster on macos
- next version of Bun will be ~1.5x faster than this, so still room for removing some overhead in node.js
- lo runtime, which exposes event loop to JS, is 1.75x faster than patched Bun
gist.github.com/billywhizz/67f…
i was intrigued by the very poor throughput of node.js on macos here, so i did a bit of digging.
results are on the gist below. should be easy to repro. i'll see if it's possible to work this into a PR for node.js or libuv.
One of the perks of pre-reserving the Galaxy S26 Ultra is “Highest Exchange Value Lock-in.”
Now let’s talk reality.
Samsung India exchange value for my S25 Ultra (512GB)
₹52,130 (Non-metro) - almost 60% drop
₹68,650 (Metro) - still 50% drop
In the US? Trade-in value is far stronger with $900 with just 30% drop in original value.
This gap needs to change. Exchange value in India should be on par with global markets especially for Ultra users.
So I skipped exchange.
Sold offline.
Got ₹75,000. Locked in. 😌
Sometimes the best deal isn’t on the official page.
Now waiting for my Galaxy S26 Ultra 😍📱
✨Holiday wishes ✨
If you could wish for one change or feature for the core Angular framework itself, what's your final request?
What framework enhancement would change your 2026?
Absolutely pathetic experience with the @TTDevasthanams booking portal. I’ve been trying to book tickets since May 2025 and haven't even reached the payment screen once. Just constant errors and glitches. Is anyone actually maintaining this site? #TTD#Tirumala#WorstExperience
I learned more about sound waves building this one app than I expected! 👨💻
It’s a pressure cooker whistle detector built with #Kotlin. Implemented FFT for real-time visualization and noise suppression. 📉
Repo here: shorturl.at/n2LDj#Coding#AudioProcessing#SideProject
Angular will add support for spread syntax in templates for:
- Object literals, e.g. {a: 1, ...foo}.
- Array literals, e.g. [1, ...foo].
- Function calls, e.g. fn(1, ...foo).
Looks like the reason this wasn't available before is because every dynamic feature that Javascript supports, Angular has to optimize it through the compiler so the perf won't mess up on runtime.
github.com/angular/angula…#angular
I'm very familiar with this concurrency model of React (and Solid too) as the @PushBased team basically ported that to Angular.
Angular since v2 has had the concept of views (embedded views) and directives.
*ngIf in Angular is a directive that renders an embedded view based on a condition.
This gets converted to
We can create custom directives in Angular that are able to create/destroy views (and detectChanges sync).
Since Angular template always render/refresh synchronously -> directives + views give us the possibility to render things when we want -> enabling asynchronous rendering.
React team had released concurrent rendering for react at that time, and @PushBased team basically got that idea and implemented it for Angular using structural directives with built-in concurrent scheduling.
And it looks something like this in usage.
*rxLet="slow(); let slow1" -> we pass the signal value to the directive and it gives us a value back.
Since slow() takes some time to calculate, it will cause the template to render slowly, and since it passes the needed ms threshold for 60ps, it chunks the rendering for that part -> causing the UI to not show any stuttering.
I've attached a performance profile for it.
Code looks like:
Here is the impl stackblitz.com/edit/stackblit…
Docs:
rx-angular.io/docs/cdk/rende…
I want to learn mobile development 📱
Should I go for React Native, Flutter, or something else?
Which one is best and why? Also, what’s the best resource to learn it?
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