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Anthropic’s pricing is super clear here. You just need to be following the right Twitter accounts, be comfortable with “step 7, master the wolf” pricing complexity, and can absorb a 5-figure oopsie as part of the learning process.

Did you know that we released a skill for building @kafkastreams applications? Check it out and let us know about your experience using it. github.com/confluentinc/a…

yep, it seems I'm doing this again 🙃 github.com/getkyo/kyo/rel…

Kyo strikes back! 🚀 This is probably the longest changelog I've seen in a very long time! Could Kyo be the missing uber-framework for Scala after this release? Let's look at the massive list of new modules 🧵

@mitchellh Mazel Tov!

Our family grew yesterday to 2 kids! A healthy baby boy and healthy wife post labor. ❤️

AI slop is good, actually. Slop is what enables fast parallel experimentation. The etiquette and skill is understanding the boundaries of where slop exists and the extent to which it should be cleaned up and how. A few examples: I’m working on the internals of some system right now. The API and GUI of this thing is fully zero shame slop. It’s horrible. But it lets me focus on the core quality while shipping a usable piece of alpha quality software to testers (transparent about the slop frontend). Similarly, this system has plugins. We sent agents in Ralph loops overnight to generate dozens of plugins. The plugins are slop. The quality is bad. The plugin API/SDK is absolutely not done. But we can test a full GUI with a full plugin ecosystem. When we change the API, we can regenerate them all. The cost of change is just tokens, the velocity is incomparable to before. I built Terraform. We tested and shipped TF 0.1 with about 3 very weak providers. Because we ran out of time. Building was slow. And when we changed our SDK the cost was immense. Totally different today, 10 years later. Today, I would’ve slop generated 100 providers (again, with transparency and cleanup later, but just to prove it out). As an anti example, I would not PR this (without prior warning) to another project. I would not throw this onto customers without full review or transparency (as I’m already doing). I would not accept first pass slop. It’s almost never right. Slop is a tool. And like anything else it’s not blanket bad or good. The context is everything.

I've played a bit with Wick, the new type-safe Spark API from Netflix. I've only tried the basics, but if you're a beginner interested in how it works, check out my latest article 👇 #scala #spark matejcerny.cz/en/apache-spar…

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I have a new favourite terminal app that I didn't know I needed 😀 It gives you a fully Vim-motion-driven interface to manage GitHub pull requests. You can inspect diffs, leave comments, manage labels, review, switch from draft to ready-for-review... All the usual stuff, but with an instantly familiar interface! Kudos to @kitlangton 👏

May the fourth be with you

It‘s always fun to listen to early war stories about #Kafka and #KafkaStreams. Check out the lastest Confluent Developer podcast with Mateo Rojas. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…

What a delightful TUI! Next version of Omarchy will ship it as a lazy-installed default. So you can just type ghui and it'll get pulled, just like we do with opencode, codex, etc. github.com/basecamp/omarc…

Turns out you can just replace Alacritty (embedded) with libghostty in your app and gain so much speed you can literally see it. Ghostty was built from day 1 with the goal of being embedded. And it’s showing!

Too good not to share! I did not know this. If you want to "void" a row in a paper tape, you punch out every dot, and that happens to be the DEL character in ASCII.

Libghostty can now be used to fuzz TUIs, thanks to @owickstrom + @AntithesisHQ. They already found bugs in multiple including btop. I always imagined libghostty would be useful for testing TUIs, super happy to see this is both practical and valuable. wickstrom.tech/2026-04-30-bom… This is another example of where speed matters! "Why does Ghostty need to be so fast?" Well, if you're running hundreds or thousands of unit tests that each use a clean in-memory terminal, you want that to be fast. If you're fuzz testing and trying to push an unlimited amount of data through a terminal, you want that terminal to be fast. So many people got hung up on "why does my terminal _GUI_ need to be fast" without connecting one more dot and realizing the GUI is only fast if the core is fast, and the core being fast unlocks a hell of a lot more. Like this.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. mitchellh.com/writing/ghostt…

Awesome to see! Let's replace the Alacritty core with libghostty-rs. If there are any shortcomings in the libghostty API I'll address them immediately. I know some view Ghostty as competitive to Warp at a GUI level, but the goal was always to empower other terminal apps via libghostty and there was no other vehicle to get that out than to build a GUI too (similar to Alacritty and their vte crate). I don't think I've ever talked negatively about Warp online (except maybe the login thing they fixed ages ago), I've always respected that they're trying something different. I know Warp has moved on to being a much bigger vision than "just" a terminal, but let's modernize that terminal core. :) github.com/Uzaaft/libghos…

@FrameworkPuter I would love to have one!

Every time we engage with an influencer on X dot com, Dell sends them an XPS. Anyone want a free Dell XPS?

It was an honor to take the TEDx stage in Washington, D.C. In my talk, The Digital Butterfly Effect, I challenged how we think about cyber risk. Small, routine actions — reusing passwords or trusting everyday transactions — reflect a broader assumption: That security is already handled. In reality, most individuals don't know where their data resides. Roughly 90% of global software depends on about 150 companies. This level of concentration means a single vulnerability can create widespread impact. The audience left with clear, practical insight into how we can think about this as individuals... and as a collective. Thank you to the TEDxFoggyBottom George Washington University team for making this incredible event possible. I can't wait to hear the rest of the talks and exchange ideas that are changing the world. #TEDx #tedxfobo2026 #CyberSecurity #SupplyChain #ThirdPartyRisk #Leadership #RiskManagement #CISO #IdeasWorthSpreading

I made a Scalafix rule as a workaround for slow type inference (affecting things like completions in the entire file) in Scala 3 (github.com/scala/scala3/i…): github.com/polyvariant/Sl… on its way to maven central now, it'll be up when you start work ;) cc @ScalaTimes @petr_zapletal