This Week
Aug 23 - 29, 2026
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We have a huge news to share today!
Aug 27 · x.com
Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, bluetooth, wifi, etc) that you train yourself with
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Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)Aug 27 · blog.pragmaticengineer.com
This email is a response to the 50+ podcast pitches that arrived in my inbox just last month, and keep arriving in growing numbers, from PR agencies and marketing teams at various companies. It's also a message to tech founders building stuff for developers: focus on building something that
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ArchSpec 1.1.0.rc1 is out!
Aug 26 · x.com
I rebuilt its analyzer on Rubydex, keeping Prism for the few things Rubydex can't do yet. It now understands resolved ancestry, class-side APIs, signatures, semantic receivers, and method aliases. Go kick the tires before 1.1.0!
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Git at Scale (by cursor) has been one of the most interesting blog posts i've read in a while. It came right when I was frustrated with Shopify's internal git system.Aug 24 · x.com
As an exercise, I've implemented it over the weekend as open source. It's a single rust binary that you can
