Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Spring reading - 2026

Some reading for Spring (As usual, a hat tip to Hacker News, Reddit, Youtube, Spotify, Twitter, Bluesky and my other feeds).

Tag(s)                      Link
aiAI CEO vs Engineer (2026). - YouTube
aiAI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.
aiAMD Senior AI Director confirms Claude has been nerfed
aiAnnouncing Fin Apex - our custom LLM powering Fin
aiAnthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews | Tom's Hardware
aiAre AI agents actually slowing us down? - by Gergely Orosz
aiBenedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software - YouTube
aiBreaking down Jina v5-text: Small models with outsized performance - YouTube
aiCheap Chinese models are overtaking Anthropic • The Register
aiCognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension | rockoder
aiData vs Hype: How Orgs Actually Win with AI - The Pragmatic Summit - YouTube
aiDylan Patel (SemiAnalysis): The Datacenter in 2026: CPUs, RL Environments & Agent-Driven Workloads - YouTube
aiFlow generation through natural language: An agentic modeling approach (2026) - Shopify
aiInference Engineering with Baseten's Philip Kiely - YouTube
aiJensen Huang actually said it! - YouTube
aiMy AI Adoption Journey – Mitchell Hashimoto
aiNVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra: A Technical Deep Dive - YouTube
aiOn genAI: Was prototyping really a bottleneck? | Frank Elavsky
aiRamaLama: Making working with AI Models Boring by Cedric Clyburn - YouTube
aiShipping faster, thinking less? The AI code verification trap - LeadDev
aiSlop Creep: The Great Enshittification of Software | Boris Tane
aiSome Things Just Take Time | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
aiSpec-Driven Development with AI Agents From High-Level Requirements to Working SW by Anton Arhipov - YouTube
aiThe AI Great Leap Forward
aiThe Grid Said No
aiThe hidden danger of shipping fast - by Cleo
aiThe peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
aiVibe coding failure proof AI agents with open source Code Puppy & DBOS - YouTube
aiWe gave Claude Access to All Python Variables - YouTube
aiWhat happens to AI reasoning quality when you compress a model? We tested it! - YouTube
aiWhy AI Progress Will Stall | Data Processing Club
aiWhy Fully Self-Driving Cars Are Almost Impossible | The Limit - YouTube
ai,funDeath by Clawd | SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner
ai,javaA Coding Agent in 260 Lines of Java - @maxandersen
ai,javaA Simple Coding Agent in a Loop with LangChain4j, Jbang, and Gemini
ai,javaAI4JVM — Java & JVM AI Ecosystem Guide: Agent Frameworks, Inference Engines & Tools
ai,javaAgentic AI Patterns by Kevin Dubois - YouTube
ai,javaEasy Agent Skills with Spring AI and the new Skillsjars project! - YouTube
ai,javaEnabling AI Agents to Use a Real Debugger Instead of Logging
ai,javaHashSmith, Part 3: I Automated My Way to a 27% Faster Hash Table | Bluue Whale
ai,javaProduction-Ready GenAI with Open Models for Java Teams - YouTube
ai,relnoteTransformersjs v4 - YouTube
ai,security310 | Breaking Analysis | RSAC 2026 preview: AI hype meets operating model reality - YouTube
ai,securityWhy AI Infrastructure is Harder to Secure Than Cloud - YouTube
ai,systemP99 CONF 2025 | KV Caching Strategies for Latency-Critical LLM Applications by John Thomson - YouTube
ai,systemZero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon
dataBehind the hype: managing billion-scale embeddings in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch by Pietro Mele - YouTube
dataData Lakehouses Were Never This Simple Until DuckLake - YouTube
dataDuckLake v1.0: The Lakehouse Format Built on SQL Reaches Production-Readiness – DuckLake
dataExploring Table Formats - Iceberg & SlateDB
dataExploring the Iceberg Ecosystem with DuckDB-Iceberg – DuckDB
dataFloe: A SQL Compute Service for the Data Lakehouse (Kurt Westerfeld + Mark Cusack) - YouTube
dataJSON and Tell: The Variant Type in Parquet and Iceberg - YouTube
dataKeeping a Postgres queue healthy — PlanetScale
dataScaling Near-Real-Time Iceberg Writes In Go - YouTube
dataScaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users | OpenAI
dataTinkerPop Wide: Exploring Graph Explorer - YouTube
dataTurns out we didn’t need that second index | how Feldera's SQL Compiler Eliminates Duplicate Indexes in Incremental Joins
dataUnderstanding Apache Lucene - More than just full-text search - Speaker Deck
dataVector search using only Parquet and DataFusion – Xiangpeng’s blog
datamarimo added a BUNCH of new features - YouTube
data,relnoteAnnouncing DuckDB 1.5.0 – DuckDB
data,systemClickHouse's C++ and Rust Journey - YouTube
data,systemGPU accelerated data processing on Velox and Presto - Zoltan Arnold Nagy, IBM - YouTube
funShipping a button in 2026… - YouTube
golang,systemWe Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year | Reco
java10 or more reasons to not use JDK’s HttpClient • Brice Dutheil
javaAlgebraic Types: The Math Hiding in Your Java Code — fbounded
javaCatching the 137-Killer: A Java Memory Forensics Investigation by Martijn Dashorst - YouTube
javaEVERYTHING new in Java 26, explained! - YouTube
javaGraalVM 25: What's New and What's Next by Alina Yurenko - YouTube
javaHTTP/3 in Java 26 - Inside Java Podcast 48 - YouTube
javaHardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet - Gunnar Morling
javaHow we integrated Project Leyden into Quarkus - Quarkus
javaInside trivago’s GraalVM Migration: Native Image for GraphQL at Scale
javaJava 26: MemoryMXBean.getTotalGcCpuTime() — Explicit GC Cost | Jonas Norlinder
javaJava Next - Live Stream from JavaOne - YouTube
javaJava Performance Update: From JDK 21 to JDK 25 - YouTube
javaJava for an AI World - JavaOne Keynote - YouTube
javaManaging Native Memory in Java: Arenas, Malloc, and Custom Pools
javaOptimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK’s Vector API | by Netflix Technology Blog | Mar, 2026 | Netflix TechBlog
javaP99 CONF 2025 | A Java Developer's Quest for I/O Performance by David Vlijmincx - YouTube
javaP99 CONF 2025 | ZGC: A Decade of Innovation by Stefan Johansson - YouTube
javaPerformance Tuning Java Apps for Kubernetes: From Startup Time To Conta... Ryan Jarvinen & Daniel Oh - YouTube
javaPilot 0.1.0: An Interactive TUI for Maven | gnodet's blog
javaQuarkus Insights #239: Reactive Loom - YouTube
javaQuarkus Insights #240: Quarkus & Gizmo 2 - YouTube
javaQuarkus Insights #245: HTTP/3 support coming in Vert.x 5.1 - YouTube
javaThe Arrival of Java 26 | java
javaThread Safe Native Memory in Java
javaUnboxing Java 26 for Developers - Inside Java Newscast #108 - YouTube
java,relnoteHelidon 4.4.0 Release: LTS Support via Java Verified Portfolio (JVP), Agentic LangChain4j, OpenTelemetry Metrics & Logs, and Helidon JSON | Helidon
java,systemHigh-Speed Crypto Trading: JVM Techniques Behind Bitvavo’s µs Revolution - Oleg Lobanov, Marcos Maia - YouTube
java,wasmWebAssembly and the Future of the JVM Ecosystem by Andrea Peruffo @ Spring I/O 2026 - YouTube
rustInterpreting near native speeds with CEL and Rust | howardjohn's blog
rust,systemjsongrep is faster than {jq, jmespath, jsonpath-rust, jql}
systemDatabase Connection Pool Sizing - Demystified! by Jasmin Fluri - YouTube
systemDevnexus 2026 - The Golden Path Starts at Home Engineering Developer Experience from Laptop to Prod - YouTube
systemHow AWS S3 is built - YouTube
systemHow C++ Finally Beats Rust at JSON Serialization - Daniel Lemire & Francisco Geiman Thiesen - YouTube
systemHow to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage
systemLightning Talk: Production-Grade AI Isolation: K0s + Kata Containers for Zero-Tru... Prashant Ramhit - YouTube
systemOpenData Timeseries: Prometheus-compatible metrics on object storage | OpenData
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Building a High-Performance CI Cloud from the Ground Up by Aditya Maru - YouTube
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Mechanical Sympathy in Cooperative Multitasking by Kenny Chamberlin - YouTube
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Rethinking Durable Workflows and Queues: A Library-based Approach by Qian Li - YouTube
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Timeseries Storage at Ludicrous Speed by Duarte Nunes - YouTube
systemP99 CONF 2025 | Translations at Scale: Memory Optimization Techniques by Cristian Velazquez - YouTube
systemRunning Wasmtime in Hardware-Isolated Microenvironments - Danilo (Dan) Chiarlone, Microsoft - YouTube
systemTIL: macOS’ Hidden Gem – The "caffeinate" Command! - James Brooks
systemThoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up – Surfing Complexity
systemturbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search (Simon Eskildsen) - YouTube
wasmGraalVM: WebAssembly for the JVM Ecosystem - Fabio Niephaus & Shaun Smith, Oracle - YouTube
wasmThe State of Zero-Dependency Wasm: A 2026 Update from Wazero and Chicory @ Wasm I/O 2026 - YouTube

Until next time!