Welp I did it. I made the `hare-postgresql` folder. Wish me luck.
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The icing on the cake on a day like today...
"We are investigating delays affecting pull request updates and webhook deliveries. Increased load on our event streaming platform is contributing to hotspots. We are shifting traffic away from affected areas and adding processing capacity; impact is ongoing while these mitigations take effect.
Oct 21, 2026 - 15:36 UTC" - DerpHub -
I don't always choose a random number, but when I do I choose 4.
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`hare-sql` and `hare-sqlite` are in good shape. They are not perfect, but I am pretty happy with it so far.
- https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/hare-sql
- https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/hare-sqliteIt has been fun defining a generic SQL interface and implementing SQLite for it. I need to tidy up some more things and clean up my Awk script that generates the C bindings, but it basically works.
I might try to do DuckDB next so I don't have to worry about networked SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) yet.
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Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C…
#technology #thegeektribune
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/blacksmith-hits-unicorn-valuation-after-sequoia-leads-series-c/ -
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation, up from $550M after raising a $45M Series B in August (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/21/exclusive-ai-code-testing-startup-blacksmith-hits-1-billion-valuation-as-ai-written-code-surges/
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Now echoing from the dungeon depths:
🕯️ "Crickhollow Blacksmith" by FrogknightTape Hunt: https://bandcamp.com/search?q=Frogknight%20Crickhollow%20Blacksmith
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More concept art for the cancelled Open Sourcerer!
Here we have the blacksmith of Floraheim. I decided to make him a small mouse, rather than a big animal, just because I thought it would be funny, if he had to always jump to hit his anvil every time 🐭
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More concept art for the cancelled Open Sourcerer!
Here we have the blacksmith of Floraheim. I decided to make him a small mouse, rather than a big animal, just because I thought it would be funny, if he had to always jump to hit his anvil every time 🐭
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/55320/ Convicted killer Brian Smith’s federal citizenship trial nears end #AlaskaCrime #AlaskaMurder #AlaskaMurderer #AlaskaNews #AnchorageMurder #AnchorageMurderer #BrianSmithMurder #FederalCourts #KathleenHenry #ktuu #VeronicaAbouchuk
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Reading List – 2026-10-22
Delegated authority, change validation, and current design constraints all become harder to take for granted as software does more work on its own. A purchase approval can bound what an agent may do; as code volume rises, the notes suggest CI capacity matters for validation, while stale design docs can misdirect later work. I’m left wondering how teams keep those checks effective when oversight is intermittent.
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
Walmart is treating agent purchases as a distinct authority to manage, not just another checkout path. Its Agent Profiles separate an agent’s transactions from the customer’s and let shoppers require approval per purchase or set a spending limit; Walmart also says agents can’t access payment details. What catches my attention is that these controls make delegation visible and bounded. For systems that let software act for users, that accountability has to survive a misbehaving agent, not just a successful purchase.
After automation: Solo founding will be the default
The article argues that automation shifts the solo-founder risk from cofounder conflict to loneliness: without someone close, a founder may lack pushback, someone to notice when they’re stuck, or encouragement through the last mile. It points to surrounding solo founders and other resources as the alternative, rather than adding a cofounder for convenience. What catches my attention is that faster building doesn’t supply those human checks. That suggests peer support is part of sustaining a solo company, not a substitute for a technical tool.
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Flint makes local coding assistance plausible by activating only 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters per task, alongside custom kernels and low-bit training that Recursive says cut its size by 71% with almost no quality loss. That puts offline use and private code within reach of a laptop, but the company says Flint needs more guidance than larger paid assistants, so large jobs may need decomposition. What catches my attention is the workflow tradeoff: keeping inference local may mean engineers do more task framing themselves.
The CLI’s –debug flag logs HTTP request and response details, including bodies, so diagnostics can expose sensitive payloads. That makes debug output different from ordinary operational logs: capturing or forwarding it deserves the same care as handling the request itself. I’d treat enabling it as a deliberate choice, with a clear plan for where the logs go and who can access them.
SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home
SBD’s useful simplification is putting block metadata in the same bucket as the blocks, then letting ext4 manage files on a block device. That removes a separate metadata database from the consistency chain; SBD checks reads and restarts the Sprite if it can’t trust the disk. Since I’m using Sprites more in my own development, that fail-stop behavior catches my attention: it should reduce silent corruption paths, but a storage-daemon failure means a restart, not continued service.
Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Issuing non-voting shares to fund AI, acquisitions, and employee compensation reads to me as a possible AI-bubble signal. Meta expects $135–145 billion in capital expenditures this year, and says the new shares will begin trading in 2027. That spending scale makes the financing worth watching, though the article doesn’t establish that a bubble is forming; the harder question is whether the expected returns can support it.
One useful boundary in the conversation: Ishiguro says Klara and the Sun shouldn’t be treated as an AI ethics handbook; the story isn’t about that, and better sources exist. Fiction can sharpen technical questions without supplying a framework for decisions. I loved the novel and am very much looking forward to the film; it’ll be interesting to see how its adaptation handles a story Ishiguro says shouldn’t be read as guidance for AI development.
Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, its answer to AI agents like Dots
It’s been strange to see Anthropic absent from the agent market; Duet feels like a welcome arrival. It runs in its own virtual machine and browser, so tasks can continue while your computer is off, but sending messages, making payments, signing documents, and deleting things still require permission. That gate limits some consequential actions, but it can’t correct a misread thread, bad urgency judgment, or missed update between check-ins. For unattended workflows, the open question is whether review arrives early enough to matter.
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
AI-generated code makes CI capacity part of the trust boundary: Blacksmith’s CEO says companies are struggling to keep up with the builds and checks needed to validate changes. I moved my jobs from GitHub to Blacksmith a few weeks ago and am really happy with the move; Blacksmith reports running 90 million CI jobs, though the article doesn’t say how it performs. For teams, the question is whether more capacity can keep validation thorough as change volume rises.
Astronomers Pointed Webb at an Empty Spot in Space. Something ‘Highly Unusual’ Flashed Back
One emission line can’t establish whether this came from a distant early galaxy or a nearer source. Cosmic expansion can shift high-energy light into infrared; a closer object can emit at lower energy. An early galaxy should have appeared in earlier images, while an active nucleus should have produced other lines. I find the gap between repeat detection and identified cause useful in debugging: one observable rarely settles a diagnosis.
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Nearly #BlackandWhite for #BirdoftheDay. Two Mute Swan cygnets in grey and white. #Birds #eck 🪶