Episode Details

Table of Contents

• Programming Languages and Frameworks
  • A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
  • This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
  • Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
• AI and Quantum Computing Innovations
  • A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
  • VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
• Tech and User Experience
  • Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
  • Do_not_track
  • The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
• Sustainability and Resource Management
  • Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
  • Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
• Community and Local News
  • Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
  • San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names