Episode Details

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - The dead economy theory
• (01:42) - SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
• (03:07) - Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
• (04:40) - Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
• (05:54) - It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
• (07:22) - MCP is dead?
• (08:48) - Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
• (10:02) - Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
• (11:18) - Pandoc Templates
• (12:19) - Zig: Build System Reworked
• (13:48) - Outro

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326802

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333820

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323869

MCP is dead?
https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284494

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323992

Pandoc Templates
https://pandoc-templates.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334515

Zig: Build System Reworked
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334048