June 2026

Time for another monthly post sharing some of the IT discoveries that crossed my path lately. Below you'll find a mix of articles, links, and resources, some of which tie into my current activities and areas of interest.

Some thoughts

chapp.io

My colleague and former manager Thomas Biesaart finally shipped his personal site at chapp.io It's actually pretty good, worth checking out!

cmux

Gave cmux a spin. It's a Ghostty-based terminal designed for AI coding agents. Looks sleek enough to make you feel like a hackerman, but it doesn't fit my workflow. Sticking to plain Ghostty + tmux for now.

ponytail

AI agents still love generating 50 lines of boilerplate for a one-line fix. It's exhausting. Testing ponytail — "a tool that makes your AI think like the laziest senior dev in the room". The README analogy is spot on:

You know him. Long ponytail. Oval glasses. Has been at the company longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one.

Ponytail puts him inside your AI agent.

Kelsey Hightower & Mitchell Hashimoto in The Pragmatic Engineer

The algorithm pushed Kelsey Hightower's podcast at me, and then a real human recommended it face-to-face. I took the hint. It’s a genuinely inspiring story about career growth from the Kubernetes legend himself. Highly recommended.

(Also, the episode with Mitchell Hashimoto is mandatory viewing if you care about Terraform or Ghostty.)

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower - The Pragmatic Engineer

Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code - The Pragmatic Engineer

Articles

Now that the robots can build it, someone has to know what to build · chapp.io

We took two days to build something real. We spent the first one not building anything.

Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover?

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John Gruber's article defines 'dickover' as a term for intrusive modal panels on websites and apps that frustrate users with unnecessary interactions, such as cookie permissions or newsletter sign-ups. He argues these are pervasive and disruptive to user experience, distinguishing them from less intrusive 'dickbars'.

When Was the Last Time You Did Just One Thing? - A Life Engineered

Somewhere along the way, single-tasking has become a must-have skill.

Why Spreading Yourself Thin Feels Like Winning - A Life Engineered

Every commitment you take on is another border you have to defend

Tame your pesky little scripts : Juha-Matti Santala

If you’re anything like me, you build a lot of small things to help your day-to-day. Shell scripts, aliases, custom functions and other tiny things can become unwieldy to manage. I’ll share a few things that have helped me take back control in a comfortable way.

Jak działa uruchamianie Linuksa

Od włączenia zasilania do działającej przestrzeni użytkownika — oprogramowanie układowe (firmware), program ładujący (bootloader), inicjalizacja jądra i init. Koncentracja na x86-64 i UEFI, z uwagami dotyczącymi BIOS/MBR tam, gdzie to istotne.

p99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240 million domain names

The autocomplete is the main way to navigate Wirewiki, so it should be as complete, accurate and fast as possible. I want it to be instant. Like, next frame instant.

AI

Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents

If your coding agent has questions, Stack Overflow for Agents has answers, now in beta.

Spec-Driven Development (SDD) — best practices (so far) | blog.allegro.tech

Specification-Driven Development (SDD) is a software development methodology in which the specification is the single source of truth about the system. Code is generated based on that specification.

The New SDLC With Vibe Coding | Kaggle

Whitepaper from google

From ad-hoc prompting to Agentic Engineering

LLMs and performative productivity - Josh Collinsworth

But no matter what the future holds: be careful how you measure your own productivity—and be sure you are measuring it. You can’t trust yourself if you don’t.

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner

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The article explores the difficulties of managing codebases left by 'rockstar' developers and AI, emphasizing the need for simplicity and human oversight in software development.

How to Keep Your Developer Instincts When AI Writes the Code — Bob Belderbos | Developer & Team Coaching

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The article emphasizes the importance of maintaining developer instincts and judgment in the AI era by engaging in deliberate practice and embracing friction in coding processes.

GitHub - DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

GitHub - chopratejas/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

Security

npm left-pad incident - Wikipedia

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The npm left-pad incident in 2016 involved the removal of the 'left-pad' package by its creator, Azer Koçulu, after a dispute with Kik Messenger. This caused significant disruption as many projects depended on it. The incident highlighted dependency management issues and led npm to change its policies.

Django

Django Tasks: Exploring the Built-in Tasks Framework - Real Python

Before Django Tasks, you’d reach for Celery, RQ, or Django Q, each with its own API, broker setup, and learning curve. The new framework standardizes the workflow. You define a task with a decorator, enqueue it, and check on it later, all through django.tasks. That single entry point is what’s new, not a full Celery replacement. For production, you still install a third-party backend such as django-tasks-db and run a separate worker.

Python libraries

GitHub - safishamsi/graphify

AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph. App code + database schema + infrastructure in one graph.

Tools

Kurs n8n po polsku - darmowa wiki | KursN8N.pl

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Darmowy kurs i otwarta wiki n8n w języku polskim. Składa się z 9 uporządkowanych modułów prowadzących od całkowitych podstaw konfiguracji, przez integracje, aż po zaawansowane zagadnienia tworzenia agentów AI i utrzymania produkcyjnego.

GitHub - MadAppGang/claudish

Claude Code. Any Model. The most powerful AI coding agent now speaks every language.

GitHub - manaflow-ai/cmux

Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents

mise

One tool to manage languages, env vars, and tasks per project, reproducibly.

GitHub - alibaba/open-code-review:

Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool. It originated as Alibaba Group's internal official AI code review assistant. It reads Git diffs, sends changed files to a configurable LLM via an agent with tool-use capabilities, and generates structured review comments with line-level precision.

GitHub - luongnv89/claude-howto

Master Claude Code in a Weekend. Go from typing claude to orchestrating agents, hooks, skills, and MCP servers — with visual tutorials, copy-paste templates, and a guided learning path.

GitHub - lfnovo/open-notebook

AAn Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features

Cloud

GitHub - yetmike/awesome-kubestronaut

A curated and opinionated list of resources to help you ace Kubernetes certifications and achieve the title of (Golden) Kubestronaut. This list includes study materials, hands-on labs, and success stories to guide your journey.

Other stuff

Words of Type | Encyclopedia

Welcome to Words of Type Encyclopedia!

Hister

Full-text search across your files, visited sites and beyond.

Wyszukiwarka linków z zestawień #unknowNews

Przeszukaj CAŁE archiwum #unknowNews od 2015 roku do dziś! Wyszukiwanie po tytułach, opisach i adresach URL.

Open Source Ecology

Open Source Ecology is an organization focused on developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs. They share their designs online for free, aiming to create an open source economy that increases innovation through open collaboration.

Videos

Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower - The Pragmatic Engineer

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An insightful conversation with Kelsey Hightower reflecting on his impactful career in the Kubernetes ecosystem and his decision to retire at the peak of his professional journey.