Month summary - September 2026
Interesting stuff from the month
September 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.
Articles
Thorsten Ball: What I believe about the future of software development
“Code review will die. I mean: it’s already dead. But in the future, humans won’t find a bug or an issue with the code produced by a model, at least not in a reasonable time.”
Cloudflare Blog: How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
“Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare’s fleet.”
Wikipedia: Double Diamond (design process model)
“Double Diamond is a design process model popularized by the British Design Council in 2005. The two diamonds represent a process of exploring an issue more widely or deeply (divergent thinking) and then taking focused action (convergent thinking).”
The Link Between Your Workplace Situation and Your Mental Health
“I think perhaps the very first question we should ask when we feel very low is: What is my current state at work right now? How respected and appreciated am I, and my work, at work right now?”
Blog about things you don’t understand yet
“Writing is the best way to think clearly about a topic. It’s easy to believe you understand something when you’re just turning it over in your head. When you have to condense that down into words, you find out exactly how much you do or don’t understand.”
How I ship projects at big tech companies
“Shipping doesn’t mean deploying code, it means making your leadership team happy.”
Intro to Startup anti-pattern Series
“An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good ones.”
A Life Engineered: Everything Important Is Optional Until It Isn’t
AI generated summary
A reflection on how we prioritize tasks, warning about the long-term costs of neglecting important but non-urgent responsibilities.
A Life Engineered: You’re Not Bad at Hard Things
AI generated summary
Argues that feelings of overwhelm often stem from complexity rather than difficulty, advocating for simplifying our lives and systems instead of seeking easier challenges.
A Life Engineered: The Mistakes You’re Allowed to Make
“If the decision is easy to reverse, make it. If you’re wrong, reverse it. The cost of being wrong on a two-way door is close to nothing.”
AI
Flavio Copes: How to use Cursor Projects
AI generated summary
Flavio Copes provides a guide on how to effectively use Cursor’s new “Projects” feature, which utilizes a coordinator AI agent to plan tasks, delegate to subagents, and manage shared context instead of using single task-based chats.
htmx: Markdown in /src
“Markdown is becoming source code, not documentation. That Markdown should be checked in to /src, next to the code it produces.”
Armenian AI Company: Code You’ve Never Read
“Nearly every tool a programmer now takes for granted was once dismissed as a shortcut for people who couldn’t do the real thing. The complaints about AI are old—older than the compiler.”
Google Cloud Blog: How the Open Knowledge Format can improve data sharing
AI generated summary
Discusses the benefits of the Open Knowledge Format for enhancing data sharing, integration, and interoperability.
Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier
“I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment…”
PostHog: What happens to engineers when AI writes all the code?
“Engineers aren’t going away. They’ll be piloting the product loop. We are plausibly coming to a moment where AI will write all the code.”
TypeSafe AI Blog: Introducing System One Models & Jev
AI generated summary
An introduction to System One models and Jev from TypeSafe AI, exploring their capabilities and potential applications.
Ron Forbes: Building Your AI Second Brain: A Practical Guide for the Overwhelmed Knowledge Worker
“You don’t need to be an engineer or AI expert to build a second brain. Start with a 15-minute brain dump, let AI handle the tedious organizing and distilling, and stay in the loop to add your judgment.”
exe.dev blog: Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively With Agents
Agentic engineering is working with the agent on the system first: the architecture, interfaces, constraints, and tradeoffs. When the code arrives, I understand what I’m about to own.
GitHub - karpathy/llm-wiki
“llm-wiki”
Claude by Anthropic: The AI-Native SDLC playbook
“Anthropic’s stage-by-stage playbook for the AI-native SDLC: how teams plan, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software with Claude.”
Opusfived
“A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.”
How to protect yourself from workslop
“The core problem with workslop is that the effort involved is asymmetrical, like a denial-of-service attack: it takes almost no effort to produce text with AI, but it still costs effort to read.”
Ludicity: AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
“The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration.”
How to turn your AI into a world-class designer
“You can teach AI models to be creative design partners rather than just execution bots by providing them with iterative feedback and structural constraints.”
Tools
Freek Van der Herten: A tour of my dotfiles
“Over the years, I’ve built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles.”
GitHub - ashwch/git-worktrees-zero-to-hero.md
AI generated summary
A comprehensive guide on how to effectively use Git worktrees, especially in repositories with submodules.
WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
AI generated summary
The official landing page for WireGuard, a modern, highly performant, and secure VPN protocol designed to be simpler and leaner than alternatives like IPsec and OpenVPN.
GitHub - virgiliojr94/book-to-skill
Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.
GitHub - tobi/qmd
“mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local”
GitHub - securo-finance/securo
AI generated summary
Securo is an open-source, privacy-first personal finance manager designed to run on your own infrastructure. It offers features like multi-account management, auto-categorization, recurring transactions, bank syncing via various providers, and optional self-hosted AI agents for interacting with your financial data.
Headscale
“Headscale’s goal is to provide self-hosters and hobbyists with an open-source server they can use for their projects and labs.”
Other stuff
GitHub - bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view
“A spy satellite simulator in your browser, except the data is real. Live open source spatial intelligence on a photorealistic 3D globe.”