Today I’m very happy to share that Mario Zechner is joining Earendil.
First things first: I think you should read Mario’s
post. This is his news
more than it is ours, and he tells his side of it better than I could. What I
want to do here is add a...
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a
durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely
on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a
separate service, a
compiler plugin, or an...
Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks
or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of
money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait. Tree-lined roads, old
gardens,...
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes
re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my
libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different
design for that implementation. In many ways,...
Historically, writing code was slower than reviewing code.
It might not have felt that way, because code reviews sat in queues until
someone got around to picking it up. But if you compare the
actual acts themselves, creation was usually the more...
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing.
Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement
existing languages in place...
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a
project of my friend Peter went viral on the
internet. It went by many names. The
most recent one is OpenClaw but in the news you might
have encountered it as ClawdBot or...
Regular readers of this blog will know that I started a new company. We have
put out just a tiny bit of information today,
and some keen folks have discovered and reached out by email with many
thoughtful responses. It has been delightful.
Colin and...
You can use Polecats without the Refinery and even without the Witness or
Deacon. Just tell the Mayor to shut down the rig and sling work to the
polecats with the message that they are to merge to main directly. Or the
polecats can submit MRs and then...
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in
the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for.
However, things have advanced since. Yesterday I ported
MiniJinja (a Rust Jinja2...