Chris Arcand

BLOG: Purposeful Commits chrisarcand.com/purposeful-c...

And remember: this is pocket change to him. $454M to him is roughly what $100 is to a median American household net worth. It’s a dinner out. A pair of decent running shoes. A tank or two of gas for your car. A whim. Barely noticeable in the grand scheme of your budget for the year. So broken.

I'm Gonna Write About AI So I Can Process What is Going On naildrivin5.com/blog/2026/10/1…

Welp... Got laid off from Podia today. Kinda a lot to process for a Thursday. I'll have something more coherent to say eventually. For now, send Ruby/Rails leads. Or dog pictures.... Both are good.

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

the tech industry is about to invent books

Support Local Variables arxiv.org/pdf/2609.01502

Accurate

Well put.

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

Recharge time up north 🚤🌲🎣🌅

This Slaps www.jamiecadvisory.com/perspectives... t

Love this, agree with it, and have experienced much of the same. As a leader you’re always influencing, whether good or…actually bad. And very few things are perfectly right or wrong, with nearly everything in a some shade of gray. A wonderfully written post from @baweaver.bsky.social

Data centers in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. The science here is fascinating, and I deeply appreciate the author’s mix of (relatively) deep technicals with common sense analogy. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Watch this space. Back in 30-45 minutes 🤓 @miren.dev @evanphx.dev

Miren v0.12.0 ships Miren Anywhere: your cluster dials out, Miren's edge carries traffic back, and my-chores.miren.app can be served straight off a laptop in the kitchen 👩‍🍳💻 The "deploy works but the URL times out" wall, gone 🔄✨ miren.dev/blog/miren-a...

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

Wildfire smoke is blanketing Minnesota. Here's how to stay safe: Don't breathe

Pizza Hut website in 1996

Excited to hear our @evanphx.dev chat with Brian Teller about his path to CEO and why good deployment is so important for teams of every size. Give it a listen here (or wherever you like to hear your podcasts: www.tellerstech.com/ship-it-week...

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

Does getting old mean you are just constantly tired all the time?

While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

I’m at OSN! Come say hi at the IBM / HashiCorp booth if you’re around

noslopgrenade.com

You know it's good when an agent starts with "Good news first:"

Vibe Debugging

GitHub originally chose HCL and I’m still mad they backtracked on that 🥲

there should be a dedicated airline for people who are quick at getting on and off of planes, thus making the tickets marginally cheaper. but you have to do a speed test before they'll let you buy one.

A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box.

I am *begging* everyone to understand that pasting what is very clearly an AI generated long list of bullet points with bolded headers in a chat response may feel very thorough and helpful to you as the sender but it’s actually quite the opposite.

So it turns out the Agile stuff we all got tired of hearing about is actually the playbook for working with AI agents. I'm as surprised as you are. miren.dev/blog/agile-in-the-age-of-ai

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.