Lazy Hacker

The '25 Chicago Bears Season The Chicago Bears have not been a very good football team for years. The team suffered from collapses, inability to score on offense (tradit...

My recap of the amazing '25 Chicago Bears season.
blog.lazyhacker.com/2026/02/the-...

Happy to announce the new edition of my book on Google Analytics Alternatives is now available!

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Woodpecker Taper Sled The Woodpecker Taper Sled (not to be confused with their taper jig ) is not cheap at $220 before taxes and shipping.  The Internet is filled...

blog.lazyhacker.com/2026/01/wood...

Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google. YouTube video by Turing Awardee Clips

youtu.be/NTrAISNdf70?...

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.1@latest $ go1.25.1 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 56829270 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (28414635 / 56829270 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (56829270 / 56829270 bytes) Unpacking go1.25.1.netbsd-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.25.1' $ go1.25.1 version go version go1.25.1 netbsd/arm64

🐕 Go 1.25.1 and 1.24.7 are released!

🔏 Security: Includes a security fix for net/http (CVE-2025-47910).

🗣 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/PtW9VW21NPs/m/DJhMQ-m5AQAJ

📦 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.1

#golang

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.0@latest $ go1.25.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 58130695 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (29065347 / 58130695 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (58130695 / 58130695 bytes) Unpacking go1.25.0.freebsd-arm.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.25.0' $ go1.25.0 version go version go1.25.0 freebsd/arm

🎊 Go 1.25.0 is released!

📝 Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.25

⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.0

#golang

New blog post! This time, going into the fun, juicy technical details of the Lua interpreter I wrote in #golang for zb, my new build tool. www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06...

Netflix's Bet has a good cast and good cinematography but brought down by poor writing.

Gotta give it up to Poles. The Hail Mary really crushed the Bear's season so in the off season he goes straight to the Vatican so the team has a protection scheme. #ChicagoBears #Bears

Why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Is Confusing On Nov. 25, 2024, Anthropic published a blog post about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) .  It didn’t get too much attention...

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Introducing the Model Context Protocol The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim...

Looked up "Model Context Protocol" one time on YouTube and now I'm seeing a never ending stream of YouTube face all saying nothing more then what was written in the original Anthropic blog post. The irony is that the protocol itself is not very interesting.

www.anthropic.com/news/model-c...

Except that VIM continue to survive.

A 10x faster TypeScript YouTube video by Microsoft Developer

Can't say that I expected this. MS rewriting the typescript compiler in Go. youtu.be/pNlq-EVld70?...

My thoughts on whether AI can replace software engineers: blog.lazyhacker.com/2025/02/the-...

“Dining Alfiasco” :30 | What AI Was Meant to Be with Matthew McConaughey | Salesforce YouTube video by Salesforce

This seems like a pretty ill conceived ad. If you want to show off your product's AI chop, use a more realistic example that will show the benefits. I don't imagine a lot people are thinking that reservations w/o AI leads to being forced to eat what you don't order

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JN...

First post. Likely will be 40% of my post for the year.

Or maybe it's just the opposite where they think that writing code is actually trivial.